Firm Enhances National Strengths in Complex Commercial Litigation and Class Action Defense CHICAGO — Jan. 28, 2016 — Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the Chicago office has grown more than five times larger, from eight to 43 lawyers, since opening in February 2014. The office […]
How do you start a successful law firm these days? What’s more, how do you start a successful law firm if the principals are all women. But wait . . there’s more . . how do three Black women start a law firm that succeeds and prospers in a tough, white-male dominated legal world? LawFuel spoke
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Yes, Republican presidential front-running Ted Cruz has been a successful personal injury lawyer who, as the New York Times write this week, has shown his two, different sides. Cruz’s “uncompromising purity” as a conservative, the Times reports, turns into something quite different when the cameras are off. Working initially with the solicitor general’s office he
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Judge Judy’s private plane took a hit as a result of El Nino, with an upset more severe than any award made by the Judge (Judith Sheindlin’s) hit TV show could provide. The damage occurred near the $11 million home occupied by the Judge and her husband Jerry in Napales, one of several homes used
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is leaving the firm bearing his name, joining New York-based Greenberg Traurig as global chair of their cybersecurity and crisis management practice. The former Bracewell & Giuliani LLP will henceforth be known as Bracewell, the Houston-based firm announced. Greenberg Traurig have almost 2000 lawyers worldwide. “After a decade in
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LawFuel Briefing LinkedIn: Worked Out 5 Keys For Lawyers Seeking LinkedIn Success Why LinkedIn? Because that is where your clients are. Those using Facebook are there for friends and family. When they’re on LinkedIn they’re thinking business, so engage with them at that level. Unlike Facebook, LinkedIn users will not be on the network continuously
What acerbic comment would Judge Judy have to say when told that 10 per cent of recent college graduates think she’s on the US Supreme Court? She may think she SHOULD be on the Supreme Court but the sharp-tongued television jurist would be the first to castigate the dumbness that is shown in a recent
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So just who are the lawyers defending Bill Cosby? The two key attorneys are a study in contrast. Monique Pressley is well known for her television appearances as a legal analyst, working also as a radio host, motivational speaker and pastor, among other things. A lawyer who has made high profile appearances on television, but
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Glenn Sorge, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE”), Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), and Timothy Houghton, Acting District Director of the New York District of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”), announced today the
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New law firms are relatively everyday occurrences, but a new firm set up in Washington DC has a new twist we haven’t heard of before: a Whistleblower-friendly firm that has launched a new False Claims Act law firm – ProtectUS Law. Set up by False Claims Act relator and lawyer Neal Roberts (pictured), there is
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