Baker & McKenzie has overtaken DLA Piper to become the biggest law firm in the world by revenue, surpassing the $2.5bn barrier for the first time. Bakers, which has a June 30 financial year-end, said revenues had risen 5 per cent to $2.54bn, while its equity partners took home $1.29m on average after profits […]
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The murder mystery involving the shooting death of law professor and law blogger Dan Markel continues to arouse intrigue with numerous scenarios presenting themselves. Professor Markel, a professor at Florida State University, was shot in his garage on July 18 and speculation has ranged from the professor’s writings to his representation of a rabbi. There
The largest ever Justice Department settlement is pending with a $16 – $17 billion settlement pending over the Bank of America’s sale of mortgage-backed securities prior to the 2008 global financial crisis. The deal is yet to be finalised but would be the biggest for the DoJ since the GFC, which lead to massive failures
There is glamour, tragedy and a certain black-and-white irony in the Oscar Pistorius trial involving a judge who comes from the “wrong” side of South Africa’s tracks. The New York Times have profiled the Pistorius trial judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa, the stern but quiet 66 year old who moved from a poor town to South
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Tech journal TechCrunch took a look at the Facebook class action filed by Austrian law student Max Schrems, which is seeking the support of non-commercial Facebook users outside of North America. So far, so good they told the mag ‘ there are 11,000 participants signed on for the class action lawsuit. TechCrunch report that the
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By John Bowie* – Blogging for lawyers has been a big deal for some time, but many are doing it the wrong way, making mistakes that will not help lawyers gain more clients: a goal that any law firm blogger has firmly in mind. Question: What to do? Here are some key tips on how
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Could an Austrian law student become Facebook’s nemesis, with a class action lawsuit designed to bring Facebook to heel over data privacy issues. Max Schrems is a law student who is seeking support from the social network’s 1.3 billion users worldwide for a class action lawsuit he has commenced and which is designed to have
The recent European Court of Justice ruling regarding the “right to be forgotten” has altered many things for many people, including the people who use Google for background checks like the rest of us – The recruiters. So what changes will be made by recruiters given the ECJ’s ruling about the need for the search
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The downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over the Ukraine has lead to a class action lawsuit brought by London lawyers McCue & Partners against Vladimir Putin and others for his alleged involvement in the tragedy. The lawyers are preparing a class action against the Russian president through the American courts. Senior Russian military commanders and
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It has been described as inhumane, brutal, primitive and now, the death row slow killing of Joseph Wood has also been described by John McCain as ‘torture‘. This was truly a slow death on death row. Wood was sentenced for the killng of an ex girlfriend right back in 1991 and was injected with an
