A Brisbane-based law firm has raised issues over class action supremos Slater + Gordon adopting the trademark tag: ‘Slater + Gordon. We win cases like yours.’ The lawyer, Nicole Murdoch of Eaglegate Lawyers, is exhorting Australian lawyers to resist the application’s acceptance by IP Australia “I don’t think IP Australia is going to accept it […]
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Connecting a star law firm like Boies Schiller Flexner with a high profile case such as that involving star lawyer Michael Avenatti has become something of a byword for the way in which Boies’ law firm operates. The Avenatti arrest sent an already hyper-intense media into overdrive as the former lawyer for Adult actress Stormy
Good lawyers are increasingly hard to find with demand set to grow. However, recent research uncovers that many firms may be under-utilising key tools & strategies available to attract top talent. Salaries have remained flat despite obvious, and continuing, high demand for quality personnel. These are among the top findings of the 2019 Australasian Legal Practice
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a victory that Dennis Tracey, Robin Muir, and Peter Romeo secured for Technology Crossover Ventures, which provides capital to growth-stage private and public technology companies. In the now-dismissed action, the plaintiff incorrectly claimed that TCV had realized profits on lawful purchases and sales that are recoverable under Section
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John Bowie* Willkie Farr & Gallagher has placed its co-chairman, Gordon Caplan on a leave of absence following the US college fraud scheme that has lead to the arrests of dozens of people and embroiled actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlan. The scandal involves bribes used to get the children of wealthy individuals, including CEOs,
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As part of Cleary Gottlieb’s celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re spotlighting the firm’s women lawyers who have earned outstanding recognition from prominent business and legal publications. In the last year, a total of 25 women received 29 awards, with honorees based in various offices across the firm, including Brussels, Cologne, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Moscow,
Jennifer Adams joins Hogan Lovells from Koch, expanding the Environment and Natural Resources practice in Texas HOUSTON, 13 March 2019 – Hogan Lovells announced today that Jennifer Adams has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in its Environment and Natural Resource practice. Adams joins the firm from Koch Companies Public Sector, where she
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The embedding of the public interest defence to defamation has raised the bar for publishers, Chapman Tripp says. The public interest defence differs from the Lange qualified privilege defence, which it replaces, in two key ways: it shifts the burden of proof from the complainant to the publisher, and it requires the publisher to prove not only
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID MIDDENDORF, who was the National Managing Partner for audit quality at the accounting firm KPMG LLP (“KPMG”), and JEFFREY WADA a former employee of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”), were convicted of wire fraud charges in
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Charles Needham* The Practice of law is increasingly doing away with the notion that ‘lawyers’ in the conventional sense are the ones to provide the advice businesses and people require. The need for lawyers is diminishing, with the onset of technology and ‘new-model legal providers’, who are now handling business and personal issues in a
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