SINGAPORE (December 8, 2014) – Morrison & Foerster is advising Global Logistic Properties Limited (GLP), the leading provider of modern logistics facilities in China, Japan and Brazil, in a co-investment with an affiliate of Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte. Ltd. to buy one of the largest logistics real estate portfolios in the United States from
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Constangy, Brooks & Smith – As one who presumably has no nude selfies, you may not be too concerned about a “hack” like the one that afflicted celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still plenty of technology issues that an employer should look out for. Are you guilty
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Ford Harrison Executive Summary: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) now takes the position that Title VII’s prohibition against sex discrimination includes discrimination based on gender identity, including transgender status. In a press release issued December 18, 2014, the Attorney General stated that he has informed all DOJ
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The Ferguson police remain in the eye of the storm so far as police practices are concerned and the St Louis County prosecutor in the grand jury that acquitted Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson said that some of the witnesses called lied under oath. “Clearly some were not telling the truth,” Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch
Madelyn Fernstrom health and nutrition editorTODAY What we eat can cut the risk of developing chronic diseases that make us old before our time: high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. Abundant scientific research has shown how important food is to healthy aging. What is meant by “anti-aging”? It’s not a vague beauty term, its markers
Alternative fee arrangements are increasingly capturing the attention of innovative law firms, as well as fee-sensitive clients. So when a lawyer like Omaha labor lawyer Ross Gardner went to Orlando to speak at the human resources conference held by one of his firm’s biggest clients, it was a trip the Jackson Lewis lawyer may not
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If anyone captures the attention of lawyers – and millions of other readers – at Christmas its John Grisham and nary a Christmas passes without another Grisham legal thriller to hit the shelves. This Christmas’s message from the master of the legal thrillers – below. December 19, 2014 Dear Reader, Another year, another chance to
It was only a few months ago when model Kate Upton’s lawyer was threatening legal action over the hacking of her phone to leak nude photographs. Now she’s been voted People magazine’s first-ever “Sexiest Woman” award show Thursday and revealed what ‘sexy’ means to her. She also helped kill the indication that she was “fat”
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHARLIE SHREM, the former Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange company, and the former Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was sentenced today to two years in prison for his role in knowingly
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MELVIN LOWE, a former consultant to the New York State Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (“DSCC”), was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for conspiring with New York State Senator John Sampson to defraud the DSCC of $100,000, and
