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Texas Law Firm Becomes Phish Bait

Numerous recipients worldwide received emails from a lawyer in a Texas law firm, regarding a “lawsuit subpoena.” It turns out […]

Law Firm Fined $1 Million For Abusive Debt-Collection

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has fined a law firm $1 million for filing tens of thousands of abusive debt-collection […]

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NY Lawyers Must Have In-State Office

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 154-year old requirement that lawyers practicing in the state of New York […]

Signs Of Trouble At A Law Firm

Warning signs fall into two large categories, economics and demographics, writes legal consultant Ward Bower. Within those categories, he finds […]

Law Firms Are Now Prime Hacker Targets

For some it’s an uphill battle, as they confront the entrenched belief that anything that does not directly support the business of the firm isn’t worth funding…

Legal And IT Procurement Must Cooperate

IT contracts and cybersecurity

Firm Fined For Doctoring Discovery Docs

Fox Rothschild must pay a $25,000 sanction for altering discovery documents in a counterfeiting lawsuit. The firm successfully represented Chinese […]

‘Panama Papers’ Firm Fingers Third Parties

Partners at the Panama law firm that formed some 240,000 shell companies to protect the fortunes of the wealthy and […]

Delaware Court OKs “Litigation Funding”

An attempt by Dupont to challenge a controversial strategy for funding litigation has failed in Delaware Superior Court. The court […]

Social Media Analysis For Investigations And Trials

Social media reveals tell a lot about people, from the banal to the revelatory and the embarrassing to the indictable…

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