A student who once sought to be president of the Cambridge Union and was an Allen & Overy trainee solicitor has been sacked over an article he wrote that reportedly plagiarised a Financial Times article. Sachin Parathalingham had written an article for The Tab which was a substantial copy of an FT article leading to […]
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Can Amal Clooney really be more influencial in British law than – say – the Supreme Court? Clearly, no. But that’s not what Debrett’s, the people who are given such influence themselves in Britain over who is who and who is not. Their list of 20 lawyers who are Britain’s most influential include Ms Clooney
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The Lawyer in the UK are preparing for the publication of the “Hot List” of the lawyers and their pre-publication excitement has lead to the publication of four lawyers named in the list previously and how the honour has changed their professional, if not personal lives. Excited? Well, whatever. The first up is the Royal
Twitter is a great tool for lawyers to use – or presidential candidates too, naturally – but when Donald Trump’s lawyer took to his client’s favorite tool to blast the liberal media (read ‘CNN’) he received some bitter, Twitter payback. But Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen received some blowback from CNN anchor Chris Cuomo over the
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Recent moves by the UN over Israel’s West Bank settlements and President Obama’s overall approach to the country could be “nuked” by a bankruptcy lawyer Donald Trump is suggesting as ambassador. Bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman is both intensely pro-Israel but – more significantly against the two-state “solution” and in favor of Israel’s development of settlements
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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,
