The No Win No Fee system has suffered its share of criticism among many, but the big money wins for some British law firms has seen their cases against the National Health Service provide some massive fees for their principals. Suing the NHS has made £35 Million (US52 million ) for five UK law […]
LawFuel.com – Celebrity Trials – Celebrities involved in legal proceedings of whatever form are invariably the center of high media attention and the viral video showing actress Reese Withersoon’s arrest in Atlanta is certainly no exception. Witherspoon, actress in movies like “Legally Blonde” has blamed her role as a lawyer for much of the trouble.
A career flame-out is not necessarily the end of everything for once high fliers like former New York governor and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who has created another career out of the ashes of the one that went before. Spitzer was forced from office and the governor’s mansion by a sex scandal, but
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Which law firms would rank among the very best in terms of universal admiration by their peers? It’s Cravath’s according to a new book. The question is one that arose in a new book “What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World’s Greatest Professional Firms” By Charles Ellis. The author looked at what
Judy Clarke is an unlikely death row lawyers, but she has helped some of America’s worst criminals escape the death penalty and has now been appointed to the legal team to defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect. She has previously represented the famed “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, along with Jared Lee Loughner, sentenced to life
He has been one of America’s most celebrated criminal lawyers, acting for everyone from the Boston Strangler to O J Simpson, but the questions facing F Lee Bailey over his ability to practice law are not deterring the 79 year old from continuing his quest to work at what he loves. He has a tax
Barry Ostrager of New York’s Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and co-head of the firm’s litigation department is reputed not to have lost a trial in over 20 years. Already a LawFuel nominee in 2005, Ostrager handles the difficult cases, favoring the hard cases that are reputed to make good law. Take the arbitration involving his
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Well, who wouldn’t be a star lawyer who employs sartorial tactics to make a very sharp point about the male-dominated judiciary – and at the same time successfully take on government adversaries with well-made legal points? What other lawyer would dress as a woman to convey his ‘feminine side’, yet outwardly display all the mustachioed,
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What has Lady Gaga got against the big-eyed Bratz dolls that she is trying to prevent the production of? A lawsuit claims the over-the-top singer has breached her contract by preventing the making of the dolls and the suit, for $10 million, filed by MGA Entertainment claims the contract was signed and sealed with agreement
Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend Kanye West has followed in his reality star squeeze’s footsteps by making his very own sex tape, only to have it “stolen” from his computer and shopped around to media. The 35-year-old rapper’s lawyers have confirmed that it’s definitely Kanye in the 20-minute video filmed in a hotel room, with an unidentified
