Rimini Street Announces Global Delivery of 2012-B Tax, Legal and Regulatory UpdateSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)Like all previous tax, legal and regulatory updates, Rimini Street provided the update ahead of the software vendor's own planned release dates for equivalent updates. At the state and territory level, Update 2012-B incorporated changes and recently …and more » View [...]
A new report shows the global outlook for the number of women serving on company boards is up overall. However, different countries’ individual rates of increase vary widely, with the United States nearly flat-lining compared to some other nations. View full post on Law.com – Newswire
Los Angeles Times Shell seeks to head off Arctic offshore drilling legal challenge with pre …Global EdmontonTHE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Shell Exploration & Production ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Shell Oil Co. is taking the offensive against environmental groups that have put legal roadblocks in the company's path to offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean.Arctic Ocean drilling: Shell [...]
Global Legal Services IndustrySacramento Bee29, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: The global outlook series on Legal Services provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of …and more » View full post on legal – Google News
BBC News EU seeks legal opinion on global copyrightReutersBy Claire Davenport | BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it would refer a disputed global agreement to tackle online piracy to the bloc's highest court to check whether it complies with EU fundamental rights.Commission seeks legal clarification on controversial anti-piracy treatyEUobserver.comEU's highest [...]
Last week, Chevron won an arbitral award neutralizing the $18 billion Ecuadorean judgment now on appeal in that country. But the next day the intermediate Ecuadorean appellate court rejected the arbitrators’ order as offensive to Ecuador’s Constitution and the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights. View full post on Law.com – Newswire
Los Angeles Times The Global Patent Wars: why do the billion dollar legal battles of Apple …Toronto StarAlyshah Hasham Staff Reporter More about Apple» Armies of black-suited lawyers have been deployed, firing injunctions like machine guns in the billion-dollar legal battlefields of tech giants like Google, Samsung, HTC, RIM, Oracle and Motorola.A Digital Consumer Bill [...]
The European Commission’s new proposal on data protection regulations highlights fundamental differences in how Europe and the U.S. think about privacy. “Every company that looks to sell to an E.U. consumer will be caught by this,” says a co-head of Reed Smith’s data privacy, security and management group. View full post on Law.com – Newswire
NEW YORK – The federal bankruptcy judge presiding over the Chapter 11 case of MF Global Holdings Ltd. on Feb. 1 denied a request by MF Global’s commodities customers who sought an order directing the trustee to distribute the assets in the bankruptcy estate (In Re: MF Global Holdings Ltd., No. 11-15059, Chapter 11, S.D. [...]
With former federal judge and FBI director Louis Freeh and Hughes Hubbard & Reed corporate reorganization co-chair James Giddens set in their roles as trustees for bankrupt MF Global Holdings, several Am Law 100 and international firms are angling to help unwind the defunct derivatives broker. View full post on Law.com – Newswire
