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Is the US Ruling the Investment Sector?

30th November 2017
  The investment sector requires attention to detail, to ensure you avoid any slip-ups. Adding to this, Matt Bruderman says: “There is often a temptation to take short cuts, but these rarely payoff and often cause more trouble and work down the road.” He shares his insights and core beliefs that ensure that the firm […]
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Uber’s Cyberhack Cover-Up Exposed

22nd November 2017
Lawyer Monthly hears form Susan Hall, a Partner and specialist lawyer in intellectual property and information and communications technology at national firm Clarke Willmott LLP, who reacts to the latest news that Uber concealed a huge data breach affecting 57 million users and drivers in 2016. The news that Uber suffered a substantial data breach […]
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DLA Piper Secures SteadyMed Victory in US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

21st November 2017
DLA Piper won a significant appellate victory this week in its representation of SteadyMed Ltd., a specialty pharmaceutical company, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. On November 14th 2017, the Court affirmed the March 31st 2017 ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and […]
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Litigation Expected Following the Unprecedented Recent Hurricane Season

17th November 2017
With various hurricanes taking the Atlantic coasts by storm in recent months, there are consequently more legal disputes to be expected according to Hermes Marangos and Tom Rotherham, respectively Partner and Associate at Signature Litigation. The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season has witnessed a cluster of exceptionally monstrous category 4 and 5 hurricanes. Litigation experts around […]
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A US Perspective on Iran's 'Act of War'

14th November 2017
Delivering missiles to rebels in Yemen was deemed a "direct military aggression by the Iranian regime," by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz last week. Below Joel Rubin, a Visiting Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, had this to say to lawyer Monthly: Iran’s ‘Act […]
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Google Vs Equustek: The Internet, IP and Global Injunctions

14th November 2017
In the case of Google vs. Equustek, some weeks back a Canadian Supreme Court ordered Google to eliminate a number of search results from a previous distributor that was reportedly using its sites to sell, illegally, the defendant Equustek Solutions’s IP. On November 2nd 2017, a California district court granted Google’s request for a preliminary […]
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What Has Been the US' Legislation Response to Gun Violence Over the Last 10 Years?

13th November 2017
Post-Pulse, post-Las Vegas, there was a flurry of gun legislation. Where does it stand? What happened with the bump stock legislation?
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What Would Happen If the US Applied a Gun Amnesty?

1st November 2017
After Stephen Paddock killed 58 people in Las Vegas and wounded more than 400, another unfortunate mass shooting in the US has yet again brought the ever-important point to moot: if there needs to be tighter gun control laws imposed in the US, and what could be done. And even though homicide rates have massively […]
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Allen & Overy and Linklaters Advise China on its First US$ Sovereign Bond Since 2004

30th October 2017
Allen & Overy has advised the joint lead managers and joint bookrunners in connection with the offering of USD2 billion sovereign bonds by the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China. This is the first foreign currency bond offering by the Ministry of Finance since 2004. The USD2 billion sovereign bond issue consisted […]
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Apple Vs Samsung Patent Retrial on the Cards

25th October 2017
Around ten months back, the US Supreme Court concluded that a previous ruling in favour of Apple was unjust and sent the case back to District Court. Now just last weekend, a District Court judge in California wrote in a retrial for the Apple Vs Samsung case surrounding three iPhone 3G patents. The retrial date […]
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