Prince’s “New Girl” performance at the Super Bowl created a stir, playing himself in Fox’s “New Girl” episode going to air after the lopsided game. Prince may provide relationship advice for the main characters in the show but there are legal troubles out there for “New Girl” too. A lawsuit from screenwriters Stephanie Counts and […]
Sarosh Zaiwalla became the first Asian to qualify as a lawyer in the UK he would hardly have thought he would one day be hiring a future Prime Minister (even if it was only Tony Blair) and also setting up the first “non-white” law firm in The City with a firm turning over £3 million.
UK’s liberalisation of legal services under its “Tesco Law” has seen an equity group take a stake in the adminstrative services arm of an offshore law firm, Ogier. Last week insurers Direct Line and accountancy group PwC won licences to provide legal services. The Ogier deal sees it separate its adminstrative arm to the
Sex abuse allegations against writer/director Woody Allen have seen his lawyer, Elkan Abramowitz point the finger at Allen’s former wife, actress Mia Farrow with Allen to personally respond shortly. “It is tragic that after 20 years a story engineered by a vengeful lover resurfaces after it was fully vetted and rejected by independent authorities,”
LawFuel.com – Allen & Overy announced the appointment of partner Aurélien Hamelle to the Paris dispute resolution practice. Aurélien specialises in financial and business criminal law, international criminal law as well as defamation, slander and privacy law. Aurélien joins from Metzner Associés, together with associates Léonor Hennerick and Ophélia Claude by the end of May
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We all know Facebook is a precocious success developed by a precocious 22 year old who turned down a billion for a company making losses. Now its worth $150 billion and faces some serious challenges from Google Plus and other social media developments. But privacy too is a major issue for Facebook, which collects data
It’s awards season and Woody Allen has received something he would never have dreamt of – an open letter to the New York Times alleging sexual molestation by the director against his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow. Posted on the blog of a friend, Nicholas Kristof, the letter explains details of the experience she recalls. Allen,
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Breaking up law firms is never easy . . just like romantic breakups, actually. But when a small Texas law firm broke apart it showed some rather gross details, revealed in a lawsuit filed by the former partners in the firm, Ferrer Tu & Payne. Law blog AbovetheLaw already commented that things can get tough
Oops . . giving the finger to your law professor is not exactly the best way to improve your grades. RonNell Anderson Jones teaches at BYU Law School and happened to encounter an angry motorist on the way to class, tweeting . . I wonder if the driver who honked and made the rude gesture
Jokes about lying lawyers are one thing, but when it came to former jouralist Stephen Glass and his attempts to join the legal profession in California he was judged as being too much of a liar for the law. Proceedings commenced in the Californian Supreme Court to ascertain whether Glass has the “moral character” to
