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Top 10 rules to be a successful lawyer Top 10 rules to be a successful lawyer A third-generation trial attorney, I have spent a majority of my life either working as a lawyer or hearing about it at the dinner table growing up. I was a trial attorney in North Carolina for nearly 27 years and retired in 2004 to go into consulting. I moved to Oregon in 2016 and decided to take the Oregon state bar exam because I had an in-house counsel job offer that required a law license. Once I passed the bar exam and got my law license, the job did not materialize. I decided to continue consulting with a focus on lawyers. After all, lawyers seem to have many unique skill sets and problems that only lawyers...
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- White House counsel Pat Cipollone will reportedly lead the team that represents President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial. Superficially, this may sound logical. The opposite is true. It’s highly problematic for Cipollone to represent Trump in the Senate. For starters, Cipollone is the author of the letter to executive branch employees directing them not to cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry. Cipollone’s Oct. 8 letter told the House of Representatives that its impeachment inquiry was illegitimate and that Trump and the executive branch wouldn’t participate in it. The letter was written “on behalf of” Trump. This letter was widely received as...
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Injured in an Accident? Contact Us to Speak with a Fort Walton Beach Slip and Fall Lawyer for Free Slip-and-fall accidents are among the most-common causes of concussions, back trauma and other serious traumatic injuries. They are also frequently the result of property owners’ and tenants’ negligence. If you have been injured in a fall in the Florida Panhandle, you may be entitled to financial compensation, and you should speak with a Fort Walton Beach slip and fall lawyer as soon as possible. Our slip and fall lawyers handle premises liability claims against commercial property owners, residential property owners, businesses and other private parties. We also handle claims against local...
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Anup Mehta switched from Allen & Overy to its legal consulting arm, Peerpoint, and is now launching a parcel delivery venture “I’ve been impressed by how slick Peerpoint is,” says entrepreneur and former Allen & Overy associate, Anup Mehta. He explains: “They are extremely supportive and my experience has been really good — they foster a strong sense of community both with other lawyers as well as within the Peerpoint team. I was offered opportunities really quickly and ended up taking a six-month contract at BNP Paribas, which was extended.” Anup, who has been a qualified solicitor for six years, joined Peerpoint last October after returning to private practice from...
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At 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, a law firm in New Brunswick filed about 40 civil suits against the Boys Scouts of America, the Catholic Church in New Jersey and other organizations alleging sexual abuse, in some cases going back decades. A Roseland firm filed a half-dozen more. Within the coming weeks, numerous other lawsuits will likely be filed in New Jersey as a new law goes into effect Dec. 1. that vastly expands the amount of time victims of sexual assault will be allowed to bring a lawsuit. Victims who were previously barred from suing because the statute of limitations had expired now have a new two-year window to pursue their case. Even after the two-year period closes, people will still...
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Fisher Phillips Continues Momentum in Denver with Addition of Skilled Trial Lawyer DENVER (December 4, 2019) – Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, announces the addition of Brett M. Wendt as a Partner in the firm’s Denver office. Brett was part of his prior firm’s National Employment Group with a practice that encompassed all aspects of employment law from training and counseling to defending complex disputes. As a skilled trial attorney, he represented employers at all phases of the litigation process, and he has tried dozens of cases in both federal and state courts. Brett’s litigation experience spans a variety of...
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Allan Gerson, lawyer who made it easier for terror victims to sue governments, dies at 74 WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — Allan Gerson, a lawyer who made it easier for the families of terror victims to sue foreign governments, has died. His daughter Daniela told family and friends that he passed away Sunday at his Washington, D.C., home. His wife, Joan Nathan, the cookbook author and authority on Jewish cuisine, told The Washington Post that Gerson, who was 74, died from complications from the degenerative brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob. In 1992, by his mid-40s, Gerson had already made a name for himself as a member of the U.S. Department of Justice team that helped bring to justice Nazi war...
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Press Releases PDF Plunkett Cooney named among ‘Best Law Firms’ in America for 2020 For the 10th consecutive year, Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and largest law firms, has been ranked as one of the “Best Law Firms” in the nation in 2020 by U.S. News and Best Lawyers Rankings were given to law firms in 188 metropolitan areas and eight states based on rankings of more than 14,000 firms in 127 specialties. Using a tiered rather than a ranked system, Plunkett Cooney was recognized in the following first- and second-tier metropolitan categories: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants...
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The negative effects of Quebec’s Bill 21 on lawyers and public alike However, in passing this Act – under which new hires in the public service who are in positions of coercive authority are banned from wearing religious symbols such as headscarves, and residents must have their faces uncovered to give or receive specific public services -- Quebec has engaged in a democracy of public display, responding to populist majority opinion at the expense of its visible minorities. These new barriers erected between the majority and minorities make the inequalities already present even more flagrant, and the gulf between the state and its minority citizens is flooded by the search for...
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