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Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) have released the 2017 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws. The 14th annual report rates all 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC) on adoption of 15 basic traffic safety laws. This "report card" exposes deadly gaps in these essential laws and should serve as both a […]
Russia, Slovakia, India and Pakistan, according to the BSI Trafficking & Supply Chain Slavery Patterns Index, are all ‘severe risk’ source countries of ‘modern day slaves’ to the UK. Of the G7 nations, Italy is identified as a ‘high risk’ nation – partly due to the conflict in Syria. Greece and Turkey are additionally categorized […]
API President and CEO Jack Gerard testified before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last week on the need for smart, science-based oil and natural gas regulations so that American consumers and workers and the environment can continue to benefit from America's energy renaissance. "America is now leading the world in oil and natural […]
The largest UK fines for health and safety incidents have increased substantially in the past year, with some of the biggest brands in business having to pay millions of pounds for failing to control serious risks to employees and the public. There were 19 fines of £1 million or more in 2016 – the largest […]
A collection of well over 100 businesses and trade associations that represent millions of American jobs recently announced a new coalition to stop the Border Adjustment Tax or BAT. Americans for Affordable Products (AAP) will run a national campaign to engage consumers and show lawmakers that pursuing tax policy that will result in higher costs […]
Bloomberg Law and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) recently announced the findings of a nationwide survey of patent attorneys and agents that gauged their feedback regarding proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The survey suggests that initial complaints about the rate of invalidity decisions issued by the PTAB have largely […]
Mark O’Halloran, Partner at Coffin Mew, gives an exclusive overview of how contracts, agreements and the arrangements we make in our day to day life and work are adapting to the intricacy and flexibility of today.
According to IDC, most decision makers will have digital transformation at the center of their corporate strategy by the end of 2017. Yet, two thirds of digital transformation projects fail. One of the reasons behind this failure is due to the existing organisational culture and structure. Here Lawyer monthly benefits from an exclusive anaylsis by Matt […]
As US/Mexico relations deteriorated during US President Donald Trump's first weeks in office, a powerful Texas attorney is taking a Mexican cause célèbre to the highest court in the United States. Bob Hilliard stands with Mexico "Innocent Mexican citizens have been killed and their families have had no recourse through the court system to seek […]
The Teamsters Union strongly denounces an anti-worker bill recently passed by the Missouri legislature and signed by Gov. Eric Greitens making Missouri a right-to-work-for-less state. The destructive right-to-work law is designed to drive down wages and weaken workers' bargaining rights. States that have already mandated right to work have lower wages, higher unemployment and poverty […]
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