Winston Peters’ Gifts to Lawyers
John Bowie* – For a man who has contempt in equal part for big-business and the big-firm legal fraternity which supports it, Winston Peters has a funny way of showing it. Announcing his decision to …
Legal Opinion
A Criminal Lawyer’s Guide to Cocaine
British QC Gary Bell is a top criminal lawyer, who has also released his book “Animal QC”. This extract from The Spectator looks at drug dealers – cocaine dealers specifically – and at how the …
Is Your Law Firm’s Gender Bias Showing?
Pam Woldow* – Our current series of posts about Feminenglish, that peculiar deferential language female lawyers and business women have learned to speak in meetings with men, and last year’s related seriesabout how men tend …
The Best Team Approach to Litigation Success
John Balestriere* This article first appeared in AbovetheLaw Much ink is spilled on how some law firms have gotten too large. And more ink is spilled (in the law and all professions) about some day …
Law Firm Rainmakers and The Keys to Collaboration
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 …
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“Innocence of Muslims” Video Decision
Tom Rubin is a lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, former Chief Intellectual Property Strategy Counsel at Microsoft, on the Board of Directors at Creative Commons, and on the Board of Advisors of the …
What Will The Supreme Court Look Like In Another 10 Years?
Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago. This article was first published in the Huffington Post. The Supreme Court plays a central role in the American …
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The Fake China Law Firm Scam
Dan Harris – The China Law Blog – Way back in 2006, I wrote about fake China law firms in China Where Even The “Law Firms” Are Fake. In that post I talked about fake …
Law Firm Adaption to the Digital Age
Brooks Pierce – By Edward C Winslow, a banking and corporate law specialist who is a frequent speaker and writer on topics involving financial services law and authors a blog on law practice management, called …
Interpreting a Foster or Adopted Child’s Disclosed Background
Jay Deratany is the founding member of The Deratany Firm and is a top Chicago birth injury lawyer. His passion for helping people extends beyond the firm and into his extensive pro bono work and …
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