Lawyers on television are a dime a dozen. You can find excellent lawyers like Perry Mason, unethical but effective lawyers like Saul Goodman, or eloquent lawyers like Jackie Chiles. But none of them are as astoundingly bad at their job as Arrested Development’s Barry Zuckercorn, played brilliantly by Henry Winkler. Here are five things […]
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The ongoing saga over the attempted extradition from New Zealand of Kim Dotcom continues to wend its way through the New Zealand courts with a Court of Appeal judgment showing the 2012 raid was in fact legal. The removal of information to the US by the FBI, seeking to work with New Zealand authorities
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A catalog of sexual discrimination that lead to appalling discrimination against sex abuse victims has lead to a federal investigation into the Missoula County Attorney’s prosecutors and the way they treated often grossly serious sex abuse cases. “Boys will be boys” was one alleged response provided to the mother of a five year old rape
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Miranda Barbour confessed to killing a man and faces the death penalty on that score, but now she appears to have been one of America’s youngest mass murderers with a Satanic killing spree across the United States “When I hit 22, I stopped counting” the 19 year old said. She is reported to have confessed
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A team of Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) lawyers has advised Cottonex Anstalt, a leading raw cotton manufacturer, in its successful application before the English Commercial Court (10 February 2014) on the matter of the correct approach to the question of contractual incorporation, when considering International Cotton Association (ICA) Bylaws and Rules. ICA Bylaws
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Slater & Gordon, the first public listed law firm, has announced significant profits for its UK branch in reports published on its home stock exchange in Australia, reports LawFuel.co.nz Slater & Gordon’s UK arm made £35m (A$61.4m) in the first half of its 2013/14 financial year (from 1 July 2013 to 31 December 2013) The
CHICAGO, Illinois – February 17, 2014 – The law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP is proud to announce that Susan Thompson has joined the firm as director of human resources. Susan has extensive experience in the law firm sector with various firms for more than 20 years. She is recognized
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Health and safety at work should always be a primary consideration and the construction industry is particularly vulnerable to potential problems and issues due to the sometimes hazardous and dangerous conditions that people are required to work in. The vast majority of construction companies do of course take their responsibilities and the safety of
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The NSA spied on an American law firm working on a trade dispute issue with the US, according to a report that emerged from the New York Times. A top-secret document obtained by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden showed the law firm was monitored “while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the
Clifford Chance has advised Pfizer on the sale of its plant in Illertissen (Germany) to the Russian based R-Pharm Group. Pfizer and R-Pharm have also entered into a long-term contract regarding the continued manufacture of a number of Pfizer products by R-Pharm at the production site. Pfizer employs in Illertissen about 400 employees, which is
