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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Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who’s also his bodyguard, law
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Erik Weber is using his autism to become a legal specialist who can make a special contribution to education law. In May, he became the first student with autism not only to graduate from Cal Western School of Law, but the first to pass the bar exam, which he did at his first attempt. After
Women practising law and the challenges they face is a matter of high interest, but when you’re a women lawyer practising in Harare, Zimbabwe, are the challenges similar to those in other more economically powerful economies like Britain or the United States? Or are they broadly similar? For Vimbai Nyemba, who grew up in a
Honorable Thomas L. Weisenbeck to be Of Counsel Focusing on Mediation Florham Park, N.J. – June 8, 2015 – The law firm of Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. announced today that Thomas L. Weisenbeck, former Assignment Judge for the Morris/Sussex Vicinage of the Superior Court, has returned to the firm as Of Counsel. Mr. Weisenbeck
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It seems that a divorce lawyer is due to join the Blair family – Britain’s first family of Cherie and Tony. Football agent son Nicky is evidently set to marry Alexadra Bevir, 28, a divorce lawyer with Vardags. The news was broken by the Daily Mail’s Sebastian Shakespeare who reports that the wedding could be
