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 enter into coalition with Labour and consequently change the government, Mr Peters railed against capitalism. Winston’s view is that too …
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 drug business is not necessarily quite as glamorous as you might imagine. As a defence silk, I come across some …
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 to grab the mike in meetings and “borrow” women’s ideas, are not intended as a feminist manifesto or a deep …
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 long ago when everything was supposedly better. The latter was a topic at a lunch I had with a very …
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 work to colleagues and developing a loyal team capable of extraordinary client service is the only way they can build …
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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 Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. This opinion piece appeared in Huffington Post. Welcome news this week from the …
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 legal and political system. In recent years, it has decided profoundly important cases involving such issues as campaign finance regulation, …
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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 Chinese lawyers taking money from American companies for trademark registrations: There are those who take money to file trademarks in …
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 MidLaw and Divers Items. @stephenfshaw points to a Wall Street Journal blog post entitled “Is Your Job ‘Routine’? If So, …
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 personal philanthropy. For more information, visit The Deratany Firm and connect with Jay on Google+. Tips & Resources to Help …
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