There is glamour, tragedy and a certain black-and-white irony in the Oscar Pistorius trial involving a judge who comes from the “wrong” side of South Africa’s tracks. The New York Times have profiled the Pistorius trial judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa, the stern but quiet 66 year old who moved from a poor town to South […]
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New Mexico’s has been one of the first state’s to implement the new ignition interlock law for driving under the influence, and it has reduced DUI cases by 40 percent. “It has reduced repeat offenders by between 40 and 80 percent,” said Carl McDonald, an ignition interlock specialist with Mothers Against Drunk Driving. He said
Tech journal TechCrunch took a look at the Facebook class action filed by Austrian law student Max Schrems, which is seeking the support of non-commercial Facebook users outside of North America. So far, so good they told the mag ‘ there are 11,000 participants signed on for the class action lawsuit. TechCrunch report that the
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Pruning trees may not appear the most hazardous of occupations, however for municipal and city authorities there are personal injury implications that can be huge. Take New York City as a case in point. The New York Times reports that two years ago the city more than doubled its $1.45 million budget for pruning trees,
By John Bowie* – Blogging for lawyers has been a big deal for some time, but many are doing it the wrong way, making mistakes that will not help lawyers gain more clients: a goal that any law firm blogger has firmly in mind. Question: What to do? Here are some key tips on how
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Could an Austrian law student become Facebook’s nemesis, with a class action lawsuit designed to bring Facebook to heel over data privacy issues. Max Schrems is a law student who is seeking support from the social network’s 1.3 billion users worldwide for a class action lawsuit he has commenced and which is designed to have
Relationships for lawyers and clients has always been a Big Deal, but now they are bigger than ever. Take the move from inhouse counsel to law firm – yes, it is happening with increasing frequency because corporates change and merge and fail just like law firms. Which means inhouse counsel can be left wondering what
Law firm mergers are tricky business, but the payment to Bingham partners of amounts of up to $4 million to $5 million contributed to the problems for the firm, the departure of partners and other major issues. AmLaw Daily reported the story about the financial guarantees to the former McKee Nelson law firm after its
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The recent European Court of Justice ruling regarding the “right to be forgotten” has altered many things for many people, including the people who use Google for background checks like the rest of us – The recruiters. So what changes will be made by recruiters given the ECJ’s ruling about the need for the search
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Who is the Judge behind the Argentine debt default? He’s a man whose most recent profile case involved none other than a failed highway project and fish. And so what has put him now in the epicentre of a row with a major, international dimension that affects the future of an entire country, not just
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