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New UK Competition Regime Enters Into Force
LawFuel.com - On 1 April 2014, the changes to UK competition law brought about by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 take effect. Companies need to be aware of the heightened regulatory risk...
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Reviewing Transparency Ahead of the Law School Jobs Data
Like to see the data on the National Association for Law Placement and whether law schools are withholding information from their ‘consumers’? Law.com’s Kylee McEntee has written about the list of...
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Mary Cranston on the “Glass Ceiling Index” and NZ Law Firms
Former Pillsbury Winthrop CEO Mary Cranston spoke to LawFuel about New Zealand law firms, noting that they included some of the best law firm managers in the world and the country’s record with the...
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The Nigella Lawson Legal Dilemma – Why Her?
Query: If Nigella Lawson the celebrity chef is unable to enter the US due to some admission of drug use, how come Toronto mayor ROb Ford, who admitted using crack cocaine, can? It’s a question posed by...
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Indian Drugs To Remain Under FDA Scrutiny
LawFuel.com – From Weil Gotshal – During a trip to India last month, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg announced that FDA would continue to increase its presence in the country while improving...
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Ukraine in Need of “Interntional Assistance” Says Russian PM
MOSCOW, April 7 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his German counterpart on Monday that “international assistance” was needed in Ukraine to help carry out constitutional reform,...
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Japanese PM To Address International Bar Association Conference
The International Bar Association (IBA) today announces His Excellency Prime Minister Shinzō Abe as the keynote speaker at the 2014 IBA Annual Conference. For the first time in the Association’s...
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San Diego Mayor Regains Integrity After Home Confinement
April 7 (Reuters) – Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who resigned last year amid a torrent of sexual harassment allegations and was later convicted of abusing three women, said on Monday he had spent...
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Oscar’s Evidence – Starting With A Tearful Apology
Oscar Pistorius may a tearful apology to the family of the woman he is charged with murdering, stuttering and appearing grief-stricken as he commenced his evidence. The apology to the Steenkamp family...
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Restrictive Covenant Re-Written to Make it Work
UK Law – Hogan Lovells – The applicant employer in Prophet plc v Huggett sold specialist computer software for use in the fresh produce industry. The defendant was employed by Prophet as its most...
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Lawsuit Accues OneWest Bank FST of Causing $206 Million in Improper...
NEW YORK, April 8 (Reuters) – A lawsuit has been unsealed accusing OneWest Bank FSB, a lender once known as IndyMac Bancorp Inc, of causing the U.S. government to improperly pay out $206 million under...
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Law Firm Partners Who Jump Ship – Law Firm Culture to Blame
We knew it. The main reason partners leave law firms is the firm “culture”, that over-worked word that law firms usually employ in the positive sense. Unfortunately, it also has some major negatives...
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International Executive Pleads Guilty to Scamming Investors and Dodging Taxes
SAN DIEGO – Sven Erik Ulsteen, a former executive and shareholder of a Channel Islands company named Anturion Limited, pled guilty today to fraudulently using counterfeit and forged securities to take...
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US Attorney Settles Civil Fraud Suit Against Clothing Importers Attempting to...
LawFuel.com – Whistleblower Lawsuit Exposing Multiple Invoicing Scheme Leads to $10 Million Settlement Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James T. Hayes,...
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Top 100 Ranking For Supplier Shows Importance of IP and Legal Support Services
HONG KONG, April 9, 2014 LawFuel.com — CPA Global, one of the world’s leading providers of outsourced intellectual property (IP) and legal support services, has been named in the International...
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Mickey Rooney’s $18,000 Estate and the Will to Live
The lawyers may have attended to Mickey Rooney’s will just last week, but the 93 year old actor who died on Sunday had no intention of quitting his career. The will however left just $18,000. His...
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How To Get A Key Recruiting Edge For New Lateral Hires in Law Firms
By LawFuel contributor, Kevin Mackee. Law firms looking to recruit lateral partners should consider some key factors that can put them ahead of the competition when it comes to attracting quality...
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Pistorius Prosecutor: “Won’t You Take Responsibility?”
Oscar Pistorius has been doing it hard in the witness box. Hammered by aggressive prosecution and recoiling in horror at grisly pictures of his dead girlfriend, the athlete has broken down and changed...
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Statement of US Attorney Over Sentencing of SAC Capital Management Companies...
LawFuel.com – “After due consideration, the Court has accepted the guilty plea and imposed sentence on SAC,including the payment of $1.184 billion in financial penalties. Today marks the day of...
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LA Doctor Laundered Proceeds from Drug Dealing
LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles-area doctor surrendered this morning to federal authorities after being indicted on federal drug trafficking charges for allegedly illegally distributing drugs,...
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