News site Slate posted a piece on Donald Trump’s law firm, Morgan Lewis with lawyer Sheri Dillon from the firm on hand with her client to discuss issues about how the President Elect will isolate himself from his firm. As Slate say: Here’s a boast on Morgan Lewis’ website that Google sleuths found almost immediately: […]
What should millennials – lawyers included, obviously – expect in 2017? the fact is the mixed messages coming from employers can be distressing to job seekers who are told that robots will soon be handling more complex legal work and that there is still demand for those with key skills. Forbes contributor Caroline Beaton, who
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President Obama, once president of the Harvard Law Review, has now published an article in the Review on criminal justice reform. The proposal for the article reportedly came from Harvard law dean Martha Minow, according to reports in Law.com, the Harvard Crimson and Politico. “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform” said his administration made progress in reforming
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The legal field is expected to see steady hiring with litigation projected to yield the greatest job prospects. One-quarter of lawyers interviewed by Robert Half Legal predict that their law firms or companies will add legal jobs in the first half of 2017. This compares to 31 percent six months ago and 24 percent one
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Having a big name law school on your resume is great for Big Law jobs, but the reality is that most lawyers don’t work in Big Law. And there is also the fact that lower-ranked law schools can also provide greater job opportunities than some of the major name law schools. Professor of Law Daniel
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LawFuel.com- Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled a federal civil rights lawsuit against the CITY OF PORT JERVIS (“PORT JERVIS”) in Orange County, New York. Under the agreed-upon Consent Decree, PORT JERVIS will repeal a local law enacted in December
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LOS ANGELES – Ally Financial Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $52 million to settle allegations that its subsidiaries acted improperly in relation to 10 subprime residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) in 2006 and 2007. A settlement agreement announced today resolves an investigation into alleged violations of the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and
LOS ANGELES – As part of an ongoing undercover operation by Special Agents with the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS), five fraudulent “documents mills” have been dismantled in recent months, and the investigation has now resulted in charges against 13 defendants who allegedly produced bogus identity documents. Two of those defendants pleaded guilty today
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Rahimi Allegedly Detonated and Attempted to Detonate Bombs on Public Streets in the Chelsea Neighborhood of Manhattan Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mary B. McCord, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, announced that AHMAD KHAN RAHIMI, a/k/a “Ahmad Rahami,” was charged
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Baltimore, MD (November 14, 2016) — The recently released U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” directory recognizes thirteen Kramon & Graham practices in its 2017 law firm guide. Kramon & Graham is ranked a Metropolitan Tier 1 firm in ten practice areas, including Litigation, Health Care, Insurance, and Real Estate. The firm
