Volkswagen MDL Lands in California’s Northern District
By Amanda Bronstad, from The National Law Journal A federal judicial panel has picked U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in California’s Northern District to handle the litigation against Volkswagen A.G. over its emissions scandal. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict…
What will it take to run legal departments of the future?
By Shahzad Bashir, From Corporate Counsel Since the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, law departments have had to deal with the “new normal.” Previously, despite some lip service to the contrary, law departments had been able to insulate themselves…
AUSTRALIA: Thanks to Mal Brough, Turnbull can no longer cast himself as the anti-politician
By Kristina Keneally From The Guardian UK Malcolm Turnbull’s drop in the latest Newspoll hints that Labor’s strategic questioning of Mal Brough may have paid off Seven weeks ago Labor launched a strong attack in parliament on prime minister Malcolm…
Ex-secret service agent gets long sentence for Silk Road crimes
By Ross Todd, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco has sentenced a former Secret Service agent to nearly six years in prison for stealing about $800,000 in digital currency while investigating the Silk Road…
SLCHSA statement on Cuba – CARICOM Day
From St Lucia Times OUR INTEGRATION HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the four independent Caribbean nations at the time; Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana were established forty three years ago on 8th December 1972. Subsequently,…
IG and the new FRCP rules
By Jason R. Baron, Legaltech News How do the new FRCP amendments affect info gov best practices? As of Dec. 1, 2015 , changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) are going into effect that not only change…
INDIA: Need to look at the structure of regulations again: Tarun Khanna
By Sanjeeb Mukherjee & Karan Choudhury From Business Standard Interview with Professor at Harvard Business School Shuttling between Harvard University in the US and the NITI Aayog office in Delhi, Tarun Khanna is a busy man. The brain behind the…
Keurig Green Mountain selling itself / Calorex names new marketing manager
Keurig Green Mountain selling itself for $13.9b to private-equity company By Ashlee Kieler From If you thought that cup of coffee you picked up on the way to work this morning cost a pretty penny, then can you imagine how the…
Why US investors claim half the treasure found in Colombia’s Caribbean
From Colombia Reports The gold inside the sunken galleon San Jose, found off the Caribbean coast of Colombia on Friday, is worth between a staggering $4B and $17B but is disputed by a US investor group that claims half of…
CARPHA receives US$0.8M to address Health and Safety threats to Tourism Product
DECEMBER 7TH, 2015 HEALTH, PRESS RELEASES Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, December 4, 2015: Executive Director, Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Dr C. James Hospedales, is pleased to announce that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved funding in…
