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Should PM Abbott Be Sued?
Human rights lawyer says Australian PM should be sued – Read here
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Lawyers Fight for Marriage Equality Case in Supreme Court
It’s become one of the most vocal and visible social issues of recent times: marriage equality. Now LGBT lawyers are waiting to file with the US Supreme Court asking the top court to hear their case....
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Australian Fair Work Ombudsman Seeks Injunction Against NSW Businessman
The Fair Work Ombudsman has taken the unprecedented step of seeking an injunction restraining a NSW businessman from underpaying his employees. The move – in the Federal Circuit Court – comes after the...
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Guess – How Many British Lawyers Make Over £1 Million a Year?
There’s still big money in the top law firms. Legal Business magazine reports that the top 100 UK firms have had revenues of over £6 billion in the last financial year. But how many are earning more...
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How Did a Barefoot African Lawyer Make the World Top 10 “Most Influencial” List?
How would a barefoot lawyer working in Ugandas wind up winning an American Bar Association “Most Influencial Legal Person” award – making him one of the ABA 10 most important lawyers anywhere? What...
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HSE fines care home operator following resident death
We have recently reported on a number of “want of care” cases in which the Health and Safety Executive (‘HSE’) prosecuted health providers for incidents arising out of neglect for the health and safety...
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Capitol Records, LLC v. Pandora Media, Inc.: Future of Digital Music
Pandora Media, Inc., (“Pandora”), with over 250 million registered users and over 70% of the market share of Internet radio, is known as a leader in the digital music industry.[1] In 2013 alone,...
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Protecting Your Image Online – Both Yours and Your Employees
The Internet has been flooded lately with reports of individuals capitalizing on the anonymity of social media to torment others. There is no greater example than that of Zelda Williams, daughter of...
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Another YouTube Beheading By IS
Journalist Steven Sotloff is the second US journalist to have been beheaded on Youtube by Islamic militants ISIS, who made the video public on Tuesday after threatening to continue the beheadings while...
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Law Firm Reed Smith Adds Partner to e-Discovery Group
September 2, 2014, New York – Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Mayer Brown’s Anthony Diana as a New York-based partner in its Records and E-Discovery (RED) Group. Diana was formerly a...
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Police Excessive Force Report Ignored
A report on the use of excessive force by the Police has been ignored for over 20 years, according to reports. See more here
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Aiming for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Compliance
Small companies have it rough. Limited resources make local expansion difficult. International expansion is harder still. So small companies seeking recognition overseas need to be creative....
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California Immigration Attorney Indicted Over Alleged Green Card Fraud
LOS ANGELES – In coordinated criminal and civil actions filed today, federal prosecutors obtained an indictment and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint against a Los...
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The Attorney Who Doesn’t Like Socks – And The Court Order he Faced
Todd Glickfield is a feisty, successful attorney from Marion Indiana. One issue that was before the Court recently however was not recorded in the brief: he wasn’t wearing socks and the Judge ordered...
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Staten Island Physician’s Assistant Arrested for Illegal Oxycodone Distribution
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
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Defendant Who Sold Rocket-Propelled Launchers to FARC to Shoot US Aircraft...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that IOANNIS VIGLAKIS, a/k/a “Pablo,” was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 120 months for...
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Freshfields Appoints US-Based Attorneys to M&A and Leveraged Finance Practices
Global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer announced today the appointment of two US-based attorneys—Mitchell Presser, who becomes head of Freshfields’ US M&A practice, and James Douglas, who...
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Lessons From the English Commercial Court
Tom Snelling and Kim Sofroniou at Freshfields write about current judicial concerns over the use of witness statements in English court proceedings, and the possible options for reform. Freshfields...
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Law Firm Merger Creates One of US’s Largest Insurance Law Firms
Chicago and Los Angeles –Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, a national law firm with 460 lawyers in 22 offices around the country and Barger & Wolen LLP, a California-based law firm with 45 attorneys in...
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Getting Free Publicity for Your Law Firm
Getting free publicity is always good – so long as the publicity is good. At least that’s the way it should be for law firms because bad publicity for a law firm is not, as the adage goes, “good...
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