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
Another major merger in the law market is happening, with DC-based Arnold & Porter merging with New York-based Kaye Scholer, following a challenging time in the Big Law market. Arnold & Porter is the bigger firm, a major regulatory and litigation house, with 665 lawyers to financial services and science-based Kaye Scholer, who have about
President-elect Donald Trump has a more pressing and earlier engagement than his impending presidency, the civil trial over the alleged Trump University real estate seminar fraud trial. It’s not the most auspicious start to the shock-result election, but Trump is personally named in the lawsuit for “promising, but not delivering access to” lessons about how
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Donald Trump can be sure of no-one, including wife Melania, who he checks to ensure is casting her vote the right way in this image caught “just checking”. The man with the obsession about anyone and everyone making him a winner can never be too sure, and so he checks at the polling booth and
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So who is to win the US election? The polls are showing a ‘magical convergence’ with a 70 percent chance of winning going to Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, according to the FiveThirtyEight polls models. Hillary Clinton’s chances of success are up from 65 percent on Sunday, having a margin of victory in the popular
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LOS ANGELES – A Sun Valley man who admitted a host of criminal charges related to a 2013 shooting spree at Los Angeles International Airport in which he murdered Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced today to spend the rest of his life in federal prison. Paul Anthony Ciancia, 26, who pleaded guilty
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Janet Reno, the first female Attorney General, has died at age 78. Described by the Wall Street Journal as a ‘polarizing figure’ under the Clinton administration, she died at home in Florida. She was the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and played an important role in some acrimonious events that occurred under Bill
LOS ANGELES – United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Mack E. Jenkins will serve as the District Election Officer during tomorrow’s general election and will lead the local efforts in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program. As District Election Officer, AUSA Jenkins is responsible for
