Much has been written, lobbied, protested over and argued regarding the British legal system cutbacks in recent years. Now a new book has said the system is an A&E case. But now a book written by a ‘Secret Barrister’, a criminal lawyer and prosecutor, has exposed the system as one that is broken – in […]
The gender disparity issue in the legal industry has been no better highlighted than in the lawsuit brought by female lawyers at law firm Chadbourne & Parke, which has now been settled after a history of twists and turns. A motion filed by the plaintffs to settle has been filed in recent days and the
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Minister of Justice Andrew Little is prepared to intervene formally in the law profession’s current crisis over sexual harassment issues that have to date encircles law firm Russell McVeagh and two law schools. The #MeToo movement and a variety of womens legal groups and others have been heavily critical of the Law Society’s response to
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The prosecution of the Vatican’s top echelon Cardinal Pell in Melbourne has seen his lawyer, one of LawFuel’s Power Listers, Robert Richter QC, demonstrates another highlight in the legal career of the colourful lawyer. Having formerly represented people such as John Elliott of Elders IXL and underworld boss Nick Gatto, when he had Gatto removed from
Law Society president Kathryn Beck was herself the victim of serious sexual harassment as a young lawyer, she has said. The revelation comes in the latest LawTalk when the magazine interviewed Ms Beck and former president Chris Moore on matters pertinent to the release next month of the Law Society’s Gender Equality Charter, designed to counter
Geoffrey H. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that WALTER C. LITTLE, a/k/a “Chet,” a former partner at an international law firm (the “Firm”), was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for conspiring to commit insider trading from at least February 2015 through May 2016. LITTLE
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Richard E. Zuckerman, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Tax Division, and James D. Robnett, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, New York Field Office (“IRS”), announced the arrest of STEVEN M. ETKIND, a New
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Is the legal business next in line for the #Metoo treatment meted out within the movie, fashion and other industries? According to a UK Times story two-thirds of women lawyers have experienced sexual harassment in one form or another. The Times story says that the UK complaints authority (Solicitors Regulation Authority or SRA) have received
Raymond Ho was a highly successful lawyer – a partner at Arent Fox at the age of 33 before opening a successful IP law firm. But no more. His career ended when he pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Prosecutors said that he was a “prolific money launderer” who funneled $2.1
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No amount of legal training could have prepared Rachael Denhhollander for what lay ahead in blowing the whistle on serial sex abuser Larry Nassar. Ms Denhollander, an attorney in Louisville Kentucky, wrote in the NY Times about taking on the power of the US Olympic Committee and the cunning and predator expertise of Larry Nassar
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