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New York Attorney Names New Terrorism & Public Corruption Appointments

Featured, Lawyers / March 6, 2014

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the appointments of Brendan McGuire as Co-Chief of the Terrorism & International Narcotics Unit and Arlo Devlin-Brown as Chief of the Public Corruption Unit. Mr. McGuire joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2005. Prior to being named Co-Chief of […]

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Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Statement on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Environmental Lawsuit

Featured, US Law / March 6, 2014

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi issued the following statement regarding the lawsuit filed today seeking a declaratory judgment establishing the liability of BP and other companies for the natural resource damages sustained by the State of Florida as a result of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. “Today’s filing is a crucial step toward securing

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Making the Grade: Choosing Candidates for Lawyer Coaching

Featured, Law Firm Management / March 4, 2014

The good news is that lawyers are an industrious and intelligent bunch. Unfortunately, they’re often busy and averse to risk. While the explosion of the Web has helped many lawyers become visible on search engines, leading to more clients and money, others are reluctant to try digital advertising. Coaches help lawyers become more productive and

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Defamation-by-Tweet

Australia, Featured / March 4, 2014

In a legal first, a former High School student in Australia faces a $105,000 damages award over comments made about his music teacher on Twitter. It is the country’s first defamation by tweet and Fairfax Media reports that Andrew Farley was ordered to pay $85,000 in compensatory damages, plus a further $20,000 in aggravated damages

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The Secret Behind the DeGeneres, Oscars “Selfie”

Featured / March 3, 2014

Don’t be fooled by Ellen’s selfie, the Twitter-crashing image taken by Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres who took the picture at the famed show, may be as part of a legal contract she or the Oscars have with major Oscar sponsors Samsung. Why? Because the selfie was taken with a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, a device

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UK Law Review Will See Penalties for National Minimum Wage Breaches Rise to £20k

Featured, UK Law / March 3, 2014

A change to UK employment laws will see rogue employers that fail to pay their staff the National Minimum Wage receiving fines of as much as £20,000. The current laws state that businesses breaking this UK employment law pay all unpaid wages plus a penalty of 50% of all underpaid workers’ total underpayment up to

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Adopting a Child From Abroad? – To Hague or Not to Hague

Featured, UK Law, US Law / March 3, 2014

Adopting a baby from overseas is a very large decision for your family to make. Choosing to adopt from another country can take a longer period of time, and there will be many international issues that must be handled before the child will be free to leave and join your family in the U.S.

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Is Russia Breaking International Law in the Ukraine? Or Not?

Featured / March 3, 2014

The situation with the creeping takeover of Crimea by Russia has many worried. But is it a flagrant violation of international law or not? Ashley Deeks joined the University of Virginia Law School in 2012 as an associate professor of law after two years as an academic fellow at Columbia Law School. She served for

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When Social Media Goes Wrong – Deleting Bad Posts

Featured, US Law / March 3, 2014

Preserving online reputations is a key issue for the kids who post wrong-headed selfies and mean tweets – social media posts that can sink reputations, jobs and other people – not to mention those who post them. But now, for the first time in the US, a law that would permit under 18 year olds

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Whistleblowing Lawsuit Nets Lawyer $2.5 Million

Featured, Lawyers / March 2, 2014

A Chicago University employee has been awarded $2.5 million in back pay and damages in an employment law dispute that could see the employee, fired for whistleblowing, receive even more money. The whistleblowing verdict is the first filed under the ethics act enacted in 2003 which set out guidelines for behaviour by state employees and

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