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Holder’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Attorney General Eric Holder is applying same-sex marriage rules from a Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department’s conduct in same-sex matters. Holder announced on Saturday that same-sex spouses...
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DLA Piper Look At Taking Failed Canadian Firm Lawyers
The closing of Canadian law firm Heenan Blaikie has provided an opportunity for the biggest law firm in the world to move into the Canadian legal market. DLA Piper is planning to hire up to 70 lawyers...
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Can Ashley Wagner Change the Anti-Gay Law? Nope.
Could figure skater Ashley Wagner help reconfigure Russia’s anti-gay law? Probably not, but she appears to be giving it a good try. The two-time national champion has been one of the few US competitors...
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Online Dating With Your Favorite Scammer – What You Can Do
Everyone knows that online dating scams have been around as online dating. But the reported $100 million+ losses incurred in the US alone are just the tip of the iceberg according to officials. Every...
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LA DUI Lawyer Too Aggressive, State Bar Rules
He’s a flamboyant and successful DUI lawyer, but Santa Barbara’s Darryl Genis has now found himself seriously offside with the State Bar of California, with a 90 suspension ordered and some harsh words...
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Civil Rights Investigation into LA County Sheriff’s Department Alleges Abuse...
LOS ANGELES – Two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies who were assigned to the Men’s Central Jail have been indicted on federal civil rights charges that accuse them of illegally using force against an...
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Download Flappy Bird No More
Flappy Bird was pulled from the iTunes App Store and Google Play because of issues other than the law, according to its creator Dong Nguyen The difficult and massively popular game was the subject of...
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Schapelle Corby’s Jail Time Ends
The subject of books, movies, hatred, support and conspiracy theories, the convicted Australian drug dealer Schapelle Corby is now a free woman – more or less. After nine year in a Bali jail, Corby was...
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Leading Hong Kong Employment Leader Moves from Baker + McKenzie to Gall
LawFuel.com – Hong Kong-based dispute resolution and litigation specialist law firm Gall is pleased to announce the appointment of partner Jennifer Van Dale as head of its employment practice following...
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Dragging the Fourth Amendment into the 21st Century
Constitutional law expert and law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has written seven books on legal matters as well as more law review articles than he can probably remember. He has written in the ABA...
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The Beach Retreat for Law Firm Associates
So how come a legal chief sent his indians to the beach with a $2000 payment to spend it anywhere in the world? The surprise happened at the end of last month when Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan...
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Blakes Litigators Win Benchmark Canada Awards
TORONTO (February 10, 2014) – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, was honoured with four awards at the second annual nationwide Benchmark Canada...
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Former Teacher Gets 120 Months Jail For Enticement of a Minor
LOS ANGELES – A former teacher at Arrowview Middle School in San Bernardino was sentenced this morning to 120 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a 13-year old girl in New Jersey to...
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Best NYC In-House Law Department . . The Envelope, Please
So who has the best in-house law department in NYC? The New York Law Journal has announced the winning inhouse departments for 2014 with a swanky dinner planned for March 10. The “Outstanding Legal...
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Finance Law Firms Opens Doors in London
LawFuel.com – Schulte Roth & Zabel (“SRZ”), a leading provider of legal services to the global financial services industry, is pleased to announce its new London location. Since opening its doors...
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Why The NYPD Feel Insulted Over Stop-and-Frisk
New York police unions are going to court to decide whether changeds to the stop-and-frisk program are properly made, having filed papers in the Federal Appeals court. The unions claim the judge who...
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Former Guatemalan Officer Gets 10 Years’ Prison For Lying About Role in Massacre
RIVERSIDE, California – A former Guatemalan Special Forces officer was sentenced today to serve 10 years in federal prison for covering up his involvement in the 1982 massacre of nearly everyone in...
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Could She Be the Next ABA President?
Paulette Brown, the chief diversity officer at law firm Edwards Wildman and a labor lawyer is moving closer towards becoming the next president of the American Bar Association, following her formal...
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ReInvent Law’s Lessons – Tough Reading for Big Law
Dr George Beaton reports exclusively for LawFuel on the ReInvent Law conference in New York last weekend. Hot on the heels of the recent story in LawFuel featuring George Beaton and NewLaw New Rules,...
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Billionaire Soros’ Courtroom Fracas With Fiery Girlfriend
Leftwing billionaire George Soros, the man who broke the bank of England also had his lawyer’s spectacles broken and his hearing aids bashed by his soap opera star former girlfriend Adriana Ferreyr....
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