Law Schools are facing some big problems these days and they are beginning to hunt about for ways to improve their marketability. Take New York Law School, struggling along with just over 40 percent of students being placed. What to do? Well, one thing is to bring on board a sexy celeb to spice things […]
It’s unusual for a law firm to make a high-growth startup list, but Cardiff-based firm Greenaway Scott has done it. Making the influencing British Startups 100 2015, the recently launched firm is focused on growth, foucsing on life science and technology companies. With just over two years of solid trading and year on year growth,
Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner continues to fight against fallout from the University of Virginia rape-retraction story. The “Rape on a Campus” story that appeared in Rolling Stone in November has lead to at least one lawsuit but there may be others. Wenner has hired high profile first amendment lawyer Elizabeth McNamara of Davis Wright Tremain,
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Jenner & Block have announced that highly experienced bankruptcy lawyer Richard Levin, the man who helped draft the US Federal Bankruptcy Code, is to join the firm. Levin has been chair of Cravath Swaine & Moore’s bankruptcy group since 2007 and his role in the area has helped shaped US bankruptcy law since his days
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Amal Clooney is never one to avoid the spotlight, be it her marriage, her social life or her lawyering. This time, fresh from the NY Met social event its takng on former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath as someone involving in the authorising the torture of detainees in Northern Ireland in a controversial case
Human Rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin – Mrs George Clooney, in other words – has apparently created a major stir by looking ravishing. Why? Because here John Galliano gown gave rise to some controversy over Galliano’s anti-Semitic past. Mrs Clooney appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with George Clooney. In 2011, Dior announced they had
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Jennifer Jaff, a Connecticut lawyer who suffered from Crohn’s disease became a significant voice representing those with chronic diseases. She died aged 55. When her illness meant that she could no longer work in her law practice, she founded and became director of Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness in 2005. In her practice, she
Earth Day is more than a ‘feel good’ day, its also a time when everyone gets an opportunity to consider what they should be doing to preserve our planet. However, it has become the key activity for numerous politicians in the past decades. Here are four of the political figures who have helped shape Earth
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Judge Judy has always struck a chord with those who welcome frank dressing down of wrong-doers or those who seek to play games in Court. But for General Sessions Court Judge Lila Statom a dressing down to a gang member charged with attempted murder caught the fond attention of around half a million viewers fast.
Cindy Crawford has alleged that a picture of her in a bikini that went viral was doctored to make her look bad. Although many thought the photo of the famed model was great, taken a couple of years ago, the social networks went ballistic over the “flab”. The lawyer for Cindy Crawford’s photographer sent out
