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Overstock Under Fire

Overstock.com Inc. faces a libel suit from a research company the Internet retailer is currently suing for allegedly driving down its share price.
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Inside Counsel

Judge Approves $24 Million Walgreen Settlement

U.S. District Judge G. Patrick Murphy approved a $24 million settlement in a federal lawsuit accusing Walgreen Co. of racial bias.Roughly 10,000 past and present ...
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International Edition

New anti-doping body gets legal injection

A clutch of senior lawyers have been appointed to the newly-established National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP) to oversee doping cases brought against athletes. One Essex Court's Peter Leaver QC has been appointed as president of the 16-strong panel, while Farrar's Building tenant Patrick Harrington QC will act as vice president.
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Legal Week

New anti-doping body gets legal injection

A clutch of senior lawyers have been appointed to the newly-established National Anti-Doping Panel (NADP) to oversee doping cases brought against athletes. One Essex Court's Peter Leaver QC has been appointed as president of the 16-strong panel, while Farrar's Building tenant Patrick Harrington QC will act as vice president.
3 minute read

International Edition

BSB unveils far-reaching complaints overhaul

The Bar Standard Board (BSB) has unveiled a raft of new measures designed to improve chambers' complaints-handling, including the introduction of a mandatory protocol for all barristers sets. The BSB unveiled the measures today (18 March) as part of a bid to usher in greater transparency and fairness after concerns were raised at apparent inconsistencies in the way complaints had been dealt with by different chambers.
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International Edition

Charman divorce deadlock looms as top Cayman judge issues rallying call for trusts

A leading Caribbean judge has launched a staunch defence of trusts, fuelling expectations that there will be an unprecedented stand-off between offshore and onshore judges over the landmark Charman v Charman divorce ruling.In a keynote speech at the Legal Week Trust and Estates Forum, Mr Justice Smellie, chief justice of the Cayman Islands, railed against what he described as the "entirely misguided" criticism of offshore trusts by onshore authorities.
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International Edition

US duo celebrate key Lords extradition ruling

White & Case and Jones Day are celebrating after the House of Lords blocked an attempt by the US to extradite a British citizen accused of price-fixing, bringing to an end one of the most high-profile white-collar crime investigations of recent years. The Lords ruled this morning (12 March) that White & Case client Ian Norris could not be extradited over his alleged involvement in the price-fixing of carbon products before the Enterprise Act 2002 made price-fixing a criminal offence in the UK.
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International Edition

McDermott in for F&C on £13m Switalski claim

McDermott Will & Emery is advising F&C Asset Management as the company appeals a multimillion-pound sex discrimination claim upheld by an employment tribunal earlier this year. McDermott City chief David Dalgarno is leading the team advising F&C as it attempts to overturn the tribunal's decision last month to uphold a discrimination claim brought by F&C's former head of legal services, Gillian Switalski.
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Inside Counsel

Rocks and Hard Places

Qualcomm Inc.'s e-discovery blunder has sent ripples through the legal community. Read expert Clifford F. Shnier's take on this story of ethics, procedure and what the judge termed "deliberate ignorance."
15 minute read

International Edition

Commercial and Chancery Bar: First response

The Bar Standards Board's paper on the future of the profession may run to 50 pages, but the prospect of major change at the Bar has girded senior barristers into responding - and they are taking a conservative line, as Alex Aldridge reports
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