Fishman Marketing – It’s a nice simple e-card that gently supports the firm’s brand.A number of years ago we worked with the wonderful Maggie Watkins, then CMO of 200-lawyer Best Best & Krieger to develop a new brand and website. We’d joked that she was literally working at the Best firm. Twice.In fact, in a sea of […]
LOS ANGELES – A task force investigation into the street gang that has terrorized the Ramona Gardens housing complex in Boyle Heights for decades has resulted in a federal racketeering indictment and the arrest this morning of 25 members and associates of the criminal enterprise. During a law enforcement operation this morning, approximately 800
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Arguments that his intellectual disability should see Robert Wayne Holsey reprieved from the death penalty failed before the US Supreme Court and Holsey was killed by lethal injection Tuesday night.Lower courts had already rejected Holsey’s lawyers’ arguments that an intellectual disability and the fact that his trial lawyer was an alcoholic meant he should get
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LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL BONVENTRE, the former Director of Operations for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 10 years in prison for his role in Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the largest in history.
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A German member of the European parliament angling to breakup Google is a member of a law firm representing German publishing interests that have been keen to reduce Google’s influence.Potential conflicts like working at a law firm are barred by the United States Congress, though permitted in some American state legislatures. European law has no
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If blogging is one of the best ways to build brand recognition and ranking for your law firm website, then how do you best go about finding top ideas about which to write?After all, many lawyers who put blood sweat and tears into blog items only to find they still don’t have readers flooding in,
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Many cheer the fact that increasing numbers of lawyers are unemployed and that law school applications are dropping through the floor, saying we didn’t need them anyway and that this trend must be a good thing.Not so say many, like Daniel P Porterfield in an opinion piece written for Forbes, where he explains that the
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Ever imagined a robotic future for law firms – a place where robots and artificial intelligence are in complete command and where lawyers as we know them are, well, almost irrelevant?Well, imagine harder. Because that state of what has been described as “structural collapse” is coming according to a report on the future of the
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Film-makers who “lawyer up” prior to the release of their projects are not particularly new, but in the case of HBO’s new documentary about the development of Scientology and its adherents, HBO have recruited positively platoons of lawyers – like 160 who are preparing for what the company believes will be an inevitable lawsuit.“We have
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The demise of Dewey & LeBoeuf has created repercussions for a long time among a lot of people. The latest victim, but one who has chosen his own fate in many ways, is former Dewey partner John Altorelli who was sued for almost $13 million in the wake of the collapse and has now filed
