10/12/2008
Law firms ‘losing talent over hours and work-life balance’ (Times Online)
The culture in City law firms of working long hours is draining talent from the legal profession, according to research to be published this week.
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10/13/2008
Local gov't defy Senior Citizens’ law (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines - One of the more serious violations of the Senior Citizens’ law—to my mind, almost criminal—was recently brought to my attention from the province of Oriental Mindoro.
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10/12/2008
Allotments law 'broken' claim (BBC News)
There is a claim that Welsh councils are breaking the law by not meeting the demand for allotments...
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10/11/2008
Gray Areas Seem to Grow in State Law on Disclosure (New York Times)
A law seeking the financial data of nonprofit organizations is proving hard for city officials to enforce.
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10/12/2008
Nebraska 'safe-haven' law has unintended results (Baltimore Sun)
More than a dozen children have been abandoned under Nebraska's unique safe-haven law, which allows children as old as 18 to be abandoned without fear of prosecution. But the case of a 14-year-old girl from Iowa has stoked fears of an influx of unwanted out-of-state children.
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10/12/2008
Law ministry to train pros in pre-trial settlement (The Economic Times)
To bring down the volume of litigation and encourage arbitration and mediation between feuding parties, the law ministry plans to train professionals in pre-trial settlement of disputes.
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10/12/2008
Quinn Backs Bloomberg's Effort to Change Term Limit Law (WNYC New York Public Radio)
City Council speaker Christine Quinn is backing Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to change the city's term limit law. REPORTER: Quinn, who has mayoral ambitions of her own, told reporters at City Hall that....
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10/12/2008
Copyright Law's War On Creativity (Arts Journal)
"The extreme of regulation that copyright law has become makes it difficult, sometimes impossible, for a wide range of creativity that any free society -- if it thought about it for just a second -- would allow to exist, legally."
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10/12/2008
NYC Council speaker supports term-limit law change (AP via Yahoo! News)
The speaker of the New York City Council says she supports Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his bid to stay in office for a third term.
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10/12/2008
Benefit of doubt in fiscal law (Business Standard India)
There is quite of bit of misunderstanding in regard to the concept of benefit of doubt in fiscal law which I have set out to clear in this treatise.
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