Leftwing billionaire George Soros, the man who broke the bank of England also had his lawyer’s spectacles broken and his hearing aids bashed by his soap opera star former girlfriend Adriana Ferreyr. The incident happened during a court appearance on Friday. According to court papers filed by Soros’s attorney Martin Singer, the 83-year-old left-wing billionaire […]
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Dr George Beaton reports exclusively for LawFuel on the ReInvent Law conference in New York last weekend. Hot on the heels of the recent story in LawFuel featuring George Beaton and NewLaw New Rules, his new book on trends in the legal services industry, he has sent this exclusive report to LawFuel from the February
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Paulette Brown, the chief diversity officer at law firm Edwards Wildman and a labor lawyer is moving closer towards becoming the next president of the American Bar Association, following her formal nomination as president-elect. She is already the first colored woman to be nominated to that position. In a press release from her firm,
So who has the best in-house law department in NYC? The New York Law Journal has announced the winning inhouse departments for 2014 with a swanky dinner planned for March 10. The “Outstanding Legal Department” winner, coming in with 160 attorneys, is . . . drums are rolling . . . AIG! Outstanding Legal Department
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A change of mayor in New York has started a rush for law firms to secure the legal talent that went with Michael Bloomberg’s NYC administration. And one lawyer who secured a top spot on Wall Street was David Karnovsky, general counsel of New York City’s Department of City Planning for the past 15 years
So how come a legal chief sent his indians to the beach with a $2000 payment to spend it anywhere in the world? The surprise happened at the end of last month when Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan chief John Quinn sent an email (see below) and told them that February and March were miserable
Flappy Bird was pulled from the iTunes App Store and Google Play because of issues other than the law, according to its creator Dong Nguyen The difficult and massively popular game was the subject of some accusations that it copied other games and had legal issues, but that was denied by Nguyen, the Vietnamese creator
Everyone knows that online dating scams have been around as online dating. But the reported $100 million+ losses incurred in the US alone are just the tip of the iceberg according to officials. Every day in just about every country there is another report about a dating scam and the sad tale of someone who
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Could figure skater Ashley Wagner help reconfigure Russia’s anti-gay law? Probably not, but she appears to be giving it a good try. The two-time national champion has been one of the few US competitors at the Sochi Olympics to speak out against the anti-gay laws. She told a reporter she loved the “very rainbow” colors
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Attorney General Eric Holder is applying same-sex marriage rules from a Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department’s conduct in same-sex matters. Holder announced on Saturday that same-sex spouses cannot be required to give evidence against each other and should be able to file jointly for bankruptcy, as well as having the same rights in
