(Reuters) – A former federal prosecutor whose clients have included billionaires Mark Cuban and Elon Musk, and who is currently representing President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in a US tax investigation, has left international law firm Latham & Watkins for a smaller litigation-focused firm .
Christopher Clark has joined forces with New York-based law firm Smith Villazor to form Clark Smith Villazor, they said on Thursday. The move reunites Clark with Patrick Smith, his former mentor from the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan.
“We’re an incredibly dangerous and frightening team for people to face off against, and that excites me,”
The Rabat Court of Appeal on Thursday night (Apr. 13) increased the sentences of three men accusing of raping an 11-year old girl.
The three defendants had pleaded not guilty. The new conviction was a relief for the victim’s legal team who appealed to the original judgement.
“We thank the court and the Moroccan justice system for responding to our request to review the first verdict which shocked everyone,” lawyer Abdelfattah Zahrach said.
A lower court initially sentenced one attacker to two years, the two others to 18 months each.
The new sentences of 20 years for one and 10
‘Never consider that as an option for us, because we’re not going to do that,’ Singh said he told Trudeau
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will not support any potential back-to-work legislation tabled by the government if 155,000 federal public servants go on strike, which could force the Liberals to look to the Conservatives for
st. LOUIS — A judge on Monday filed to hold St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner in contempt of court after prosecutors from her office didn’t show up for a murder trial.
Jonathon Jones, 18, was set to face trial starting Monday on charges he shot and killed a man in 2021 near the Gateway Arch grounds, but no one from Gardner’s office appeared for the beginning of trial. The prosecutor assigned to the case is on sick leave.
Judge Scott A. Millikan filed an order for Gardner’s office to show cause for why she should not be held
An attorney for Donald Trump says the former president would not refuse to surrender to authorities if he is indicted in the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into a hush-money deal from his 2016 presidential run.
“There won’t be a standoff at Mar-a-Lago with the Secret Service and the Manhattan DA’s office,” Joe Tacopina told The New York Daily News.
Tacopina said Trump, whom he described as a survivor, would find a way to use any charges filed against him to help him politically in the end.
“Most people would collapse under the weight of this,” he said. “He seems to
A Vancouver defense lawyer is calling out the Surrey RCMP for incorrect messaging around distracted driving law.
Kyla Lee told the Now-Leader on Tuesday (March 14) part of the problem is ICBC and police are sending different messages about what’s legal and what isn’t.
“Nobody is trained or informed of the law, nobody’s actually clearing their comms through a lawyer who’s familiar with it,” said Lee, a criminal defense and impaired driving lawyer with expertise in defending distracted cases in court.
“The public messaging is incorrect. No wonder the public is confused.”
On Thursday (March. 9), the Surrey RCMP and
Emails: Only some firms send regular updates
A “significant proportion” of large law firms are investing in content or ‘inbound’ marketing schemes that “simply don’t work as they should” and could even damage their reputation, a report has been found.
Researchers said a “staggering” 19% of the top 100 law firms let people sign up for legal updates – often with quite complex preference forms – only to never actually send any.
Marketing consultancy Thought Spark said it was essential for law firms to develop inbound strategies to “engage and retain potential clients”, leveraging platforms and data to build a