The increase in the number of email scams or business email compromise scams is a major concern for lawyers. This article from Australia’s GotoCourt Lawyers looks at the liability issue. Michaelle Makela* During an initial consult, a client presented the following scenario: The client had engaged a local small business in Melbourne (Business) to complete […]
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True to his word, Donald Trump is taking the election to court as Joe Biden closes in on the presidency. Biden has made a late surge to victory with his win on Wisconsin, based on mail-in and early votes counted after most of the ballots cast on election day. The Trump campaign said Wednesday afternoon
Automation in AML: Almost 80% of businesses now using electronic checks, but trust remains low · More than two in five (47%) senior decision makers have some level of distrust in automated customer authentication checks · 21% say they do not trust any checks to be automated at all · Almost one in four businesses (23%) still have
John Bowie – The Johnny Depp libel trial win for The Sun newspaper was a high stakes gamble by the Murdoch-owned newspaper, but it was also a major test for its primary gossip columnist and executive editor, Lower Hutt-born Dan Wootton who wrote the allegedly defamatory story. The story exposed Depp as a wife beater
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Bob Jones Makes His Predictions on the US Election Outcome Bob Jones – The big day has finally arrived. I was hoping Duncan Copley of Milford who alone knows the result given that 70 million votes have already been cast, would spill the beans. But the buggers remained silent. Presumably he was flat out cleaning
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Angela Beazer is a high flying lawyer – she must be, as she established one of the country’s first aviation law firms – but she’s now going to ground with a new enterprise, developing a hydroponics business. The founder of Southland-based aviation law boutique AMC Legal Services, she has been an aviation law specialist for
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The Sun newspaper’s win in the Johnny Depp libel trial – the so called libel ‘trial of the century’ has seen some of Britain’s top lawyers battling it out in a bruising and eye wateringly expensive encounter that has paid dividends for the staunch view taken by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper against the Hollywood actor in
High flying and aggressive US-based law firm Boies Schiller continues to make the news, the latest interest being around the law firm’s apparent failure to make the raises to associates which was apparently due to be made on October 15, then at the end of the month and now . . The obvious rumors reported
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Cryptocurrency firm Coinbase continues to expand its legal team with two latest recruits, including one from Google and another from Dyson, to join former Facebook lawyer Paul Grewal One of our key priorities at Coinbase is to be trusted as we create an open financial system for the world. This requires us to be world
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Matter of opinion Unlike the 2017 election, where things hung in the balance for five long weeks, there is little need to consult the Cabinet Manual on the formation of the Government and coalition agreements and confidence-and-supply. Labour’s unprecedented MMP majority means it can do what it likes. Saying that, it will prefer that the
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