Angelina Jolie’s recent surgery to have ovaries removed was accompanied by news that she had snubbed Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer and wife of actor George Clooney. The reported snub in OK magazine was hardly detailed and simply made mention of the alleged snub notwithstanding the friendship between Mr Clooney and Jolie’s husband Brad […]
Music-copying has been a rich source of legal work for many years, but the $7.4 million awarded to Marvin Gaye’s children over the Blurred Lines hit has also been a legal precedent hit. The jury made the award as Gaye’s daughter Nona wept and the family lawyer Nashville-based Richard Busch subsequently announced could have a chilling
Jeffrey Schox is a patent attorney with his own boutique law practise, ensconsced in the San Francisco SoMA neighbourhood. But his firm’s cash flow has been enhanced by an attribute Mr Schox has developed that has made him uniquely talented in his ability to identify profitable startups. In fact, he’s been so successful that he
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“American Sniper” ; “Boyhood” – best picture at the Oscars. We’ll, we don’t know because as this goes to air the Oscars are just beginning. But whatever the outcome, whatever movie is best picture this year, for lawyer April Reign they’re all just too white. Reign is also a social media expert and blogger who
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Lawyers on the dating scene are taking a cue from matchmakers George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin – or at least Mr and Mrs Clooney are handling their new role as matchmakers successfully judging by Ellen Barkin, 60, and her new lawyer date, Ben Emmerson. Emmerson and Barkin met at the Clooney wedding in September. The
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It’s unusual for web review site Rotten Tomatoes to record 100 per cent in its often caustic reviews, but the “Breaking Bad” prequel “Better Call Saul” has scored the perfect 100. And why wouldn’t it? Among the comments from the RT panel of reviewers: From Kari Croop of Common Sense Media – Just as Breaking
So how is poster Justin Bieber faring with his various legal issues, including his “egging” vandalism case? Were you wondering? Probably not, but for those who were Bieber’s attempts to complete his sentence have tripped up over an ankle injury he sustained during a soccer game, which delaye for owhich he An ankle injury has
Mrs George Clooney took a high profile personality to a high profile case this week when she and Geoffrey Robertson QC of Doughty Street Chambers took to the European Court of Human Rights to argue the case against a Turkish politician who denied Armenian genoicide deaths in 1915. The case attracted wide interest not just
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
