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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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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As the US is glued to television screens in respect of the sort of event hat might ordinarily pass as nothing more than a sub-head on the pages of most metropolitan papers, the dramatic scenes from Washington’s Senate hearings hold the nation spellbound. Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate that he was the victim of an
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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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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
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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