U.S. pop star Prince plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for unauthorized use of his music in a bid to “reclaim his art on the Internet.” The man behind hit songs “Purple Rain,” “1999” and “When Doves Cry” said on Thursday that YouTube could not argue it had no control over which […]
LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – It was Rocio Palacios who first noticed the woman who appeared to need help. It was 8 a.m. when she and her husband, Erasmo, dropped their 6-year-old daughter off at school and had picked up their 22-year-old daughter to go out for breakfast when they saw the woman waving
LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Last night Buddle Findlay was declared Overall Winner at the National Business Review 2007 Awards for Sponsorship of the Arts. The award was extra special for the firm, marking 10 years of sponsorship of the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship and was presented by Prime Minister Rt Hon Helen Clark
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Data storage giant EMC is facing allegations of sex discrimination by more than 40 women who worked at the company. A sex-discrimination lawsuit by two former female employees of EMC describes a men’s locker-room atmosphere at the firms sales offices and alleges women were systematically denied equal pay and forced to accompany men on company-paid
LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – British detectives will raid the Leicestershire home of Gerry and Kate McCann after a Portuguese judge signed an order formally requesting their help in the investigation. In a dramatic move overnight, a warrant was passed from the Portuguese judiciary to enable British officers to go to the McCann’s four-bedroom
DALLAS/HOUSTON/AUSTIN – LAWFUEL – The Attorney Newswire – A total of 48 partners from the Dallas, Houston and Austin offices of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP have earned selection to the 2007 Texas Super Lawyers list. Gardere has placed more than 45 attorneys on the list in each of the five years the list has been
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The decision last month to hire renowned legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as founding dean of UC Irvine’s new law school was a stroke of genius. Rescinding that action, as the university’s chancellor did Tuesday, is an act of intellectual cowardice and self-destruction that brands the school as a haven for political correctness and threatens its
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has bagged six new lawyers for its fledgling Beijing arm after a double raid on U.K. giants DLA Piper and Allen & Overy. DLA Piper corporate partner Janet Jie Tang joins Akin Gump as a partner along with a three-lawyer team, comprising corporate lawyers Lu Ying and Zeng Linyan
The compromise among the Iraqi factions on the bill for the management of the immense Iraqi oil reserves has failed. The most important disagreement was between Iraqi oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani and some members of the government of the Kurd provinces in the north of Iraq, where there is a lot of oil. Kurds want
Washington D.C. 9/13/2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Ron Paul. Conservative Republican from Texas and a failed Libertarian party presidential candidate in 1988 is on the edge of moving into the inner circle of partisan politics. Many younger Americans with an eye towards moving the country back to a time before Washington became a
