Depression among lawyers is a major issue, but for some Australian lawyers a comic revue has proved so successful in dealing with the issue that they are making a return season, as reported in Australia.Lawfuel.com. Max Paterson, The Law Revue director and a lawyer at Landers & Rogers, said that the performers weren’t the only […]
A Michigan judge has lost his job after texting a picture of his bare chest to a bailiff and having sex in his chambers with a witness in a child support case . Wayne County Circuit Judge4 Wade McCree was removed after having the affair and, if re-elected the Michigan Supreme Court ruled he would be
There appears to be big money in the new LGBT law. Last week it was reported that the law firms of high profile lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies took in $6.4 million for the Prop 8 case. Washington Blade reports that tax filings indicate former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson’s law firm – Gibson,
As the case against Sulaiman Abu Ghaith goes to the jury, you might wonder how a Jewish lawyer like Stanley Cohencame to be representing a man charged with participating in a terrorist conspiracy to kill as many Americans as possible and how he could have made a career out of representing Muslim terror suspects generally.
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The US Supreme Court faces a major issue in a religious rights case, which could see a ruling that companies can exercise religious freedom to exempt them from complying with federal law – a decision that would have far-ranging impact. The Hobby Lobby case involves a key decision as to whether the company, Hobby Lobby,
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Former Madoff Investment employees were found guilty of assisting Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff build his house of cards after a five month trial in Manhattan. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara released the following statement regarding the guilty verdicts in respect of the five, former employees, including Daniel Bonventre
There were no survivors on Malaysian Flight MH370, which plummeted into the Indian Ocean, the Malaysian Prime Minister has announced. And now, for the passengers’ families and for the Airline there will be legal issues as to the Airline’s liability. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razar indicated that Flight MH370 ended its flight in a
Saatchis’ chief honcho and marketing expert Kevin Roberts is someone you might well listen to when it comes to marketing – and lawyers especially are those who would want to hear about ‘peak performance for your law firm’. Right? So when Roberts blogs about someone who actually wrote a blog about a peak performing law
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Mega-law firm Skadden Arps has reached a settlement with regard to its representation of former hedge fund manager “Buddy” Fletcher Jr, who ran Fletcher International Ltd, which could have exposed Skaddens to legal claims. Fletcher’s hedge funds are in bankruptcy liquidation and the settlement of $4.25 million removes Skaddens from the sights of the trustee
Same-sex marriages in Michigan have been delayed by a Court of Appeals ruling, issing an order preventing them from occurring after the state’s appeal of a ruling that overturned the consitutional ban on them. Dozens of couples took advantage of the ability of marrying prior to the decision from the 6th US Circuit Court of
