It was inevitable, of course. An Oliver Stone movie about Edward Snowden’s adventures. Whistle-blower Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena has sold the film rights to his client’s story as a “political thriller”. We wonder how it will end. The Guardian reports that “Time of the Octopus”, a book pemned by Kucherena, will be published later this […]
You may not care what Kris Jenner thinks about the OJ Simpson case, but her former husband Robert Kardashian, was OJ Simpson’s friend and longtime personal attorney.
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War crimes are being committed by Al Qaeda-spawned fighters and from ISIS militants on an industrial scale, according to reports emerging from war-ravaged Iraq. UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay has expressed his “extreme alarm” at the reports and images of everything from summary executions, to rapes, kidnappings and wholesale slaughter occurring in
First there was “The Happy Lawyer”, now it is “The Good Lawyer”, looking at the dissatisfaction that appears to be consuming lawyers during these dark days for the profession. WSJ’s David Lat reviews “The Good Lawyer”, finding that the book deals effectively with the despondency in the law jobs market and “crushing” education debt by
Pop star Justin Bieber will have to pay a hefty legal fee rather than the usual price for a DUI offense after his lawyer appears to have secured a deal that will see him escape probation and come away from the DUI issue with a clear record. Bieber is to next week plead guilty to
Intel has had a record fine of 1.06 billion euros ($1.44 billion) was upheld in the highest-ever antitrust penalty imposed by the EU on any company. The fine was levied five years ago on Intel, the largest computer chip maker in the world after the EU court found the company had abused its position through
The Slender Man killings have lead to issues of mental illness regarding one of the 12 year old girls accused of stabbing a classmate to death in the Wisconsin woods in a frenzied attack that allegedly paid homage to the Slender Man ghoul. The judge would appoint an examiner who would have 15 days to
As the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Brazil, the controversy around FIFA, corruption, the Qatar controversy and the man running the whole show – FIFA president 78 year old Sepp Blatter who is to run for yet another four year term heading football’s most powerful body. The World Cup’s problem is not all the
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White House press release – This is the first time the President has done this: President Lincoln had an open-door policy to the public. Visitors were constantly packed in the stairwells, crowding the hallways, and literally camping outside his office door. President Jackson had a 1,400-pound block of cheese in his foyer, and any citizen
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas O’Donnell, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“HHS-OIG”), announced the unsealing of a criminal Complaint against STEVEN JORDAN, a/k/a “Stevie Jordan,” a/k/a
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