A selection of the week's most interesting law-related articles from across the globe. Non-lawyer Robert Vitaglione has represented thousands of clients in New York"s federal im
A selection of the week's most interesting law-related articles from across the globe.
| Priest"s Former Caseload Exposes Holes in Immigration Courts For more than three decades, Robert Vitaglione never turned down a client, representing thousands of immigrants in New York's overburdened federal immigration courts. But he is not a lawyer. He is a Roman Catholic priest without formal legal training or supervision - and it showed.
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"I consider myself an entrepreneur first and lawyer second," says Jay Mandel, founder of innovative online legal service provider LawPivot. Bloomberg Businessweek profiles the man changing the way lawyers do business.
| LawPivot's Jay Mandal, Startup Counsel - BusinessWeek Jay Mandal Gabriela Hasbun for Bloomberg Businessweek In Silicon Valley, there's a vocabulary of asceticism: "ramen-profitable" and "bootstrapping" are terms to live by for young companies that need to make every dollar count. It's hard to scrimp on legal fees, however. Incorporating a company or raising venture capital requires professional legal advice that can cost thousands of dollars.
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News Corp shareholders are preparing for a legal fight in the wake of the News of The World hacking scandal, reports The Guardian.
| News Corp shareholders attack Murdoch | Media | The Guardian A powerful group of News Corp's shareholders have accused Rupert Murdoch of "egregious" behaviour and treating his media empire like a "family candy jar". The shareholder group, which includes banks and pension funds, accused Murdoch of "rampant nepotism" and using News Corp resources for "his own personal and political objectives".
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Meet Joe Levin, a private investigator with a difference... in this profile by The New York Times.
| The Private Eye Wears a Skullcap and Tzitzit Dave Sanders for The New York Times JOE LEVIN, a private investigator in Brooklyn, was waiting to meet a new client in the parking lot of a kosher supermarket in Borough Park one recent morning.
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