[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The glass ceiling remains a difficult – shattering even – experience for many women seeking to achieve equity partnerships in Big Law firms. Law360 has now compiled a ranking of the best law firms for women to become (equity) partners, surveying over 300 firms on gender diversity based on the number of female equity partners […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] So who exactly is Natalia Veselnitskya, the Russian lawyer who met Donald Trump Jr to talk about potentially damaging information involving Hillary Clinton and the Democrats during the last US election? The lawyer is perhaps more than she seems – less glamorous Russian show pony lawyer and more Russian power player. Some of the
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Chief Justice John G Roberts Jr wished bad luck upon school graduates in dispensing some graduation advice that might have taken many by surprise. Speaking at a ninth grade commencement address at an elite school attended by his son, the speech was described by the Washington Post as “personal, understated and popular probably because it touched on
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Forgetting the ‘Russia problem’ for Donald Trump, the President has continuing trouble over the alleged fraud case that has beleaguered his Trump University seminar program. A plaintiff in the case, which Trump settled, has refused the $25 million settlement leaving open the potential for the President to face a fraud trial. “Yes, that’s right,”
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Famed attorney F Lee Bailey is rightly renowned for his courtroom exploits, but the renown is now more focused on his second bankruptcy as he fights the IRS. The attorney, best known most recently for his OJ Simpson team membership defense, has also a record of defending and winning some of the toughest cases
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The votes have been counted and the envelope opened – the most prestigious law firm in America is – once again! – Cravath Swaine & Moore. The Vault.com ranking of the 100 US law firms that rank as the most prestigious, based on a survey of 18,000 law firm associates who handle ranking based
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The student who assisted a partner at Baker & McKenzie during an assault at a Washington railway station has been both located and thanked – and also offered the ability to gain work experience at the Big Law firm. As Law.com reported, George Washington University law student, Andrew Miller, 23, jumped in to assist
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Prepaid legal services is yet another disrupter in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. As if e-law developments and artificial intelligence were not enough, the prepaid legal market is one that is expanding rapidly – and it is changing even faster according to one of the current players, LegalShield. ABA Journal provided an interview with
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The upward battle of women lawyers is something we at LawFuel have highlighted and reported repeatedly, but a recent example of just how they are treated emerged during the Senate testimony of Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions. Specifically, the harsh and disproportionate admonishment of Senator Kamala Harris as distinct from her male counterparts was
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What is the Trump family’s wedding planner, claiming an alleged law degree, doing handling a multi-billion dollar portfolio? Lynne Patton may have organized Trump weddings and celebrity golf tournaments, but the claimed J.D. from Quinnipiac University law school with the only problem being – she doesn’t have the degree. School registrar Jim Benson said
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