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Tribunal dismisses Linklaters bullying claim

An employment tribunal claim brought against Linklaters earlier this year by a former paralegal has been dismissed. As Legal Week reported in June, former Linklaters paralegal Ali Hussain had accused the firm and his former manager Hasan Bayat of bullying and harrassment.
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Inside Counsel

Diebold Inc. to pay $48 million for FCPA violations

According to the SEC, A bribe is a bribe, whether its a stack of cash or an all-expense-paid trip to Europe.
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Inside Counsel

Lady Gaga settles with former assistant over unpaid overtime

Maybe Lady Gaga is the Queen of the Universe, but the courts rule that even queens need to pay their assistants overtime.
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International Edition

Linklaters adds three-partner disputes team in Paris

Linklaters has hired a three-partner team from Paris-based Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to boost its disputes practice in the French capital. Matthieu de Boisséson and Pierre Duprey join from Darrois Villey along with Andew Plump, who has been appointed as counsel. Roland Ziadé has been elected as partner from Cleary, which he joined in 2002.
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International Edition

HK government called to boost funding to promote arbitration

Hong Kong's arbitration industry needs more government funding if the city is to uphold its reputation as a centre for dispute resolution internationally, legislative council member Dennis Kwok has said. Speaking at Hong Kong Arbitration Week, Kwok called on the Department of Justice to top up the professional services development fund, which has previously supported the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), in a bid to prevent the city from losing out to competitor jurisdictions such as Singapore and Malaysia in the race to become Asia's top disputes hub.
3 minute read

Inside Counsel

Midsize law firms take a bigger piece of big-ticket litigation

Over the past three years, midsize law firms with 201 to 500 lawyers have nearly doubled their share of big-ticket litigation.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

Real estate executive claims age, gender discrimination

Many have had the unfortunate experience of being passed over for a job for someone supposedly less qualified. But does that necessarily mean that discrimination occurred? One executive of a major commercial real estate firm intends to find out.
4 minute read

International Edition

Goodwin Procter partner appointed as Apple competition 'monitor'

A Goodwin Procter partner has been appointed by a New York judge as an external competition "monitor", to oversee Apple's competition policies, procedures and training.
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Inside Counsel

ZIP code class actions expand into the District of Columbia

Hancock is the first suit of its kind in D.C. and the first case to test the meaning of the Districts consumer identification information statute.
15 minute read

Inside Counsel

J.P. Morgan closing in on agreement with DOJ over mortgage probes

Reports indicate that the DOJ has strong evidence of misconduct and intends to use it in a separate criminal investigation.
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