Fired Dentons Associate Michael Potere’s interesting career took another turn this week with his sentencing on charges of attempting to extort his former employer under threat of releasing highly sensitive information he had downloaded from the email account of the firm’s LA managing director’s account. Not the best of plans, you may think and both […]
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David Weston What sort of law firm would best suit millenials and what changes are the ‘Me To’ generation bringing to the way law firms operate? The question was recently posed to the managing principal of a mid-sized law firm, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman. Vito Gagliardi made the observation to the New Jersey Law Journal
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Sandra Mahoney* I deal daily with women in the law who make the oft-heard complaint about the lack of fairness and parity with their male colleagues in the law. One – in fact three, things – that struck a chord with me was comments made by the highest paid lawyer in the country, Judy Sheindlin,
So you’re looking to work for a top UK law firm? And you’d like – apart from good money – some swanky offices, too. Law blog LegalCheek took a look at some of the fancy digs offered up by the major City law firms, coming up with the top 5 in their ‘Most Impressive Law
Donald Trump’s reference to immigrants from ‘shithole countries’ – notably Haiti, Central American and African countries – has hit more than a nerve with any number of countries, diplomats, leaders and others. So we thought we would look at a quick sampling of top US lawyers who come from such ‘shithole countries’, ranging from Somalia
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Whether you have just graduated, or you have been practicing law for many years, you may find yourself wondering where you want to be in a few years’ time. After all, a law degree is extremely versatile, and open doors to an impressive array of potential career paths. Yet competition is fierce. In fact,
David Brechter Remember Charles Harder? He was the lawyer who closed gossip blog Gawker on behalf of Trump-supporter and multi-billionaire Peter Thiel, and his client ‘Hulk Hogan’. You can read our earlier story about Mr Harder here. Now he’s reappeared as President Trump’s new lawyer in the attempts to shutter the ‘Fire & Fury’ book
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Using LinkedIn to grow your law practice is one of the most sure-fire things any small (or larger) firm can do to create new work. Following some simple steps for the massive social network can pay huge dividends for a few minutes a day. All of which is why we paid close attention to a
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Statement from the President of the United States Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as
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Toby George* Blockchain, THE Blockchain, BlockTech, even, whatever you want to call it, blockchain will alter the way lawyers go about their business in a way that may be as significant as the Internet itself. And those jumping on the ‘chain’ first are likely to score a win over others who struggle to understand what’s
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