There may well be times when standing out from the crowd is a good thing but we don’t think this is one of them…
The Solicitr team is particularly partial to a brew of tea; one of the crew recently introduced a rather fine box of Twinnings – rather more high end that usual but jolly good all the same. So here is a couple of legal tales to enjoy with your caffeine boost.
Without being too jingoistic, a hot mug was raised this week when a small Surrey teashop saw off a German multinational which tried to force it to change its teapot …
And gets the rest of the evening off…
Last week ninth-year associate Frederick J. Evanston , IV was honoured as the associate to bill the millionth hour of the year for Penner & Golkins , LLP . According to Litination , Mr. Evanston , "a perennial all-star biller ," reached the milestone at 8:12PM on Monday night while finalising a settlement agreement for a class action case.
“I was in the middle of incorporating some changes from a conference call …
There is no doubt that the gloves can be taken off with some vigour when it comes to divorce but the latex has really snapped here… A surgeon from Long Island New York, embroiled in a nearly four-year divorce proceeding wants his estranged wife to return the kidney he donated to her, although he says he’ll settle for $1.5 million in compensation. NY man demands estranged wife pay him for kidney.
Well that’s ok then. Anyone still in property …
Bob Singh, 36, thought the policeman who visited his shop in Port Talbot was having a laugh, reported the Daily Mail.
The officer told him there had been a complaint about the jokes he printed on leaflets advertising his corner shop’s Christmas offers and that he could face prosecution for a public order offence. Mr Singh was forced to withdraw his leaflets which included such gems as: "How do you measure a blonde’s intelligence? Stick a tyre gauge in her …
With all the personal information floating around in cyberspace these days it’s little wonder that identity theft and internet based fraud is on the up. It seems though that a bit of plain old burglary has done it for the barristers on this one however. No sophisticated hacking here just a bit of breaking and entering and the contact details and personal information for all practising barristers has been stolen from the Bar Council.
The incident happended on Friday evening …
IN CINCINNATI Jessica Cohen is accused a of stealing a cell phone from a public defender’s office employee “just after requesting a lawyer to defend her on a previous theft charge”.
Hamilton County sheriff’s officials in Cincinnati tracked down 20-year-old Jessica Cohen from personal information she left at the public defender’s office the day the phone was stolen.
You have one phone call:
She was arrested Monday and pleaded not guilty to a theft charge on Tuesday.
The office still agreed to represent Cohen, …
