ABA President Jmes Silkenat questions whether President Obama really meant to say that law degrees should be for two years, rather than three. What he meant, according to the lawyer’s president rather than the country’s, was that J.D. degrees should be less expensive. [wp_ad_camp_3] The comments were made during a tour when the president was […]
Claire Waltham contributes many informative articles to different websites. She has done research about cases involving personal injury and more serious criminal cases too, including assault and battery, larceny and robbery. Some of these have been used by the Law Offices of Elliot Savitz. Even with better police visibility and tougher penalties for lawbreakers, crimes
Lawfuel.com – UK Law News – Getting injured at workplace is a common scenario that many employees have to face the world over. Usually when an employee gets injured on the job, he can claim for medical expenses which are required to be paid by the employer, along with loss of wage. In such a
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Donald Trump has his dander up over the lawsuit launched by New York’s State prosecutor over the bona fides of his Trump University, setting up a blaze of Twitter and TV responses calling NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman “pathetic” and “a total failure in office”. But is the school a scam, or not? [wp_ad_camp_2] Schneiderman
The previously sacrosanct “Swiss bank account” is once again impaled upon the shaft of US Justice, this time with 57 year old Swiss lawyer Edgar Paltzer co-operating with US efforts to stem offshore tax evasion by admitting he conspired to help American clients hide millions of dollars from the IRS. The US Attorney press release,
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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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