The AmLaw 200 survey results show a small but significant percentage of the second tier firms were in the “super rich” category. When the Am Law 100 rankings came out in late April, the key takeaway was that the super rich were continuing to get richer. When it comes to the Am Law 200, flat […]
It’s not exactly a great look when judges get arrested on DUI charges but DUI law has taken a new turn with not one, not two but three Broward County judges haveing been arrested in the past seven months on DUI charges. Is there something wrong with “judicial culture”, the county’s leading public defender has
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Facebook for lawyers is fine and dandy, unless you do what one US lawyer has done and tell your client’s husband that you have him “in your sights” in a message laced with profanity. Nah, not good. The Facebook message from 41 year old Jim Hanson of Fort Wayne, Indiana resulted in charges from prosecutors
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Well, its a job someone has to do and it looks like New York lawyer Tom Mullaney scored the gig. Representing beautiful women is just par for the course for the attorney who has built a practice around representing some of the world’s most notable beauties in their diesputes – a story we came upon
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Florida personal injury attorney Spencer Aronfeld is an author and civil rights activist who writes in the Huffington Post that the Florida “Stand Your Ground” law is both volatile and controversial Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law is probably one of the most controversial and volatile pieces of legislation I have seen in my 25 years
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Could Led Zeppelin have stolen the intro for the now-standard “Stairway to Heaven?” A lawyer representing deceased Spirit guitarist Randy California is making the claim and seeking to prevent the release of their reissue “Led Zeppelin IV” album according to Bloomberg Business. “Stairway to Heaven” was recorded in 1971 and the claim from lawyer Francis
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The problem or issue of the rain-making, king-hitting “gorilla” lawyer, the ones that are the big billers and big earners, is something that most firms value of necessity. But is that a correct standpoint. Legal consultant Tony Williams is a princpal of London-based Jomati Consultants and has worked internationally as a worldwide managing partner of
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Law firms are “late developers in talent management” according to Mary Cranston, former chair of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and successful class action litigator and company director. Interviewed by LawFuel publisher John Bowie, Mary Cranston has established herself as an innovative pioneer in terms of diversity employment practices, starting with her role as Pillsbury
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Pop-up shops are all the rage in some metropolitan areas, but having a pop-up law firm is quite another thing. However, a DC architecture practice, Gensler have created “the law firm of the future” as an exhibit at the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference and expo in Toronto this week, showing fesatures including open
Jodi Ettenberg is a former corporate lawyer who now travels the world – not billing out by the hour, but eating and looking at things, just like a real traveller might. She also writes the popular Legal Nomads site, which she started so her mother could keep track of her movements about the globe. It
