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The US Department of Justice has released a memo indicating how the US attorneys should prosecute defendants in medical marijuana cases, showing it does not regard the 2014 Cromnibus as preventing prosecutions under state laws. The memo was written in February but just released. President Obama signed into law the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations
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DLA Piper – IoT is discussed in the media more and more frequently. It has important social, economic and legal implications, most of which are yet to be fully understood. The following sets out a brief list of things you should know about IoT from a lawyer’s perspective. IoT is here and it’s changing the
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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP The staff of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) recently issued new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) and an interpretive letter regarding the general solicitation prohibition in securities offerings conducted under Rule 506(b) of Regulation D, which exempts such offerings from Securities Act registration. Some of the CDIs
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How does Big Law deal with social media? Let’s make that more personal? How many of AmLaw 100 managing partners actually use social media at all? Have the answer? Five. That comes out of a Bloomberg article from Baker + McKenzie global chairman Eduardo C Leite who notes that using social media permits the
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Clifford Chance – In recent years China has implemented a range of initiatives to promote cross border investment and open up its capital markets. In November 2013 the government set out a blueprint for China’s future reforms which outlined its plans to let market forces play a “decisive” role in determining pricing and allocating resources.
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August 17, 2015, New York – Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Joseph A. Sarcinella as a partner in its Real Estate Group. A former partner in the New York office of Thompson & Knight LLP, Sarcinella will practice in Reed Smith’s New York office. “Joe is an experienced real estate
LOS ANGELES – One of the principal cocaine traffickers associated with an international narcotics ring was sentenced this morning to 20 years in federal prison after law enforcement seized more than 170 pounds of cocaine and $1.5 million in drug-tainted cash linked to his narcotics-trafficking activities. Zaid Wakil, 43, of Winston Salem,
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John Balestriere* This article first appeared in AbovetheLaw Much ink is spilled on how some law firms have gotten too large. And more ink is spilled (in the law and all professions) about some day long ago when everything was supposedly better. The latter was a topic at a lunch I had with a very
BOSTON – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that James Matthews and Katy Koski have joined the firm’s Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice and Life Sciences Industry Team as partners in the Boston office. Matthews and Koski focus their practices on litigating complex business disputes, specializing in the life sciences industry. For nearly
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