Who’s Engaged to This Barrister?
It looks like this very lovely English barrister Amal Alamuddin is engaged? But who is the international, A-grade celeb she’s scored? Correct. None other than once-confirmed bachelor George Clooney...
View ArticleAnticipating The Inevitable: What Every Company Should Think About Before A...
Businesses today collect ever-increasing amounts of personal information about their customers, from account passwords and email addresses to highly sensitive medical and financial information....
View ArticleLaw Firm Branding Award Goes to Skadden Arps for Third Year Running
Skadden Arps has taken the top “legal branding” spot for the third time in a row, according to the BTI Brand Elite report. The law firm said in a release: For the third consecutive year, Skadden took...
View ArticleJeremy Clarkson’s Nigger-in-the-Woodpile Legal Brouhaha
Has the bouhaha in Britain over controversial and successful journalist and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson just another “nigger in the woodpile” event? Or should Guardian readers and others...
View ArticleInstitute IPR or Not? A Question Not Immediately Reviewable by Federal Circuit
In a series of three opinions issued on April 24, 2014, the Federal Circuit has decided that decisions by the Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to institute — or not to institute — an...
View ArticleA Big Law Firm’s Sex Slave Embarrassment
An article in Forbes Magazine by Eamonn Fingleton started a firestorm of social media activity and something of a public embarrassment for law firm Mayer Brown over their involvement in a lawsuit...
View ArticleThe Law Firm Boutique Handling Law Firm Bankruptcy Work
A law firm that has a law firm bankruptcy specialty is something that might appear alien to many lawyer, but for the Texas law firm Diamond McCarthy its a lucrative practice area that has just added...
View ArticleForget Pistorius. Did Gerry Adams Do It in the McConville Killing?
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has been released by police in Northern Ireland but the shadow of Jean McConville’s murder all those years ago hangs over the controversial and long-standing leader,...
View ArticleSlaughter and May Advise on Hong Kong $8.8 Billion Loan
Slaughter and May, Hong Kong, advised the agent, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, on behalf of the lenders and facility arrangers, in relation to a HK$8.8 billion syndicated loan facility for CITIC...
View ArticleDelaware Court Refused To Enjoin Sotherbys Over Poison Pill Trial
May 5, 2014 On May 2, 2014, the Delaware Court of Chancery denied a preliminary injunction motion by activist stockholder Third Point LLC to enjoin Sotheby’s annual meeting based on claims that the...
View Article“Will Someone Please Represent Me?” Donald Sterling’s Looking for Lawyers
Donald Sterling may be down, but he’s not out and he’s out looking for a law firm to help him sue the NBA, who are attempting to force him to sell the LA Clippers. According to media reports the...
View ArticleA Financial Perspective on the UK’s Relationship with the EU, From Clifford...
Since the financial and sovereign debt crisis that began in 2007 and started to abate only in 2013, the United Kingdom’s position in the European Union has gone to the top of the political agenda. The...
View Article“Party Monster” Released From Jail
The “Club Kid” killer Michael Alig, portrayed in the “Party Monster” movie, has been released from prison after his guilty plea to the manslaughter in 1997 of his roommate over a drug debt. The...
View ArticleThe Oldest Law Firm in the US Sees a History Touching Whiskey, Slavery and More
At a time when law firms are becoming “virtual” and outsourcing is all the rage, an historic law firm with roots going back 231 years is something not just charming, but also historic. The oldest law...
View Article“Better Call Saul” . . And How Lawyers Can Use YouTube to Market
You know all the cringe-making (and some totally amazing) television advertisements for lawyers – the “Better Call Saul”-style screaming ad. Well YouTube has given them a further life and has focused...
View ArticleLaw Chairman Honors Entrepreneur Joe Edwards
May 7, 2014, St. Louis, Missouri, USA … John S. Meyer, Jr., chair of the Business & Real Estate practice group at law firm Capes, Sokol, Goodman & Sarachan, P.C.,honored visionary developer...
View ArticleColorado Indictment The Most Significent Investigation into Synthetic...
Indictments represent the most significant investigation to date in the United States regarding synthetic cannabinoid trafficking which resulted in more than 220 Spice-related emergency room visits and...
View ArticleContent Marketing for Law Firms – Reaching In-House Counsel with Corporate...
The media landscape has changed for lawyers, along with everyone else. The newly released Greenmarket survey on content marketing provides some interesting insights into how content marketing has...
View ArticleWho Will Win The Lawyer Awards?
The UK Lawyer Awards are on their way with a record number of entries including firms, barristers chambers and in-house legal teams now short-listed and breathelessly waiting for the results. Who – in...
View ArticleMonica Lewinsky’s Return Reminds Us of Law & Honor Rather Than Sex and Scandal
The return of Monica Lewinsky reminds America about a scandal not about sex, but how the then-President lied to a court of law. The President escaped impeachment over what his accuser Paula Jones...
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