Cooley LLP Introduction: currencies, money and e-money1 A virtual currency is “a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or public authority nor necessarily attached to a [fiat currency]2, but is used by … persons as a means of exchange and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically”. A virtual […]
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Music-copying has been a rich source of legal work for many years, but the $7.4 million awarded to Marvin Gaye’s children over the Blurred Lines hit has also been a legal precedent hit. The jury made the award as Gaye’s daughter Nona wept and the family lawyer Nashville-based Richard Busch subsequently announced could have a chilling
We hear a lot about gender issues but what about ageism: when lawyers get “to old” to continue with their firm? Is it fair? After all, everyone ages differently and a lawyer with five or six decades of experience under his hor her belt can be as sharp and certainly more experienced than anyone else
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MIAMI — LawFuel.com – Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced partner Michael Marsh with the Litigation Practice Group was honored as one of the Most Influential Black Lawyers in the United States by Savoy Magazine. The listing is comprised of the top 100 partners from leading
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Gender parity is a lofty goal for many law firms, but the cruel truth is that most don’t achieve it. Not so for Canadian law firm Lerners LLP though. The Toronto litigation firm has 55 per cent women lawyers, of whom 45 per cent are partners. And that is double Canada’s national average. But it
We all want cheap air tickets, but now there’s a powerful new ally whose ridden to our rescuse – none other than our good friend Google. As Men’s Journal report: Travel booking sites like Kayak, Orbitz, and Hotwire share the same data with little more than bright logos and William Shatner commercials to stand out. Google’s Flights
Alright, you’re sick and tired of being told how to market your law practise. Fair enough, but when it comes to cheap and effective – AKA “Simple” – ways to market your practise you’d want to know, wouldn’t you? ABA Journal published ’50 Simple Ways You Can Market Your Practise’ that has some trite, but
Houston, 9 March 2015 – Mayer Brown announced today that Francisco Mendez has joined the firm as a partner in its Global Energy practice. Previously, he spent nearly 20 years at ExxonMobil Corporation as in-house counsel for Latin America, where he most recently advised the company on the opening of the oil and gas
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(NEW ORLEANS, LA.) – Effective May 1, 2015, and for the first time in the state of Louisiana, every lawyer who does pro bono work can receive up to three hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit each year, under an order signed by Chief Justice Bernette J. Johnson of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
MoFo filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of marriage equality on March 6. The brief is on behalf of leading experts in international law and human rights, including Harold Koh, who was the Legal Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Thomas Buergenthal, who is a former judge
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