John Bowie* So here’s another initiative for your law firm to make in an age when making a difference in an age of sameness is all important. Cavell Leitch have taken the initiative following the initiative taken by some firms, like Australia’s McCabe Curwood. In a world of flexible work hours, hot desks, casual fridays, […]
By: Joel Cohen In his latest article for Law & Crime, Joel Cohen, senior counsel in Stroock’s General Litigation and Government Affairs groups, addresses Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the position it leaves his lawyers in. Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Despite all the extravagant speculation over whom he could implicate, if he were of a mind to, he will never
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Leaving Big Law To Help Other Lawyers Facing Mental Health Issues . . The ‘Happy’ Mission To Lift Lawyers Jeremy Fischbach is a former Big Law attorney who became concerned about the extent of mental health issues in the law, and other professions, and decided to do something about it. He left his career in
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A LawFuel story on the law event in New Zealand that permitted the ladies to wear cocktail dresses has generated high interest in the US, where leading law site AbovetheLaw reported on the disturbance Down Under. By way of recap, the story involved an invitation from the New Zealand Law Society that outlined the dress
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High stress levels and burnout is an occupational hazard for lawyers, as most jurisdictions show that physical and mental health in the profession continues to plummet, but there are some key steps that lawyers can take to avoid the effects of their stress. A recent report in Australia, from Executive Health Solutions, found that lawyers
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London ‘celebrity barrister’, sometimes referred to as the ‘chemsex barrister’, after supplying his teenage boyfriend with drugs that lead to his death, has been suspended again after returning only recently to the bar following his first suspension. Henry Hendron, who has represented Conservative MP Nadine Dorries and former Apprentice contestant Stella English in earlier cases,
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When the law firm founder leaves the room you know your law firm has some problems and in the case of LeClairRyan that appears to be the case. Founding partner Gary LeClair is leaving his firm along with two other partners, following a raft of departures from the firm. Last yeaar almost 10 per cent
How Litigators Should Deal With The “Online Brain” In An Age of Distraction Powered By LawFuel –Ken Broda-Bahm Many to most of my readers will be old enough to remember when there was no Internet. Or, perhaps, you’ll remember a time when “going online” meant connecting through a noisy modem and a telephone line.
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Former Reed Smith Lawyer Joins Littler Powered By LawFuel – PHILADELPHIA (July 22, 2019) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Karl A. Fritton as a shareholder in its Philadelphia office. Fritton was previously a partner at Reed Smith LLP and a former leader of the firm’s labor
Gary Wilkens – Lawyers engaged in jailhouse trysts are not common, but they do occur and when the love takes over, the lawyers face some heavy music from their local Bar Association and others along with the heavy sex. Among those who have faced the jailhouse blues-after-sex (or alleged sex) are the following –
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