The Lawyer Who Got Stuck Between Beauty Queens and Border Control Leiataualesa Jerry Brunt, a Samoan lawyer with a résumé as colorful as a pageant sash, just starred in a real-life legal drama involving alleged score-fixing, airport detention-lite, and a regional diplomatic spat. The Lawyer Who Moonlights as a Beauty Queen Maker Brunt isn’t your […]
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Lawyer’s Outrageous DUI Defense Falls Fla A barrister’s creative defense strategy to defend a DUI case has backfired spectacularly. Rachel Tansey, 44, found herself on the wrong side of the bench at Sefton Magistrates’ Court, where her attempts to explain away a failed breathalyzer test offering a novel and unprecedented defense that recent cosmetic lip
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LOS ANGELES – Milton C. Grimes, a long-time Los Angeles lawyer, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for evading the payment of more than $7.2 million in federal and state taxes over a period of more than two decades. Grimes was sentenced by United States District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr., who also
US-based law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher has increased salaries for newly qualified (NQ) lawyers in its London office, a 6 percent increase. As of February 2025, NQ pay rose to £175,000, up from £165,000 in 2024. The adjustment positions Willkie closer to top-paying US firms like Quinn Emanuel and Gibson Dunn (£180k) but above
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AI Citation Failures Reach Big Law: Injury Firm Attorneys Face Sanctions Over Fake Cases The legal profession’s ChatGPT reckoning has escalated beyond small-firm missteps. In a striking example of how AI can lead lawyers into a whole lot of mess, attorneys at Morgan & Morgan—the nation’s largest injury law firm with over 1,000 lawyers—now face
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Mickey Haller Returns with Star-Studded Season 4 Sonia Hickey Good news for fans of Mickey Haller’s backseat jurisprudence: Netflix has greenlit Season 4 of The Lincoln Lawyer. The cameras start rolling this month, with the show tackling Michael Connelly’s “The Law of Innocence.” (No word yet on whether Mickey will upgrade to an EV Lincoln,
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The recent social media brouhaha involving a senior lawyer shows just how quickly the lines between professional and personal life can blur, in the most brutal manner – continuing to raise questions about the impact of social media upon both personal and professional lives. At the center of it all? Allan Kassenoff, a former shareholder
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Some Law Firm Perks Are Totally Bonkers Sonia Hickey, Contributing writer Law firms are known for offering a wide range of perks to attract and retain top talent, but some of these benefits stand out as particularly unusual or extravagant as the war to make law firms and exciting and rewarding place to be continues
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Hollywood’s Lively-Baldoni Soap Opera Norma Harris The feud between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is delivering more twists and turns than their film “It Ends With Us” ever did – and we know the legal season is being extended to witness more of the unsavory squabble. A New York judge, clearly a fan of slow-burn
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Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has grown its German team by hiring 10 lawyers from Orrick, lead by three partners from the firm. Oliver Duys, the partner who lead the team in Orrick for over 10 years has joined, along with partners Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff and Nikita Tkatchenko, two counsel, three associates and two foreign counsel. Mike
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