It’s become one of the most vocal and visible social issues of recent times: marriage equality. Now LGBT lawyers are waiting to file with the US Supreme Court asking the top court to hear their case. But the question now is: which case will the Justices hear? Technically, the lawyers were responding to Supreme Court […]
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A Ponzi scheme run out of a Florida law firm has claimed another defendant with the sentencing of former CFO Irene Shannon to five years’ prison for aiding and abetting the scheme that has seen attorney Scott Rothstein (pictured) already serving a 50 year stretch for his role in the $1.2 billion scam. Irene Shannon,
“Breaking Bad” was good for lawyers – at least for lawyer marketing. How can any series with a character like Saul (“Better Call Saul”) Goodman be anything other than one that inpires or repels lawyers as to how or why they should market themselves. The spin-off series from “Breaking Bad”, this week’s Emmy-winning drama, is
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Hewlett Packard evidently have a major law-funding slush fund judging from the $48 million they are planning to pay shareholders’ lawyers to assist in their lawsuit against Autonomy Corp executives. But the plan has been scotched by a judge who say there should be no shiedling of the company’s management in respect of a bad
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Suing the President of the United States is not something that any lawyer gets to do any day, but the one who has drawn the short straw for the House Republicans is David Rivkin, who is to take up the cudgels for the Republicans in their claim that the president has overreached. Speaker John Boehner
It’s awaited with baited breath and with law firm marketers’ pens poised to release the latest swag of attorneys who have made the “Best Lawyers” list in the seemingly age-old guide to top lawyers. The release for the latest edition and links to the attorneys you need to know are below. UNITED STATES – August 25,
Golfer Rory McIlroy left his sports management company with an acrimonious lawsuit and now golfer Graeme McDowell has left, albeit on better terms. Horizon Sports Management will hardly be happy with the developments, however. McIlroy left the company in April 2013 to set up his own company Rory McIlroy Inc.He launched legal proceedings against Horizon
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Animals can be victims too, even in the eye of the law in a ruling from the Oregon Supreme Court that recognizes the obvious: that animals also have rights. The case involved a man convicted of starving his horses and goats. The judge’s decision allotted a separate count of second-degree animal neglect for each animal,
Are law firms doing encourage to encourage diversity? The issue continues as more students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds find it a struggle to make it to the boardroom table in law firms. But maybe things are changing on the diversity front. The data collected by law firms in terms of the lawyers employed who come
Lying on the stand is a major “no, no” for lawyers. And it is something that has gotten one of the criminal law’s rising stars a major problem when he was indicted for allegedly doing just that. Beau Brindley (pictured) was regarded as someone with a brilliant career as a criminal lawyer, represented drug dealer
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