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- In Israel, compared with Palestine Transnistria, Moldova, Bessarabia, likened himself: Israel Today Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:43PMLebanon complained to the UN in connection with the conclusion between Israel and Cyprus, the agreement on exclusive economic zone and maritime boundary demarcation. Israel and Cyprus have agreed to jointly develop natural resources, including gas fields.
- ASIC imposes licence conditions on JB Global Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 8:01PMBreaches around structured products and advice see ASIC impose licence conditions on JB Global.
- Lawyer on NDI guidance: FDA is trying to ‘dismantle’ DSHEA Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:39AMSpeaking to NutraIngredients-USA.com on Friday, Wes Siegner, a director at Washington DC-based legal firm Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, said: “ The bottom line is that the FDA is trying to dismantle the legislation [Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act or DSHEA].
- Nominee Cordray Had Solid Backing From Securities Lawyers Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:38AMObama's nominee for the new consumer-finance bureau was a favorite of the class-action bar.
- Phone hacking scandal – live coverage Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:11AMLive coverage throughout the day following Rupert Murdoch's decision to abandon News Corporation's bid for BSkyB – and senior US politicians call for an investigation into whether American laws were broken 10.38am: Here's my colleague Jason Deans's piece on the 60-year-old man arrested over phone hacking at the News of the World. Detectives from Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan police ...
- Forest Laboratories Announces Director Nominees for Election at 2011 Annual Meeting Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:00AMForest Laboratories, Inc. today announced that it will nominate a slate of ten candidates for election to the Company’s Board of Directors at the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on August 18, 2011.
- Adams Kessler PLC Welcomes Nathalie Ross as Director of Business Development Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:54AMAdrian J. Adams of Adams Kessler PLC is proud to announce they have retained the incredibly distinguished Mrs. Nathalie Ross as their new Director of Business Development. Â Â
- Lawyers for Civil Justice Lead ESI Preservation Panel Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:23AMLawyers active in LCJ will present a panel on suggested changes to legal requirements governing the obligation to preserve electronic information – when it is triggered, its scope and appropriate sanctions for its loss. (PRWeb July 18, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8646937.htm
- Employment: Casino managers tasked with upping productivity Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 2:06AMWhat state law (NRS 608.018) says on compensation for overtime, requirements, exceptions: 1. An employer shall pay 1.5 times an employee's regular wage rate whenever an employee who receives compensation for employment at a rate less than 1.5 times the minimum rate prescribed pursuant to NRS 608.250 works: (a) More than 40 hours in any scheduled week of work; or (b) More than eight hours in any ...
- Nashville residents take on Google Wi-Spy, join privacy lawsuit Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 9:40AMA Google mapping and camera car charts the streets of Washington. From 2007 to 2010, Google cars also logged data from open Wi-Fi signals. / Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty Images
- Nashville residents take on Google Wi-Spy Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 3:14AMSeveral Nashvillians are at the forefront of a federal invasion of privacy lawsuit against Internet giant Google.
- eTERA Consulting Welcomes Copy Secure and PICTERA SOLUTIONS as Business Partners Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:36AMCompany Seeks to Add More Strategic Partners to Highly Successful Partner Program (PRWeb July 14, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8639868.htm
- Gartner VP Toby Bell Joins Litera Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 10:29AMToby Bell, a former vice president of Gartner Research and internationally recognized enterprise content management expert, has joined Litera® , a provider of Collaborative Content Lifecycle Management solutions and risk mitigation for many of the world's leading law firms and corporations.
- Statements from companies about ‘cramming’ report Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 7:31AMStatements to NBC News from representatives of Verizon, CenturyLink and daData in response to a report about unauthorized charges appearing on phone customers’ bills, a practice called “cramming.”
- Furia Rubel Receives 2011 Best of Doylestown Award for Outstanding Public Relations Services Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 2:40AMBucks County, Pa. Integrated Communications Agency is Honored for Third Consecutive Year (PRWeb July 13, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/FuriaRubel/MarketingPR/prweb8635097.htm
- Gurkha Cigars Signs Exclusive Sponsorship with National Golf Tournament Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 8:47PMOrlando - ORLANDO, FL (July 12, 2011) – The Lawyer Charity Challenge, the legal industry’s first national charitable golf tournament, today announced that Gurkha Cigars, one of the most famous brands of luxury cigars in the world, will be the official cigar of The Lawyer Charity Challenge.
- Hagens Berman LLP Investigating ConAgra Foods Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 3:28PMSEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hagens Berman is investigating ConAgra Foods, Inc. after reports that the company misled consumers by claiming that its Wesson-brand cooking oil products is 100 percent natural.
- Boise Convention and Visitor’s Bureau gets salary funds Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 12:10AMTwo board members contend the action is illegal — and question whether the board is skirting others laws as it moves ahead
- Lawmakers want compensation process sped up Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 6:11AMBATON ROUGE — It could potentially take nearly two decades for a federal program to completely mitigate the ecological damage from last year’s oil spill.
- Westchester business group aims to stop youth flight, spur new jobs Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 1:37AMARMONK — Reversing "youth flight" from the county, eliminating legal roadblocks to economic development and marketing Westchester County as an attractive place to do business are among the priorities a business group has unveiled.
- Cookie: monster? Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 6:08PMCoping with the new browser rules
- Brian Kahin: Patents: Getting More Than You Paid For Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 1:10PMIs PTO an expert government agency in the same sense as other agencies? And what are the consequences of deferring to patent examiners?
- PlacementTracker Publishes PIPE Market League Tables Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 7:00AMSAN DIEGO -- Sagient Research Systems, a leading publisher of independent research for the financial services and institutional investment communities, today announced that Rodman & Renshaw, LLC ranked as the number one most active investment bank and Iroquois Capital L.P., ranked as the number one most active institutional investor in the U.S.
- Anglian Water Ser - Intermediated Exchange Offer and Tender Offer Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 4:25AMAnglian Water Ser - Intermediated Exchange Offer and Tender Offer
- California affiliates hurt by tax bill targeting Amazon.com Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 12:04AMFor several years now, the military museum in Old Sacramento has quietly earned a nice little income by acting as a sales rep for Amazon.com. But this small nonprofit has been caught in an epic standoff between Amazon and state officials.
- C.R. Bard Extends Settlement in Kugel Mesh Litigation Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 12:10PMContact: Alicia G. Ward Director of Marketing and Communications, +1-843-532-7011 (c), AWard@motleyrice.com
- On the Record / July 6, 2011 Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 5:39AMTravers Collins associates Carolyn Human, account manager, and Alyssa Mayer, account manager and interactive strategist, represented the Buffalo-based integrated marketing communications firm at the recent Upstate Venture Association of New York, Buffalo Capital Forum, “Understanding Social Media and Creating a Strategy.”
- CSA offers guidance to portfolio managers on marketing, social media Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 3:58PMCanadian securities regulators are providing guidance to portfolio managers on their marketing practices, including the use of social media.
- ProQuest Names Kurt Sanford CEO Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 2:00PMProQuest LLC, an information firm central to global research, today announced that Kurt Sanford will join the Company as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its Board of Directors on July 13, 2011. Â Mr.
- Canadian Securities Administrators Publish Guidance on Marketing Practices of Portfolio Managers Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 11:33AMVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - July 5, 2011) - The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published Staff Notice 31-325 to provide guidance for the preparation, review and use of marketing materials by portfolio managers (PMs).
- Weil Adds Rodney L. Moore as Partner, Strengthening Private Equity Practice’s Energy Capabilities Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 8:09AMDALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a move to expand the midstream and upstream energy deal-making capabilities of its preeminent Private Equity practice, the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has added Rodney L. Moore as a partner in the firm. He joins Weil from Vinson & Elkins LLP and will split his time between Weil’s Houston and Dallas offices. Moore has nearly 25 years of experience ...
- After 5 years, $12M spent, Newark Triangle Park project remains a parking lot Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 5:47AMThe group responsible was quietly disbanded in April after it spent millions on salaries and well-connected consultants
- On the Record / July 2, 2011 Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 5:39AMRoswell Park Cancer Institute named Dr. Peter Frederick to the newly created position of director of Minimally Invasive Surgery for the Department of Gynecologic Oncology.
- Innovation Into Results: Monetizing Australian Ingenuity Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 2:57AMExciting New Innovation Management Training Program Propels Australian Innovators Into Global Manufacturing. A first of its kind innovation management training program has been launched by the Advanced Manufacturing CRC. http://www.Innovativity.com.auMelbourne, Australia (PRWEB) July 01, 2011 Understanding and applying innovation (the process of Innovation Management ...
- Pre-Paid Legal sale valued at $650 million Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 2:40AMMidOcean Partners, a leading private equity firm, announced Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of Ada-based Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc.
- Tobacco firms fear a domino effect Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 7:31PMLEGISLATION that would ban logos from appearing on cigarette packages in Australia is drawing the ire of business lobbying groups and even members of the United States Congress, who warn that the Australian government could be in breach of its international trade obligations.
- The Sunlight Foundation: One Out of Every Ten Investment Advisers Disciplined Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 3:48PMMore than one out of ten registered investment adviser firms have reported that they have been the subject of some sort of disciplinary action over the last decade.
- DVIRC Appoints Two New Board Members Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 12:57PMThe Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center , an economic development organization committed to assisting small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in the region compete and grow in the global economy, is pleased to announce two new additions to its Board of Directors: Lisa McLemore and Nick Hackett.
- BCL Legal Launches New Management & Support Division Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 3:15AMBCL Legal launch new management and support division for UK based law firms and will be headed up by Emma Anthony. (PRWeb June 30, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/6/prweb8606577.htm
- eTERA Consulting Adds Electronic Discovery Veteran Dawson West Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 6:25AMWill Manage Key Client Relationships With Law Firms and Corporations in SoutheastWashington, DC (PRWEB) June 29, 2011 eTERA Consulting, a professional services firm specializing in providing data management solutions to Fortune 500 companies and the AmLaw 100, today announced that industry veteran Dawson West has joined the company as Senior E-Discovery Consultant based in Atlanta, GA. In his ...
- RACER Trust Hires Former Michigan Official For Key Role in Redevelopment of Auto Communities Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 11:14AMBIRMINGHAM, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Patricia Spitzley named Deputy Redevelopment Manager of The RACER Trust, the entity created to own, clean up and redevelop former GM properties in 14 states.
- Kaplan Law School Signs Exclusive Training Deal with Farrer & Co to Provide Legal Practice Course (LPC) for Farrer ... Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 8:13AMLONDON--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- 14th exclusive partnership deal for Kaplan Law School Leading law firm Farrer & Co LLP and London-based Kaplan Law School have confirmed an exclusive training agreement for Farrer’s ...
- Alfred Adask Claims Sovereign Citizens Mischaracterized By FBI and Media As Violent Domestic Terrorists Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 12:38AMIn a live interview on The Costa Report, spokesperson for the Sovereign Citizens movement, Alfred Adask, described the real mission of more than 300,000 U. S. citizens who now claim “sovereignty.” Adask denied that Sovereign Citizens represent a domestic terrorist threat as described by the FBI. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) June 27, 2011 In a live interview on The Costa Report, spokesperson for the ...
- CPA Global Celebrates Success in Greater China IP Market Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 10:17PMALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - Achievements mark second anniversary of Hong Kong office CPA Global, the world's top intellectual property (IP) management specialist and a leading provider of legal services outsourcing (LSO), has made significant inroads into the Greater China market since opening its office in Hong Kong two years ago, helping a growing number of companies ...
- The last German war secret Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 9:30AMANDREW RULE went to the UK, Germany and Belgium to follow the trail of men responsible for the pharmaceutical industry's darkest hour.
- State’s ERB Passed On Pay-to-Play Investigation Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 3:53AMA year before the state investment scandal exploded publicly in 2009, state officials failed to dig ...
- Spam texts: the money trail to the heart of 'no win, no fee' Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 4:15PMAn investigation by the Sunday Telegraph reveals how companies make money out of 'spam texts'.
- New Book Offers Nearly 100 Marketing Tips For Lawyers And Firms Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 8:00AMBob Weiss, gives lawyers and law firms proven and practical business development tips in his new, easy to use book, "Legal Marketing In Brief." Weiss' tips have helped lawyers and law firms across the country dramatically increase in size and profitability, enter new markets, help lawyers to reposition themselves into new areas of practice and rejuvenate their careers and passion for the law.
- High Court gives two wins to pharmaceutical industry Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 12:21AMWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court gave the pharmaceutical industry a pair of victories on Thursday, shielding the makers of generic drugs from most lawsuits by injured patients and declaring that drug manufacturers had a free-speech right to buy private prescription records to boost their sales pitches to doctors.
- Supreme Court has given firms a stronger hand Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 9:06PMThis year, it gave firms a stronger shield against class actions. But it also ruled for several individuals suing employers and made it easier for car crash victims to sue automakers. The Supreme Court, which winds up its term Monday, has once again shown itself to be highly skeptical of large lawsuits against big business, regardless of whether the suits are intended to protect workers ...