A student who once sought to be president of the Cambridge Union and was an Allen & Overy trainee solicitor has been sacked over an article he wrote that reportedly plagiarised a Financial Times article. Sachin Parathalingham had written an article for The Tab which was a substantial copy of an FT article leading to […]
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Today (Friday 3 February), marks 50 years since the hanging of Ronald Ryan at Pentridge Prison in Melbourne. To mark the event, the Law Council of Australia is holding a national symposium on Australia’s Contribution to the Abolition of the Death Penalty with leading jurists, domestic and foreign policy experts and political decision makers. When:
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Pittsburgh, PA – Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that James J. Barnes has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Corporate, M&A, and Securities group and has been appointed Partner of Strategic Development for the Pittsburgh office and co-chair of the Firm’s Family Office practice. Mr. Barnes joins Blank Rome from Pepper
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Mike Kelly There is a resurgence of interest in speech recognition (SR) within the legal profession currently. This same interest incidentally is mirrored in other professions such as healthcare and in business generally. It is a trend that is likely to continue. Refer to the 2014 Gartner report where Speech Recognition is now positioned as one
50 Cent (the rap artist, not the monetary denomimation) has pulled off what one music industry publication calls “the ultimate switcheroo” by turning the tables on his Big Law lawyers and suing them for $32 million (that’s the monetary denomination, not a rapper). 50 Cent hired Reed Smith to represent him in the Lastonia Leviston sex-tape
The UK’s growing focus on corporate criminal liability was seen in two recent pieces of news. Read Here
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Sir Paul McCartney has filed suit against Sony/ATV Music Publishing in New York Federal Court, seeking a declaration that he can exercise his termination rights under the Copyright Act of 1976 in order to reclaim the rights to many of his musical compositions for The Beatles.
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The only White House lawyer to resign from office, John Dean, has predicted “calamity” for President Trump following the firing of acting attorney general Sally Yates. Dean, a central figure in the Watergate scandal and regarded by the FBI as the man who was the “master manipulator” in the infamous coverup, tweeted his disapproval
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN AFRIYIE, a former analyst at the Manhattan-based private investment fund (the “Fund”) was found guilty this afternoon in Manhattan federal court of securities fraud and wire fraud for committing insider trading. AFRIYIE made approximately $1.5 million in
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates allegedly “betrayed the Department of Justice” by refusing to enforce the order from President Trump, who then did what he does so well and fired her. Citing her as “weak”, she took the extraordinarily rare – and many would say either brave or stupid – step of defying the White House
