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[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Wednesday urged the country of Chad to arrest [press release] Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [case materials; JURIST news archive] during his visit to the country. Al-Bashir was charged last week by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] with three counts of genocide [warrant, PDF; JURIST report] in relation to the Darf
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If I ever had any hope of “keeping up” with developments in the regulation of information technology—or even the nine specific areas I explored in The Laws of Disruption—that hope was lost long ago. The last few months I haven’t even been able to keep up just sorting the piles of printouts of stories I’ve “clipped” from just a few key sources, including The New York Times, The Wall Street
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Responding to a New Jersey Supreme Court Committee finding that opposes virtual offices, the state Bar is now recognizing that technology has changed the way lawyers conduct business and suggests that the Judiciary amend the parameters lawyers must adhere to for establishing a law office.
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The Ohio Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended from the practice of law former general counsel Paul Joseph Kellogg, who was sentenced in 2008 to a year in prison and three years probation for allegedly obstructing proceedings before the FDA and the FTC. Court documents say Kellogg served as GC to his friend's company, Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, which sold dietary supplements and other pi
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As we mentioned this morning, a report from researchers at Berkeley Law suggests that legal education is a field dominated by white, male, elite liberals. The National Law Journal reports: Law schools hire more openly liberal professors than openly conservative ones, but the plum jobs at the most prestigious schools don’t appear to be going…Continue reading »Follow Above
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[JURIST] The Israeli Knesset [official website] on Wednesday voted 53-13 to extend a law [TO 5763 text] limiting the ability of Arab-Israelis [JVL backgrounder] to bring Palestinian family members into Israel. The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law, first passed by the Knesset in 2002, allows only Palestinian women 25 years or older and men 35 years or older to join their families in Israel an
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BP wasn't the only companyto sell its Permian basin holdings this week. Vinson & Elkins advised oiland gas company Concho Resources on its acquisition of privately held MarbobEnergy for $1.66 billion in cash and securities. The deal was the third energytransaction the firm handled in recent days.
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