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Lawyer of the Day: Timothy Block

Initiative. Creativity. Zealous advocacy on behalf of the client. All qualities demonstrated by Robins Kaplan partner Timothy Block, who is ATL’s Lawyer of the Day. Update: The story is getting attention not just in the legal world, but in the tech world, too. Best Buy Attorney Falsified E-Mails [Minneapolis Star-Tribune] Firm’s Mea Culpa Adds Twist […]

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Lawyer of the Day: Mark W. Fischer

The typical ATL “Lawyer of the Day” is a solo practitioner or small-firm lawyer. But today’s lawyer of the day hails from a large law firm, one that you’ve probably heard of — and one that gets the definite-article treatment in the New York Times wedding pages. Meet Mark Fischer, from the Denver office of […]

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Stupid Lawyer Tricks: Forging A Judge’s Signature

Sometimes smart lawyers do dumb things: An appeals court in Brooklyn has disbarred an attorney who was convicted of criminal contempt for forging the signature of a Family Court judge during a post-divorce proceeding against her ex-husband. A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, said that it could not offer a lesser sentence […]