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Rising Mortgage Rates in the US Threaten Housing Affordability

15th March 2018
The years of historically affordable mortgage rates look to be ending as rates have steadily increased in recent months and show no signs of turning back. Since the beginning of the year, mortgage rates in the US have increased nearly 50 basis points. Historically low mortgage rates have been the silver lining in today's competitive […]
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DOJ Rapid Fire Ban Regulation Submitted

13th March 2018
The US Department of Justice has officially submitted notice of proposed regulation to the Office of Management and Budget that aim to prohibit the use of devices, such as stocks, that enable rapid fire on weapons across the US. In detail, the regulation seeks to revise the use of the word ‘machinegun’ in the National […]
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Gender Pay Gap in the Legal Sphere? Not in the US

6th March 2018
Acritas’ new legal spend report reveals globally men to be earning 26% more than women in equivalent in-house chief legal roles, but in the US women can expect to earn the same for equivalent roles. Acritas’ Patterns in Legal Spend reports are drawn from the Sharplegal survey, which interviews 2,000+ senior legal buyers in $1 […]
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Sexual Abuse Unveiled in Elite US School

26th February 2018
Law firms Tomasik Kotin Kasserman in Chicago and Taylor & Ring in Los Angeles recently filed suit against the elite, private Montessori School of Lake Forest (Illinois) and its former teacher Celina Montoya for the sexual abuse of a young male student. The complaint states that Montoya began "grooming" the boy, identified as John Doe, […]
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Are the Russia Probe Memos a Sideshow?

26th February 2018
Democrats released an intelligence memo Saturday defending an FBI investigation into Russian meddling in rebuttal to a Republican memo that was issued three weeks ago, accusing the FBI of abusing its power. But NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield from Santa Barbara, California, tells Hari Sreenivasan that the back and forth is a distraction from […]
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Your Thoughts: Police Brutality & Corruption

20th February 2018
In recent news, it was reported that a federal jury found two Baltimore police officers guilty of corruption for robbing city residents. Their stealing of seized guns, cash and drugs for resale also corrupted many other cases. Lawyer Monthly reached out to legal experts this week and below lists several responses to some of the […]
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Supreme Court Considers Test of Vienna Convention in Relation to Wikileaks

19th February 2018
The Supreme Court has decided in Bancoult (No 3), by 5-2, that a government decision about the Chagos Islands was not made for an improper purpose. In reaching this decision, the Court unanimously held that a Wikileaks document could be admitted into evidence. The case concerned the decision of the then Secretary of State for Foreign […]
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