A treadmill desk? Clear walls? These are some of the design features used in the new offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Washington, where the global firm set up shop two years ago. It’s all ‘future proofing’ according to Freshfields, who have also used two-lawyer set-ups, something very rare in DC. The National Law […]
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Campaign finance issues are a touchy subject at the best of times, but for Boston-based personal injury law firm Thornton Law Firm it has become another hot-button issue in the most bizarre election campaign ever in the United States The issue at stake is the revelation that Thornton Law Firm’s records show paybacks to partners
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Gender diversity is a bit deal in the law – don’t we all know it? – well, the answer is ‘No’, actually. Take the New York bar, for instance. The president of the New York Bar Association John S Kiernan said that progress was “incremental” in terms of gender and ethnic diversity. For the first
LOS ANGELES – Former California State Senator Ronald S. Calderon was sentenced today to 3½ years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a federal corruption charge and admitting that he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for performing official acts as a legislator. Ron Calderon, 59, of Montebello, received the
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Attorneys and FBI investigators were in disagreement over the decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton over her private email server scandal with both FBI director James Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch coming in for stringent criticism. The Fox News reports indicated that those involved were demoralized by the decision made by Comey not to
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The Mexican judge who presided in several legal cases filed by lawyers for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was shot and killed outside his home on Monday. The Judge, Vicente Antonio Bermudez Zacarias, 37, died after being shot in the head while jogging in Metepec, about 40 miles from Mexico City. Guzman is the notorious drug lord
Slater and Gordon, the law firm poster child-turned basket case, has been a shocking example of how law firms might ‘go public’ and embrace the new age of deregulated law practice, drowning in a sea of debt and bad news days. Since buying listed firm Quindell, Slater and Gordon’s fortunes turned south spectacularly with much
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A rape allegation brought against Donald Trump has received a status conference hearing in December from a Federal Judge, Ronnie Abrams. The claim relates to a “Jane Doe” claim filed by a complainant who alleges Trump raped her when she was 13 in the 1990 and has now received an amended complaint from a witness “Jane
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has captured attention on a number of fronts – including how she lives her life – but now an interview with the 83 year old US Supreme Court justice has thrown some keenly-observed light upon what is necessary to bring up a strong daughter. The interview with the New York Times
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The UK child sex abuse inquiry has not only become riven by resignations, but is the most expensive enquiry in UK history – with now five lawyers having resigned from the enquiry having been paid over £3million has already been paid out to lawyers involved in the child sex abuse inquiry amid claims. The inquiry’s top
