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

Featured, Headlining, Law Firm Technology, Law Firms / November 2, 2018

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

Big Law, Headlining, Law Firms / October 26, 2018

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

Featured, Headlining, UK Law / October 8, 2018

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 . .

Headlining, Law Firm Technology, Law Firms / October 3, 2018

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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The Brett Kavanaugh Show . . Has He Been Here Before?

Headlining, Lawyers / October 1, 2018

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

Headlining, LawStars, Lawyers / September 19, 2018

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

Headlining, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / September 9, 2018

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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Ex Trump Org Ethics Counsel Sheds Wife After Her Maserati Sex Session at Jailhouse – But He Could Still Replace Jeff Sessions

Headlining, Lawyers, US Law / September 3, 2018

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

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Marilyn Monroe And the ‘Last Sitting’ Photograph Fight

Headlining, Law Firms / September 1, 2018

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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Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea Over Unconcealed Income & Campaign Finance Violations

Headlining, Lawyers / August 21, 2018

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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