A lawyer who posed as a rabbi and ran an immigration fraud mill was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday. For 13 years, The David Firm, led by “Rabbi Avraham David,” whose real name is Earl Seth David, accepted millions of dollars in fees from undocumented immigrants in return for aid in obtaining…
No one, not even the mightiest of institutions, is immune to the changes wrought by globalization, digitalization and a weakened economy. Still, I was surprised to learn recently that law schools have been particularly hard hit — so much so that they have begun to rethink the very nature of legal education and its relationship…
Shortly after graduating from college in 2000, I found myself living and interning in Austin, Texas. Someone apparently mentioned to the friendly policeman who worked by my office that I was a Member of the Tribe. He was thrilled; he’d never met a New York Jew — or any Jew — before. He lived 100…
As President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney scramble to come out ahead in the Nov. 6 election, two other men are preparing for a legal showdown that could begin the next day. They are the lawyers who have been tapped by the Obama and Romney teams to navigate any legal challenges to voting procedures…
He can do what the might of world leaders cannot. After more than a decade of heavy pressure by the international community on Israel to demolish unauthorized Jewish outposts in the occupied West Bank, the state finally looks set to start the bulldozers rolling in at least one case, Migron. The man who forced Israel’s…
It’s not like lawyers had such a sterling reputation to begin with, but apparently the Shmooze isn’t alone in its surprise that John Galliano will be defended in court by a Jewish attorney. “Some people call me anonymously, swear at me,” Stephane Zerbib [tells][1] Israel’s Ynet News. Though surely upsetting, those phone calls aren’t entirely…
On a bench near the Broward County Courthouse in South Florida, a blue and white sign exclaimed “Prefer a Jewish lawyer!” and offered a phone number people could call to reach the Jewish American Bar Association, a Jewish lawyer referral service founded by social worker Lisa Spitzer and based in Boca Raton. The controversial advertisement…
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