Article source: Alpert Schreyer, Attorneys Habeas corpus is a legal principle and constitutional right that protects individuals from unlawful detention or imprisonment. The term “you shall have the body” in Latin allows a person held in custody to challenge the legality of their detention before a court. Across the United States, courts rely on habeas […]
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Paris Travel Beyond the Postcards John Bowie, LawFuel publisher There’s something magnificently perverse about Paris that means every time I arrive, the city is busy tearing itself apart. In 2018 it was the yellow vests blocking roundabouts and setting fire to things. In 2023, Marseilles was ablaze with riots after a police shooting days earlier
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Private jets, yachts and lavish spending are some of the claims against Thomas Goodhead, co-founder of Pogust Goodhead who is now at the center of one of the most significant governance crises in modern UK law firm litigation, according to a Times report.
Pogust Goodhead (former SPG Law) secured a £450 million debt facility and is now seeing its co-founder CEO ousted before its headline case reaches judgment.
Thomas Goodhead co-founded Pogust Goodhead with U.S. class action veteran Harris Pogust, propelling the firm into the big league in 2023 when it secured a reported £450 million investment . . . log in to read more
A third of UK law firms have failed to meet basic anti-money-laundering (AML) standards, according to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s latest inspection blitz. Of the 833 firms checked, 270 were non-compliant and another 451 were only partly compliant, a statistic that should make any managing partner’s blood run cold. The SRA handed out about £1.5
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Article source: Welcome Law Firm, CT Waterbury, Connecticut, carries a sense of resilience shaped by its working-class roots and strong community spirit. From early morning commutes down I-84 to the hum of traffic along East Main Street, life here moves at a steady pace until one accident changes everything. A single crash can upend lives
Workplace harassment can make your job feel bad sometimes; this can hurt your mind, the way you work every day, and how you feel in general. You might have to deal with bullying a sexual harassment, or people acting mean at work. To prove what is happening to you, mainly you need to keep good
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ORLANDO, Fla. – GrayRobinson is pleased to welcome three associate attorneys to its growing Litigation Section. The attorneys include Sierra L. Hutchens, Lucia L. Leoni, and Talia M. Semaan. Hutchens leverages her federal clerkship experience to provide incisive, practical case analysis that supports trial teams and drives results for clients. Before joining GrayRobinson, Hutchens served as a law clerk
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The man who sent rockets into orbit while simultaneously disrupting the automotive industry has articulated a management philosophy that’s equal parts brilliance and brutality.
And while we can’t all aspire to his sleep schedule or his Twitter habits, there’s something law firms, those bastions of precedent and process, might learn from a leader who treats bureaucracy as “a substitute for thinking” and regards failure as the admission price to innovation.
So what might the key to building a successful law firm be if Elon Musk was on the management committee?
First, let’s consider the five key, “Musk steps{ that are simple but devastingatinlgy effective.
In Pakistan, 25-year-old lawyer Mahmoor Omer has filed a groundbreaking petition against her own government, arguing that menstrual products should be tax-free, because, as she puts it, “periods are not a choice.” Omer is taking aim at the country’s 18 percent sales tax on sanitary pads and other menstrual items. While the law treats these
As capital pours into legal tech and operations, talent acquisition could be the next frontier for private equity investment in the legal business as it may follow lawyers themselves into lateral partner hires, something already helping change the legal business.
Private equity has already reshaped the legal services industry, from backend infrastructure to litigation finance. Now there may be capital deployed to help law firms poach high-value talent, open new markets, and consolidate
