SEATTLE (September 10, 2018) – Perkins Coie, a global law firm with more than 1,000 attorneys, is pleased to announce its support of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) campaign aimed at decreasing substance use and improving the mental health landscape in the legal profession. To underscore its support, Perkins Coie has signed a pledge to adopt
Former Prime Minister the Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC used the 2018 Sir Owen Woodhouse Memorial Lecture at Victoria University of Wellington this evening (Monday 10 September) to call for a bold and visionary overhaul of New Zealand’s accident compensation system. Unjust discriminatory aspects of the system need to be eradicated, Sir Geoffrey told
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Aaron Martin* Leading Immigration Lawyer for NZIL, Aaron Martin, explains the changes that will be made to the Employer Assisted Work visa this November. If New Zealand employers allow for it, Aaron believes this won’t only be a win for new migrant graduates, but Kiwi employers as well. Upcoming Immigration law changes in November mean holders of
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A new report on racial and gender in the law bias in the US has demonstrated how rampant the bias is and why efforts to control it are failing. The report, “You Can’t Change What You Can’t See: Interrupting Racial & Gender Bias in the Legal Profession,” is based on a 2016 survey of 2,827
Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie has appointed Dera Nevin to join its IPTech Practice Group. A preeminent international ambassador for legal innovation, Dera has significant global experience designing and implementing technology solutions, building e-Discovery operations, implementing vendor convergence, and spearheading strategic initiatives to increase information governance, litigation readiness and data quality. She is widely
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LOS ANGELES – A Sierra Madre man who until earlier this year served as a lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department has agreed to plead guilty to two federal felony offenses related to the illegal sale of more than 100 firearms over the course of three years. Vasken Kenneth Gourdikian, 48, who resigned from the Pasadena
Avtandil Khurtsidze Previously Convicted at Trial of Racketeering Conspiracy and Fraud in Connection with his Role as an Enforcer for the Shulaya Enterprise Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that AVTANDIL KHURTSIDZE, a former world boxing champion and the chief enforcer for Razhden Shulaya, was
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and David E. Beach, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service New York Field Office (“USSS”) announced today that ANDREI
Record keeping is often found to be a problematic area during an AML CFT audit. The lack of record keeping is more common in small and medium sized businesses where communications between staff are informal. To meet the criteria of record keeping it is recommended you consider the following – Should a meeting between
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LOS ANGELES – A criminal complaint made public today charges a North Korean citizen for his involvement in a conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks around the world, which resulted in damage to massive amounts of computer hardware and extensive loss of data, money and other resources. The complaint alleges that Park Jin Hyok
