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Making the Grade: Choosing Candidates for Lawyer Coaching
The good news is that lawyers are an industrious and intelligent bunch. Unfortunately, they’re often busy and averse to risk. While the explosion of the Web has helped many lawyers become visible on...
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Our Oscar to The Lincoln Lawyer
It may have been no great surprise about Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club, but our favourite here at LawFuel remains his outing in The Lincoln Lawyer. The 44 year old was always...
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Why Are Law Firms Reluctant to Engage in Law Firm Marketing?
Law firm marketing has become increasingly front and center for lawyers needing to elbow their way into the market – or simply to retain their place in the law marketplace. However in most...
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Power of Attorney Changes in the Wake of Rising Elder Abuse
The use and abuse of power of attorney documents is something that is concerning lawyers and law makers in several jurisdictions. The power of attorney is an age-old legal document that has a major...
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Alternative Energy Fraud Leads to Conviction for California Man
LOS ANGELES – A Northern California man has been convicted of federal fraud charges for his involvement in a $7 million investment scheme that lured investors with false promises relating to the...
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5 Steps for Internet Success for Lawyers
How can lawyers accept that the internet is a genuine market for them to use to sell their services. For many lawyers, using the internet to market and sell their services has been as strange as have...
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Pistorius Trial – Roux For the Defence
So who is Oscar Pistorius paying a rumoured £3,500 to defend himself? Barry Roux is a big name lawyer in South Africa and regarded as a master of cross examination. His witness demolition has been...
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Personal Injury Bike Share Lawsuit
How can a bike share operation be the subject of a $15 million lawsuit? Where does personal injury law end and common sense begin? Or is the lawsuit one that has total merit? These are all questions...
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Facebook Enters the Wonderful World of Personal Injury Law
Facebook has entered the arena of personal injury law following the breaching of a confidential agreement that was posted onto the social media network. Last week a Florida Appeal Court threw out an...
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Vlad Goes Mad Says HuffPost. But Its Putin’s “Different Lawyers” Says Obama
The Huffington Post’s “Vlad Goes Mad” headline was an overstatement of what the Russian strongman says he might do regarding possible US sanctions over any action Russia takes in respect of the...
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Trigger-Happy Pistorius? The Prosecution Take Aim at Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius, the “Blade Runner” defendant in the shooting of his girlfriend, appears to have had previous gun issues. A month before the para-Olympian was alleged to have killed his girlfriend he...
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New York Attorney Names New Terrorism & Public Corruption Appointments
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the appointments of Brendan McGuire as Co-Chief of the Terrorism & International Narcotics Unit...
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Online Dating Scam HIts Women in Canada
Online dating scams continue to plague the internet with the most recent to hit headlines being the charges laid against a 30 year old Canadian man who scammed women of more than $40,000. And that was...
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Orricks Achieves Succesful en banc Federal Court Decision for Universal...
UNITED STATES, March 6, 2014 – The en banc Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has given Orrick client Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc. a complete victory over its opponent, a subsidiary of Acacia...
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Rabbi Arrested for Distributing Child Pornography
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, andJames T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S.Immigration and Customs...
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Class Action Privacy and FCRA Defense Lawyer Joins Reed Smith from DLA Piper
March 5, 2014, Chicago, IL – Reed Smith LLP today announced that Michael O’Neil has joined the firm as a partner in its Chicago office, where he will be a member of the firm’s Global Regulatory...
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US-China IP Law Expert Joins Blank Rome
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Seagull Song has joined the Firm as Of Counsel in the Intellectual Property and Technology group and will also serve as a member of the Asia Practice. She is...
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What to Do if You are Injured by a ZombiE
Were you a big fan of all things ZOMBIE? Did Night of the Living Dead scare your pants off when you were a kid? We’re talking the George Romero Classic, not the lackluster remakes, by the way. I’ll bet...
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The Big Law Firm Branding Problem (4 of them, actually)
Law firm branding has become a more important issue for law firms in a post-recession environment. But according to one branding agency, law firm branding is in regression. Why? Because for some...
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Law Firm Charged With “Cooking the Books”
It’s as if its the final ignomy for failed Big Law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf who have this week seen criminal charges laid by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the SEC against three of the...
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