The issue of gender equality among lawyers and the slowness with which women reach the top ranks of law firms has raised a rather nasty head, again. It appears that not only are there only 17 per cent of equity partners women in the US, but lawyers were reluctant to discuss the gender difference regarding […]
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CHICAGO, ILL. (February 27, 2014) — The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP today announced that Paul L. Langer has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group and Insurance Coverage Litigation Team. “We are delighted to welcome Paul to the firm,” said Jeff Davis, chair of the Insurance Recovery litigation subgroup, which specializes in
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Life is full of everyday heroes. They don’t get medals or prizes and sometimes they don’t even get noticed. However, good Samaritans save lives all over the country by intervening in the aftermath of accidents, alerting authorities, moving injured people out of the wreckage, and administering first aid. Sometimes even offering a cell phone to
Kristina Long was a former UK beauty queen, crowned Miss Bolton and winning a Miss World University competition. But she has now been given a one year jail term for driving while twice the over alcohol limit, hitting a pedestrian and flinging him 80 feet. Miss Long, 26, now has her legal career and life
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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A catalog of sexual discrimination that lead to appalling discrimination against sex abuse victims has lead to a federal investigation into the Missoula County Attorney’s prosecutors and the way they treated often grossly serious sex abuse cases. “Boys will be boys” was one alleged response provided to the mother of a five year old rape
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The rise of the Alternative Business Structures (ABS) in the UK has lead to a commodisation of legal services, but the issue for many judges and lawyers now is to ensure lawyers adhere to their professional obligations rather than pursuing penal orders for pure financial reward. David Corker, a London white collar criminal defence lawyer
A Missouri lawyer who is accused of starting a law firm with his father using his former law firm’s credit card has been ordered to serve a period of community service and was placed on four years’ probation. James A. Clampitt, a disbarred lawyer, was put on probation last Thursday, Missouri Lawyers Weekly (sub. req.)
If you are working in the industrial sector, most probably your frequent companions will be machines. And people too. Sometimes, due to the negligence of one of your colleague or due to one of the machines malfunctioning, there can be accidents. Now, some of them do damage to the machine, or at the most to
“Saturday Night Live” star Chris Kattan was found looking for an LA DUI attorney following his arrest on suspicion of drunk driving. Kattan’s Mercedes struck a Department of Transportation vehicle on a California freeway. The California Highway Patrol says the Mercedes was seen weaving in and out of lanes shortly before 2 a.m. Monday on
