Yesterday the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) announced in a press release that it would be operating a morning duty advice scheme at the London offices of the LVT from 21 September 2010. This news follows hot foot on the announcement that from 16 September 2010, LEASE’s phone advice line w ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) just published their latest evaluation of booster seats. Booster seats are designed for children ages of 4 to 8 and their purpose is to insure that lap belts and shoulder harnesses fit across a child's torso so that the belts can do their job in the ...

Would anyone from the NYC area like to inquire about 2 Pavement tickets, featuring uberslacker Steven Malkmus from when he was still razor-sharp and at the top of his sardonic game? Central Park, Tuesday Sept 21.I can't go because I'm giving the annual Tillinghast Lecture on international taxation a ...

For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recommendation list for booster seats has more seats being recommended than not.  The Insurance Institute is saying that booster seats on the whole, are getting much safer.  The agency made the recommendations after testing 72 safety sea ...

Selected articles concerning employment related issues noted by law firmsSource: The Lexology newsfeed[New users can register free of charge at www.lexology.com/account/register.aspx]Telecom privacy newsArent Fox LLPAs part of the draft of a law governing workplace privacy, Germany has proposed plac ...

Under Georgia law, both parties in a divorce are required to attend a parenting seminar if the parties have children under the age of 18. See Uniform Superior Court Rule 24.8. Cobb County (Acworth, Austell, Kennesaw, Marietta, Powder Springs and Smyrna) offers its Divorcing Parents Seminar at the C ...

For publication opinions today (2): In Department of Waterworks v. Community School Corp., So. Hancock, a 21-page, 2-1 opinion (including...

Most law firms state their commitment to diversity and inclusivity, prominently featuring on their diversity pages the pathetically few women and minorities in positions of genuine economic power in the firm.  Are they walking the talk?  Let me count the ways. O'Melveny & Myers ~ W ...

Our Illinois class action attorneys recently noted a Seventh Circuit decision ending a class-action case in the difficult realm of securities fraud. In Re Guidant Corporation, No. 08-2429 (7th Cir. Oct. 21, 2009), is a securities class action stemming from allegedly misleading statements Guidant C ...

Costa Rica's appeal to the Arizona District Court over the rights of illegal immigrants in the United States was thrown out last week because it was submitted past deadline. In an e-mail to The Tico Times, an assistant to the clerk of the court confirmed that "the motion was denied on Sept. 2, 2010 ...