Who said personal injury law couldn’t bring a personal fortune? No-one, right? Well for Thomas R Kline, the Philadelphia trial lawyer who has represented injury lawsuit clients over many years, he has not only made a fortune but now he has also donated a chunk of it – $50 million to be exact. Mr Kline […]
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Tennis ace Martina Navratilova scored a win with Squire Patton Bogg’s Birmingham office when she appeared at a client breakfast to discuss diversity issues. The firm has adopted a diversity initiative following the recent ‘Aspire to Inspire’ discussion discussing women role models in the law Chaired by Monique Sutherland, partner and UK Diversity Chair at
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Todd Glickfield is a feisty, successful attorney from Marion Indiana. One issue that was before the Court recently however was not recorded in the brief: he wasn’t wearing socks and the Judge ordered him to. Glickfield, as is his way when he believes in an issue, resisted. He is, according to one report, the Matthew
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“Breaking Bad” was good for lawyers – at least for lawyer marketing. How can any series with a character like Saul (“Better Call Saul”) Goodman be anything other than one that inpires or repels lawyers as to how or why they should market themselves. The spin-off series from “Breaking Bad”, this week’s Emmy-winning drama, is
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Suing the President of the United States is not something that any lawyer gets to do any day, but the one who has drawn the short straw for the House Republicans is David Rivkin, who is to take up the cudgels for the Republicans in their claim that the president has overreached. Speaker John Boehner
It’s awaited with baited breath and with law firm marketers’ pens poised to release the latest swag of attorneys who have made the “Best Lawyers” list in the seemingly age-old guide to top lawyers. The release for the latest edition and links to the attorneys you need to know are below. UNITED STATES – August 25,
Lying on the stand is a major “no, no” for lawyers. And it is something that has gotten one of the criminal law’s rising stars a major problem when he was indicted for allegedly doing just that. Beau Brindley (pictured) was regarded as someone with a brilliant career as a criminal lawyer, represented drug dealer
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There is glamour, tragedy and a certain black-and-white irony in the Oscar Pistorius trial involving a judge who comes from the “wrong” side of South Africa’s tracks. The New York Times have profiled the Pistorius trial judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa, the stern but quiet 66 year old who moved from a poor town to South
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Who is the Judge behind the Argentine debt default? He’s a man whose most recent profile case involved none other than a failed highway project and fish. And so what has put him now in the epicentre of a row with a major, international dimension that affects the future of an entire country, not just
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but taking on Big Law is another issue altogether. AbovetheLaw report on Working the Edges, the NBC show with Jenna Engles, played by Kacey Rohl. They report: She is leading the decidedly unglamourous life of a law firm junior associate. She has an unreasonable boss who is both demanding and belittling. She and a colleague
