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Four Ways to Protect Your Business from Personal Injury Claims
A personal injury claim can mean enormous financial and emotional strain for a small company. To protect your business from personal injury claims, take these 4 preventative measures. 1. Ensure...
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University of Victoria wins the Wilson Moot 2014
The University of Victoria is the overall winner of the Wilson Moot 2014. Team members included Sarah Ahsan, Devon Black, Vivian Lee and Aislinn Sirk, who competed successfully against 12 other...
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The Gender Gap in Lawyer Pay & Why Women Don’t Reach the Top
The issue of gender equality among lawyers and the slowness with which women reach the top ranks of law firms has raised a rather nasty head, again. It appears that not only are there only 17 per cent...
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Federal Reserve Hacker Stole Personal Identity Information
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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Law Firm Keywords’ Purchase Lands Lawyer in Trouble for Online Law Marketing
A lawyer who bought keywords for other law firms, as well as lawyers and judges, has found himself in trouble for his online advertising campaign. The lawyer, David Turlington, bought the keywords...
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The Personal Injury Lawsuit and the Falling Longhorn Head
Ranch personal injury lawsuits may involve serious cattle-related injuries and the like. But the injury lawsuit involving West 6th bar The Ranch involved a stuffed longhorn head falling and causing...
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Self Defense Act: Understanding the Updated Oklahoma Gun Laws
Open carry comes to Oklahoma. It’s about time, but there are some important rules to understand when it comes to carrying a handgun openly in the state. Open carry laws are popular among gun...
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Boiler Room Scam Arrests
International police co-operation has been involved in the take down of a massive boiler room scam. Over 100 people in one of the largest, bogus share fraud operations ever mounted have been arrested...
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What Makes a Good Law Firm Rainmaker?
What makes a good law firm rainmaker? The question and the personality type has been examined before, but a recent study of lawyer rainmakers indicates that the key characteristic of a good rainmaker...
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Bitcoin Investor Sues Mt Gox
The bankruptcy of the bitcoin exchange, Mt Gox, has lead to a customer in Chicago mounting a legal action in what he anticipates will lead to a class action lawsuit for US customers of Mt Gox....
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Law Firm Files Class Action Lawsuit Against AmTrust Financial Services Inc
NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2014 LawFuel.com – Pomerantz LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. (“AmTrust” or the “Company”) (nasdaqgs:AFSI) and certain of its officers....
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DVLA Tax Disappears
The UK Government has abolished the vehicle tax disc, the DVLA changes that will benefit both fleets as well as the ‘man on the road’. The paper discs will no longer be issued from October and from...
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What Next For Bitcoin?
The Bitcoin debacle in Japan following the failure and bankruptcy of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox was not a fraud, but rather a failure due to incompetence and financial mismanagement, according to a...
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Lifting Women Lawyers in a “Project Sky” Initiative
Pinsent Masons has plans to lift its female partner quotient to 30 per cent as the quest to lift the role of women lawyers expands across different law firms internationally. According to The Lawyer UK...
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The Oscar Trial
The Oscar Pistorius trial started – late by some 90 minutes due to an absent Africaans translator, with Pistorious arriving looking relatively calm compared to his emotional, previous appearances...
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Elder Law Firms in Merger
Elder law is an area of growing importance for law firms in an era of boomging numbers of baby boomers. In Hartford Connecticut the aging population has created a law firm merger for the growing –...
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Forget Legal Pot, Says Jerry Brown. “Stay Alert” Instead.
Forget the pot and stay alert. That’s the message from California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who believes that legalizing marijuana is a bad idea. Speaking to NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Brown said “the...
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Public Defender Pleads Guilty to Social Security Rip Off
RIVERSIDE, California – A deputy public defender for Riverside County pleaded guilty today to two felony counts of stealing social security benefits. Audrey Owens, 60, of Upland,...
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Will Patton Boggs Simply Become a DC Memorial to What Might Have Been?
Patton Bloggs is a law firm in DC that has a pedigree and profile almost as distinctive as the Lincoln Memorial. But will the firm itself become a monument to what was . . and what could have been? Or...
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Defamation-by-Tweet
In a legal first, a former High School student in Australia faces a $105,000 damages award over comments made about his music teacher on Twitter. It is the country’s first defamation by tweet and...
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