When it comes to finding a solicitor to defend you in the courtroom, you want to ensure that you have the best criminal lawyer in Melbourne. Now, it’s no secret that hiring a solicitor can be a costly endeavour; however, if it’s the difference between you being convicted of a serious crime or remaining a free citizen, then odds are you’ll choose the latter. So, the real question is “what makes a great solicitor?” What attributes do you need to be looking for? How important is a solicitor’s win/loss record? How competitive is their pricing policy? Can I get effective representation from a cheaper option offering the same services? Naturally, there is a lot you need to be thinking about when...
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An innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 after police fabricated trial evidence and prosecutors hid information from defense attorneys, the St. Louis prosecutor contends in a motion made public Tuesday. The explosive charges, made in a 66-page motion for a new trial for Lamar Johnson filed in the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis, come at a time of significant strain between police and the reform-minded prosecutor, Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, who took office in 2017. Last year, Gardner’s conviction integrity unit began reviewing Johnson’s case after the prisoner’s lawyers brought it to the office. Attorneys from the Midwest Innocence...
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Faruk Orman was the first in a potential flood of convicts to benefit from revelations that Nicola Gobbo was feeding information to police - REX An Australian man jailed 12 years ago for a gangland murder was released on Friday after a court quashed his conviction, raising fears some of the nation's most dangerous criminals could also walk free over a scandal in which their lawyer had secretly been a police informant. Faruk Orman was the first in a potential flood of convicts to benefit from revelations that a prominent criminal lawyer, Nicola Gobbo, was feeding information to police while supposedly defending them. Orman was sentenced in 2007 to 20 years in prison after being found guilty...
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Monday, September 30, 2019 CLEVELAND (Legal Newsline) - Stepping forcefully into a debate that has been brewing since private lawyers first started recruiting local governments to sue the opioid industry, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and the National Association of Attorneys General have urged the federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation to reject a proposed “negotiation class” consisting of every city and county in the country. States have the sole authority to file parens patriae claims on behalf of their citizens and a federal court can’t interfere with how the states decide to divide their money, Yost wrote in a strongly worded, five-page letter filed with U.S. District...
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Bulgarian prosecutors have indicted two men on terrorism-related charges following an enormous data breach earlier this month that compromised the financial records of almost every adult in the country. The two men, Georgi Yankov and Kristian Boykov, work at US cybersecurity company Tad Group, which houses its corporate headquarters in Bulgaria's capital Sofia. Speaking to Reuters, lawyer Georgi Stefanov said his clients had been released from custody after being charged and had denied any wrongdoing. He added: "We are very surprised with these charges. How do you charge someone with terrorism and let them go?" Prosecutors were not immediately available for comment. Boykov, 20, was...
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Suum Cuique or why You, Lawyer, Should Not be Silent Our electronic world is frequently disorienting. Indeed, it can sometimes be worse than disorienting. We can be in our safest place and receive words written or spoken by those with power that express or strongly infer that not all law-abiding Citizens are fully protected by our system of justice or that those with authority to enforce our laws are right to act with malice or mockery towards certain Citizens. I propose that licensed lawyers are obligated, in the face of such words, to act against them. The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct establish that lawyers’ duties extend beyond those owed to their clients. Lawyers have a...
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Another day, another ranking for lawyers to ogle in a search for meaning as they attempt to get through the day’s billables. Such is the life of a Biglaw attorney, always on the hunt for confirmation that their firm is the best firm, the one that’s hitting all of its essential metrics year after year. If that sounds like you (and you might as well admit it, it probably does), then you should check out the latest offering from the American Lawyer, the annual A-List ranking. Are you somehow unfamiliar with this ranking? Here are all of the metrics that it measures to determine which Biglaw firms are the best of the best: The American Lawyer’s annual A-List ranking doesn’t measure size or...
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Miami Car Accident Lawyer If you have been seriously injured in a car accident, you need a car accident lawyer to represent your best interests. You are up against insurance companies who refuse to give you enough to cover your medical bills. You could be out of work for a while (or even lose your job as a result of your injuries). Since 1997, our firm has helped recover $1 billion on behalf of our clients for personal injury. We are ready to help you fight your case against the insurance companies. A car accident can be caused by any number of factors, but one thing always remains constant: Our Miami personal injury attorneys are here to help you. We’ll fight the insurance companies on...
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Trump Plan to Name Scalia DOL Head Stirs Fiduciary Advocate Debate The Trump administration’s plan to nominate corporate lawyer Eugene Scalia to head the Department of Labor is getting a mixed reaction from investor advocates. Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, led the legal team representing the Chamber of Commerce and other securities and insurance group’s successful effort to overturn the Obama Administration-era fiduciary rule governing retirement accounts. The Wall Street Journal in 2012 called Scalia “one of the industry’s go-to guys for challenging financial regulations,” the website Politico noted after President Trump tweeted his intention...
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Fu Changguo 付常国 July 18, 2019 Comments Off on Fu Changguo 付常国 Criminal charge: Gathering a crowd to disturb public order Dates of Detention/Arrest: August 10, 2018 (detention); September 8, 2018 (formal arrest) Place of Incarceration: Current location unknown; previously detained at Shenzhen City No. 2 Detention Center Fu Changguo, a staff member with Shenzhen Dagongzhe Migrant Workers Center (DGZ), an NGO, was detained in August 2018, along with the group’s legal representative, Huang Qingnan (黄庆南). The police action in Shenzhen was tied to ongoing labor unrest at a Jasic Technology plant. Chinese state media portrayed Fu as a “leader” of the workers’ protests and claiming the movement...
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