Variety magazine has put out its list of some of the top entertainment lawyers practising in the business. The image (above) shows the top contenders including Ken Deutsch, 37 (second from left) who has done work for DreamWorks, MGM, Miramax, Univision, revolution studios and others. He left his former firm of O’Melveny and Myers to start […]
Iraq remains a mess and maybe President Obama is now relying on a lawyer to help clean it up. The President announced Friday that retired Marine Gen. John Allen was being replaced by lawyer and diplomat Brett McGurk as his special envoy to Syria and Iraq. McGurk had earlier worked as a law clerk
Benjamin Crump is the go-to lawyer for racially-inflamed police shootings and now, with the Corey Jones shooting in Miami, he once again heads for the white-hot limelight of a black shooting. Mr Crump has become a nationally renowned civil rights attorney who has frequently represented colored people who have alleged the violation of rights by
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The “American Dream” is true for the child of Mexican parents, Jim Melo, a successful Ivy League-trained lawyer who is “no anchor baby.” CNN Money had the story about Melo, who opened his law firm in Raleigh North Carolina specializing in immigration law. “My parents told me ‘you can do anything you want and be anything
Despite being in a remunerative and prestigious profession, lawyers often fall victim of depression. According to a 2014 pool, “52 percent of practicing lawyers describe themselves as dissatisfied.” The problem, certainly, is not financial. After all this is a profession where the median compensation for a fresh New York University grad is around $160,000, according
It takes a lawyer . . . here’s a legal success story involving cigars, fire and insurance. A lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina insured his very expensive cigars against fire, along with other potential risks. He duly smoked the cigars and, before having made even his first payment on the policy, made a claim for
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When it comes to billing lawyers may be stars. But sex? Well according to lawyer and AbovetheLaw contributor Gary J Ross, lawyers ARE good at sex. So is Mr Ross pulling our leg about legal libido, or is there something in this? Lawyers. We’re good at a lot of things. Billing. Legal analysis. Dressing (perhaps).
Why earn a mere $1 million a year as a lawyer when there is so much more to make? Mark Herrman,, Chief Counsel at Aon wrote in the AbovetheLaw blog that there would be an “imminant capitulation” of big firms who generate their million-a-partner in profits but will never reach the $3 million per partner
We at LawFuel have written frequently about new law models, how technology is changing the way the law is delivered and of course the “curse” of the billable hour. The billing practices of law firms have done several things in recent years – for one, it has developed or enhanced an out-moded billing system that
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We’ve heard it a thousand times: The lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client”. But it was something New York patent attorney Anthony Zappin had to listen to during his divorce proceeding when the Judge, Justice Matthew Cooper, reprimanded Zappin and fined the ivy league lawyer for his “aggressively hostile” behavior. Zappin is
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