Image: Law.com Caroline Burgess – Why are lawyers prone to sexual abuse and harassment? The answer to a large extent can be found in the way in which lawyers operate, their personality type and the fact that their […]
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Auckland barrister John Eichelbaum, son of former Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, continues his colourful career with a move into the #Metoo movement, after being censured, fined $10,000 and order to pay $5000 costs by asking a woman to bend over through a window. Eichelbaum was the subject of a complaint from a female lawyer
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]From porn stars to Playmate models, the Trump accuser list continues to grow, but when the lawyers for one accuser, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer (Michael Avenatti) and for the President’s lawyer Michael Cohen’s lawyer (David Schwartz) got together on CNN the ‘discussion’ went right off the rails. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] Discussing whether Trump knew about the ‘hush money’
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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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