Lawyer & Cybersecurity Expert To Be Next Head of US Homeland Security
As she’s an alumni of Virginia School of Law .. here’s their take. https://news.virginia.edu/content/law-school-graduate-tapped-lead-homeland-security Kirstjen Michele Nielsen, a 1999 graduate of the...
View ArticleLawyers of Shame…
Every time we learn of a lawyer who has, is or will represent that pig of a man, Weinstein we’ll publish a photo to compile in our future hall of shame. First up is Elkan Abramowitz Weinstein hired...
View ArticleThis Dude Says He Will Carry On Representing Weinstein
We think it is worth seeing which of his lawyers stand by him and we’re interested to see if there will be any women on the team. The American Lawyer reports...
View ArticleThe Joy of Discovery.. 3 Days In A Storage Unit With 3 Million of Your...
One has to applaud Mr Bristow and his colleagues. we presume they’ll be handsomely rewarded. http://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/almID/1202800987553/ When attorney Chris J. Bristow walked into a...
View ArticlePeople Give The BBC A Hard Time But We Don’t See Many Others Regularly...
Remember when you read this, the Chinese authorities are doing the following to rights lawyers and without trying to hide it. Also we’d like to see some of the bigger publishers step up to then plate...
View ArticleSemantics…“Give Me A Lawyer……Dawg”. Not A “Lawyer Dog”
[I]f y’all, this is how I feel, if y’all think I did it, I know that I didn’t do it so why don’t you just give me a lawyer dog cause this is not what’s up. New York Magazine reports In what must...
View ArticleRepulsive Lawyers Chapter 4,679…
We despair of the world. Surprising to see the UK Sun talk about women’s rights after all these years.Mybe if they can (sort of) change their spots this unpleasant individual could do the same An...
View ArticleAthens Lawyer’s Killers Were Escaped Felons “Rented” to Intimidate Him,...
Regular readers may remember we reported the shooting and death a few weeks back of 52-year-old criminal lawyer Michalis Zafiropoulos. Now sadly it seems although the lawyer was targeted by Albanian...
View ArticleLike Anywhere Else Not All Egypt’s Lawyers Are Scumbags
After the appalling story last week of the Egyptian lawyer who called for women to be raped for wearing ripped jeans we are especially pleased today to report on the other side of the coin about...
View ArticleSkaddern Looking For Knowledge Lawyer In New York
The Knowledge Strategy group in the NY office has a need for a full time or part time (4 days/week) Knowledge Strategy lawyer with an M&A background and at least 4 years’ experience at a large law...
View ArticleYoung Australian Lawyer Wins Opportunity To Study At Berkeley
Lawyer’s Weekly reports that A young Australian lawyer will be travelling to the US next year for a prestigious nine-month study program at The University of California, Berkeley. Our congratulations...
View ArticleLawyer’s Date Trashes His Warhols, $US300K + Damage
That’s what you get for dating a freelance court reporter ! 10TV reports this wonderfully delicious story. A Texas woman was arrested late Saturday after allegedly causing damage to several pricey...
View ArticleAussie Lawyer of The Day. Drug Dealing, Bikie Gangs & More
Ahh we love a lawyer who’s gone over to the darkside ! Australia’s Lawyers Weekly reports on (ex)practising solicitor, Alina Yousif, who has been charged and arrested for her involvement in a group...
View ArticleRemember The Texas Woman Who Did Her Best To Destroy A Lawyer’s Warhols ?
Apparently she poured red wine all over them ! Enjoyable report from the ABA magazine about the possibility of her getting a life sentence….. They write A Dallas woman accused of damaging a lawyer’s...
View ArticleYu Wensheng Has Practise License Revoked
Most of you will already be aware of this development, but just in case you haven’t already seen the news this is what Channel News Asia is saying. BEIJING: A prominent Chinese rights lawyer who wrote...
View Article“For a while now I have wanted to do a study on the strengths and...
The following letter / email arrived in our inbox yesterday and we find it quite fascinating. Any regular reader of our rag will know that we hold in the highest respect China rights lawyers, they are...
View ArticlePharma Bro’s Lawyer Says He Alternately Wants To Hug & Then Punch His Client...
We couldn’t resist this story published in the LA Times yesterday… it’s the story that just keeps on giving! “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli’s lawyer said he sometimes wants to hug his client and sometimes...
View ArticleNPR Profiles The French Lawyer Taking On The Giants Of Silicon Valley Over...
NPR Write… The Paris-based Shefet packs a lot of energy into his compact frame of 5 feet 7 inches, and one can even find him sprinting across the streets as he gets from one meeting to the next in the...
View Article1 in 10 California Lawyers Is A Criminal Says State Bar
And now they want to database that fact for clients to be able to research who they are hiring… Of California’s 190,000 active attorneys, as many as 19,000 may have unreported criminal activity, from...
View ArticleThe Lawyer UK Becomes a “integrated single portal”
Editor Catrin Griffiths writes The new site is not just a step-change for us; it’s a step-change in legal publishing. Over the past five years, The Lawyer has changed from being a weekly print magazine...
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