The increasing controversy over the discovery and now publication of Lee Harper’s sequel to her vaunted “To Kill a Mockingbird” has been aired further with Harper’s lawyer describing how she discovered the long-lost novel. In an interview with the New York Times, Tonja Brooks Carter said she was doing some legal work for Lee one […]
Quinn Emanuel – In the May 2014 issue of the Business Litigation Report, we discussed a hot topic in law and technology: cloud computing. That topic did not cool down over the summer. Businesses and courts—including the Supreme Court—have continued to grapple with issues presented by computing in the cloud, including who owns the rights
Many issues reach the appellate courts and many are literally life and death. But the California foie gras prohibition has now become the subject of a notice to appeal a recent district court ruling that overturned the state’s law forbidding the sale of the fatty liver that comes from the force feeding of ducks or
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LawFuel.com – “As a unanimous jury has found, Ross William Ulbricht operated Silk Road – a clandestine global marketplace that offered buyers and sellers of illegal goods and services a promise of anonymity. Ulbricht built this black market bazaar to exploit the dark web and the digital currency Bitcoin to allow users to conduct illegal
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Mega-law firm Skadden Arps remains the strongest law brand in the world, according to the latest brand survey undertaken by the Law Firm Brand Index survey run by Acritas. However, the margin between Skadden in the top spot and second place is narrowing, as Jones Day finishes 13 points further back, a 23 point gain
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Rap music, lawyers and police killings would seem to be something of a cocktail that risks the wrath of the public and a NYC investigation has revealed that at least two lawyers with the Bronx Defenders have appeared in a video entitled “Hands Up”, containing images of handguns pointed at the head of a man
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New York State Assembly State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver has created a major problem for a range of people and institutions ranging from law firms, the Assembly to himself The spider’s web is drawn by the WSJ in the graphic. As the paper reports: Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, was charged Thursday in a criminal
British Queen Counsel Ben Emmerson this week created a storm of interest, if not controversy with his claims that Russian president Vladimir Putin ran a “mafia state” and was behind the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko was killed through poisoning with polonium, which the QC described was an “act of nuclear terrorism
Mrs George Clooney took a high profile personality to a high profile case this week when she and Geoffrey Robertson QC of Doughty Street Chambers took to the European Court of Human Rights to argue the case against a Turkish politician who denied Armenian genoicide deaths in 1915. The case attracted wide interest not just
Every other law firm with eyes on expansion wants to be in China. But China is a highly competitive market and potentially a grave yard for failed firms. As the WSJ reported, this past week has demonstrated that graphically being both the best and the worst of times for law firms in the country. How
