Australian law firms have had record financial years with the Australian Financial Review reporting strong results for the first half of 2022 due to the financial marketings pushing revenues up by over 13 per cent. The report from Thomson Reuters released last week showed that practice areas continue to grow with Australian law firms outpacing […]
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In addition to the unusual mass arbitration Intuit is fighting, federal regulators and state prosecutors are still investigating the company, which made $2 billion dollars last year. Justin Elliott* Faced with a class-action suit filed on behalf of customers who claim they were tricked into paying to file their taxes, TurboTax-maker Intuit knocked the case
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As cryptocurrency becomes increasingly accepted, some law firms are now beginning to also accept cyrptoasset payments for legal services. In the UK, the first major law firm to accept cryptoasset payments is innovative law firm GunnerCooke who have joined other professional groups who are beginning to do the same thing. In a press release issued
The Metaverse provides major new opportunities for lawyers to develop their ‘metaverse law’ practices
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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ELLIOT SMERLING pleaded guilty today to a bank fraud scheme that caused the issuance of approximately $140 million in collateralized loans on the basis of forged documents, including subscription agreements from purported limited partners, audit letters attesting to his private equity
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A new report on law firm diversity statistics shows continued improvement among US law firms The survey from The National Association for Law Placement indicates that there are more women, people of color and LGBTQ associates at law firms than ever before, increasing from over 36 per cent to over 41 per cent – the
New Zealand Capital Letter editor Geoff Adlam has written about the David v. Goliath Lawsuit against LawFuel pubisher John Bowie, in New Zealand, from a Russian billionaire, which has engendered strong interest among media groups in four countries. The Capital Letter article is reproduced here. Geoff Adlam – A short High Court decision in December allowing
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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Keechant Sewell, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), announced that IRVIN CARTAGENA, a/k/a “Green Eyes,” was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed yesterday in Manhattan federal court with a narcotics conspiracy in which he distributed the fentanyl-laced heroin
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Former Miss USA and attorney Cheslie Kryst’s death has left obvious sadness, but has also served to further highlight the issues of lawyers’ mental health – an issue that has affected lawyers everywhere. Kryst died last Sunday after she jumped from the 60 story Orion building in New York and had shortly before the jump
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The filing, submitted by New York Attorney General Letitia James, comes several years after a ProPublica investigation revealed conflicting financial details the Trump Organization filed for its downtown Manhattan skyscraper at 40 Wall Street. Heather Vogell ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re
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