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Law firm inefficiencies don’t just make legal work slower and more cumbersome, they also rob lawyers of income. Firms constantly write down hours for tasks that were spent inefficiently, reducing client bills for work that took too long to complete and taking potential income away from attorneys. Just how much money do such write-downs cost? […]

The Notorious RBG made herself a bit more notorious earlier this month, after she repeatedly criticized Donald Trump in the press, saying he was a “faker” and joking about moving to New Zealand should he become president. After a swift backlash from the left and the right, Justice Ginsburg apologized, saying that “judges should avoid […]

News has gotten out that California’s State Bar bungled the administration of its “baby bar” exam, adding to growing list of horror stories and scandals that hound the bar exam experience. This makes you wonder just how bad things can get before a reputation team is hired to burnish the bar exam’s image. In the […]Read More

Several years ago, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was criminally indicted on corruption charges but managed to slip by a conviction on what many consider a technicality. The case against him produced much debate about whether or not government lawyers were being properly trained in their ethical duties of disclosure. It also produced “the Blue […]

There is much confusion out there when it comes to ethically handling fees between lawyers. One of the most common scenarios involves a primary attorney (from the client’s point of view) working with another attorney. But the arrangement has its ethical hazards and every practitioner should be aware of potential ethical pitfalls when splitting fees. […]

A former U.S. commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan, was the organizer of the July 15 military coup att   empt in Turkey, sources said. General John F. Campbell was one of the top figures who organized and managed the soldiers behind the failed coup attempt in […]

As the world reels from terrorist attacks in France and Germany, two suicide bombers who may be affiliated with an Al-Qaeda aligned group struck a UN peacekeeper base at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, a scene captured by citizen video. One freelance journalist in the region reported that at least 12 security personnel were killed […]

[embedded content] to the backdrop of a sign that read “NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL!” Astrid Silva spoke Monday at the Democratic National Convention on behalf of of presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Silva, a so-called DREAMer, told her personal story of arriving in the United States in 1992 with her parents as an undocumented immigrant […]

its, …As 30m Households Lament …Nigerians turn to firewood, charcoal, sawdust…Marketers halt product’s importation Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK), known as kerosene, hit an alltime high price of N600 per litre at the weekend, worsening the pains of over 30 million households who depend on the product for cooking. In its place, millions of poor Nigerians […]Read More

The Chairman, Joint Tax Board, JTB and Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS Mr. Tunde Fowler has said that 70 percent of over N500 billion raised for the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC, in June came from non-oil sector. Hear him, “of the sum, 70 percent came from non-oil sources while only 30 percent […]

The Hausa film industry, popularly known as Kannywood, is one of the major youth employer in northern Nigeria. From the moment a writer puts pen on a paper, that power of the pen creates a cascading chain of jobs for artists, technicians, translators, editors, cinematographers, transporters, hoteliers, tailors and even married women that rent out […]