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What You Need To Know About The El Chapo Trial and El Chapo’s Top Gun Lawyer

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The trial of ‘El Chapo’, aka Joaquin Guzman, has seen his defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman, 53, once more thrust into the headlines following his high profile defense of Mafia don John Gotti Jr, who Lichtman kept out of prison for 12 years. Lichtman is representing El Chapo on the international conspiracy indictments filed by the […]

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Cravath’s Steps Towards The Firm’s Gender Equality: Helping Lead the Way

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Achieving gender equality is one of the law profession’s major issues and so when a major firm – particularly one as gold-plated as Cravath Swaine & Moore – announce that their latest partner intake not only comprises mainly women, but only women, then it’s three cheers for them. It isn’t the first time Cravath has

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Why Big Name Investors Like Mark Cuban & Kobe Bryant Are Investing in Legal Tech

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 Neil Watson* While lawyers are notoriously risk-averse, a number of legal entrepreneurs and non-lawyer entrepreneurs like Mark Cuban are changing the face of the law. Cuban announced this week that he would make an undisclosed investment in an ‘access to justice’ company called Paladin, partnering with legal giant Dentons, the world’s largest law firm by

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UK Boutique Law Firms Who Are Avoiding the Billable Hour

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John Bowie – The burden of the billable hour for lawyers has been something that is increasingly being shrugged off by new-age law firms intent upon finding ‘a new way’, such as London’s new legal boutique Trowers & Hamlins. Based in the trendy Atrium in Camden’s markets, the four lawyer firm arose from the disenchantment

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BBC Lectures By One of Britain’s Top Lawyers Will Stir Controversy

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The outspoken thoughts of one of the UK’s top lawyers Lord Sumption, will be closely listened to when he delivers key lectures on the BBC next year. The broadcaster announced Lord Sumption, the snowy and wild haired former academic and QC, as delivering the renowned Reith Lectures on its Radio 4 next year in a

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Why AI Is Not The Main Focus For Law Firms’ Tech Spend. It’s This . .

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The endless articles about AI would have you thinking that it is top-of-mind for lawyers and law firm CEOs, but not so.  The Number One issue – at least according to a UK survey, is cyber security. The HSBC UK survey was conducted with  The Lawyer magazine, showing thast 70 per cent of law firms saw cyber-security

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Why Elon Musk’s New Lawyers Have Some Heavy Duty Work on Their Hands

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Elon Musk recently hired a couple of lawyers with some solid experience in Securities Law, but may well be set to keep them and a whole team of others busy as his legal woes continue to mount. As the US Department of Justice opens its criminal investigation into his tweets about taking his company Tesla

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Gender in the Law & Minority Bias in Legal Profession Confirms Womens’ Worst Fears: Why The Law Profession Is Failing on These Fronts

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A new report on racial and gender in the law bias in the US has demonstrated how rampant the bias is and why efforts to control it are failing. The report, “You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting Racial & Gender Bias in the Legal Profession,” is based on a 2016 survey of 2,827

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