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
Former Pillsbury Winthrop CEO Mary Cranston spoke to LawFuel about New Zealand law firms, noting that they included some of the best law firm managers in the world and the country’s record with the recently published Economist glass ceiling index, which indicated that New Zealand was fifth in the world on the index, behind the
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Cherie Blair, the wife of former British PM Tony, has been doing alright since her husband left Number 10 Downing Street. Like husband Tony, who has operated lucrative business broking deals and various charitable and peace-keeping missions (the results of which are perhaps less notable), Cherie Blair operates her ultra-private law and strategy firm from
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M&A lawyer Martin Lipton invented the poison pill and wrote one of the key books about takeover law. He is also a founding partner of the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz the takeover specialists and so when he goes on the attack against an activist investor like Carl Icahn people tend to
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It may have been no great surprise about Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club, but our favourite here at LawFuel remains his outing in The Lincoln Lawyer. The 44 year old was always the on-the-money guy to scoop the best actor nod this time around and his aw-shucks Texas style conceals a sharp actor
It took the rumors of an affair between an actress and a lawyer to establish – as if we really needed it – that social media is the way to go when it comes to spreading rumors at light-speed. The accusations that Gwyneth Paltrow was cheating on husband Chris Martin with the entertainment lawyer Kevin
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Lawyers on television are a dime a dozen. You can find excellent lawyers like Perry Mason, unethical but effective lawyers like Saul Goodman, or eloquent lawyers like Jackie Chiles. But none of them are as astoundingly bad at their job as Arrested Development’s Barry Zuckercorn, played brilliantly by Henry Winkler. Here are five things
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Lawyers pop up in entertainment pretty often, maybe because they make interesting characters, or maybe because people in fictional shows have extra-complicated lives and frequently need legal advice. Sometimes these lawyers are very good, sometimes they are very bad, and sometimes they are outright bizarre. Here are a few favorites. The Good Perry Mason
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