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High court ruling is major plus for cutting emissions
Attorney Blogs 04/04/2007[##_1L|1318697017.jpg|width="180" height="122" alt=""|_##]California and other states have taken action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks while the Environmental Protection Agency has looked the other way. A U.S. Supreme Court r...
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US and South Korea in landmark trade deal
Attorney Blogs 04/02/2007[##_1L|1158857426.jpg|width="140" height="93" alt=""|_##]Washington and Seoul agreed a landmark deal on Monday that will dramatically liberalise trade between the countries, giving the US an economic foothold in north-east Asia and helping South Kore...
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Another Enron in Europe?
Attorney Blogs 04/01/2007Many European businesses are failing to effectively implement corporate governance codes which is heightening the risk of a serious corporate scandal on the scale of that involving Enron, new research claims. A poll of Europe's 500 largest publicity ...
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Oracle's SAP suit raises users' ethics concerns
Attorney Blogs 03/25/2007[##_1L|1045179749.jpg|width="130" height="90" alt=""|_##]Oracle filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court on Thursday against SAP, its SAP America division, its TomorrowNow subsidiary and 50 unnamed individuals Oracle claims were SAP employees. ...
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Court Snuffs Internet Smut Law
Attorney Blogs 03/23/2007[##_1L|1108611959.jpg|width="120" height="107" alt=""|_##]Nearly nine years after Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), a Philadelphia federal court judge ruled Thursday that COPA is unconstitutional. As a result of his findings, Ph...
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2006 Tax Year Tough on IRS
Attorney Blogs 03/22/2007[##_1L|1329213333.jpg|width="120" height="155" alt=""|_##]A new telephone refund, last-minute tax changes and a direct-deposit service made the 2006 tax filing season challenging for the Internal Revenue Service. So said IRS Commissioner Mark Everson...
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What is an LLM?
Attorney Blogs 03/13/2007[##_1L|1090145463.jpg|width="130" height="98" alt=""|_##]The LL.M. (Master of Laws) is an internationally recognized postgraduate law degree. It is usually obtained by completing a one-year full-time program. The LL.M. is a higher academic degree, co...
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How Business Trounced the Trial Lawyers
Attorney Blogs 03/11/2007The media recently has been writing the obituary of the tort lawyers. "The power of the plaintiffs bar is on the wane," argued the American Lawyer; a cover story in Business Week promised to reveal "How Business Trounced the Trial Lawyers." With apol...
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The LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law
Attorney Blogs 01/23/2007[##_1L|1286818491.jpg|width="200" height="300" alt=""|_##]As it has done for generations, intellectual property (IP) law determines how we use patents, copyrights, and trademarks. But over the last few decades, IP law has assumed an increasingly vita...
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Web Hosting and Emerging Internet Law
Attorney Blogs 01/06/2007Providers of web site hosting and other Internet-related services offer customers the means to acquire and disseminate a plethora of public, private, commercial, and non-commercial information. While the Internet provides a forum for free and open di...