Gridlock, embittered factions, the ongoing issues of the US lawmakers have entered a new era now with a brand new debate over the limits of presidential power. The decision of the Supreme Court on Thursday to limit the President’s ability to make recess appointments was the trigger point for the new argument. The New York […]
Searching the cellphones of those arrested is available only after a search warrant, the US Supreme Court has ruled in a decision welcomed by those concerned about privacy in the age of digital communication. The Chief Justice, John Roberts referred to the power of cell phones, saying because they contain so much information the police
Bernard Madoff Steered Dozens of Customers to Use the Defendant’s Services, and Madoff Personally Sought Tax and Business Advice from the Defendant Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PAUL J. KONIGSBERG – a lawyer and accountant who provided services to numerous clients of Bernard L.
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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
