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Meaningful Attorney Bios: Include These 3 in Your Site (And Avoid 7 Deadly Sins)

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JD Supra Perspectives – Properly written client stories on your lawyer biography can be wonderful and engaging testimonies of your skills, dedication, commitment to clients and to the law. That can’t happen if you post wordy, over-detailed accounts of client work. The best matter summaries are short, snappy, stories that describe the ways you have […]

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Supreme Court to Decide Future of Sports Betting

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Wilmer Hale – The Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in Christie v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (Nos. 16-476, 16-477) will have profound implications for sports betting in the United States and will potentially open the door to such betting in tribal casinos across the country. The case presents New Jersey’s challenge to the constitutionality of the

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The New Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) – How Different From the Other?

Chapman Tripp –  The final text of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) Agreement, to be signed on 8 March in Santiago, has now been released. The key substantive provision incorporates the original TPP text into the new Agreement. The remainder of the Agreement consists of mechanical provisions that establish how the Agreement operates,

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The $600 Billion – And Rising! – Cost of Cybercrime

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Fox Rothschild –  The cost of cybercrime continues to rise, driven by increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals and a growing pool of new and often unsophisticated internet users, according to a new report from internet security firm McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Cybercrime is relentless, undiminished, and unlikely to stop. It is just

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International arbitration: the top trends in 2018

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Freshfields – A tumultuous 2017 provided us some insight into where international arbitration’s greatest challenges (and opportunities) lie in 2018. In our forwarding looking, practical guide, we highlight 10 key trends in the year ahead. Highlights include: > With the re-emergence of protectionism in the West, and the retrenchment from multilateralism in the US, the

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Bitcoin Investment Platform Operator Charged with Perjury and Obstruction of Justice

Amazon Channels – CBS All Access Jon E. Montroll Allegedly Lied Repeatedly to SEC Staff During Testimony to Conceal Substantial Customer Losses Due to a Software Exploit Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of

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An Australian Court’s Blockchain Breakthrough

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Proskauer – Blockchain advocates have been awaiting the final decision by ASX Ltd, the Australian Securities Exchange, as to whether ASX will replace its existing and aged CHESS registry, settlement and clearing system with a blockchain-based system that ASX has been developing and testing for the last two years. Last December, ASX announced that it

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