Tobacco heiress Doris Duke left a lot of money when she died – over $1 billion in fact – and it has now been left with a once-bankrupt lawyer who lost over $4.5 million of client money in a venture that was connected to a Ponzi scheme, according to the New York Post. The Post […]
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SAN DIEGO, USA October 31, 2014 / The latest client success case study by Zealous Influence has just been released. This week’s topic: Law Firm SEO. Presented by their CEO, Zeal Caiden, the case study digs in deeply and shows the exact step-by-step process they used to rank a client #2 on Google for all
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Affairs in the office are tricky matters at the best of times but when they involve lawyers, high powered, high octane, ego driven lawyers, then things can get really messy. Take the successful law firm of Napoli Bern Ripka Shkolnik – a mouthful we know – and look at what has happened to the fight
Taking a look into the way in which legal services are delivered is something that has occupied legal academics, lawyers and media for a long time – and with increasing urgency as technology, slipping fees, increasing competition and other pressures make an increasingly emphatic mark upon the legal profession. Dr Paul Paton, the Dean of
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Breaking into the Indian legal market is notoriously difficult, but UK-based Osborne Clarke have signed a deal that meets the tough Indian regulatory rules permitting the “fly in and fly out” provisions. The Lawyer reports that James Mullock, who heads up Osborne Clarke’s 10-year old India group, emphasises that the two firms’ relationship is non-exclusive.
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Law firm Littler Mendelson received a judicial slapping when it applied to have legal fees and sanctions imposed upon a plaintiff who lost a bias lawsuit, with the federal judge saying the Littler motions were intended to harass the plaintiff. U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell of Philadelphia said Littler Mendelson had to pay the plaintiff’s
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the extradition of VLADIMIR TSASTSIN from Estonia to face charges of computer intrusion, wire fraud, and money laundering, among other offenses. The charges relate to the alleged operation of a massive and sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that infected with
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Hacking is the bane of many a business, law firms included. But, as the Wall Street Journal reports, the large banks are now demanding that their law firms do more to protect sensitive information to ensure that they don’t become back doors for hackers. Once given special status as trusted third parties, lawyers, particularly those
When law firms break up it can lead to a level acrimony seldom seen outside the divorce courts. And when the protagonists ARE litigators, as they are in the case of Geoffrey Fieger and Ven Johnson, then they can get bitter, ugly and vicious. And so the tale of the breakup of the two super
What makes an innovative law firm? There are perhaps any number of factors that can warrant a firm being so labelled, but for European law firm Garrigues, they have won the title three out of the past four years in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers awards. So what exactly are Garrigues, a Spanish law firm, doing
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