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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The US has become aghast that beloved Bill Cosby could really be someone who had sexually abused women at the height of his fame. Could this be true? His lawyer, John Schmitt, did the lawyering on the swirling rumors and accusations: He would not dignify the “decade-old, discredited” claims with a response. He released a
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Women are slowly – but hopefully surely – climbing to the top of major law firms. The debate over women leadership and partnership numbers in law firms has long been debated and argued, but two recent announcements give cause for hope for women lawyers. Jami Wintz McKeon (pictured) has become the first female chair of Morgan
It’s where reality TV meets reality law with the sentencing of “Real Housewives” stars Teresa Giudice and husband Giuseppe Giudice (“Joe”) to prison for 15 months and 41 months respectively. The sentencing drew overflow crowds to the Federal Court in New Jersey after the couple, who star in “Real Housewives of New Jersey” plead guilty
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Olympic champion Michael Phelps is having a further brush with the DUI law after being arrested for the second time on DUI charges in Baltimore, his home town. The top swimmer is hoping to make the Rio Olympics, but the further DWI setback could create issues for that aim. He issued an apology that sounded
