Freelance Fast Track Review Offers Writing-From-Home Cheat Sheet
A brand new course to help freelance writers – or anyone wanting to make money as a freelance writer – working from home, has been launched. Called Freelance Fast Track it provides a quick-start...
View ArticleHong Kong Regulatory Update
Skadden Arps – This Hong Kong regulatory update is intended to provide a brief overview of the principal Hong Kong regulatory developments in the preceding three months relevant to companies listed or...
View ArticleAkin Gumps Named One of Law360s Pro Bono Firms for 2014
Washington, D.C. – Akin Gump is pleased to announce it has been named one of Law360’s Pro Bono Firms of 2014. This is the second straight year Akin Gump has received this honor, which recognizes law...
View ArticleJones Day Again Named in “Fearsome Foursome” Litigation Report
The global law firm Jones Day has been ranked among the “Fearsome Foursome” — the law firms that clients would least like to see on the other side of the table — for the third consecutive time...
View ArticleLegal Giant KPMG Enters Legal Market
Another accounting giant has entered the legal market with KPMG confirming that it has its “law licence” under the alternative buisness tructure system form the Solicitors Regulation Authority in...
View Article6 Things That Can Make a Happy Lawyer
What makes a happy lawyer? Its a question many lawyers probably ask themselves equally many times, but for a university lecturer at Duke University who teaches on well being and related issues he...
View ArticleSome Key Professional Indemnity Insurance Issues for Lawyers
Professional insurance cover for lawyers or any other professional is expensive. Yet having liability cover that can protect lawyers and help avoid defense costs for errors, omissions or negligence is...
View ArticleMoney Laundering & Drug Crackdown Focuses on LA Fashion District
WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced today the issuance of a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) that imposes additional reporting and recordkeeping obligations...
View ArticleMichael Phelps DUI Law Woes
Olympic champion Michael Phelps is having a further brush with the DUI law after being arrested for the second time on DUI charges in Baltimore, his home town. The top swimmer is hoping to make the Rio...
View ArticleIllinois DUI Lawyer to Present at State Bar Traffic and DUI Seminar
LawFuel.com – Law Firm and DUI Law News – DuPage DUI lawyer Donald J. Ramsell of Ramsell & Associates, LLC is pleased to announce that he will present at the Illinois State Bar Association’s...
View ArticleEversheds Enters Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index
Law firm Eversheds has been ranked at number 14 in Acritas’ Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index 2014. Acritas’ Global Elite Brand Index 2014 is compiled from data derived from 1185 interviews with...
View ArticleAnother YouTube Beheading By Isis Today
Another day, another atrocity committed by ISIS with the beheading of UK aid worker David Henning, with the release of a video purporting to show the terror group’s murder-by-social media war crime....
View Article“Real Housewives” Prison Sentence Adds Extra Reality
It’s where reality TV meets reality law with the sentencing of “Real Housewives” stars Teresa Giudice and husband Giuseppe Giudice (“Joe”) to prison for 15 months and 41 months respectively. The...
View ArticleFour Criminal Law “Truths” Criminal Lawyers Want You To Know
Indianapolis DUI and criminal defense attorney Greg Stark outlines four “truths” criminal lawyers want people suspected of committing a criminal offense to know, beginning with the “don’t let pride...
View ArticleCravath Win Precedent-Setting Victory for Delaware Corporations
On September 8, 2014, Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery granted Cravath’s motion to dismiss in its entirety a putative class action lawsuit filed by the City of Providence...
View ArticleWhy Lawyers Should Not Just Write About the Law
Robin Oliver works at JDSupra as business development manager and wrote a useful and pertinent post about lawyers and how they should be marketing their content. My friend and colleague Adrian Lurssen...
View ArticleGoogle Faces Off Against Hollywood Lawyer’s Nude Pics Allegations
Hollywood lawyer Martin Singer has threatened Google with a $100 million lawsuit over nude pictures circulated online following Apple’s iCloud being hacked. Singer evidently represents over a “dozen...
View ArticleWomen On Top at Two Major Law Firms
Women are slowly – but hopefully surely – climbing to the top of major law firms. The debate over women leadership and partnership numbers in law firms has long been debated and argued, but two recent...
View ArticleAustralian Law Firms Hit Pro Bono Targets
Australian lawyers at the top firms either met or exceeded their pro bono quotas, according to the Australian National Pro Bono Resource Centre (NPBRC), which involved an annual target of 35 hours per...
View ArticleThe UK Pensions Update : Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance – In September, amendments to the proposed reforms to IORP II were published in the First Presidency compromise text as the proposal moves through the EU’s co-decision legislative...
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