The Iowa caucuses are galvanizing the nation’s attention with front-runners Donald Trump on the GOP side and Hillary Clinton with the Democrat party, however the focus of the Iowa Caucus leads to some key questions about how they operate and what you need to know about them. Here are 7 key points you should know. […]
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How did a “Perry Mason moment” torpedo a major lawsuit against GM and also embarrass one of the big name plaintiff lawyers’ in the US? Easily, as it happens. The case involves the major defect in GM ignition switches and the lawyer who was embarrassed was Robert Hilliard. The “problem” for Mr Hilliard was a Tulsa
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Racketeering Conviction Included Largest No Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme Ever Charged Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MIKHAIL ZEMLYANSKY was sentenced today to 15 years in prison in connection with his operation, from 2007 through 2012, of a sprawling racketeering conspiracy that engaged in
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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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