Geoffrey Lean is Britain’s longest-serving environmental correspondent, having pioneered reporting on the subject almost 40 years ago and wrote this column for The Telegraph You’ve got to hand it to the climate sceptics. Over the last years they seem to have been winning the battle for public opinion. A new survey shows that the proportion […]
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Lawyer and politician Jim Palmer used to work at Texaco, until he became bored and heard about an opening with lawyers Burnet Duckworth. The move was highly successful, as was the firm. The firm survived and grew into one of the main homegrown legal players in Calgary. When Mr. Campbell joined in 1973, it had 12
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In 1994 a lawsuit filed by a 79-year-old woman who was severely burned by a hot cup of McDonald’s coffee became a turning point for tort reform. The case, Stella Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants, et al. a jury in New Mexico awarded Stella Liebeck $2.9 million in damages, but the judge reduced the award to $640,000,
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LawFuel.com – The Detroit bankruptcy disaster might herald massive legal fees but it would be better served in a deal between the beleaguered city’s creditors, according to Eastern Michigan chief federal judge Gerald Rosen. The judge opened the first formal round of mediation by giving a pep talk and introducing other experts who will work
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Reuters report that the Iranian lawyer and humans rights activist who had been imprisoned has been freed. Nasrin Sotoudeh had been serving a six-year sentence after being arrested in September 2010 and convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security. Her husband Reza Khandan told Reuters Sotoudeh was dropped off at their home
The online reviews for law firms have been of growing importance, but so too is the credibility of those websites who carry them. Now Yelp have gotten tough with businesses posting fake reviews and is suing a small San Diego bankruptcy law firm alleging that it had false reviews on its site. The suit, filed
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Profiles in Diversity Journal has recognized firmwide managing partner Anna Erickson White in its 12th Annual Women Worth Watching issue. Ms. White joins approximately 200 other women leaders from the United States and Canada who have distinguished themselves in their careers, including women executives from AT&T, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, FedEx, GE Capital, JPMorgan Chase, Novartis
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A lawyer regarded by President Obama and the White House as “an enormous assets” is to leave the administration at the end of the year. Kathy Ruemmler is a former white collar crime prosecutor who started working with the administration in 2010. She was the lead prosecutor in the government’s 2006 case against Enron executives
LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD”), announced today the unsealing of charges in Manhattan federal
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Lawyers get a bad rap. If we aren’t making fun of them, we are avoiding them. They are portrayed as manipulators who twist words and send innocent people to jail. They are blamed for the strife in child custody cases. They seem to be the only ones to profit from large settlements in divorces. Even
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