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Before you pack up your pumpkin-spiced lattes and bring out your Holiday decorations, we have a ghoulish edition of the Lawyers' Lawyer Newsletter for you. We start with some Tricks for...

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s campaign has made a late-game push before the election, spending nearly $60,000 on a high-profile attorney known for representing Democrats and masterminding some election-related legal challenges.

The saga of attorney Steven Donziger continues and the news is not good. On October 1, New York Federal Judge Loretta Preska sentenced Donziger to six months in federal prison for a misdemeanor charge of criminal contempt. This was the maximum penalty...

What is happening to the legal profession is the same thing that is happening everywhere else. An oppressive orthodoxy has taken hold. Fall in line, or suffer consequences to your livelihood. Represent the wrong clients, say the wrong things, think the wrong thoughts, and you will be targeted by a leftist pack of wolves in suits or holding endowed faculty chairs.

Baker McKenzie acted for tycoons, arms makers and authoritarian regimes. One client was 1MDB.

The Enforcement Directorate is carrying out raids at the residence and offices of the retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Harsh Mander on Thursday in a financial fraud case.The countrys premier financial investigative agency is ...

On May 26, 2021, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) finalized the amendments to the Rules of Practice in Patent Cases as well as the rules regarding Representation...

In February 2021, California became the 39th state to adopt a duty of technology competence when it added Comment 1 to Rule 1.1 ("Competence") of the California Rules of Professional Conduct.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Traditionally, the only place to seek legal advice in the U.S. has been at a firm owned and run by one or more lawyers.  Change, though, may be on the horizon.  A few states have loosened the rules that enforce this norm, and several more are considering it.  This shift is hardly seismic—at least, not yet—but, if larger jurisdictions adopt similar changes, these liberalizations may well begin to shift the national landscape. Th...

CHICAGO, May 26, 2021 — The American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility will convene its three-day annual national conference focusing on ethics and professional responsibility on June 2 with programs examining a host of timely is