Weintraub Tobin -Scott M. Plamondon – In 2008, former Mayor of Washington, D.C., and then council member Marion Barry became ill with a kidney disease. To survive the illness, Mr. Barry required a kidney transplant, and one of his friends, Ms. Kim Dickens, came to his aid and donated one of her kidneys. Although the […]
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Who would be attorney for Aaron Hernandez, the former American football tight end who was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Odin Lloyd? Writing in The Huffington Post attorney and TV correspondent Amy Dardashtian reported on how his attorney had sealed his client’s face by making a guilty verdict a “no brainer”. His defense
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Emily Cohen, attorney-at-law, is facing a six year jail term for allegedly ripping off immigration clients. Now, however, she faces even worse penalties, having failed to appear for her sentencing not once, but twice. A Boulder lawyer, Ms Cohen has also removed her online presence, taking down her website, Facebook page and more. Westworld had
Ken Grady is the Lean Law Evangelist for Seyfarth Shaw LLP, and formerly was Chief Executive Officer of SeyfarthLean® Consulting, LLC, a Seyfarth Shaw subsidiary and an industry leader in legal industry issues and trends. Last week I published a post titled “Thinking Long Term in the Legal Industry.” In it, I took the position
So how good was the first season of “Better Call Saul”. Lawyers embraced the show and reviews have been flattering to say the least. These comments come from Harry Graff on AbovetheLaw. Harry is a litigation associate with a keen interest in film, television and related matters. So what was his view? Did it reach
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings. The 2013 attack was the most serious in the US since the 9/11 attacks. The jury took a day and a half to find Tsarnaev guilty of the 30 counts he faced. He was also found guilty of murdering a policeman, car
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office of Statewide Prosecution and the Federal Bureau of Investigation today arrested members of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Defendants, Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42, all face one state count of conspiracy to commit murder for allegedly plotting
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CHICAGO–A dispute spanning 70 years of alleged usurpation, trespass, and illegal conversion of private property rights in Serbia came to a crossroads in a lawsuit filed today by the heirs of two prominent Serbian families. The lawsuit asserts that Minnesota-based Carlson has refused to recognize or even discuss the families’ claims of ownership of
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First there was the highly publicised murder of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman who died after his accusations against Argentine president Christina Fernandez of her plotting to cover up the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people. Conspiracies surrounded the death of Nisman with a private team of investigators analysing autopsy
It’s an age of the ‘startup’, the transformational, entrepreneurial success story (we hope) company that lawyers an help develop into the potential the investors see in their Big Idea. But what can lawyers do to actually help startups? So let’s say you have signed a letter of intent to help the startup and you want
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