Rogue Lawyer: Power, money and a scandal at a London law firm
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The Pressures of Karam's Family
The UAE is home to the highest number of English lawyers outside the UK and Hong Kong. While most of their work in the region is uncontroversial, for RADA the implications of this legal boom trouble her. The UAE pay a fortune to law firms, they pay over and above what a British company would pay. They're very attractive clients, they're going to come with a lot of business. When karam tells me about the alleged pressure put on his family, I'm pretty shocked but maybe I shouldn't have been All over the UAE and particularly in RACel Kamer, they were definitely put pressure on family members. Even detained family members, sometimes they have been obscene threatening to
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