Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division (“DEA”), James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), and Maria T. Vullo, Superintendent of the New York State Department of […]
Minneapolis, December 2, 2016 – The U.S. law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that partner Kevin R. Coan has been appointed the new Partner-in-Charge for the firm’s Minneapolis office. Coan will be responsible for the day-to-day management and strategic direction of the office, which provides legal services in the areas
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Writer and feminist Caitlin Moran has raised some hackles and eyebrows with her comments about jobs for women, saying legal jobs are an “exception to the rule” that women should have ‘winsome’ jobs only. Winsome? Author, columnist and feminist icon Caitlin Moran says in a Times on Sunday column that female film characters “should not”
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We all know that setting up a law practice can be a difficult – even soul-destroying job in some cases. Where to locate, where and how to advertise . . the questions and the demands are many and varied. Lawyerlist published an article from lawyer Steven Chung, who set up his practice in Highland Park,
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It’s nuts, it’s irrelevant to anything that means anything but the Mannequin Challenge where you need to freeze frame for a video – counter-intuitive we know – has also been tackled (if that’s the word) by numerous law firms. > Check the latest law jobs on the LawFuel law jobs board here We’ve assembled some
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Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, has unloaded on the “conventional wisdom” that the electoral college requires the person who lost the popular vote must become the president. Not so, says the professor in an op-ed in the Washington Post. Conventional wisdom tells us that the electoral college requires
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Only in America, you may think – but it was Canada and the Judge who wore the “Make America Great Again” cap the day after the US election has apologized for what he did. Ontario Court Justice Bernd Zabel arrived at the courthouse in Hamilton on Wednesday morning wearing the now famed Donald Trump’s signature
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The elevation of Reinhold ‘Reince’ Priebus to the post as President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff creates some interest in the legal career of ‘Reince’, the Wisconsin lawyer and chairman of the Republican National Committee. Before attending law school, 44-year-old Priebus served as committee clerk for the Wisconsin State Assembly Education Committee. In 1998, he
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Type “how to get out of jury duty” into Google and you’ll get more than ten million hits, including videos, step-by-step guides, pictures and scripts. Getting out of jury duty has become a badge of honor, as if we need to show our friends that we were smart enough to ‘crack the code’ and escape. This
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London media law firm Carter Ruck has been crudely mocked via a cloned website – Farter-fuck – in retaliation for an IT business that claims it was “wrongfully persecuted” by the lawyers. The site at Farter-fuck.co.uk will redirect Carter Ruck clients to the site after a short time spent looking at the preliminary comments referring
