It may be all very well hiring a big name law firm to protect your company secrets. But what sort of risks do the law firms take in supervising that sort of intellectual property, particularly when the internet permits information to be accessed so easily by employees? The risks received highlighted exposure this week with the […]
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International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has selected six outstanding candidates to join the inaugural year of the Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship programme. It will initially run for three years, with the search for the class of 2014 scholars now underway. The aim is to address the under-representation of black men from low-income households in
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Winning the megamillions or any other lottery is a breathtaking time of excitement for anyone. But there are traps. Here are four things you need to do to ensure you keep your “megamillions” or even far less in your lottery winnings. This is of particular importance right now with the winning $414 million Megamillions ticket
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Let us introduce you to barrister Amal Alamuddin. Who? you might ask. She is an Oxford-educated lawyer fluent in French and Arabic, of Lebanese descent and also a graduate of New York University School of Law, representing recently WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. She is also George Clooney’s girlfriend. The exotic beauty, 36, also has academic
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Object found by Australian searchers off the coast of West Australia may be from the missing Malaysian Flight MH370. The disappearance of the flight has held the world spellbound for the past week as the emerging news has come from Malaysia about the possibility that the airliner has been located. Meanwhile, the FBI is helping
Working as a prostitute part-time has earned an Illinois lawyer a three-year suspension. The lawyer, Reema Bajaj, 27, had sex in exchange for office supplies for her law practice and later pleaded guilty to prostitution charges has agreed to have her law license suspended for three years. An Illinois attorney who allegedly worked as a
The inner sanctum of a law firm, a so called repository of the most confidential secrets, was among the victims in insider trading arrests on Wednesday of Wall Street insiders, including a law firm clerk in an unnamed prestigious Wall Street firm. The NY Times reports that two “insiders”, one bank broker and the clerk
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The picture is of Edward Lee Elmore, who waited on death row for 29 years. He was released in 2002, but the average time taken on death row before inmates are usually executed is almost 15 years. Elmore was released in 2002 after his case was discredited because of bad or even planted evidence, an
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New York Times v. Sullivan is a case etched on the minds of media lawyers and journalists, quite apart from civil rights lawyers, throughout the United States and the world. And the celebrated and seminal Supreme Court case which tilted the balance of power in the delicate ecosystem that exists between journalists and political figures,
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Tiger Woods is an unhappy man, after losing a lawsuit before an all-women jury. Was it sexist? Was it him? What was it exactly that saw the golfing legend lose a lawsuit involving his alleged breach of a licensing agreement made right back in 2001? Woods’ company, ETW Corp filed its lawsuit against Gotta Have
