The long running phone hacking case at the Old Bailey has come to a dramatic conclusion with Andy Coulson being found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while heading Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper. Coulson is British PM David Cameron’s former press secretary and took over from Rebekah Brooks a confident and protege […]
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It’s not often that mug shots – even of the oft-arrested celebrity – go viral, but less so when the alleged felon is unknown to everyone except the police. But in the case of Californian Jeremy Meeks, 30, the handsome face of the man has gone viral on social media, attracting more than 33,000 “likes”
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It’s been a tough law jobs market for some years and the situation in the US affects not just big law firms but also public law jobs, in house counsel positions and others have been badly hit. BusinessWeek reports that law has been particularly hard hit by the slump in services since 2008. Work dried
The death of DJ Casey Kasem has unleashed a potential elder abuse lawsuit by his daughter against her estranged stepmother in an area of law that continues to grow in importance, for lawyers and clients alike. The Kasem issue arises from various claims relating to his widow’s alleged cheating on Kasem prior to his death,
It was inevitable, of course. An Oliver Stone movie about Edward Snowden’s adventures. Whistle-blower Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena has sold the film rights to his client’s story as a “political thriller”. We wonder how it will end. The Guardian reports that “Time of the Octopus”, a book pemned by Kucherena, will be published later this
First there was “The Happy Lawyer”, now it is “The Good Lawyer”, looking at the dissatisfaction that appears to be consuming lawyers during these dark days for the profession. WSJ’s David Lat reviews “The Good Lawyer”, finding that the book deals effectively with the despondency in the law jobs market and “crushing” education debt by
The Slender Man killings have lead to issues of mental illness regarding one of the 12 year old girls accused of stabbing a classmate to death in the Wisconsin woods in a frenzied attack that allegedly paid homage to the Slender Man ghoul. The judge would appoint an examiner who would have 15 days to
As the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Brazil, the controversy around FIFA, corruption, the Qatar controversy and the man running the whole show – FIFA president 78 year old Sepp Blatter who is to run for yet another four year term heading football’s most powerful body. The World Cup’s problem is not all the
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So what’s a great tip when it comes to getting divorced? Well, given that almost half of all marriages go that way the best advice according to experts is the same as it is for good comedians: Timing. Take billionaire hedge fund entrepreneur David Tepper, 56, who is apparently splitting from his wife of 28
The lawyer for the students who won a lawsuit challenging the protection of jobs on Tuesday on the basis of unconstitutional issues, is a believer in winning and a lover of the Walter Matthau movie “The Fortune Cookie” about a crooked, ambulance-chasing lawyer. As co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s appellate and constitutional chair groups, Theodore Boutrous
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