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Law Firms are Late Developers on Talent Management, Says Senior Lawyer

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / May 18, 2014

Law firms are “late developers in talent management” according to Mary Cranston, former chair of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and successful class action litigator and company director. Interviewed by LawFuel publisher John Bowie, Mary Cranston has established herself as an innovative pioneer in terms of diversity employment practices, starting with her role as Pillsbury […]

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Pop-Up Law Firms on Display

Featured, Law Firm Management / May 18, 2014

Pop-up shops are all the rage in some metropolitan areas, but having a pop-up law firm is quite another thing. However, a DC architecture practice, Gensler have created “the law firm of the future” as an exhibit at the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference and expo in Toronto this week, showing fesatures including open

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Leaving Corporate Law To Travel

Featured, Lawyers, Lifestyle & Travel / May 16, 2014

Jodi Ettenberg is a former corporate lawyer who now travels the world – not billing out by the hour, but eating and looking at things, just like a real traveller might. She also writes the popular Legal Nomads site, which she started so her mother could keep track of her movements about the globe. It

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Lawyers For Hernandez Kept Busy With Murder Charges

Featured, Law Firms / May 16, 2014

Lawyers representing former New England Patriots tight Aaron Hernandez have been kept busy by the footballer as he faces two counts of first degree murder in 2012 and were seeking the dismissal of a first degree murder indictment for a fatal shooting in 2013. Hernandez is currently in jail on the separate, 2013 killing of

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EU Court Strengthens the Right to Be Forgotten

Briefings, Featured / May 15, 2014

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a quite surprising decision against Google which has significant implications for global companies. On May 13, 2014 the ECJ issued a ruling which did not follow the rational eor the conclusions of its Advocate General, but instead sided with the Spanish data protection authority (DPA) and found that:

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An Inhouse Counsel’s View on Your Career and Who You Are?

Featured, Law Job News, Lawyers / May 13, 2014

Inhouse counsel may occasionally have the appearance of having life easy, particularly compared to the Big Law jobs that sap energy and soak up every second of the day with world-beating deals and mind-twisting litigation. So what is the perspective on making yourself a top lawyer so that you not only enjoy your job but

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Russell Brand Didn’t Find Cheating Allegation Funny . .

Featured, UK Law / May 13, 2014

Comedian Russel Brand landed a good punch line when he obtained substantial damages from the Sun on Sunday, who claimed he had cheated on girlfriend Jemima Khan. The newspaper published an apology and paid his legal costs. Brand was not at London’s high court for the settlement of his action against News Group Newspapers over

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How Big Law Firms Are Using A Swiss Technique To Keep Profits Safe

Featured, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / May 12, 2014

The American Lawyer’s annual law firm rankings show some of the biggest are using a Swiss legal partnership to keep country profits separate. All of the firms have set up “vereins”—a Swiss legal partnership that lets the law firms maintain separate national or regional profit pools under a single brand. The AmLaw rankings also

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Seven Year Investigation Results in Return of Bank Fraud-Related Masterpiece to Brazil

Featured / May 11, 2014

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Bruce Foucart, Special Agent-in-Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE”) Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) Boston Office, announced today that a painting by Serge Poliakoff called “Composition abstraite [Abstract composition]” (the “Poliakoff”) was returned to Brazil at a repatriation ceremony

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The Lawyer Behind #BringBackOurGirls

Featured, Lawyers / May 10, 2014

Ibrahim Abdullahi is the managing partner of a law firm in Abuja, Nigeria. He is also the man behind the #BringBackOurGirls viral campaign seeking the return of the school girls kidnapped by the Boko Haram terror group. His #BringBackOurGirls has been retweeted nearly two million times and Mr Abdullahi says he is both overwhelmed and

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