Why did Donald Trump consider a lawyer “disgusting”? What could have aroused the presidential candidate and real estate and television mogul to become so indignant by a lawyer? Simple answer: A request by the lawyer to take a medical break to pump breast milk for her three month old daughter. >> Check this best-selling weight […]
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Lawyer Gene Balloun is hooked on fostering. Mr Balloun, a Kansas City lawyer, has fostered 29 children together with his wife, but he has also helped over 1000 children find permanent homes by using his legal knowledge to help foster parents to adopt kids. When Mr Balloun and his wife fostered their first child, David,
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There’s a lot of ‘different’ law practised in Hollywood you might think, but for one entertainment attorney a claim that an actress attempted to have her as a sex slave is a lawsuit too far. Attorneys representing the law firm Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson & Binder LLP won a Court round this week when the
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Morrison & Foerster – On July 10, London associate Keily Blair received the 2015 Future Leaders Award at the sixth annual Women in the City Symposium and Awards Ceremony, held in the Old Library at the Lloyd’s Building in London. An associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Litigation Department, Ms. Blair represents clients in investigations and
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Grays Inn is one of Britain’s most eminent Chambers, but according to a leading British law blog the Chambers “has gone into lockdown” after one of its members was fined for inappropriate sexual conduct. Legal Cheek reports that one of its pupil supervisors was slapped with a £4,000 fine for engaging in “conduct of a sexual nature
Kevin O’Keefe wrote about restoring the allure of the law and Perry Mason’s influence upon those who sought that shining light of goodness. Can it be done easily after the rough ride of recent years? Well, of course and he reports on the dreams of Ralph Baxter, the Chair of the Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute
Harvard professor and legal celebrity Alan Dershowitz has filed a defamation lawsuit in both the US and the UK over the ‘sex slave’ case involving Prince Andrew‘s alleged paramour, Virginia Roberts. But Professor Dershowitz, 76, who wrote “Attack is the Best Defense”, is going further. He is also seeking the disbarment of the lawyers who
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Heidi K Gardner is a Distinguished Scholar at Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession and is writing a book about the legal profession. True rainmakers don’t need to be convinced to collaborate: referring work to colleagues and developing a loyal team capable of extraordinary client service is the only way they can build
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Britain’s newly installed Justice Secretary has hit the ground running. Michael Gove has started a row with some of the most powerful lawyers in Britain after requesting that they “contribute much more” to make sure justice was freely available. Britain’s legal aid cutbacks have seen lawyers incensed and claims that justice is being denied to
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(June 18, 2015, Woodbury, NY) — Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that Erik Ortmann has joined the firm’s Construction Law practice as a partner in its Woodbury, NY headquarters. Ortmann has nearly two decades of experience in construction law and commercial litigation. Ortmann’s practice focuses
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