Iraq remains a mess and maybe President Obama is now relying on a lawyer to help clean it up. The President announced Friday that retired Marine Gen. John Allen was being replaced by lawyer and diplomat Brett McGurk as his special envoy to Syria and Iraq. McGurk had earlier worked as a law clerk […]
LOS ANGELES – Five assistant United States attorneys have received Attorney General Awards for their extraordinary work on cases involving historic settlements with a credit ratings agency and one of the nation’s largest banks. The five prosecutors were honored yesterday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. attended by the honorees, their families and
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Getting interviews is the first step in getting a new law job – we all get that. But what are the reasons behind not even getting to the interview stage? Harrison Barnes of B outlinesd the 12 key reasons why you may not get to the interview stage. He points out that every lawyer is
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An enraged Saudi wife who recorded her husband sexually assaulting a servant and who posted the video clip online, is now facing significant legal penalties herself, in the true spirit of what life is like in Saudi Arabia. The man forces himself upon the domestic worker, who is seen struggling and crying out. His wife’s
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LawFuel.com – US Attorney Preet Bharara announces that Deputy United Nations Ambassador for the Dominican Republic Among Those Charged on Corruption Charges Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Thomas E.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe – byWilliam Foley Jr., Jason Halper, Katie Lieberg Stowe The past decade has seen an incredible rise in M&A litigation. According to Cornerstone, in 2014, a whopping 93% of announced mergers valued over $100 million were subject to litigation, up from 44% in 2007. As Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo
America’s lawyer population continues to grow – by 17.7 per cent in the last decade to be exact. Texas has a 28 percent growth over the same period, which was always considered the gold standard in attorney growth in the US, but it is in fact outpaced by 10 other states, the ABA Journal report.
The latest judicial barracking delivered online is the #BlackLivesMatter lawyer being shut down by one Judge Hurley in respect of a defendant with a holster but no gun. Just what was going on, and what was the defendant’s lawyer trying to say – whatever, he didn’t really get the chance.
Mrs George Clooney, otherwise known as Amal Alamuddin, the London human rights barrister, is creating a furore with neighbours over the restoration – is that the right word for what is happening? – to the house she and George are ‘working on’ in the Berkshire countryside. The home is having a home cinema, as you
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We’ve heard it a thousand times: The lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client”. But it was something New York patent attorney Anthony Zappin had to listen to during his divorce proceeding when the Judge, Justice Matthew Cooper, reprimanded Zappin and fined the ivy league lawyer for his “aggressively hostile” behavior. Zappin is
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