Privacy issues and the law have intersected so many times, particularly with social media’s impact on court reporting, that rulings over the media’s reporting of private disputes like divorce cases have become common. But the recent case of a UK hedge fund tycoon who sought to prevent the publication of Britain’s richest divorce case has […]
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The collapse of law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has seen accusations follow lawsuits as the criminal charges against the former chiefs at the failed firm face criminal charges. Now the lawyers are saying that the firm’s collapse was at least in part due to the voracious greed of some of the firm’s partners, claiming the
The IRS recently providing some information on how they follow the source of drug cartel money when it snakes into the US (or offshore) banking system. Money laundering charges are now a big part of bringing drug dealers to justice and unravelling their pipelines. From the IRS: It’s really pretty simple: No matter what the
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Any lawyer involved in litigation will have tales of discovery and the laborious nature of the whole darn business, but when “discovered” document don’t quite live up to expectations on the ‘other side’ then all hell could be unleashed – as happened here. Above the Law reports,” his guy’s lawyer went brutally funny on them….”
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There has been nonsense litigation for as long as there has been litigation, and the current claimant to the title of the most pointless lawsuit is the “Sleeping Yankee” suit by a Yankees fan caught napping on camera. He’s suing ESPN for defamation, for a mere $10 million damages. Twenty six-year-old Andrew Rector is seeking
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The House´s lawsuit against Obama has brought together two unlikely legal allies, a neocon lawyer and a libertarian lawyer, who may appear an unlikely duo to take on the most powerful man in the United States. Foley, a professor of constitutional law at Florida International University College of Law and Rivkin, lead outside counsel of
The full sentence comments made by Justice Sweeney when sentencing Rolf Harris, convicted of 12 offences of indecent assault. Rolf Harris you are 84 years old. You have no previous criminal convictions or cautions recorded against you. You are no longer in the best of health. For well over 50 years you have been a
The “hobby lobby” decision of the US Supreme Court who decided by a majority decision to limit its decision to contraception and to closely held businesses, it nevertheless could lead to a dangerous precedent, identified by Jusstice Ginsburg in her dissent. Adjunct law professor Jessica Pieklo believes that there are now likely to be legal
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Too many lawyers? It’s a question that’s asked with increasing frequency and in the UK, where there are around 200,000 lawyers, being one in 300 in the population, there are surplus lawyers in numbers that may number tens of thousands. The Guardian reports on a legal recruiter, Samuel Clague, who has set up a legal
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The celebrity court appearance de jour comes – once again – courtesy of actor Shia LaBeouf, the “Transformers” actor who has created a series of bad deeds, the latest of which is being disruptive at a showing of “Cabaret” at a New York theater. CNN report that a tired-looking LaBeouf was silent as he left
