Washington Correspondent If ever the Trump administration and its lawyers could become more weird it might have been in the last couple of weeks. Apart from the Cohen plea, there has also been the exiting of White House Counsel Don McGahn and his potential replacement by King & Spalding litigator Bobby Burchfield, who has been […]
Marilyn Monroe stirred the senses more than most celebrities born and one of her most celebrated photographers, Bert Stern, has now placed the star into a legal stoush over ‘The Last Sitting’ pics. The images depicted Monroe in a Bel-Air hotel swathed in sheets, gossamer scarves and the accouterments that helped account for her sex
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The US Attorney For the Southern District of New York has issued a press release related to guilty pleas from former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for the concealment of more than $4 million in unreported income and for campaign finance violations. But the builty pleas could indicate a whole slew of trouble for the President’s
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Claudia Rollo A recent article in the ABA Journal on being a successful female lawyer in the courtroom, demonstrated that there are certain preconceived notions about women litigators that can be rejected. Written by Cris Arguedas the article challenges the notion that women cannot be as effective as men in court. The article came in
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Mark Hamilton The growth in the legal head count at the Big Four accounting firms has increasingly got lawyers talking. And clients. A recent comment from WickerPark Group in a blog item noted that the main observations about what is happening comes from the M&A and tax professionals who have wide exposure to both the
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We’ve had RBG the rapper, “Notorious RBG” teeshirts, RBG the movie and now . . hold on to your hats! . . it’s RBG the action hero. The iconic Supreme Court justice has further enhanced her pop-culture role following a crowd funding campaign that secured over $600,000 to create the doll of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Legal giant Baker McKenzie has announced global revenues for the year ended 30 June 2018 of $2.9 billion, a 10 per cent increase over the previous year. The firm reported revenue increases of up to 10 per cent in all regions with profit per partner up 13 per cent to $1.44 million. The growth was
Karin Conroy* Website design styles change so often, it is difficult to keep up with the trends and new technology. There are a few new trends that have begun playing a major role in law firm websites that we expect to continue to see in law firms that are looking to set themselves apart and
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sexual harassment complaints in the law are on the rise, but how difficult is it for former lawyers accused of such behaviour to switch jobs? Not very, it would seem. A WSJ story indicated that opaque hiring practicves in the legal profession make earlier sexual harassment complaint easy to leave behind. The issue is
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Everyone knew the Big Accountants were coming for Big Law, but the race has stepped up with Deloittes now registering a foreign law practice licence in Singapore as it follows the other Big Four firms into the lucrative city-state’s legal market. And that will worry many of the Big Law firms – again. (We reported
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