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The First Circuit reversed and remanded a lower court decision that favored a health insurance company that denied specialized psychiatric coverage for a child Asperger’s. In many ways the decision was one based less on deep matters of psychiatry and more on the proper application of legal procedure. The case implicated ERISA, the Employee Retirement […]

An analyst who stole computer information related to the writing of algorithms used in High Frequency Trading (“HFT”) caught the sympathetic ear of the Seventh Circuit which overturned three year prison sentence ordered by the lower court. The case has been remanded back to the trial court for a new sentence. The Seventh Circuit Court […]

If you want to thrive as a lawyer, you need to find a niche, an area of the law where you can hone your expertise and corner a tiny fraction of the market. Most lawyers end up specializing naturally. You take one medical malpractice case and then, suddenly, you’re the attorney in charge of all […]

Apart from the motivation of having much more independence, going in-house traditionally meant that lawyers could do away with the drudgery of having to track their hours. Working in-house generally meant that lawyers would work to complete and fix problems. Recent chatter in the legal rumor-mill suggests that more and more in-house lawyers have taken […]

The Supreme Court declined to address the constitutionality of San Jose’s inclusionary housing law on Monday, denying cert of real estate developers petition from a recent California Supreme Court ruling upholding the affordable housing plan. Under the inclusionary housing law, developers of large residential projects must set aside a small percentage of units as affordable, […]

The days of the simple word-of-mouth referral are over. Legal consumers now start their search online, according to a survey by FindLaw’s Legal Marketing. The Internet is the most common place consumers search for attorneys. And part of managing your firm’s presence online means having good, high-quality online reviews. Here are four ways to help […]

When Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar, it wasn’t much of a surprise, but it was a triumph for the actor, who’d been nominated ten times before. But forget Leo. Forget Brie Larson, forget Spotlight, forget even Chris Rock. Guess who else won at the Oscars? Lawyers. Here’s how. The Lawyer Who Made DiCaprio’s Win […]Read More

A team of consultants under the auspices of the Department for International Development (DFID) have informed both chambers of Nigeria’s National Assembly that 54 of the country’s existing laws have to be either amended or repealed if the country is to make progress in her quest to attract investors and become business friendly.  The experts […]Read More

The internal squabble in the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has given rise to a new political party that plots to effectively tackle the ruling All Progressives Congress in the future elections. Joined by a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the party on Tuesday came up with the Peoples Mega Party […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that his government and the governments of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and former President Goodluck Jonathan account fully for all recovered loot.  In the judgment delivered on Friday, the court maintained that successive […]

The most valuable company on the planet is set to square off against the FBI on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee in a highly publicized dispute regarding the iPhone that belonged to Syed Farook who, along with his wife, murdered more than a dozen people in December at a San Bernardino county holiday party. […]

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, It appears the music may have finally stopped for one of the world’s largest luxury real estate bubbles: London. It’s well known that foreign oligarchs love London real estate as a means to launder funds, typically “earned” by soaking their host countries dry via corruption and fraud. This […]Read More