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By Jessica Seah | May 31, 2023
China's former zero-COVID policy is still having lingering effects on its economy, the country's housing boom is over, its shrinking population is becoming a serious problem, and its prosperous residents have spent the last two years offshoring their wealth to countries like Singapore and the U.K. But it is the decoupling of the world's two largest economies that poses the biggest threat to law firms in Greater China, lawyers say.
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By Hugo Guzman | May 25, 2023
"As we have seen from the recent news, the cost of noncompliance is becoming quite high," said Ken Kumayama, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
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By Christopher Niesche | May 25, 2023
The move comes in response to the tax advice scandal engulfing the Australian arm of consulting giant PwC, and requires that government contracts include "Notification of Significant Event Clauses."
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By Jennigay Coetzer | May 24, 2023
The nation's people have for years faced unique challenges posed by 'load shedding'—but, fortunately for law firms, they're well-resourced enough to tackle the problem head on.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | May 22, 2023
Freshfields advised the UK government's investment arm meanwhile Linklaters advised Natwest.
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By Brian Yap | May 17, 2023
This marks the first time Bahrain has sought assistance from Singapore for establishing an international commercial court to be modeled on the Singapore International Commercial Court.
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By Peter Shaw-Smith | May 15, 2023
An onrush of new legislation and liberalizing markets have given rise to huge demand for legal services in the region.
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By Lisa Shuchman | May 15, 2023
Sixty-one members of Parliament signed an amicus brief in a bid to secure the release of Krishna Maharaj, a U.K. citizen who has presented substantial evidence that he did not commit the murders for which he was convicted. He has been in prison for 36 years.
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By Linda A. Thompson | May 8, 2023
The executive body that sets rules for EU member countries is seeking to stiffen laws to deter environmental offenses. A separate movement calls for the addition of ecocide to the core crimes of international law heard at the International Criminal Court in the Hague—crimes that include genocide, war crimes, the crime of aggression and crimes against humanity.
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By Allison Dunn | May 8, 2023
"Ultimately, the full social and economic impacts of a chip shortage of that scale are incalculable, but they would likely be catastrophic," according to a Rhodium Group report.
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By Colleen Murphy | February 13, 2024
"New Jersey's Puerto Rican community adds to the unique diversity of our state," Gov. Phil Murphy said. "Arianna has dedicated much of her career and spare time to serving the Puerto Rican community, having deep familial ties in the region. Puerto Rico has so much to offer, and I am thrilled to witness the collaboration that Arianna and the commission will build on between our two regions."
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By Colleen Murphy | February 13, 2024
"I felt the precedent was violated in this case and the result is that the tradition and the statute will not mean anything," Sen. Jon Bramnick, R-Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, and Union, told the Law Journal.
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By Hugo Guzman | February 12, 2024
"The NLRB continues to limit an employer's right to manage its workforce. All employer-employee communications are on the table and should be evaluated for overbreadth," Miles and Stockbridge counsel Rebecca Leaf wrote in a note to clients.
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By Michael P. Robotti and Lauren Engelmyer | February 9, 2024
This article examines Supreme Court precedent requiring a warrant to search a cell phone, and what lawyers should consider when counseling clients on whether they should turn over text messages in response to a government subpoena.
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By Marianna Wharry | February 8, 2024
"The court of appeals' decision is incredibly important, it puts water companies like the city of Spokane on notice that if they fail to charge reasonable rates, they will very likely see those rates challenged in court," the petitioners' counsel, Alexandria Drake, of Dunn & Black in Spokane, told Law.com.
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By Amanda Bronstad | February 8, 2024
A federal judge on Thursday granted final approval to DuPont's $1.185 billion settlement with an estimated 14,000 public water providers across the country.
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By Riley Brennan | February 8, 2024
"We agree with the division that the dangerous condition—the optical illusion created by the surface coloring—resulted at least in part from maintenance of the facility. 'Maintenance' is defined in the statute as 'the act or omission of a public entity or public employee in keeping a facility in the same general state of repair or efficiency as initially constructed or in preserving a facility from decline or failure,'" Justice Melissa Hart said.
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By Colleen Murphy | February 8, 2024
"My concern is that, if I do vote for you, which I would like to do based on your history as a lawyer, based on your personality, and based on your statements, I am afraid I am sending a message to future judiciary committees that I am disrespecting tradition or the statute," Sen. Jon Bramnick said to one of the three nominees during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday.
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By Lisa Willis | February 8, 2024
"They won't share the status of the inquiry, but they'll share the fact that I'm asking about it, which is weird," said an attorney at the center of the Florida Bar inquiry.
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By Allison Dunn | February 8, 2024
Massachusetts Appeals Court Associate Justice Gabrielle R. Wolohojian, who has served on the appellate court for 16 years, is the governor's second nomination to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the matter of weeks.
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