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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 nights

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Alec Baldwin Shooting Victim Was Wife of LA Corporate Lawyer

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The woman shot accidentally by Alec Baldwin on the movie set ‘Rust’ was the wife of an LA lawyer at Latham & Watkins.  Matt Hutchins (pictured left with Halyna) joined L&W as an associate and had previously worked as an in-house lawyer at entertainment company having also worked at Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden.“An attorney

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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 obtain half

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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 a

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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 the

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The Paradox Papers – What Does The Pandora Papers Dump Really Mean For Anti-Money Laundering?

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  Ron Pol – When the solutions to Panama, Paradise, and Pandora papers prevent better anti-crime outcomes.   The latest round of coordinated outrage from a carefully manicured document leak – dubbed the Pandora Papers – provoked the usual storm of readymade “solutions” this week to “fix” the anti-money laundering system. But when perceptions (no

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