LawFuel.com – Law News Daily – November 13, 2015, Los Angeles – Reed Smith LLP today announced the arrival of litigator Belynda Reck as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Reck has more than 22 years of experience litigating environmental issues in both state and federal courts. She was formerly a partner […]
“Love your Lawyer” day may be a hard sell you would think, but for the marketer who has pushed the special day since 2001 it is not love-lost at all. Legal marketer Nader Anise developed the day for the first Friday of November, which has now been recognized by the ABA Law Practice Division as
The divorce of Halle Berry and Oliveri Martinez has brought together two of Hollywood’s most powerful – not actors! – but lawyers. The divorce is to be “amicable” (aren’t they all?) but the couple have high profile, high powered lawyers in their respective corners. In Ms Berry’s corner is Stephen Kolodny, who has counted Mel
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Variety magazine has put out its list of some of the top entertainment lawyers practising in the business. The image (above) shows the top contenders including Ken Deutsch, 37 (second from left) who has done work for DreamWorks, MGM, Miramax, Univision, revolution studios and others. He left his former firm of O’Melveny and Myers to start
Iraq remains a mess and maybe President Obama is now relying on a lawyer to help clean it up. The President announced Friday that retired Marine Gen. John Allen was being replaced by lawyer and diplomat Brett McGurk as his special envoy to Syria and Iraq. McGurk had earlier worked as a law clerk
Benjamin Crump is the go-to lawyer for racially-inflamed police shootings and now, with the Corey Jones shooting in Miami, he once again heads for the white-hot limelight of a black shooting. Mr Crump has become a nationally renowned civil rights attorney who has frequently represented colored people who have alleged the violation of rights by
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The “American Dream” is true for the child of Mexican parents, Jim Melo, a successful Ivy League-trained lawyer who is “no anchor baby.” CNN Money had the story about Melo, who opened his law firm in Raleigh North Carolina specializing in immigration law. “My parents told me ‘you can do anything you want and be anything
Despite being in a remunerative and prestigious profession, lawyers often fall victim of depression. According to a 2014 pool, “52 percent of practicing lawyers describe themselves as dissatisfied.” The problem, certainly, is not financial. After all this is a profession where the median compensation for a fresh New York University grad is around $160,000, according
It takes a lawyer . . . here’s a legal success story involving cigars, fire and insurance. A lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina insured his very expensive cigars against fire, along with other potential risks. He duly smoked the cigars and, before having made even his first payment on the policy, made a claim for
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When it comes to billing lawyers may be stars. But sex? Well according to lawyer and AbovetheLaw contributor Gary J Ross, lawyers ARE good at sex. So is Mr Ross pulling our leg about legal libido, or is there something in this? Lawyers. We’re good at a lot of things. Billing. Legal analysis. Dressing (perhaps).
