Lawfuel.com – The Best Law Firm Newswire – As reported in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, Paul, Weiss and a number of legal advocacy groups representing a class of individuals with mental illness residing in adult homes in New York City have entered a landmark settlement to end New York State’s […]
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Legal Thriller author John Grisham wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times on the mystery oa a Guantanamo detainee who had been seeking out Grisham’s books. Why? He looks at the injustice of it all. About two months ago I learned that some of my books had been banned at Guantánamo Bay. Apparently
LawFuel.com – US Attorney News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the return to the National Library of Sweden of two antique books that were stolen
Lawfuel.com – Best Law Firm Newswire – David P. Badanes, Suffolk County divorce attorney, has recently released an article on his website entitled “How The Same Sex Ruling Effects Divorcing Couples. On June 26, 2013, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was declared unconstitutional, giving same sex couples equal treatment in terms of receiving the
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The American Bar Association’s recent webinar “The Ethics of Legal Marketing in a Social Media Age” indicated that lawyers using Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlook need to proceed with caution. Contact with prospective clients in real time, confidentiality issues, endorsements and testimonials – they all offer potential traps, as the ABANow site
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Davis Polk is advising Warner Chilcott plc in connection with its approximately $8.5 billion acquisition by Actavis, Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2013. Warner Chilcott is a specialty pharmaceutical company currently focused on the women’s healthcare, gastroenterology, urology and dermatology segments of the
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The pass rate requirements for US law schools may become tougher if American Bar Association changes are made. It appears certain that the ABA committee that is responsible for supervising law school accreditation stardards will endorse a rule that requires a minimum 80 per cent of graduates to pass the bar examination within two years
Which law firms would rank among the very best in terms of universal admiration by their peers? It’s Cravath’s according to a new book. The question is one that arose in a new book “What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World’s Greatest Professional Firms” By Charles Ellis. The author looked at what
Judy Clarke is an unlikely death row lawyers, but she has helped some of America’s worst criminals escape the death penalty and has now been appointed to the legal team to defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect. She has previously represented the famed “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, along with Jared Lee Loughner, sentenced to life
LawFuel.com – Are there likely to be a further growth in US law firms seeking more exposure to the Middle East, following Baker & McKenzie’s recently announced tie-up with the Dubai-based Habib Al Mulla law firm? The Baker & McKenzie merger, which takes effect on 1 July, creates the fifth office for the mega-firm in
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