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Better Law Job Prospects Ahead, Says WSJ
Up, down. Up, down. We seem to have had a law jobs market in the major markets of the US and the UK for more years than many graduates can dare remember, but now the Wall Street Journal reports that...
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What is the FCC Up To With Its Record Chinese Company Fine?
How can – and why is – the FCC pursuing overseas companies so aggressively, as it has with its recent, record-breaking fine of a Chinese company selling jammers? Mitchell Lazarus at the ComLawBlog...
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Andy Coulson Guilty. Rebekah Brooks Not Guilty. The Verdicts are In
The long running phone hacking case at the Old Bailey has come to a dramatic conclusion with Andy Coulson being found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while heading Rupert Murdoch’s News of the...
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David Cameron’s Political Instinct Kicks In, As Coulson is Kicked Out
No sooner has former David Cameron been found guilty of phone hacking charges when his former boss, the PM, is issuing a “profound apology” over his “bad decision” to employ his former friend and...
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New Regional Legal Powerhouse Emerges in East Africa
Hamilton Harrison and Mathews Advocates law firms has entered into an agreement to merge with Oraro and Company Advocates, an influential player in commercial dispute resolution and litigation in the...
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Madoff Lawyer and Accountant Pleads Guilty to Indictment
Bernard Madoff Steered Dozens of Customers to Use the Defendant’s Services, and Madoff Personally Sought Tax and Business Advice from the Defendant Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the...
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Law Firm Expands Client Practice in South Florida
West Palm Beach, June 24, 2014 – Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that Robin King has joined the firm as Counsel in the Private Client Department. King concentrates her practice in...
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Law Firm Taylor Wessing Opens on Both, US Coasts
International law firm Taylor Wessing today announces the opening of two representative offices in the USA. The offices, in Palo Alto and New York, will both open in September this year. Taylor Wessing...
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The Law Used to Kill al-Quaida Operatives
The ongoing war on al-Qaida has prompted a range of issues regarding the rule of law and the extent to which it is being used, abused or simply ignored by American authorities. Court documents revealed...
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Phone Hacking and the UK Media
The British media have never been shy of taking aggressive steps in their quest for a good front page story, but the trial of Andy Coulson, Rebekah Edwards and Rupert Murdoch’s empire generally and the...
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Cell Phone Privacy Upheld by Supreme Court
Searching the cellphones of those arrested is available only after a search warrant, the US Supreme Court has ruled in a decision welcomed by those concerned about privacy in the age of digital...
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Boehner Wants to Sue Obama. Can He Succeed?
The relationship between President Obama and the House has been anything but good, but things only got worse with plans to introduce legislation shortly to permit the House to sue the President. The...
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How do recent Hong Kong trust law changes affect bond trustees? A comparative...
More than four years in the making, Hong Kong has finally implemented much needed reforms to modernise its trust law in December 2013. These reforms are seen as pivotal to strengthening the...
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Wonga and the Fake Law Firm Trick
Wonga, the British doorstep lending company, was thought to be the acceptable face of this often dodgy industry. But using fake law firms to collect debts has unravelled a picture that’s anything but...
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Russian Organized Crime Member Sentenced for “Cold Blooded Murder”
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BORIS LISYANKSY was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for his role in hiring a hitman to kill two...
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Former Jenkens & Gilchrist Lawyer Sentenced to Jail over Criminal Tax Fraud
Paul M. Daugerdas Personally Received More than $95 Million in Fees from Tax Shelter Scheme that Generated of Over $7 Billion of Fraudulent Tax Deductions Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for...
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Supreme Courts Strikes Down Abortion “Buffer Zone”
The rights of free speech have taken on an important “buffer zone” consideration, with the US Supreme Court ruling that a Massachusetts zone that restricted free speech within 35 feet of abortion...
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DUI Law and the Flat Earth Argument
How can a “flat earth” argument be equated to an argument in California DUI law regarding the broad use of beathalyzer tests in court? It may seem an odd way to put it, but the US Supreme Court has not...
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Article 7
The effectiveness or otherwise of law firm blogs has been documented in a report looking at the use of blogs by law firms in USA, UK and Canada, where 27 law firms were surveyed. The 80 page report...
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In-House Lawyers Shun Disaggregation Model
. . In-house lawyers are not buying the much-trumpeted disaggregated legal services firms are offering them – The Lawyer . . has a Kevyn Orr spoof misused the Jones Day logo? Deadline Detroit . ....
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