Privilege

Even Bad Clients Need Good Lawyers

February 8, 2016

The pervasive myth of sympathetic lawyers pledging only to defend the innocent is “corrosive and dangerous,” and has fed into […]

Fear Of Liability Haunts Corporate Boards, Hinders Recruiting

February 4, 2016

It was already getting more difficult for companies to recruit board members, but following the Yates Memo of September last […]

Small, Powerful 40-Year Old Washington Firm

February 1, 2016

Its clients have included some of the most famous defendants of our time, among them Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Enron, the Salt […]

Overcoming Privilege In Pharma Exec Fraud Case

February 1, 2016

Brooklyn U.S. attorneys have tried to find a way around attorney-client privilege to prove a former pharmaceutical company CEO and […]

Lawyers Who Launder

February 1, 2016

An undercover sting by a group called Global Witness secretly recorded a dozen New York lawyers who suggested ways to […]

Giuliani Departs Firm, Now Just “Bracewell”

January 25, 2016

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is leaving Texas-based Bracewell & Giuliani to join Greenberg Traurig LLP. His old firm, […]

Executive Risk After The Yates Memo

January 21, 2016

The Yates Memo, issued by DOJ in September of last year, requires federal prosecutors to focus their efforts on going […]

Study: Law Firms Going The Way Of The Kodak Camera

January 18, 2016

An in-depth study of the legal market concludes that most law firms are falling prey to avoidance and wishful thinking […]

More GCs Looking To “Litigation Funding”

January 13, 2016

A litigation financing ploy, formerly geared to plaintiffs and to evening out the playing field for small litigants, has gone […]

Occupational Hazards Of The Legal Trade

January 10, 2016

Studies and statistics confirm what many suspect, that here are significant occupational hazards associated with the practice of law. They […]

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