Dotcom Should be Extradited, Says New Zealand Court
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom should be surrendered to the United States, a New Zealand judge has ruled. The ruling comes today following almost four years’ legal and political maneuvering regarding the...
View Article5 Steps To Get Into Shape Like Christie Brinkley
How does a top supermodel like Christie Brinkley stay looking sooo good, for soo long? Her video recently released has gone viral online as fans and even non-fans wonder how the 61 year old can look so...
View ArticleWeight Loss Tips For Women From Christie Brinkley at 61
Staying healthy and looking good is what any supermodel would be expected to do, but for Christie Brinkley, her five key tips to staying in top shape are the sort of thing anyone keen on preserving...
View ArticleConsider Shared Custody Following Divorce
Noncustodial parents may soon be able to spend more time with their children in light of recent consideration, on the part of almost two dozen states, of a reform of child custody law that would...
View ArticleSoftware Glitch Affects London’s Divorce Capital Reputation
Software problems have been blamed on a major problem in the UK where thousands of divorce settlements may now need to be reassessed. The problem has lead to the Ministry of Justice urgently...
View ArticleMoFo Advises Axiata on US$1.365 Billion Acquisition
SINGAPORE (December 21, 2015) LawFuel.com – Law News Network– Morrison & Foerster is advising Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata), one of Asia’s largest telecommunications companies, on its acquisition of...
View ArticleeDiscovery to Music: So What Happened This Year?
Xerox eDiscovery – Rachel Teisch – As we found out in a year jam-packed with game-changing developments affecting eDiscovery, “the players gonna play, play, play, play, play” (#18, “Shake It Off” by...
View Article“FOAD” She Wrote on the Alimony Checks, Then Sued Her Husband’s Law Firm
Social media can be great for garnering publicity for law firms. But when a firm uses a client’s alimony check to share on Facebook it lead to unintended consequences, to say the least. The case is...
View ArticleTweeting Their Way To A New Law Firm
Tweeting for lawyers is something only some can deal with adeptly, but for KMR Law Group Twitter actually started their successful law firm. The Chicago-based law group started two years ago with three...
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Morrison & Foerster – John Delaney, Aaron Rubin – Amazon’s customer reviews have long been a go-to resource for consumers researching prospective purchases. Unfortunately, fake customer...
View ArticleApple v. Samsung: The Importance of Patented Features in Purchase Decisions
Kelley Drye & Warren – Last week, the Federal Circuit denied en banc review by the entire court of the three-judge panel decision in the Apple v. Samsung case that had revived the ability to obtain...
View ArticleLegendary Billionaire Lawyer Dies
One of America’s most famed – and certainly one of the richest – lawyers died this week. Joe Jamail died at 90, a man who some claimed was the greatest lawyer who lived and with a fortune over around...
View ArticleThe Sports Industry 2015: A Year of Unprecedented Change
K&L Gates – We could not let the dust settle on 2015 without recapping the monumental upheaval the sports industry has experienced this year. ] Not since Rupert Murdoch unearthed sport as a...
View ArticleThe Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act 2015/feed
Clifford Chance – On December 18, 2015, after over a year of negotiations, Congress passed, and the President signed into law, The Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015. The Act extends tax...
View ArticleDecoding Why Attorneys Favor Jury Trial in Personal Injury Lawsuits
If you’re like most Americans, you are probably nervous about going to trial. You perhaps have only seen the sleazy trial lawyers and heard about the rigid courtroom protocols. Chances are, you don’t...
View Article“Human/feed
Reed Smith – On December 14, 2015, a federal judge in the Southern District of California concluded that a jury should decide whether Yahoo is liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA),...
View ArticleThe 10 Worst Drug and Medical Device Decisions in 2015/feed
Reed Smith – James Beck – In the original Hunger Games movie, while Katniss and Rue are plotting to blow up the Careers’ food stash, Katniss remarks that “destroying things is much easier than making...
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“Making a Murderer”, the 10 part Netflix documentary on the Steven Avery murder case is a case that continues to keep one of Avery’s attorneys up at night, almost a decade later. Attorney Dean Strang...
View ArticleLA Medical Clinic Owner Gets Lengthy Jail Term for Medicare Fraud/feed
WASHINGTON – The former owner and operator of three medical clinics located in Los Angeles was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for his role in a scheme that submitted more than $4.5 million in...
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New law firms are relatively everyday occurrences, but a new firm set up in Washington DC has a new twist we haven’t heard of before: a Whistleblower-friendly firm that has launched a new False Claims...
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