Why should it surprise anyone that the lawyer chosen by President-elect Donald Trump should be someone who, as the New York Times says, is an iconoclast who likes to shake things up. It should be a marriage made in heaven. McGahn has a rebellious personality to match his new boss and has found himself propelled […]
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It’s nuts, it’s irrelevant to anything that means anything but the Mannequin Challenge where you need to freeze frame for a video – counter-intuitive we know – has also been tackled (if that’s the word) by numerous law firms. > Check the latest law jobs on the LawFuel law jobs board here We’ve assembled some
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Dating a lawyer might seem to be your life’s work – both in getting one, and then keeping her/him – but let’s first do the prep. Lawyers, good ones at least, believe greatly in preparation and in order to date a lawyer successfully you need to know some home truths. If you can get past
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Richard A. Bowman who died this week was the “father figure” of automotive transport litigation, building the largest automotive product defect defense practice in the US. He is also credited with shaping the product liability landscape for the automotive industry, his firm (Bowman and Brooke) said. The Minnesota Lawyer noted that Bowman, who retired in
Courtroom clashes can become intense, but when a judge repeatedly calls a lawyer “stupid” in an Australian case, the rules of conflict became more than blurred. The case involved a local lawyer, Benjamin Lindner, appearing before Victorian County Court Judge Mark Dean, who told the lawyer: “I cannot believe what has happened in this trial,
Donald Trump’s own ghostwriter has now received a lawyer’s letter from the combative Republican nominee, following his less-than-complimentary assessment of Trump when working together on the best selling “Art of the Deal” book. Tony Schwartz made his cutting assessment on Trump during an MSNBC interview, which resulted in a cease and desist letter arriving from
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In the news about lawyers and how they’re disillusioned, disaffected and how they generally just “diss” their profession, the ABA Journal have covered a letter from Beverly Hills attorney Jay Foonberg as to why he loves being a lawyer. The ABA Journal said this was a “valentine to the profession”, reminding us—in the words of
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Chinese lawyers face some serious issues and potentially dangerous governmental sanctions for perceived misbehavior, but to lose your clothes in court is something that is unusual, even for Chinese lawyers. However for We Liangshu and assault by police officers and before two judges left the lawyer bedraggled outside the Qingxiu District Court in a demeaning
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The question of whether animals have legal rights is something that lawyer Steve Wise has been seeking to clarify for his entire legal career. With experiments, organ removal and “imprisonment”, he believes they deserve a status of ‘personhood’ that should see them with rights that deny some of the transgressions he believes are imposed upon
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They’re the Fearsome Thirteen: Britain’s top 13 women litigators, ranging from divorce divas to white collar crime fighters and defenders. These are women who have fought their way through a male dominated profession to show they can not only foot it with the best – but they ARE the best. Check the list of the
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