Looking for a last minute Valentine’s Day gift for a lawyer?No?Okay, will what about if your ARE looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for the lawyer in your life?Consider these suggestions1.The CardThere’s that terrific standby – the card with a legal reasoning backing it up, such as the Georgetown University Law Weekly published these free, […]
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Sexual assault appears to be all the rage in the entertainment industry – and many others – but is the law business immune? Hardly, and a recently reported gagging order against one of the world’s largest law firms, Baker + McKenzie, appears to prove the point firmly.The Times reported that the firm is being investigated
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Raymond Ho was a highly successful lawyer – a partner at Arent Fox at the age of 33 before opening a successful IP law firm. But no more. His career ended when he pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Prosecutors said that he was a “prolific money launderer” who funneled $2.1
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We all know that artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly making its mark on the law business. But the value of the new technology is now becoming more competitive with one of the first AI Attorney products – ROSS – introducing a new, free AI tool for lawyers.The new tool, EVA, is a brief analyzer using
The law firm gender pay gap continues as before, according to a survey from a law firm recruiter in the UK which has surveyed London law firm partners.It comes as no surprise that women are consistently underpaid on the law pay front, notwithstanding the repeated efforts and statements from law firms about how they’re addressing
No amount of legal training could have prepared Rachael Denhhollander for what lay ahead in blowing the whistle on serial sex abuser Larry Nassar.Ms Denhollander, an attorney in Louisville Kentucky, wrote in the NY Times about taking on the power of the US Olympic Committee and the cunning and predator expertise of Larry Nassar in
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Don Testo*Donald Trump under oath – as he faces with the Mueller investigation – is something the President treats with traditional bluster and bravado.Given that he has uttered an alleged 2000 lies since taking ‘the oath of office’ the issue now is what he might do to himself when speaking with the special counsel.And according
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 the
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David WestonWhat 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 that if he
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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, the
