Susan Friery was a partner at Kreindler & Kreindler, a plaintiff’s law firm in New York. She was an attorney, and a doctor. At least that’s what she told people. Turns out, she’s not a doctor. And her law license has been suspended as a result of her untruthful assertions. Though that doesn’t mean she doesn’t look great. Friery was previously named as one of the most beautiful lawyers in Massachusetts in 2009....
So much for the secret keeping. After scheming, conniving, and straight up killing to keep their bad deeds hidden, everything started spilling out in last night’s episode of How to Get Away With Murder: Wes’s origin story, Annalise’s bummer of a pregnancy, even Frank’s back story. Of course, the confessing was helped along by a bottle or three of Annalise’s luke-warm vodka. Here’s your lawyer’s guide to last night’s very revealing Hot to Get Away With Murder episode....
As a new attorney, navigating the rules of the D.C. Circuit or any court can be tough. Making your first court appearance is incredibly scary and it can lead some lawyers to forget simple things, like filing procedures or how to avoid annoying security. Here are three must-know rules to remember before heading to the D.C. Circuit Court. So whether you are a new attorney, or just new to appellate work in D....
On Friday, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama to be attorney general for the United States under his incoming administration. As attorney general, Sessions would be the top lawyer and law enforcement officer for the federal government, setting policy, guiding prosecutions, even representing the government before the Supreme Court if he so chooses. Under Sessions, the Department of Justice could become one of the most transformed government departments in a Trump administration, according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley....
Aficionados of ancient natural wonders can breathe a sigh of relief – the ancient-rock pushers of Utah have been sentenced to probation for messing with nature. Glenn Tuck Taylor and David Benjamin Hall were charged with criminal mischief for knocking over an ancient rock formation in Utah’s Goblin Valley State Park, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. The duo pleaded guilty to the charge and received probation instead of jail time....
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court ruling and reinstated the Roger Goodell’s four-game suspension of Tom Brady in response to his involvement in a scheme to deflate game balls before the 2014-15 AFC Championship game. An NFL-funded investigation last year determined it was “more probable than not” that Patriots personnel altered game balls and that Brady was likely involved. Brady and the NFL Players Association challenged the suspension on evidentiary and procedural grounds, but he’s running out of options to have the suspension overturned again....
In a patent infringement case involving implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), district court’s judgment is reversed in part and affirmed in part where: 1) summary judgment of invalidity for defendant is reversed as invalidity was not at issue on remand because the mandate rule, and reinstatement of the jury’s validity verdict precluded defendant’s anticipation defense on remand; 2) jury’s verdict that the patent was not unenforceable for uninequitable conduct is reinstated, and a grant of a new trial on that issue is reversed; 3) district court’s ruling on damages is remanded for redetermination, limited to instances in which the patented method has actually been performed; and 4) the en banc circuit court reverses a determination that section 271(f) applies to method claims and hence permits damages in this case on devices exported where the claimed method is carried out in countries other than the United States....
Former San Francisco Forty-Niner QB Colin Kaepernick filed a grievance and demand for arbitration against the NFL and all 32 member teams, alleging “NFL team owners, NFL employees, and team employees, have entered into and enforced, implied and/or express agreements to specifically deprive Claimant Colin Kaepernick from employment in the NFL,” in violation of the league’s Collective Bargaining Agreement. The free has been out of football since the end of the 2016, during which he began kneeling during the national anthem to protest instances of police brutality specifically, and racial inequality in the United States generally....
The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims’ (Veterans Court) decision finding that claimant’s husband did not die from a service-connected or compensable disability is vacated and remanded as the Veterans Court ignored the precedent of the circuit court and incorrectly interpreted 38 U.S.C. section 1154 to require a medical opinion to prove a nexus between a veteran’s death and in-service disease. Read Davidson v. Shinseki, No. 09-7075 Appellate Information...
Neighboring Townhomes Hold Still Just Long Enough for Drunk Man’s Marksmanship to Impress Drunk Woman A Minnesota man has been arrested for using a powerful compound bow to fire arrows into the sides of his neighbors’ houses. According to local police and prosecutors, the act was fueled by that timeless recipe for success that lurks behind most landmark achievements: alcohol and the desire to impress a woman. According to the Associated Press, Kyle Kenneth Fletcher’s female friend told police that the pair had been up drinking all night before Fletcher took his bow and arrow onto the deck of his Burnsville townhome to “play Rambo,” by firing arrows into the siding of other homes in his housing complex....
If you’re a legal practitioner in California dealing in the insurance sphere, you’ll want to make sure you’re not left behind by recent legal and market developments. As the law changes and crystallizes, and as the market demands new products for new risks, California lawyers need to stay up-to-date. Thankfully, that’s not difficult to do. An upcoming program by the Rutter Group, Cutting-Edge Insurance Trends, promises to help attorneys keep current on insurance litigation trends and stay ahead of the insurance law curve....
Welcome Karla Ford and Jonathan Chan to the worldwide web of ridicule. They’re going to need all the support they can get. The pair was kicked out of law school after earning “D” grades in a first-year contracts course. They’ve since filed a federal lawsuit against Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law and the instructor, claiming the grades were “arbitrary and capricious.” The school is also accused of assigning grades “in order to ‘curve them out’ of law school....
The former New York Mets clubhouse manager who admitted to stealing $2.3 million worth of team memorabilia will serve five years of probation, and can never set foot on Mets property ever again. Charlie Samuels, 55, had worked for the Mets for more than three decades before the team fired him in 2010, the Associated Press reports. “He had a baseball fan’s dream job but allowed greed to get in his way,” a Queens prosecutor said, according to the New York Daily News....
The list of top schools for law school applications was released and the list was notable as the most popular law schools all seem to be centered in the D.C. region. The top two schools on the list were Georgetown and George Washington. The University of Virginia was also in the top five and American University ranked number nine. Georgetown topped the list by a wide margin, reports U.S. News and World Report....
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. And if you send your ex a bunch of “nasty” text messages and calls in violation of a no-contact order, you’ll have to write a bunch of nice about them to make up for it. So said Maui Judge Rhonda Loo to Daren Young last week, sentencing him to write 144 compliments about his ex-girlfriend in response to the 144 text messages and calls that he was accused of sending her....
Juveniles court’s judgment ordering three minor children returned home to the care and custody of their mother on a case plan of family maintenance services, and removal from the physical custody of their father on a case plan of family reunification services, is reversed where: 1) the evidence was not sufficient to establish that the children were at substantial risk of serious physical injury as the result of parental inability to adequately supervise or protect the child; and 2) the evidence did not support a finding that each child was within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court under section 300(b)....
If you aren’t planning a surprise visit, or at least a phone call, for this upcoming Mother’s Day, slap yourself. You are an ungrateful jerk. Here are a few other reasons to thank your mothers: Good Looks My family is odd. We’ve all got the exact same face. I’d show you a picture, but you’d probably have nightmares. My mother, grandmother, and all five of us children have the exact same facial features and nearly-identical baby photos....
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in dismissing Appellants’ opposition to registration of a trademark. The TTAB held that there was no likelihood of confusion between the opposed mark and the marks of Appellant. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed. Likelihood of confusion is a concept very familiar to trademark attorneys. It is the cornerstone of a trademark application and the essential idea that a mark cannot be registered as a trademark if it risks being confused with another mark....
Sometimes, you have to look out for number 1. While some reports call her a snitch, Enrica Cotellessa-Pitz avoided prison by helping prosecutors go after five conspirators in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. However, this doesn’t mean she gets off scott free. Cotellessa-Pitz must serve 250 hours of community service, has forfeited all her assets, and was ordered to forfeit a symbolic $97.3 billion is restitution. Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme In December of 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested and charged with 11 counts of fraud, money laundering, perjury, and theft....
Would you like some fries with that shake? Women around the country are all-too familiar with that pickup line, but it crosses over to sexual harassment if you’re a McDonald’s employee and it’s said by your boss. Now, female McDonald’s workers say they are tired of being ignored by managers when they report supervisors that have sexually assaulting them, asked for sex, or exposed themselves at work. In what could be the first labor strike to target a U....
