The House´s lawsuit against Obama has brought together two unlikely legal allies, a neocon lawyer and a libertarian lawyer, who may appear an unlikely duo to take on the most powerful man in the United States. Foley, a professor of constitutional law at Florida International University College of Law and Rivkin, lead outside counsel of […]
Too many lawyers? It’s a question that’s asked with increasing frequency and in the UK, where there are around 200,000 lawyers, being one in 300 in the population, there are surplus lawyers in numbers that may number tens of thousands. The Guardian reports on a legal recruiter, Samuel Clague, who has set up a legal
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There are as many, varied law practices and specialties as there are lawyers, so why shouldn’t an enterprising lawyer turn her love of wine into a specialist practice, too? Durham (NC) lawyer Laura Collier always wanted a wine, cheese and carcuterie shop and has combined her love of wine into a practice called The Spirited
Bernard Madoff Steered Dozens of Customers to Use the Defendant’s Services, and Madoff Personally Sought Tax and Business Advice from the Defendant Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that PAUL J. KONIGSBERG – a lawyer and accountant who provided services to numerous clients of Bernard L.
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First there was “The Happy Lawyer”, now it is “The Good Lawyer”, looking at the dissatisfaction that appears to be consuming lawyers during these dark days for the profession. WSJ’s David Lat reviews “The Good Lawyer”, finding that the book deals effectively with the despondency in the law jobs market and “crushing” education debt by
The music scene has undergone rapid transition in terms of both the recordings made and the “dark side” of the LA business has been written about by music lawyer and writer Andrew Watt. His book is Welcome to the Jungle — Navigating the Music Business In Australia. “The reason the book is called Welcome to
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The lawyer for the students who won a lawsuit challenging the protection of jobs on Tuesday on the basis of unconstitutional issues, is a believer in winning and a lover of the Walter Matthau movie “The Fortune Cookie” about a crooked, ambulance-chasing lawyer. As co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s appellate and constitutional chair groups, Theodore Boutrous
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(June 9, 2014, New York) – Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of William E. “Bill” Goydan as a partner in the Financial Industry Group (FIG) in New York. Goydan was formerly a member and chair of the Securities Litigation & Enforcement Group at Wolff & Samson, PC. Kiran V. Somashekara and John O.
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The Tiananmen Square confrontation in 1989 lead to one lawyer embarking upon a career as one of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers. Mo Shaoping, 56, has gone on to represent political activists, journalists and dissidents for nearly two decades in China, prompted by the events that occurred all those years ago in Tiananmen Square. If
Courtroom outbursts go with the territory in terms of testy exchanges between attorney and Judge, but when Las Vegas lawyer Jacob Hafter was denied a motion to alter a trial date due to a conflicting Jewish holiday, he took to Facebook to call the Judge both a “racist” and an anti-Semite it didn’t go down
