Another day, another atrocity committed by ISIS with the beheading of UK aid worker David Henning, with the release of a video purporting to show the terror group’s murder-by-social media war crime. Once again it was a picture of a man in a Guantanamo-style orange jump suit kneeling in a bland landscape. The killer’s voice […]
What makes a happy lawyer? Its a question many lawyers probably ask themselves equally many times, but for a university lecturer at Duke University who teaches on well being and related issues he believes a happy lawyer conforms to certain standards. Dan Bowling, who also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, provides six ways that
Another accounting giant has entered the legal market with KPMG confirming that it has its “law licence” under the alternative buisness tructure system form the Solicitors Regulation Authority in Britain. The KPMG Legal team already has 50 people and is readying itself to make £10m of revenues this year. “We are in recruitment mode: we
Quick question: Does the merger mania afflicting the legal market auger well or not for the law business? Is it panic, in other words, at pressured fees and increased competition, or is it the result of carefully thought through business development and marketing? Well, according to research recently undertaken, the mergers have not only created
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A new stress management program developed by two Australian doctors – Stress Management for Life – is being used by many to develop customized, stress control programs to relieve the stress that afflicts them. The program, developed by husband-and-wife medicos, Drs John and Judy Hinwood, who are internationally recognized as leaders in stress management techniques,
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one of the big names in US jurisprudence: a judge’s judge who has sat on the Supreme Court since 1993. At 81, “R.B.G.” is regarded as both inspirational and brilliant with dissents that have marked judicial history in the US who has been the focal point of more law school discussions
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George Clooney and British barrister Amal Alamuddin have made a splash in Venice on the eve of their wedding when the celebrated movie idol marries the beautiful, brainy barrister. The 53-year-old looked overjoyed as he watched Alamuddin gingerly step aboard a luxury mahogany water taxi that was apparently almost as tipsy as the men. Clooney,
The Economist carry a story about Cleary Gottlieb, the go-to law firm for governments like Argentina facing debt crises. And it’s been a boom area for country’s-close-to-collapse and hence good times for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. But, as the esteemed magazine reports, 2014 was not a great year for sovereign debt law issues. As
US Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a surprise resignation, (although it had been well flagged) placing the Obama administration in the need to assemble a rapid replacement for someone to continue the President’s various legal issues. Holder had a major contribution to play in his work with civil rights and helped shape how the
Rocker Rod Stewart’s trademark football kicks into his adoring crowd has now drawn a lawsuit from an American fan who apparently suffered a broken nose and lasting pain when the 69 year old’s kick hit him in the face during a Caesar’s Palace performance. The Independent reports that the lawsuit was filed this week, Mostafa
