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Massive Internet Fraud Nets Extradicted Estonian Defendant at Least $14 Million

Featured / October 31, 2014

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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Banks Requiring Law Firms to Firm Up on Hacking

Featured / October 31, 2014

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

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When Good Lawyers Get Angry – With One Another

Featured, Lawyers / October 29, 2014

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

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The Spanish Law Firm With the Innovation Instinct

Featured, Law Firms / October 29, 2014

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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Canadian Radio Host Ghomeshi Issues $50 Million Writ For Firing

Featured / October 27, 2014

Popular Canadian television radio host Jian Ghomeshi has issued a $50 million lawsuit against CBC for his firing over “information” the company claimed precluded it from employing the 47 year old Q radio show host. That’s sent Ghomeshi to the lawyers who alleges both breach of confidence and bad faith by CBC, where he has

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Law Firm Leaves Law Library Behind – A Sign of the Times

Featured, Law Firms / October 25, 2014

One of the greatest attributes of any great law firm are the shelves of legal volumes and those rich-smelling and somewhat musty books that create the atmosphere we all love in a real law office. No more. The digital area is rendering such smells and sights redundant as they slowly but surely reduce them, remove

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The Lawyer and the Pleading-For-Sex Case

Featured, Lawyers / October 24, 2014

Begging for sex is one thing (we guess), but begging for it 78 times in one hour is just a tad excessive, but this lawyer has already copped $100,000 fine an eight month suspension, which has been reduced to two month by an appeals court. Why, you might wonder? First, he claimed Asperger’s disorder as

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50 Ways to Market Your Small Law Practice

Featured, Law Marketing / October 24, 2014

Lawyer Terry Berger, who practices in Westminster, MD, has advice for lawyers as to how to market a small law practice. Here – to get you started – are 50 tips from the ABA Journal 1. Join your local chamber of commerce. It’s great for networking and community credibility. 2. Get a unique business card

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Bingham McCutchen Latest Big Law Firm Facing Trouble

Featured, Law Firms / October 22, 2014

Boston-based law firm Bingham McCutchen is the latest law firm facing problems, after partners have defected and the 123 year old firm with a proud history faces declining fortunes and an uncertain future. Changing fortunes in the legal industry, which has fought against reduced demand for legal services and a changing landscape for law service

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Facebook Bites Back: DLA Piper Lined Up

Featured, Law Firms / October 20, 2014

Facebook – like any big, juicy, rich corporate – is a very large target for lawsuits from all comers. And one of the ‘comers’ is now facing the music as the social network files claim against him for allegedly fraudulently suing Facebook. However, Facebook isn’t stopping there, it’s also going after DLA Piper, the law

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