Depositions are a matter of public record, and as such, most lawyers never think to shield videotaped deposition testimony from public disclosure except in cases involving highly sensitive or proprietary information. After all, up until a few years ago, even…
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Well, it’s no wonder that clients are grousing about rates, going so far as to demand that law firms send work to India. Turns out that even as the economy skidded downhill in 2008, law firms continued to crank up…
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In 1996, Marc Dreier founded Dreier LLP as an innovative alternative to conventional large firm practice. Twelve years later, the firm stands on the brink of collapse after Dreier, the sole equity partner, was arrested for the most desperate (and…
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Oh, the lengths to which people will go to gain an inside advantage in the stock market. This amusing article in Compliance Week offers a glimpse of some of the far-fetched schemes that have entrapped those intent on coming up…
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Colin Samuels, of Infamy or Praise, hosts this week’s long awaited Blawg Review #189. After exhausting Dante’s “Divine Comedy” as a source of inspiration for his first three epic blawg reviews, Samuels discovered that the task of finding a theme…
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Disgraced ex-New York governor Eliot Spitzer is getting a second chance of sorts. Via Overlawyered, we learn that Eliot Spitzer is now writing a column on financial markets for Slate. For Professor Bainbridge, however the Slate deal reflects our growing…
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With O.J. Simpson facing sentencing today on charges of armed robbery, what better occasion for a retrospective on the lawyers involved in O.J.’s landmark trial of the century. Bitter Lawyer checks in on the status of those who found their…
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For most lawyers, seeing their name on the door of the law firm satisfies the ego. But some lawyers aspire to see their name up in lights — on a stadium perhaps, or even a law school. So if you’re…
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My colleague and fellow “tweet” Bob Ambrogi is a self-described recent convert to Twitter. For those of you still not familiar with Twitter (which we’ve previously discussed here, here and here), it’s a microblogging tool that limits each post to…
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Just in time for the holidays, Larry Bodine has good news for real estate lawyers: The real estate market is looking up. Mortgage rates dropped below 6 percent, with fixed rates as low as 5 percent. That means more buying…
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