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New Jersey Law Journal

Money Laundering Services Are Not Legal Services

The American Bar Association's positions are ill-founded and are contrary to the public interest.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Hartford Attorney Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Tax Evasion

Donald McCarthy, the founding partner of a Hartford law firm that bears his name, was sentenced Monday to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for evading $1.4 million in taxes over 17 years.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fake South Florida Foreclosure Law Firm Operators Sentenced to 5 Years

Prosecutors charged the federal defendants operated companies that billed themselves as law firms and legal referral firms in Coral Springs, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Dismissal Over Counsel No-Show 'Extreme,' Second Circuit Finds

The attorney had three conferences, in three separate counties, scheduled all in the same morning. After missing the conference in the relevant suit—not for the first time—the judge tossed the case.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Representing Celebrities or Not, Lawyers Should Consider These Issues of Confidential Settlements

The recent celebrity scandals involving confidential settlements that purportedly concealed wrongdoing for many years have caused some to question whether confidential settlements strike the appropriate balance between the interests of the settling parties and the public's right to information identifying potential wrongful actors.
19 minute read

International Edition

Magic Circle Firms Warned Over Implications of Failure to Tackle Sexual Harassment

Firms face legal action if Equality and Human Rights Commission uncovers evidence of systemic failures
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Bar Report - Five takeaways from Making it (Ethically) Rain

Five tips on rainmaking for women
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Sanctions Slugfest Between Star Litigators from Dechert, Gibson Dunn and Morgan Lewis

"I have never seen a group of lawyers so quick to threaten sanctions against other members of the bar," wrote Morgan Lewis & Bockius' Christopher Parlo of opposing counsel including Dechert's Andrew Levander and Randy Mastro of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
6 minute read

The Recorder

SeaWorld Seeks Sanctions Against Covington in Suit Over Orca Claims

SeaWorld is on the offensive against lawyers at Covington & Burling who have been pursuing a class action claiming customers were duped by false portrayals of the park's orcas being healthy and stimulated.
15 minute read

Daily Report Online

May In-House Counsel Provide Legal Services Here If They Aren't Licensed in Georgia?

Before taking that in-house position in Georgia, an out-of-state lawyer should know the answer to this question.
4 minute read

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