Working as a prostitute part-time has earned an Illinois lawyer a three-year suspension. The lawyer, Reema Bajaj, 27, had sex in exchange for office supplies for her law practice and later pleaded guilty to prostitution charges has agreed to have her law license suspended for three years. An Illinois attorney who allegedly worked as a […]
The inner sanctum of a law firm, a so called repository of the most confidential secrets, was among the victims in insider trading arrests on Wednesday of Wall Street insiders, including a law firm clerk in an unnamed prestigious Wall Street firm. The NY Times reports that two “insiders”, one bank broker and the clerk
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The picture is of Edward Lee Elmore, who waited on death row for 29 years. He was released in 2002, but the average time taken on death row before inmates are usually executed is almost 15 years. Elmore was released in 2002 after his case was discredited because of bad or even planted evidence, an
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New York Times v. Sullivan is a case etched on the minds of media lawyers and journalists, quite apart from civil rights lawyers, throughout the United States and the world. And the celebrated and seminal Supreme Court case which tilted the balance of power in the delicate ecosystem that exists between journalists and political figures,
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Tiger Woods is an unhappy man, after losing a lawsuit before an all-women jury. Was it sexist? Was it him? What was it exactly that saw the golfing legend lose a lawsuit involving his alleged breach of a licensing agreement made right back in 2001? Woods’ company, ETW Corp filed its lawsuit against Gotta Have
Mick Jagger’s girlfriend, designer L’Wren Scott, 47, who hung herself in her New York apartment while her London-based business was deep in debt. The business, LS Fashion Ltd, had a debt level of $5.9 million for 2012 and also recorded a deficit in 2011 of over $4 million. To add to her woes, L’Wren had
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By Lawfuel editors – Google+ for lawyers is important. Indeed it’s vital and has been the social media network that snuck right up, powered by Daddy Google in a manner that will ensure it succeeds totally (after an initial slip-up by Google in the social media stakes). Google+ is a social site that you have
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The Asian Lawyer, an American Lawyer sibling publication, has named Latham & Watkins Singapore Office Managing Partner Stephen McWilliams an “All-Star” honoree in the Energy sector. The award recognizes McWilliams as a go-to lawyer in the energy industry, with a notably successful track record advising on “highly complex matters in which there is no easy
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A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that the case agaisnst an adviser to Osama bin Laden is more than sufficient to permit the case to go before a jury, after lawyers for the defendant, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, argued the burden of proof had not been met. Abu Ghaith, 48, is a Kuwaiti cleric who married
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We’ve all heard the one about the lady that sued McDonald’s after spilling hot coffee all over herself back in 1992. But hers is far from the most ridiculous case brought to court over the past few decades. Stella Liebeck’s coffee case was, in fact, much more serious than the public gave her credit for.
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