A Canadian criminal lawyer is at the heart of a media storm after several highly offensive tweets referring to the Boston bombing were posted from a law firm Twitter account that he is believed to control.
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Lawyer Who Fell Asleep In Court Blames Hippopotamus-Related ‘Spiritual Attack’ Originating In London
A human rights lawyer who fell asleep during a hearing in the Ghanaian Supreme Court has put his doziness down to a "spiritual attack" which began following a trip to London where he had an unsettling vision of a hippopotamus...
DLA Piper In Africa Snub As Firm Describes World’s Second Largest Continent As A Country
The continent of Africa is made up of 54 sovereign states. However, only as recently as a few hours ago did global law firm DLA Piper recognise this...
The Bizarre Story Of The ‘Marauding Lawyers’
The Washington Post reports that Pakistani "police officials, judges, litigants and witnesses say they have become increasingly fearful of marauding lawyers in their trademark black pants, coats and ties."
Secretaries Rage At Firm’s ‘Nazi’-Style Fingerprint Regime
Secretaries at the Canadian affiliate of UK giant DAC Beachcroft are fuming after the law firm brought in a draconian security regime that requires them to have their finger prints taken – then clock in and out of the office with a finger swipe.
McCague Borlack's lawyers are exempt from the scheme, which has been likened by a blog apparently set up by the secretaries to Hitler's "IBM punch-card technology".
Mystery As English Solicitor Found Dead In Yemen
Roger Stokes, an English solicitor with the Yemeni law firm Sheikh Tariq Abdullah, has died after being found covered in blood in his flat. The circumstances of his death remain a mystery.
Law Lecturer In Sex (And Other Stuff)-For-Grades Scandal
In the good old days, sleeping with a lecturer was sufficient to get your grades bumped up to a first or distinction.
But in these tough economic times, it seems that mere sex is no longer enough.
According to court documents, National University of Singapore law student Ko Wen Hui, 23, not only had to have sex with her lecturer, Tey Tsun Hang (the pair are pictured left), in order to improve her grades, but gift the 41-year old:
a Mont Blanc pen,
an iPod,
two tailor-made shirts, and
S$1,278.60 (£651).
Below is some video coverage on the case from the Straits Times: