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Key rulings from around the states.
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David Laing
This article provides statistics on trends in Antitrust Division prosecution of individuals to assist in the decisions of how to position individual defendants, and on how to explain strategies to the client ' often one of the most difficult aspects of the representation.
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Shari Claire Lewis
The NY court's decision will be cited in CDA cases across the country and is likely to limit, but not eliminate, future litigation against ISPs, as future cases are likely to focus on the extent to which an ISP can be considered a "content provider.
Jay Jaffe
There's a fairly robust legal community developing on Google+. Legal professionals are attracted to the ability to maintain personal and professional connections in one place while honing in on posts that are important to them, their firms or their clients <i>right now</i>. For the most part, folks on Google+ are high-speed on the information superhighway and the information they are sharing is valuable ' and when it isn't, it is easily filtered out.
ALM Staff
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In an attempt to strengthen India's anti-corruption regime, the Indian parliament has introduced for debate two new pieces of legislation: 1) The Prevention of Bribery of Foreign Public Officials and Officials of Public International Organisations Bill, 2011 (the Prevention of Bribery Act or the Act); and 2) the Lokpal Bill.
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Jeffrey T. Green
What happens if you learn that your client is regularly doing business with another company that is the subject of rumors of corruption? In addition to other potential charges, could your client also violate the money laundering statute even if it made no effort to conceal any source of funds?
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ALM Staff
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Who's doing what; who's going where.
Brendan Pierson
Attorneys may monitor jurors through online social networks as long as they do not contact the jurors or in any way make their monitoring known to them, the New York County Lawyers' Association said last month in an ethics opinion.
Angela D. Giampolo
Drafting custom contracts from scratch is arguably the most labor intensive and expensive part of the legal process. We quickly discovered, however, that working with pre-written contract templates purchased from a handful of online legal forms sites is not the most effective method of reducing cost, particularly after factoring in the amount of time required to source the right documents, modify the text and correct style inconsistencies.
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William L. Norton III
Recent cases have made the reorganizations of individual Chapter 11s in some jurisdictions as difficult as prior to the BAPCPA. This article discusses the major uncertainties that currently exist in these types of cases.
