So we’ve all waited – breathless after the breath-taking “Breaking Bad” – to see the prequel to the hit series featuring shameless attorney with the bad shirts and ties, Saul Goodman. So how was it? Let’s check what the media say: First, Mashable, who explain that the series immediately flashes back to 2002, six years […]
One of Canada’s leading criminal lawyers, Edward Greenspan, was remembered by the legal community this week. Mr Greenspan, 70, represented many high profile clients in a long legal career. Greenspan represented a number of high-profile clients, including one-time media baron Conrad Black, former theater mogul Garth Drabinsky and German financier Karlheinz Schreiber. “In any courtroom that
Will it? Won’t it? The question of when, how and whether “The Interview” will be released remain as mysterious as North Korea, but Sony superlawyer David Boies confirms that the controversial film will be released. This is a change from a couple of days ago when President Obama reprimanded Sony for their overreaction to threats
Obsession Phrases – Was it one of these that lawyer Amal Alamuddin used to snare George Clooney? The rumors of just how the bright barrister managed to wed one of the world’s most desirable men has had people wondering – was it one of the internet’s “obsessive phrases” techniques, some relationship secret? What? The wedding
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If anyone captures the attention of lawyers – and millions of other readers – at Christmas its John Grisham and nary a Christmas passes without another Grisham legal thriller to hit the shelves. This Christmas’s message from the master of the legal thrillers – below. December 19, 2014 Dear Reader, Another year, another chance to
What is going on with “The Interview” cancellation, the SONY hacks, the endless problems and embarrassments facing the studio? Their lawyer is super lawyer David Boies so he should know and he’s come out with a letter to media indicating there could well be legal action that would follow hacked and dispersed content from the
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Who can question Barbara Walters’ pick for the most fascinating person of 2014 – even when she’s picked a lawyer who married a heartthrob actor. In this case, of course, it’s Amal Clooney, or the former Amal Alamuddin. So how did the lawyer make the list? Already an accomplished international human rights attorney, the new
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Getting bonus checks is always fun, we imagine, but what is a law firm doing having a billionaire music mogul handing out bonuses? what’s that all about? Dr Dre, aka Andre Young, personally distributed bonuses to 43 members of his law firm, King, Holmes Patgeron & Berliner, which included everyone from partners to paralegals. King
Bill Cosby is counter-suing Judy Huth, the woman who alleges the comedian molested her at the Playboy Mansion around 1974, after Huth’s lawyer removed Cosby’s name and replaced it with the requisite “John Doe” nomenclature. However Cosby’s lawyer, Marty Singer has filed papers alleging that the claims of sexual molestation by Huth are “absolutely false,”
Film-makers who “lawyer up” prior to the release of their projects are not particularly new, but in the case of HBO’s new documentary about the development of Scientology and its adherents, HBO have recruited positively platoons of lawyers – like 160 who are preparing for what the company believes will be an inevitable lawsuit. “We
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