If anyone doubted the arrival of the robot lawyer, put them to one side right now. British teen Joshua Browder’s robot lawyer was reported here earlier in the year and it has already overturned parking tickets in the tens of thousand in both London and New York, totally in fact 160,000 since launching his robot […]
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Taylor Swift and her legal team have never been slow to react to perceived rip offs of Swift’s music. The Kanye West ‘fame’ video is supposedly made with the consent to lyrics that had been cleared by Swift, but not according to the popster’s lawyers who quickly sent a cease and desist letter. “Kanye did
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The Brexit decision will mean a bonanza for many law firms, according to early reports of the UK decision to exit the EU, but longer-term the prospects could be tough for London’s law firm role in international law. Many law firms in London had set up hotlines to advise concerned clients about the implications of the
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No sooner has Gawker Media been warring with Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel over the sex tape lawsuit and now it has a problem involving nothing less than Donald Trump’s hair. The dramatic new turn in a battle that has seen Gawker bloodied and bruised, and on the block, following the battle with
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Proskauer* It was widely reported that on the June 5 episode of the HBO program, Last Week Tonight, John Oliver forgave nearly $15 million of medical debt. That’s not quite right. This blog explains what really happened and why the forgiveness did not cause the debtors to recognize “cancellation of debt income” (“COD”) for federal income
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The question of whether animals have legal rights is something that lawyer Steve Wise has been seeking to clarify for his entire legal career. With experiments, organ removal and “imprisonment”, he believes they deserve a status of ‘personhood’ that should see them with rights that deny some of the transgressions he believes are imposed upon
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LawFuel.com – Best Law News – Salix Admits to Paying Doctors to Serve as “Speakers” at Programs that Were Primarily Social in Nature and Where the “Speakers” Spent Little or No Time Discussing the Relevant Salix Product Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Scott J. Lampert,
Has Big Law’s big dog firm Cravath Swaine & Moore set off a burst of wage hikes in the wake of its 12.5 per cent increase – the first in almost 10 years? Maybe. Since the GFC law firm economics have changed as clients resisted fee levels and the justification for higher fees became more difficult.
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The rapid expansion of the Asian market, together with its deregulation and lowering of trade barriers, has helped businesses expand rapidly in the region, with one exception: law firms. The legal profession has not enjoyed the same level of deregulation when handling cross-border work as the lawyers’ clients have enjoyed but they have used what
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They’re the Fearsome Thirteen: Britain’s top 13 women litigators, ranging from divorce divas to white collar crime fighters and defenders. These are women who have fought their way through a male dominated profession to show they can not only foot it with the best – but they ARE the best. Check the list of the
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