Inverted Jenny Stamp was Missing for 61 Years Before Its Recovery by the FBI LawFuel.com – Best Law News Site – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the […]
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Baker & McKenzie – In the U.S. alone, trade secret theft costs innovators an estimated $450 billion per year and constitutes a threat to U.S. security and the U.S. economy. Thanks to increasing employee mobility, data transfer capabilities, and globalization, trade secret loss is a growing threat to innovators worldwide. U.S. courts have recognized the
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Is legal work too complex to be performed by machines? Should we fear the introduction of the ‘robot lawyer’? The nature of the law and the way legal services are delivered is changing, hastened of course by the Internet. Sites like LegalZoom are perhaps one of the best known legal brands in the United States
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The massive damages awarded against Gawker in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, funded by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, has lead to suggestions that Thiel is out to kill gossip site Gawker. In fact, it’s more than a suggestion . . And now Gawker owner Nick Denton has written an open letter to Thiel dealing with Thiel’s new
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“El Chapo” the infamous drug lord is battling more than just extradition to the US, he’s also got his own lawyers battling one another. Having a legal team in-fighting is not the most helpful characteristic of a successful legal defense of any kind, but Joaquin Guzman has had two of his attorneys file an appeal
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How “super” are the ‘Super Lawyers’? How ‘rising’ are the legal stars? And are the “best lawyers” really best? These are issues that arise as as result of the plethora of awards and lists compiled by the legal media that have prompted a New Jersey committee charged with the responsibility of considering ethical advertising to
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel financed the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against Gawker, along with other lawsuits against the gossip site. Many have asked ‘Why?’ Thiel, a former lawyer and Supreme Court clerk who went on to make billions as co-founder of PayPal among other ventures, said he regarded his financing of lawsuits against the scandal
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LeClair Ryan – The mayor of San Francisco recently signed the Paid Parental Leave Ordinance, a law that gives workers in the city the most generous parental leave benefits in the country. Covered employees will have the right to take up to six weeks of paid leave to bond with a newborn child, newly adopted
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Bill O’Reilly the Fox News host is planning a $10 million lawsuit against his former wife in litigation that appears increasingly acrimonious as he makes claims of cheating. Reports indicate that O’Reilly claims his former wife knowingly made false representations and omissions regarding their divorce settlement. Gossip site Gawker released a copy of the Summons
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Telling stories is something that most lawyers are good at and lawyer David Smyth of Brooks Pierce explained to JD Supra that blogging lawyers should use humor, video – even cartoons – to get their messages across. At it’s heart, good communication in blogging is about good story-telling he says. David Smyth’s blog Cady Bar the
