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Same-Sex Marriages Suspended in Michigan
Same-sex marriages in Michigan have been delayed by a Court of Appeals ruling, issing an order preventing them from occurring after the state’s appeal of a ruling that overturned the consitutional ban...
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Skaddens Make Deal Over Potential Legal Claim
Mega-law firm Skadden Arps has reached a settlement with regard to its representation of former hedge fund manager “Buddy” Fletcher Jr, who ran Fletcher International Ltd, which could have exposed...
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10 Ways To Achieve a Peak Performing Law Firm – Recommended by the Saatchis...
Saatchis’ chief honcho and marketing expert Kevin Roberts is someone you might well listen to when it comes to marketing – and lawyers especially are those who would want to hear about ‘peak...
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No Survivors on Flight 370 . . Now The Lawsuits
There were no survivors on Malaysian Flight MH370, which plummeted into the Indian Ocean, the Malaysian Prime Minister has announced. And now, for the passengers’ families and for the Airline there...
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Corrections Office Arrested Over Failure to Attend to Medical Needs of...
LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of...
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Arnstein & Lehr Appoints Special Counsel to Chicago Office
CHICAGO, Illinois – March 24, 2014 – The law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP is excited to announce today that Erin M. Murphy has joined the firm’s Litigation Practice Group as special counsel...
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Florida Attorney General and other Attorneys to Meet Mexican Officials On...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi today, as part of a delegation of five state attorneys general, met with Mexican attorneys general and federal officials in Mexico City, Mexico to...
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Madoff “House of Cards” Employees Found Guilty
Former Madoff Investment employees were found guilty of assisting Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff build his house of cards after a five month trial in Manhattan. The US Attorney for the Southern District...
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New Partners Announced at Slaugher and May
Law Firm Slaughter and May today announces that the following will become partners on 01 May 2014: Partner (principal practice area) Jonathan Clark (Dispute Resolution) Jordan Ellison (Competition)...
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Redefining “Personal Data” by the UK Appeal Court
LawFuel.com – Law Firm News – The U.K. Court of Appeal’s decision in Durant v Financial Services Authority [2003] (‘‘Durant’’) has commonly been seen to have restricted the definition of ‘‘personal...
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Allen & Overy Scoop Up A Clutch of Awards
A&O picks up every single legal advisor award across the energy, resources and infrastructure sectors during the 2013 awards season The awards season for energy, resources and infrastructure is...
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PwC Legal Plans on Being a Top 20 Law Firm
The global accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers have a legal division that they believe could become one of the top 20 legal service providers internationally within five years. PwC’s legal services...
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Supreme Court Faces Major Issue in Hobby Lobby Case
The US Supreme Court faces a major issue in a religious rights case, which could see a ruling that companies can exercise religious freedom to exempt them from complying with federal law – a decision...
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What’s A Good Jewish Lawyer Doing Defending an al-Qaida Accused?
As the case against Sulaiman Abu Ghaith goes to the jury, you might wonder how a Jewish lawyer like Stanley Cohencame to be representing a man charged with participating in a terrorist conspiracy to...
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Misbranding Weight Loss Pills Leads to Guilty Plea for Distributor
LawFuel.com – Pills Sold Throughout the United States Contained an Undisclosed Prescription Drug Banned By the National Football League Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern...
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Big Money in LBGT Law It Seems
There appears to be big money in the new LGBT law. Last week it was reported that the law firms of high profile lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies took in $6.4 million for the Prop 8 case. Washington...
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Selfie Sex Judge Loses Job
A Michigan judge has lost his job after texting a picture of his bare chest to a bailiff and having sex in his chambers with a witness in a child support case . Wayne County Circuit Judge4 Wade McCree...
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Laughing at Lawyer Depression
Depression among lawyers is a major issue, but for some Australian lawyers a comic revue has proved so successful in dealing with the issue that they are making a return season, as reported in...
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UK Firms Need Jobs Cuts to Restore Profits
Job cuts are needed if British law firms are going to restore their profitability according to a report from the Royal Bank of Scotland and reported by the FT. The most successful firms will those who...
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Davis Polk Advises Mongolia Mining Corporation
Davis Polk advised Mongolian Mining Corporation as borrower in connection with its Hong Kong-law governed secured term loan facilities of up to $200 million. The facilities were guaranteed by certain...
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