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Steve Bannon Indictment – But A Hard One To Litigate

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Steve Bannon, a former political strategist for former US President Donald Trump, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for contempt of Congress. Bannon had been refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the US House of Representatives committee investigating the 2021 US Capitol attack. This comes after the House voted to refer the matter to the Department of Justice last month for consideration. Bannon is […]

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Are Mandatory Employee Vaccines Coming To A State Near You?

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While available vaccines have proven highly effective in controlling COVID-19 and its variants to date, the virus continues to spread, particularly among unvaccinated populations. In the face of flagging interest, officials across the U.S. have tried different approaches to increase vaccination rates. For example, officials launched incentive programs, stressed personal responsibility, deployed mobile vaccination units,

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Australian New Law ‘Disrupter’ Law Firm Benefits From Pandemic With UK Expansion

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LegalVision, the Australian ‘legal disrupter’ plans to enter the UK legal market, following the move by fellow New Law firm SprintLaw that has also launched in the UK. The subscription-based legal service providers have seen a massive growth in demand following the pandemic, rather than the conventional hourly billing model favored for so long by

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The Late Night Lawyers – Survey Shows London Lawyer Work Hours

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Late nights and long hours go together for lawyers like crackers and cheese, but the recent survey of working hours for London’s lawyers has still created some surprises for those interested in such stats. For instance, the Legal Cheek survey of firms shows junior lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis had the longest days – or

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Divorce Law Decision on De Niro Split – He Keeps Most of the Money

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Actor Robert De Niro has avoided payment of half the money he has earned through acting and his business interests after a divorce law decision from the New York County Supreme Court that found that a 2004 prenuptial agreement served to maintain those funds as De Niro’s separate property.   Grace Hightower had sought to

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Litigation Funder’s $31 Million Trip-and-Fall Fraud Scheme Arrested

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Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging ADRIAN ALEXANDER with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to obtain fraudulent insurance reimbursements and other compensation for fraudulent trip-and-fall accidents.  ALEXANDER was

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Lawyer Conned Clients About Phony Court Successes With Sham Documents and Forged Judge Signatures

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          LOS ANGELES – A former California lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to a fraud charge, admitting he lied to clients about winning cases and deceiving them with bogus documents, some with the forged signatures of judges.           Matthew Charles Elstein, 51, of Redondo Beach, agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud in

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London ‘Fearsome Four’ Law Firm Winner Has Ferocious Response To Firm Departure Report

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US Big Law giant Quinn Emanuel’s UK chief Richard East has fired up – and fired back – at reports in UK legal media about recent departures from the firm, recently named as leader of the ‘Fearsome Four’ pack of the most feared law firms in the world. The row over departures related principally to

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