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Tweeting Trump’s Wiretap Woes Lead to the “I” Word – Again

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1488965131109{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1488965681830{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”] Former Nixon lawyer John Dean is once again on Trump Attack, saying the President is “way off base” after his Obama wiretap claim. The former counsel, who said President Trump faced calamity following his firing of […]

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London’s Big Law ‘Fintech Footprint’ Expands

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Big Name law firms are working to woo work from London’s fintech startups in the hope of building valuable business from the fast-growing sector. Fintech is likely to provide major disruption to the banking arena, but that digital disruption has not always been accompanied by a detailed legal analysis of the implications, which is

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Fired Attorney General’s Assistant Hired by Linklaters

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The assistant to the fired acting Attorney General Sally Q Yates has been hired by British-based Big Law firm Linklaters in their Washington DC office. Ms Yates was fired by the President after refusing to enforce his executive orders in the so-called “Muslim ban”.  Her deputy is Matthew S Axelrod, who has taken a

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Lawyers Beware: How AI Software Is Cutting Legal Costs

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Technology continues to cut into legal budgets, increasing the need for law firms to get ‘with it’ and increase efficiencies.  Take JPMorgan, who have adopted new “COIN” software (that means ‘Contract Intelligence’), which reviews their loan agreements and cuts their legal expediture. COIN will do in seconds  the work once requiring 360,000 hours each

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Slater & Gordon’s Continued Fall

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Slater and Gordon’s  news these days is going from bad to worse.  Following a first half loss of AUD$425 million the law firm’s shares continue to plummet, dropping 25 per cent this week. The increased loss was due to a AUD$350 million additional writedown on its disastrous UK business, which the firm has been

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Judge Judy’s Big Deal

Judge Judy's great TV deal

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] For a diminutive lady with a larger-than-life fan following and tongue, Judge Judy sure knows how to cut a deal – as much as telling one of her court parties to ‘shuddup and listen’. Because Judge Judy is far more than a court show host, Judith Sheindlin, 74, is an entertainment powerhouse like few

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Kellyann Conway Brings “Shame on Legal Profession” Says Law Complaint

Kellyann Conway law complaint

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A group of law ethics professors have taken a bar complaint about Donald Trump’s White House counsellor Kellyann Conway. The complaint refers to specific instances of lying or deception, including: The “Bowling Green massacre” that didn’t occur False Claims that President Obama had banned Iraqi refugees after the non-existent “massacre” “Alternative facts” regarding President Trump’s

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Tough Plaintiff Firm Takes on Trump

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A tough plaintiffs’ firm with a reputation for suing banks and large corporations is now squaring off against the Trump Administration. Cohen Milsten Sellers & Toll is acting for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in its lawsuit against President Trump according to the WSJ Law blog and reported on the CohenMilstein website. The court

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MailOnline Castigates UK Lawyers Over Conflict, Ethics & Money

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Britain’s Mail Online took a solid shot at the UK law profession following the striking off of so-called ambulance chasing lawyer Phil Shiner. Shiner is a former Public Interest Lawyers solicitor who was found guilty on five counts by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal who ordered him to pay interim costs of £250,000. But Mail Online columnist

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