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Archie Williams – The Innocence Project YouTube Star & The Lawyers Who Saw Him Free

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Reality TV show ‘Americ’a Got Talent’ is as used to pulling heartstrings as strumming guitars, but the recent appearance of Archie Williams, a man who served 37 years’ jail for a crime he didn’t commit, was a standout performance for both Williams and the Innocence Project lawyers who secured his release. In 1982, at the […]

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Litigation Funder Parabellum Capital Raises $450 Million As Pandemic Lawsuits Loom

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Litigation finance firm Parabellum Capital has raised a new fund with commitments exceeding $450 million ahead of a potential torrent of coronavirus-related lawsuits, new proof that betting on court battles remains popular with investors despite the current crisis, Bloomberg Big Law reports. And one of the attractions for the industry is the prospect of major

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NZ Law Firms Cut Graduate Programmes and Law Jobs Amid Pandemic Panic

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Law firms have faced challenges over their graduate programmes amid the COVID-19 crisis with some firms either cutting their programmes or moving more of them online. Major law firms have also withdrawn jobs from the market. A senior recruiter told LawFuel that many larger law firms have placed their graduate recruitment programmes on hold for

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Lawyers Pick Up Summer Program Cash – But Either Virtual Or No Programs On Offer

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The coronavirus crisis has seen many law firms cancel their summer intern programs, but many firms are continuing to pay their associates as much as $3600 a month despite reducing their summer intern programs. The pandemic has created a range of reactions from law firms, which would normally see market leaders set the framework for

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Former Judge Asks – ‘What Price Liberty & The Virus?’

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Tony Willy* In the long march of British history Britains have enjoyed, at least since Magna Carta, certain inalienable liberties and freedoms. These have been exported around the world to wherever English came to be spoken, and so it remains today. In the era these rights came to be established such notions were unique. Peoples

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Kirkland’s ‘Emotionally Deficient’ Gravy Train Email Scores a Sour Bullseye With Expendable Lawyers

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An article in Law.com from Olivia Chen caught our eye for no reason other than its insensitivity to both the lawyers working with Big Law partners, but also to the curren coronavirus crisis situation occurring in workplaces. The need to pump out billables may continue even in times of crisis but some sensitivity to the

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Some Big Law Firms Repaid Their ‘Subsidies’ – But With One Noticeable Exception

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It was a serious misstep made by large law firms who quickly claimed their subsidies from the Government for the Covid-19 losses they expected to sustain. We reported the issue with raised eyebrows, particularly given the large returns the larger firms have been onto as the economy continued its robust performance up until China exported

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Pierce Bainbridge Litigation Finance Plays: The $1 Billion Lie and The $65 Million Debt

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This page about Pierce Bainbridge law firm is no longer available, but you may see further updated information about law firms by joining our list (below)and receiving the latest law firm news As noted, Pravati has been sued, a slew of John Pierce’s former partners have been sued, John Pierce and the firm have been

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Has ‘Supreme Leader’ Ardern Made Decisions Dangerous to Democracy, The Rule of Law & The Economy?

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Muriel Newman* – In his recent article The Coming Economic Crisis and its Political Consequences, Sir Bob Jones predicts New Zealand will have a change in government: “Have an election today and the government would bolt in, primarily because of Jacinda’s star power induced by the media’s obsession with her. But the election is six months away

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