Myanmar 'world's worst legal system' for business
Capital FM Kenya
BANGKOK, Feb 8 – Myanmar has the world's worst legal system for doing business, retaining a position it has held for the last five years despite recent reforms, according to a report released Wednesday. It remains “the country offering the least legal ...

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Pepper Hamilton names nonlawyer as CEO
Philadelphia Inquirer
Robert Heideck, executive partner, who has been managing the firm since 2003, will return to practicing law as a litigator. Only a handful of firms nationally have nonlawyers in the most senior management positions, most of them focused on business ...

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Alabama Immigration Law's Opponents Seek Allies In Business Sector
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Opponents of Alabama's contested immigration law are asking local manufacturers of Mercedes-Benz, Honda and Hyundai cars to help them push for a total repeal of the law in the state's Republican-controlled legislature.
Legislature Considers Immigration Law TweaksWBHM
Alabama's Immigration Law May Get A Second LookNPR
Rights Advocates Ask Automakers to Help Fight Alabama Immigration LawFox News
Opposing Views -Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
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Hedge fund sues Petters' former law firm
Minneapolis Star Tribune
The role of the Minneapolis law firm Fredrikson & Byron in the business affairs of convicted businessman Tom Petters is under scrutiny. A lawsuit filed in US District Court in Minneapolis alleges that the firm "materially aided" Petters criminal ...

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Law firm sues Verano over fees
San Antonio Express
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP has sued Verano Land Group LP to collect more than $521200 in legal fees that the law firm alleges have gone unpaid. The suit, filed Monday in Bexar County District Court, follows a lawsuit Verano filed in Nevada against the ...

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Integreon Launches On-Site Legal Resourcing Service
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
LONDON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Integreon, the largest global provider of integrated legal, research and business solutions, today announced the launch of a new on-site legal resource staffing service for law firms and corporate legal departments.

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For many, affordable healthcare hinges on Supreme Court vote
Los Angeles Times
The high court will vote this year on a requirement in Obama's healthcare reform law that people buy insurance, which insurers see as a quid pro quo for accepting those with preexisting conditions. By David Lazarus It remains anyone's guess how the ...
Opponents: Congress went too far in healthcare lawHealthNews
Opponents Argue The Health Law 'Went Too Far'Kaiser Health News
All Sides Agree: Tax Law Doesn't Apply to ACAMedPage Today

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LAW: Few things are as certain as taxes, ground breakings
Press-Enterprise
For lawyers, it's certainly appropriate timing for the Riverside County Barristers Association to use its next meeting to introduce non-tax lawyers to tax law's basics. The 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Feb. 16 free event at the Mazz Bar & Grill at Riverside ...

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Pepper Hamilton Hires Non-Lawyer As CEO
Forbes
Green, a CPA and Harvard Business School graduate, is jumping into a business that makes for a classic HBS case study. For years, law partners padded their take-home pay with “leverage” they earned by billing out associates at higher rates than they ...
Law Firm Pepper Hamilton Hires Chief Executive Officer, Becoming One of Few ...MarketWatch (press release)
A CPA, Not an Attorney, is Named New CEO at Pepper HamiltonABA Journal
Can a non-lawyer run a big law firm? Pepper Hamilton says yesPhiladelphia Business Journal (blog)

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Make My Day business law that would protect use of deadly force in workplace ...
Washington Post
Opponents, including some in law enforcement, consider the plan an overreach. “This bill gives business owners a license to kill when nothing is threatened other than property,” Democratic state Rep. Claire Levy said. Most states have some variation of ...

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