M&A lawyer Martin Lipton invented the poison pill and wrote one of the key books about takeover law. He is also a founding partner of the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz the takeover specialists and so when he goes on the attack against an activist investor like Carl Icahn people tend to
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The issue of computer data and the effect of the Fourth Amendment was somethat that was of high interest to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia when questioned by a Brooklyn Law School group. The Justice received some probing questions, which could wind up having significant repercussions for the NSA’s domestic surveillance programs. The question came
A ‘blow torch’ fire could have caused the disappearance and crashing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, according to a theory put forward by London aviation law expert James Healy-Pratt who is himself a pilot. Such a fire ripped through the cockpit of a Boeing 777 in Egypt three years ago. Healy-Pratt is with aviation law
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How should law firms be interacting with clients properly? Among the trends towards better law firm marketing and interaction and lawyers who are setting up cafes, movable walls and more glass, according to the latest in law firm design trends. A global architecture and design firm expert, Bert Oliva, principal at Gensler, has a division
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Law firm Clifford Chance’s views on essential tips for trading in the Brazil economy are provided in a report that shows some of the key requirements to smooth the way for traders wishing to make headway in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. See the Clifford Chance Brazil report here. And see details about the
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Depression among lawyers is a major issue, but for some Australian lawyers a comic revue has proved so successful in dealing with the issue that they are making a return season, as reported in Australia.Lawfuel.com. Max Paterson, The Law Revue director and a lawyer at Landers & Rogers, said that the performers weren’t the only
A Michigan judge has lost his job after texting a picture of his bare chest to a bailiff and having sex in his chambers with a witness in a child support case . Wayne County Circuit Judge4 Wade McCree was removed after having the affair and, if re-elected the Michigan Supreme Court ruled he would be
There appears to be big money in the new LGBT law. Last week it was reported that the law firms of high profile lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies took in $6.4 million for the Prop 8 case. Washington Blade reports that tax filings indicate former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson’s law firm – Gibson,
As the case against Sulaiman Abu Ghaith goes to the jury, you might wonder how a Jewish lawyer like Stanley Cohencame to be representing a man charged with participating in a terrorist conspiracy to kill as many Americans as possible and how he could have made a career out of representing Muslim terror suspects generally.
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The US Supreme Court faces a major issue in a religious rights case, which could see a ruling that companies can exercise religious freedom to exempt them from complying with federal law – a decision that would have far-ranging impact. The Hobby Lobby case involves a key decision as to whether the company, Hobby Lobby,
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