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British legal giant Allen & Overy reported a 7 per cent fall in half-year revenues yesterday and Clifford Chance said that it was cutting more lawyers as law firms continue to suffer from the economic downturn.

Allen & Overy reported a 7 per cent fall in half-year revenues yesterday and Clifford Chance said that it was cutting more lawyers as law firms continue to suffer from the economic downturn. Allen & Overy’s half-year fee income fell to £511 million in the six months to October 31 amid a continued slump in

British legal giant Allen & Overy reported a 7 per cent fall in half-year revenues yesterday and Clifford Chance said that it was cutting more lawyers as law firms continue to suffer from the economic downturn. Read More »

Latitude South First to Offer New Zealand-Based Legal Services Outsourcing to UK – Lawyer News

Auckland (Nov. 9) Latitude South NZ Ltd today launched its new legal services outsourcing offering, designed for UK in-house legal teams and law firms to reduce the costs of substantive legal work by utilizing a team of New Zealand-based former lawyers with UK and international experience. Latitude South will provide substantive legal support services including

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UHF Gen 2 Contactless RFID Laundry Tag – Online Newswire

Toronto, Canada – GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) has rolled out a Gen 2 passive RFID tag specially designed for laundry applications. It is used where a rugged RFID transponder able to withstand harsh environments is required. This RFID tag meets all endurance requirements in terms of heat, pressure and chemical resistance and performs contactless tracking

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‘Textual’ harassment is becoming a much more prevalent issue, as Texas Lawyer reports, but in-house counsel in particular need to be aware of the dangers and pitfalls in retreiving text messages as part of any discrimination or harassment lawsuit.

Hand texting

Imagine a supervisor making an inappropriate remark to one of his direct reports in an after-hours conversation. If he made the comment verbally, and the employee then reported it to the supervisor’s employer, any resulting litigation would have involved the usual “he said, she said” situation, in which lawyers would have challenged the employee’s credibility.

‘Textual’ harassment is becoming a much more prevalent issue, as Texas Lawyer reports, but in-house counsel in particular need to be aware of the dangers and pitfalls in retreiving text messages as part of any discrimination or harassment lawsuit. Read More »

Cravaths Act on Hyatt Hotel Corp’s $1.09 Billion Capital Raising – American Legal Business

November 5, 2009 – LawFuel.com – American Legal Business – Hyatt Hotels Corp, raised $1.09 billion today in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, making it the second-largest U.S. initial public offering this year. The Pritzker family, which controls the hotel chain, sold 38 million Class A shares at $25

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Lawyer Announcements – Association of Corporate Counsel Recognizes Dallas-Fort Worth Group

LawFuel.com – Lawyer Announcements Daily DALLAS – The Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has been named the 2009 medium-sized Chapter of the Year. The award, presented last month during ACC’s annual meeting in Boston, recognizes ACC chapters that demonstrate commitment to member services and contributions to ACC and the legal

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Manhattan Jury FInds Cocaine Kingpin Guilty – American Lawyer Newswire Service

LawFuel.com – American Law Newswire PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, announced today that JORGE MARIO PAREDES-CORDOVA (“PAREDES”), designated by the United States Department of Justice as one of the

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Attorney Announcements – Las Vegas Man Indicted For Bank Robberies

LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire DENVER – Douglas Edward James, a Las Vegas, Nevada man, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver yesterday on two counts of bank robbery, and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, United States Attorney David Gaouette and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent

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Orange County Trains Slow After Metrolink Train Crashes Into Stalled Pickup

November 4, 2009 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports the Orange County train lines were slowed after an early morning crash. According to Angela Starr at approximately 6:45 a.m. a Metrolink train struck a stalled pickup truck in the vicinity of Norwalk. A Chevy pickup truck was traveling northbound on Marquardt and making the left

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Former Pro Footballer Pleads Guilty To Bankruptcy Fraud – US Attorney Newswire Service

LawFuel – Lawyer Newswire – PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), PATRICIA J. HAYNES, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Inspection Division (“IRS-CID”), and RONALD J.

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