Asbestos attorneys have secured a victory in the bankruptcy estimation trial of Garlock Sealing Technologies in a ruling from a federal judge who found that evidence that alleged fraud on the part of asbestos attorneys should not have been sealed. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., a President Barack Obama-appointee who took the bench […]
Jacqueline Piland joined the Eichholz Law Firm in 2014 and brings with her years of experience practicing personal injury law in both Georgia and Oklahoma. The Eichholz Law Firm is proud to have Piland, who is listed among the Top 100 Trial Lawyers and has earned a variety of accolades, on board. Since 2008, Piland
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but taking on Big Law is another issue altogether. AbovetheLaw report on Working the Edges, the NBC show with Jenna Engles, played by Kacey Rohl. They report: She is leading the decidedly unglamourous life of a law firm junior associate. She has an unreasonable boss who is both demanding and belittling. She and a colleague
Quitting a law firm can be an intimidating issue for some lawyers, but not for this one who decided her boring corporate law job should be replaced with something she enjoyed more – art. So how did she illustrate her quit letter to the firm? See it here. She did it with a style that
Lawyers get plenty of bad press, but they also do a lot of good in times when they are desperately needed to right wrongs. Take the work initiative by Barry Zuckerman, head of paediatrics as Boston City Hospital, who established the Family Advocacy Program with three lawyers to prod landlords, secure government benefits families were
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Can the new “freelance lawyer” really be a law firm model that works? Well, it seems so according to an interview with a London-based lawyer – one of thousands embracing the new age of the freelance lawyer, someone who can be paid to work from anywhere – and yes, that includes the beach. The PCG,
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(CHICAGO) July 15, 2014 – Locke Lord Chicago Associate Nicholas O’Conner has been named to the 2014 Lawyers of Color Hot List, which recognizes early- to mid-level associates of color in law firms, corporations and government. He will be profiled in the Lawyers of Color Hot List 2014 issue, scheduled to be published July 28.
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SAN DIEGO – San Diego criminal defense attorney James Warner pleaded guilty today to two federal felony offenses, admitting that he laundered $100,000 of a client’s drug trafficking proceeds and then tampered with a potential witness in the case. Warner, 65, a San Diego resident who has been a member of
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New technology like Google glasses may seem like a novelty rather than an aid to developing a personal injury law practice, but for California personal injury lawyer Mitch Jackson, whose practice focuses on personal injury and wrongful death law suits, the use of Google Glass has been something he uses as what he sees as
Any lawyer involved in litigation will have tales of discovery and the laborious nature of the whole darn business, but when “discovered” document don’t quite live up to expectations on the ‘other side’ then all hell could be unleashed – as happened here. Above the Law reports,” his guy’s lawyer went brutally funny on them….”
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