Legal aid cuts in Britain have had a devastating effect upon thousands of lawyers who used to work in legally-aided areas. One of the highest profile of them is the leading, left wing barrister Michael Mansfield QC, who is closing his chambers nt he wake of the cutbacks. The highly-criticised legal aid cuts have been […]
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LawFuel.com – Best Law Newswire – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EVERETTE L. SCOTT, JR., a New Jersey attorney, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 30 months in prison for engaging in securities and wire fraud in connection with two separate schemes. In
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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Elaine C. Greenberg, the inaugural Chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Enforcement Unit and former Associate Director of the Division of Enforcement at the SEC, has joined the firm as a partner, resident in Washington, D.C. During her 25-year tenure
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Lawyer and politician Jim Palmer used to work at Texaco, until he became bored and heard about an opening with lawyers Burnet Duckworth. The move was highly successful, as was the firm. The firm survived and grew into one of the main homegrown legal players in Calgary. When Mr. Campbell joined in 1973, it had 12
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Reuters report that the Iranian lawyer and humans rights activist who had been imprisoned has been freed. Nasrin Sotoudeh had been serving a six-year sentence after being arrested in September 2010 and convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security. Her husband Reza Khandan told Reuters Sotoudeh was dropped off at their home
Profiles in Diversity Journal has recognized firmwide managing partner Anna Erickson White in its 12th Annual Women Worth Watching issue. Ms. White joins approximately 200 other women leaders from the United States and Canada who have distinguished themselves in their careers, including women executives from AT&T, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, FedEx, GE Capital, JPMorgan Chase, Novartis
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A lawyer regarded by President Obama and the White House as “an enormous assets” is to leave the administration at the end of the year. Kathy Ruemmler is a former white collar crime prosecutor who started working with the administration in 2010. She was the lead prosecutor in the government’s 2006 case against Enron executives
Lawyers get a bad rap. If we aren’t making fun of them, we are avoiding them. They are portrayed as manipulators who twist words and send innocent people to jail. They are blamed for the strife in child custody cases. They seem to be the only ones to profit from large settlements in divorces. Even
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Don’t Take Their Word for It, Hire a Personal Injury Attorney Accidents are a horrible fact of life. There simply isn’t a way around it. What we can do about it is our absolute best to prevent being involved with them. As a society we create rules and guidelines to help prevent accidents. We design
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LOS ANGELES — LawFuel.com – Best Law Firm Marketing Newswire – September 9, 2013 — Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Kathleen L. Brown has joined the firm as a partner. She will be based in Manatt’s Los Angeles office, spending significant time in the firm’s New York and San Francisco offices. [wp_ad_camp_3] Brown
