We all know that setting up a law practice can be a difficult – even soul-destroying job in some cases. Where to locate, where and how to advertise . . the questions and the demands are many and varied. Lawyerlist published an article from lawyer Steven Chung, who set up his practice in Highland Park,
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It’s nuts, it’s irrelevant to anything that means anything but the Mannequin Challenge where you need to freeze frame for a video – counter-intuitive we know – has also been tackled (if that’s the word) by numerous law firms. > Check the latest law jobs on the LawFuel law jobs board here We’ve assembled some
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Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig, a candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, has unloaded on the “conventional wisdom” that the electoral college requires the person who lost the popular vote must become the president. Not so, says the professor in an op-ed in the Washington Post. Conventional wisdom tells us that the electoral college requires
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LOS ANGELES – Ally Financial Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $52 million to settle allegations that its subsidiaries acted improperly in relation to 10 subprime residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) in 2006 and 2007. A settlement agreement announced today resolves an investigation into alleged violations of the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and
Online law degrees are holding greater-than-ever appeal for lawyers as tuition fees continue to climb for ‘off line’ law schools. The Financial Times reported that a Harvard Law juris doctor degree may now cost close to $US90,000 a year if insurance, housing and other expenses are added to the actual tuition fees charged by the
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LOS ANGELES – As part of an ongoing undercover operation by Special Agents with the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS), five fraudulent “documents mills” have been dismantled in recent months, and the investigation has now resulted in charges against 13 defendants who allegedly produced bogus identity documents. Two of those defendants pleaded guilty today
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Only in America, you may think – but it was Canada and the Judge who wore the “Make America Great Again” cap the day after the US election has apologized for what he did. Ontario Court Justice Bernd Zabel arrived at the courthouse in Hamilton on Wednesday morning wearing the now famed Donald Trump’s signature
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Rahimi Allegedly Detonated and Attempted to Detonate Bombs on Public Streets in the Chelsea Neighborhood of Manhattan Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mary B. McCord, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, announced that AHMAD KHAN RAHIMI, a/k/a “Ahmad Rahami,” was charged
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The elevation of Reinhold ‘Reince’ Priebus to the post as President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff creates some interest in the legal career of ‘Reince’, the Wisconsin lawyer and chairman of the Republican National Committee. Before attending law school, 44-year-old Priebus served as committee clerk for the Wisconsin State Assembly Education Committee. In 1998, he
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Type “how to get out of jury duty” into Google and you’ll get more than ten million hits, including videos, step-by-step guides, pictures and scripts. Getting out of jury duty has become a badge of honor, as if we need to show our friends that we were smart enough to ‘crack the code’ and escape. This
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