Internet mogul Kim Dotcom’s fate as to whether he will be extradited from his adopted home in New Zealand to the US will be decided today. The decision is due this afternoon by a District Court judge in Auckland who has been hearing the case for two months and after years of raids, wrangling and […]
The Bill Cosby defamation/sex assault legal mess just got messier. And now the lawyers are being deposed and allegedly “harassed” in the ongoing litigation. Lawyers for the comedian, who has filed defamation lawsuits against seven of his accusers, are to resist attempts by the accusers’ lawyers to have his wife provide a sworn deposition in
Matt Thompson* – A recent survey of law firm business development and marketing professionals suggests the strategies and tactics law firms use to generate new business is changing. According to the study, law firms appear to be shaking the negative fallout of the economic downturn. Nearly 50 percent of firms report feeling upbeat about new
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The Climate Change Agreement struck in Paris this weekend has not been without law firms who have used the conference to develop their ‘climate change’ practices and lawyers will be loving the agreement. Among the firms attending have been Baker & McKenzie who have been driven to the “COP 21” conference (for ‘Conference of the Parties’
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Being disciplined as a lawyer does not always take a lot, but in the case of Indiana lawyer David James Steele it was almost a race to the bottom. Take his list of offences: Misappropriating around $150,000 of client funds Transferring client retainers to his personal account, including providing a ‘spot bonus’ to some employees
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As with any other organization, law firms also face disasters but the way in which they handle them requires similar skills and preparation to any other organization in crisis. A recent conference at the Legal Marketing Association had an address from Nancy G Newman, who was the national director of marketing and business development at Dreier
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Could Donald Trump be banned from entering the UK. A current petition calling for the presidential candidate to be banned from entering the UK has attracted more than a quarter of a million signatures — more than enough for a committee to consider sending the motion for parliamentary debate, CNN reports. Would THAT pass a
Donald Trump’s mounting rhetoric and the perceived anti-Muslim stance of shutting Muslims off at the border could possibly survive a lawsuit at Supreme Court level according to at least one academic. Gerald L. Neuman, a Harvard Law School professor was reported by the New York Times’ as saying it was far from clear whether the
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Riverview Law is a new-age, revolutionary law firm developing . . well, robots, actually. The innovative firm has spent 18 months investigating an automated, in-house team of virtual assistants that will make fast and (hopefully) accurate decisions. Dubbed “Kim” (which stands for knowledge, intelligence and meaning), the virtual assistants combine their robotic powers with data
Oscar Pistorious faces 15-20 years in jail after South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeals says the original trial made an error of law in convicting the former athlete of culpable homicide for the killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Justice Leach ruled on the legal principle of dolus eventualis and how it was applied in the case
