Now we get some strange lawyer stories but this? A former legal high flyer charged with getting into bed with a woman he thought was a Panda bear? Dressed in fishnets and a g-string? Strange, but also strangely true. Desmond Moran, from Tipperary in Ireland had taken drugs and we know what can happen when […]
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The oil price collapse has left energy law firm Burleson LLP, based in Houston, with the decision to shutter its entire operation. And therein lie some lessons for many law firms. The firm will close all five offices by the end of this year its managing partner, Richard Burleson said. Burleson’s was a highly successful
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Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen has been compared to many people in all probability, including to Karl Rove, the George W Bush advisor and more generally as chief troubleshooter. He’s also referred to in some quarters as “Tom”, in reference to the attorney advisor in “The Godfather. And now, after mounting different attacks against Trump
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Paul Weiss law firm has a long history with the Clintons and is now facing criticism from some corners for fundraising for Hillary Clinton and following a “serious breach of security” at Guantanamo Bay prison by distributing anti-American literature to detainees. The accusations are leveled by the Washington Free Beacon where the firm’s links to
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Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred is being consulted by various girlfriends of Charlie Sheen in what could be the precursor to lawsuits against the HIV-positive actor. Sheen’s admission about his infection has lead to wide publicity and claims of potential lawsuits. And Ms Allred might be just the woman for such claims, representing several women who
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A Utah lawyer has developed a significant practice assisting Mormons leave their church, a practice based on his own painful departure from the church. In recent weeks the client list has grown massively. Based on what he describes as the “painful process” his family endured when attempting to leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
He was once the brilliant lawyer who handled the “Spycatcher” case where MI5 sued over the famous book written by one of it former spies and the brash young lawyer ran rings around the Thatcher government’s attempts to stop its publicationi. But now Malcolm Turnbull is Australia’s new Prime Minister and has been huddling with
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Charlie Sheen’s expected announcement about being HIV positive is brought about largely as a result of multiple lawsuits against and brought by the actor over recent years. The revelation came about following an expose from The National Enquirer who report in an investigation that at least four women have claimed Sheen exposed them to the HIV
The world of James Bond may be full of glamour, beautiful women, magnificent cars and spectacular locations but it has also been filled with acrimony and litigation – with one ongoing legal feud lasting half a century, lead by a man who claimed (and probably did) create SPECTRE and the Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld,
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The biggest . . the best . . the largest . . the ongoing competition for the “biggest law firm in the world” may now be another British-based legal monolith: Dentons. The firm’s announcement of a tie-up with Chinese and Australian law firms may just make the firm not just part of the reshaping of
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