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Birth control exemptions fail to stop lawsuits

Last week, the Obama administration introduced some additional exemptions for employers that object to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts controversial contraceptive mandate.
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Inside Counsel

5 notable GCs in the news

General counsel sound off on gun control, rope swings, traffic tickets and more
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International Edition

Fifteen Hong Kong lawyers win higher rights to appear in court

Fifteen lawyers have been granted approval to appear in Hong Kong courts with exemption from litigation training, as the region moves to broaden the scope of work law firms are permitted to handle. Some of Hong Kong's top dispute resolution partners - including top-ranked Skadden disputes partner Paul Mitchard QC and Ashurst senior associate and former barrister Sanjay Sakhrani - are among the line-up receiving Higher Rights of Audience (HRA).
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Inside Counsel

Applying risk tools to a strategic technology plan

In last month’s column, I discussed how to apply analytics to a Strategic Technology Plan. This month I discuss the next layer of technology planning—addressing…
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Inside Counsel

Proposed gender discrimination class action against KPMG can proceed

A federal judge in Manhattan has ruled that a proposed gender discrimination class action against accounting firm KPMG can proceed.
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Inside Counsel

NCAA wants Pennsylvania’s suit over Sandusky dropped

Last month, the governor of Pennsylvania filed suit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), claiming the $60 million sanctions against the Pennsylvania State University over the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal will devastate the states economy
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Inside Counsel

News Corp. settles with celebs; faces 100 more hacking suits

Even though News Corp. settled a handful of claims today related to its notorious hacking scandal, more lawsuits are on the way.
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International Edition

Govt unveils competition reforms in 'quantum leap' towards US-style class actions

The Government has unveiled a new 'opt out' collective redress system, described as "a quantum leap towards US-style class actions", as part of a series of wide-ranging competition law reforms following a consultation last year. The measures, unveiled by business secretary Vince Cable last month, have received broad approval from senior lawyers, after initial proposals were put forward for consultation by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) in April last year.
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International Edition

Bets on - tackling illegal gambling

On 17 January, for those involved in combating corruption in sport, the focus was on Rome, where 200 delegates from 50 countries and key representatives from the worlds of sport, betting and law enforcement gathered to discuss the threats posed to football by match-fixing, and ways to further improve prevention and investigation. To put the issue in context, Ronald Noble of Interpol said: "Illegal betting that drives match-fixing encompasses a market that is said to be in the range of hundreds of billions of euros per year, with estimates that the large bookmakers have revenues on the same scale as Coca-Cola."
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International Edition

The beautiful game – the rise of the sports adviser

In 1998, when I first started practising as a sports lawyer, it was still something of a novelty as a career – in the UK at least. Back then, relatively few law firms worked in sport consistently, with much of the legal work in the sector being done ad hoc by lawyers who were specialists in other areas of the law, servicing the occasional sports client when it was necessary. A nd at that time there was generally a lot less lawyering done in sport, so the market did not require many sports law specialists.
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