Featured

Lawyers Freeze Frame For the Crazy ‘Mannequin Challenge’

Mannequin

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 […]

Lawyers Freeze Frame For the Crazy ‘Mannequin Challenge’ Read More »

Harvard Law Professors Unloads on Election Result “Rules”

Lawrence lessig

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

Harvard Law Professors Unloads on Election Result “Rules” Read More »

Reinhold Priebus’s Legal CV : More Politics than Law

Reince priebus by gage skidmore

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

Reinhold Priebus’s Legal CV : More Politics than Law Read More »

President-Elect Trump’s Class Action Trial Problem

Trumpuniversitylawsuit

President-elect Donald Trump has a more pressing and earlier engagement than his impending presidency, the civil trial over the alleged Trump University real estate seminar fraud trial. It’s not the most auspicious start to the shock-result election, but Trump is personally named in the lawsuit for  “promising, but not delivering access to” lessons about how

President-Elect Trump’s Class Action Trial Problem Read More »

The US Election Forecast – Hillary to Win Presidency with 70 Percent Chance

Polltracker2 large

So who is to win the US election?  The polls are showing a ‘magical convergence’ with a 70 percent chance of winning going to Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, according to the FiveThirtyEight polls models. Hillary Clinton’s chances of success are up from 65 percent on Sunday, having a margin of victory in the popular

The US Election Forecast – Hillary to Win Presidency with 70 Percent Chance Read More »

Janet Reno Dies

Reno

Janet Reno, the first female Attorney General, has died at age 78. Described by the Wall Street Journal as a ‘polarizing figure’ under the Clinton administration, she died at home in Florida. She was the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and played an important role in some acrimonious events that occurred under Bill

Janet Reno Dies Read More »

UK High Court Rules Government Cannot Leave EU Without Parliamentary Approval

Covington & Burling –  Today, the High Court of England and Wales held that the UK Government does not have the power to trigger the process of withdrawal from the EU without first obtaining Parliamentary approval. The High Court’s decision will likely be the subject of an appeal heard by the UK Supreme Court in

UK High Court Rules Government Cannot Leave EU Without Parliamentary Approval Read More »

Scroll to Top