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“Sieg Heil” Mr Jensen

Cactus Kate has pointed out that Napier lawyerPhilip Jensen, fined $1500 for cultivating and possessing cannabis because of what his lawyer called his cannabis addiction and requested that Jensen be discharged without conviction. She asks whether this was the same Philip Jensen who stood up in a Napier Court room and in defending a Mongrel [...]

Jan 23 2011 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Headline,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Bonus News From the Big Bagel

Here’s some very belated bonus news from the Big Apple, from AboveTheLaw. Earlier this month, the New York office of Linklaters announced bonuses that matched the Cravath scale. As usual at Linklaters, there was no hours requirement. The news was communicated via individual memo. A Cravath match, especially in a bonus season when some firms [...]

Dec 21 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Leaky Assange Questioned by British Cops

Julian Assange, the man everyone is loving to hate or just loving is being questioned by British police and expected in court tomorrow to discuss the small problem of a Swedish warrant for extradition relating to alleged sexual assaults in that country, according to The Guardian. At the same time, a legal net is tightening [...]

Dec 6 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,London Town,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Graeme Hart Gets Big Apple Lawyers Excited

At a time when investing in bankrupt European economies looks like the sort of deal Hanover might have done, and when a “trillion” is suddenly just another thousand billion – or is it a billion billion? – a mere billion dollar deal seems almost trifling. But, let’s hand it to Glendowie resident and cardboard collector [...]

Dec 1 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,The Firm | Read More »

The Law Life of “Dirty Law” – The Stuff They Don’t Want You To See

In the final version of Crude — the 2009 documentary on the epic environmental suit brought by Amazon tribespeople against Chevron Corporation in Ecuador — lead U.S. plaintiffs’ attorney Steven Donziger remarks: “This is something you would never do in the United States, but Ecuador, you know, this is how the game is played, it’s [...]

Nov 1 2010 | Posted in Law Life,Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Entering Hobbit Hell

As the Warners heavies lumbered into Premier House in our BMWs, The Hobbit fiasco was raising cain on the blogs with effervescent David Farrer blogging about “the most incompetent political or industrial action for some years” and recording comments from around the world, as well as Middle Earth over the deal that cost the taxpayer [...]

Oct 27 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Billionaire’s Government Lawyer Pay Offer

US Billionaire Mark Cuban’s a tough successful guy but if you are one of Cuban’s adversaries, it must be brutal AboveTheLaw reports. To paraphrase one observer, if the milk’s sour, Mark Cuban ain’t the kind of pussy to drink it. NBA referees know that. And SEC attorneys are about to learn the same lesson. They’re taking [...]

Oct 27 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Personal Injury Lawyers’ Big Day Out

Oh, what a day for the lawyers – Sting and Sheryl Crow will perform at two of the biggest holiday parties of the season hosted by Texas plaintiffs lawyers, reports Texas Lawyer. Sting will do his gig before The Lanier Law Firm’s annual holiday party on Dec. 5 in Houston, while Crow will take the stage [...]

Oct 26 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Legal Exotica,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

Harry Potter’s Nemesis Strikes in Copyright Claim

JK Rowling has been impregnable as a tour-de-fortress until now it seems, with the successful copyright claim brought by Blackstone Chambers Robert Howe, according to a report in The Lawyer. Howe succeeded on behalf of the trustees of the estate of the late Adrian Jacobs in their claim that themes from Jacobs’ 1987 book The [...]

Oct 26 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,London Town | Read More »

The Hobbit – The Muppets

Peter Jackson’s press release shows his dander is well and truly up but while he deals with the muppets in trying to make The Hobbit he knows that dumb-arsed actors manipulated from Aussie, manipulated in turn from LA where they’re seeking to regain their lost-abroad movie business is all part of a game that can [...]

Oct 20 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Getting Into Davy Jones’ Locker – And the Private Eye

Kristy Fraser-Kirk, the “publicist” who raided the David Jones locker to the tune of $850,000 despite suing for the absurdly ridiculous $37 million in what was presumably a “I’m Charlize Theron” moment. But she may well be the Grinch who steals the Christmas party according to a Brisbane lawyer who says the case will make [...]

Oct 20 2010 | Posted in Featured,Legal Exotica,Screaming Headline | Read More »

How ‘The Hobbit’ Has Become ‘The Muppets’

Peter Jackson’s making ‘The Hobbit’, not ‘The Muppets’, but who would know it?

Oct 6 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals,Screaming Stateside | Read More »

The Justice Wilson “Clusterf**k”

The NBR Briefcase column (John Bowie) reports that Justice Wilson will NEVER face the Judicial Conduct Panel. To quote: “Will Justice Wilson wind up facing the Judicial Conduct Panel? The answer, I strongly suggest, is “No”. This is not because of the High Court decision delivered this week by Justices Wild, Miller and Lang, but [...]

Sep 29 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Featured,Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals | Read More »

Roger Partridge’s Gordon Gekko’s Moment

Can you imagine the chairman of the Business Roundtable chatting with Gordon Gekko? It happened at Bell Gully’s Gekko-studded night at the Broadway muliplex last week when managing partner Roger Partridge was shown in a welcome clip talking to young Gordy from the “Greed is Good” first installment. Boy, is that risqué in a market [...]

Sep 28 2010 | Posted in Big Lawyers,Legal Exotica,The Firm | Read More »

Who Killed The Crewes?

Who would have thought it – all these decades later and after the Bain-weary kiwis had begun to believe that may be the judicial system was kind of cranky and in need of some TLC. And now, Ian Wishart, the trooping crusader picking up where Jim Sprott and Pat Booth left off, blaming the murders [...]

Sep 27 2010 | Posted in Legal Exotica,Screaming Scandals | Read More »