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...No business can spend the amount of money in litigation, you know, fighter bonuses, all of these things. When the money is not coming from fights....
...lawyers will ‘delay, deny and defend’ / From Anthony Barton, Solicitor and Medical Practitioner, Joint Editor of ‘Clinical Negligence’, London N1, UK...
...Under its executive chair, Kevin Gold, a South African deals lawyer who took the top job in 1997, it has shifted from being a City firm with a tough reputation in litigation and family law to a slick corporate...
...They’re not wrong, Lex explains, but that’s only a part of the story....
...“If you’re not married or in a civil partnership, there is still an assumption that if you live with someone you’re in a relationship with, you will still be provided for if they die without making a will...
...“Historically law firms have cared very little about race, and their structures replicate the kind of white privilege and racial stratification that exists in other systems in the US,” says Anthony Thompson...
...What else we’re reading Does value investing still make sense?...
...US intelligence allies and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, disputed claims that the virus emerged from a lab in Wuhan....
...It is majority-owned by Swiss Re....
...PMI and Altria, the global and domestic US makers of Marlboro cigarettes, separated 11 years ago to shield PMI from a slowing US cigarette market as well as the threat of regulation and litigation....
...Aderton is replacing Anthony Kelly, who left the agency in November 2018. Seyfarth Shaw has hired Tracee Davis as a partner in its litigation department in New York....
...But anyone who knows Jefferies knows that they’re not your typical Wall Street bank....
...PartnerRe has hired Jonathan Colello to lead the reinsurer’s property and casualty business in the Americas. Colello was previously president of North America for Axis Re....
...“We thought it was important to have a bigger presence to support what we’re doing here and attract more local talent,” said Dimon. Read more here....
...Meanwhile, the president’s former communications director Anthony Scaramucci writes in the FT that the very voters who put the president in office will be hurt by his tariffs....
...“They’re actively looking for greater diversification in media investment.”...
...From “We’re in the money” to Behind The Money — a brand new business and finance podcast just launched by the Financial Times....
...“You can say to your employee, you’re an important employee. This is an important case to us. You either testify or we may fire you,” said Judge Alsop, addressing Uber’s counsel....
...Beth Holden, property litigation expert at Anthony Gold solicitors, says property fraud has been rising over the past three years....
...“We have to have faith in the system,” says Norman Eisen, the former ethics tsar for President Obama and previously a litigation partner at Zuckerman Spaeder....
...The type of business you are engaged in is also a factor, such as litigation or a merger....
...What the bank calls “conduct and litigation” continue to drag on performance, costing it £1.7bn in the year to September....
...Other investors cashing in their shares at the expiration of lock-up periods and outstanding litigation brought by the dissident investors are also risks....
...The SEC investigative attorneys were Carolyn Kurr, Jason Anthony, Jeffrey Leasure, and Brent Mitchell....
...Also check that there is no outstanding litigation against the company. This work is vital, valuable and not free....
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