Frank Cordner – Attorney General William Barr’s efforts to ‘investigate the investigators’ with an inquiry into the origins of the 2016 Russia investigation has created some serious concerns among many in DC and elsewhere. Will it, for instance, hamper attempts to fight the Kremlin’s political meddling in the next election? And will it provide his […]
The explosion in legal tech ‘apps’ will result in some massive consolidation, says an expert in the area, Professor Daniel Katz. Katz is professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law as well as having a major hand in legal tech himself, via his vice-president role in the global law tech company Elevate. There would
Justice Kit Toogood’s character analysis of defamation litigant Colin Craig may have rocked the former Conservative Party chief somewhat, having been described variously as being intelligent and articulate on the one hand, but “self absorbed”, “lacking insight” and “hypocritical” on the other. The seemingly endless Craig litigation drama, which LawFuel uncatalogued earlier, needed to be brought
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While the pay rate increases may excite the interests of young lawyers, it also comes at the cost of smaller associate teams required to hit higher billing targets.
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Overlawyered? Apparently not if the latest US figures are anything to go by. The last decade has seen a 14.5 per cent increase in the number of lawyers in the US. The ABA Journal has reported that lawyers in the US from the beginning of this year now number 1,352,027, up from 1,180,386 in 2009.
In a career of high publicity and renown, Melbourne barrister Bret Walker SC has the case of his career on his hands with the attempt to free former Cardinal George Pell from prison. But the Court are listening, along with the rest of Australia and legal world. Walker’s attempts to persuade the Appeal Court that
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Lawyer David Sanford is an attorney who has brought gender bias lawsuits against major law firms. And he sees two key obstacles to the systemic changes required by law firms needing to create better gender representation. But there are a couple of obstacles towards achieving the desired changes sought by most firms. He spoke about
Harvey Weinstein’s biggest epic may have been the creation of the #Metoo series, which continues to rumble through the world, including the legal world, and may come in at a $44 million cost. The producer who faces multiple claims of sexual harassment and worse may be settling the disputes at a cost of $44 million,
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The establishment of the new Junior Lawyers’ Union, the Aotearoa Legal Workers’ Union, a heavily industrialised-sounding title, is a development that has been simmering for some time and prior to the #Metoo scandal that rocked the legal profession. Attempts to secure better rewarded and generally more equitable conditions for younger lawyers is something that has
