The Bar Exam and Divorce Loom Valentines Day for Kim Kardashian, the ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ star and aspiring lawyer who will be without her 43 year old husband but will still manage to make the day “special” without the rapper. Kardashian has successfully completed her first year of law studies while preparing to […]
If lawyers needed to read a brief written with a certain hard-biting verve then they need look no further than the Smartmatic defamation case filed against Fox News, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, Jeanine Pirro, Rudy Giuliani, and Sidney Powell. Smartmatic are an election tech company, based in Florida and run by Antonio Mugica (pictured below)
Anna Cartwright, a partner in Jones Day’s London Office who serves as co-leader of the Firm’s global Real Estate Practice, is among the diverse mix of legal professionals chosen by The Lawyer for its “Hot 100” list for 2021. The “Hot 100” recognizes lawyers in Britain with significant accomplishments in the prior year, who meet The Lawyer‘s criteria
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The chief executive of law firm Knights has sold a £61.2m (US84 million) stake in the company after it underwent a secondary placing and has already joined the Sunday Times Rich List as one of Britain’s new Power Lawyers. The firm, originally back by Dragons’ Den principal James Caan (pictured left) in 2013, as we
BigLaw TikTok Lawyer A pandemic-ruined birthday lead to lawyer Cecillia Xie deciding that she would make a video that went viral and lead to her current position as a TikTok lawyer-influencer. The Morrison & Foerster privacy lawyer is also a Harvard graduate and has become a significant influencer in terms of legal issues, including recent
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It’s not ‘Walking Dead’ or ‘Bones’ that is akin to this case but more an LA Law-style lawsuit that sees the attorney for both hit shows suing her former law firm. Variety report that Mansi Shah, who cofounded the lucrative entertainment division of Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP specializing in suing movie studios on behalf of
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David Perry QC is regarded as one of Britain’s most formidable Queens’ Counsel, handling a diverse range of clients, who now include the China-focused Hong Kong government intent on enforcing their controversial ‘security laws’ against pro-democracy protesters. Perry has been appointed by a Hong Kong court to represent them in the trial of well known
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The death on Christmas eve of one of Britain’s leading barristers, Edmund King QC, was an untimely passing, but his recently written witty and wise article on civil litigation – ‘How to Lose a Case’ – has perhaps become something of required reading for lawyers of all persuasions and jurisdictions. The article published by Essex
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A royal row over anti-Semitism and sexism has developed between one of the UK’s most prestigious law firms and one of its top women litigagors, one of LawFuel’s ’13 Most Feared Women Litigators,‘ the so-called ‘Steel Magnolia’, Baroness Fiona Shackleton. Lady Shackleton has accused the Queen’s law firm, Farrer & Co of being a hotbed
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The Sun newspaper’s win in the Johnny Depp libel trial – the so called libel ‘trial of the century’ has seen some of Britain’s top lawyers battling it out in a bruising and eye wateringly expensive encounter that has paid dividends for the staunch view taken by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper against the Hollywood actor in
