Clifford Chance – Our second annual review of global antitrust trends is now available. This year, we have picked ten themes that reflect the most prominent antitrust risks faced by businesses around the world in 2015, and the most effective strategies for minimising those risks. To request a copy of the report, please contact Nikki […]
Pullman & Comley – By Jonathan Orleans – When I talk to businesspeople about the legal differences between employees and independent contractors, I often offer the electrician who comes to the office to fix a wiring problem as the paradigmatic independent contractor. She sets her own schedule, supplies her own tools, is engaged in an
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Charges Also Unsealed Against a Geneva-Based Banker, Who Remains at Large Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of an Indictment against BENJAMIN WEY and his Geneva-based
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Amal Clooney has become the focus of almost as much attention as the much-papped British royalty – and indeed she is indeed royalty if you count husband George as one of the most desirable men in the galaxy, as many appear to. And so British law blog Legal Cheek’s Jonathan Ames attempted to place all
Australia’s largest law firms are facing continued pressure and competition from the growth of inhouse legal teams, according to a report from Melbourne Law School and Thomson Reuters. The AFR reports that it is the third consecutive year for the trend with an overall drop of two percent, but with considerably greater falls in key
Attorneys Should Beware Of Unlimited Lease Extensions By Laine T. Wagenseller* – As a Los Angeles real estate attorney I recently had a client approach me about a billboard lease from 1975 which appeared to confer unlimited lease extensions to the lessor billboard company. The lease rate was very low and the lease had
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The Ashley Madison hack has upset many, with the first suicides now reported. And AskMen have come up with their “Mashley Addison” and their character figure posing as someone called Glance Fleemsonjinstein, Divorce Attorney. Here it is, for what it’s worth Place your ad here Loading…
Reed Smith – ByLisa Baird, Colleen Davies, Andrew Stillufsen – In our modern economy, businesses regularly use all manner of third-party consultants for many different reasons, including cost, efficiency, and expertise. Less regularly, communications between businesses and consultants are the subject of discovery motion practice in litigation. Two recent decisions out of the Southern District
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The Ashley Madison hack lawsuits have begun. Two Canadian law firms say they have filed a $578 million class-action lawsuit against the media companies behind Ashley Madison, following the massive hack that has exposed almost 40 million users on the adultery website. Charney Lawyers and Sutts, Strosberg LLP said in a statement that they have filed
