| Booming advice market is a boost to Tods Murray | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 3:03:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | EDINBURGH-headquartered law firm Tods Murray has reported a rise in gross profits to £9.5 million in the year to March 31 - up from £8.4m in the previous 11-month period. The firm, which is based at Fountainbridge, said a booming market for transactional advice in both the public and private sectors had boosted its business. .... | |
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| | | FLEMINGTON: Legal advice for women business owners | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:12:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | The New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners Hunterdon County Chapter will conduct its monthly meeting Feb. 12 at the Hampton Inn, 14 Royal Road in Flemington. This months meeting will be focus on how to Love Your Business, But Watch Out For Those Subtle Legal Pitfalls. Attorney Nadine Maleski will speak about mediation, the divorce cause of action, alimony, equitable distribution, custody and parenting time, premarital agreements and cohabitation agreements. The meeting will start at 5:30 p.m. and includes a hot dinner buffet The cost is $20 for members, $25 for nonmembers who reserve before Feb. 9. After that date the cost is $25 for members and $30 for nonmembers. To register, visit www.whoscoming.com/NJAWBOHunterdonChapter/. For more information, call (609) 581-2121 or visit www.njawbo.org.... | |
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| | | Joyce seeks legal advice over sacking | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:03:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sacked Wollongong Hawks coach Brendan Joyce will not rule out an appeal over his terminated contract and is seeking legal advice. The club issued a warning to Joyce earlier this month after fans and sponsors complained about him using offensive language during games. Hawks chief executive officer Paul Young says the board has not received any assurance from Joyce that his behaviour will change. "All it asked for was assurances back to the board that this behaviour wouldn't continue," he said. "We didn't receive those assurances after 14 days and the board then met on Wednesday, worked late into the night and still the assurances didn't come through. "Regretfully, the board was left with no option." Mr Young said he never thought it would have to sack Joyce.... | |
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| | | Scary seeks legal advice | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:07:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown spent yesterday locked in meetings with top Hollywood lawyers, following ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy's claims her unborn child may not be his. The singer was seen consulting with several legal teams as she decides which lawyer is best to represent her in what promises to be a high profile fall out. The Beverly Hills Cop star appeared on TV earlier this week and announced that the couple were no longer dating. He also demanded a DNA test when the singer gives birth. She fumed in a statement, "I am obviously upset and distressed at some of the comments made by Eddie Murphy to the media. "I have no idea why anybody would want to conduct themselves in this kind of manner about such a personal matter in such a public way.... | |
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| | | Councillor seeks legal advice over racist email | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:07:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | TORY councillor Ellie Bland is seeking legal advice after being labelled a racist for circulating an email containing an offensive poem. The Calne town councillor insists it was her husband who actually forwarded the poem, which contains the lines: "We have hobby, it's called breeding. Welfare pay for baby feeding," and "By and by, I get plenty money, thanks to you, British dummy." She has now been suspended from the Conservative party after the email accidentally ended up in the inbox of a Liberal Democrat councillor who took the opportunity to publicise it. Cllr Bland, who stood as a parliamentary candidate in the last general election, denied she had meant any offence to anyone and is holding her head high despite the story making headlines in the national press.... | |
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| | | Parker provides great legal advice | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:22:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | I am a former client of Bob Parkers. Bob is a competent attorney, and his commonsense approach to problems provides his clients with clear and applicable legal advice. He made sure that I was taken care of first. I appreciate his straightforward manner, and believe that is exactly what we need on the Probate Court bench. .... | |
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| | | Legal staff can wear veils in court | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:23:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | Judges have been told to allow solicitors and other legal advisers to wear the Islamic veil in court unless it interferes with the "interests of justice". Interim guidance told the judiciary to use their discretion following a high-profile case. Stressing that the new guidelines were only a temporary solution the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, disclosed that a judicial equal rights committee has been asked to urgently draw up full rules on the veil issue. It emerged .... | |
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| | | UK judges asked to advice whether Muslim women lawyers can wear veils | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:18:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | London, Nov 8: In what is being said to be a first in the UK, judges in Britain have been asked to advice whether advocates may appear in courtrooms wearing veils for religious reasons.The question was referred to Justice Hodge, the president of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, by an immigration judge at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, who had difficulty in hearing a veiled legal executive.The immigration judge faced difficulty while hearing Shabnam Mughal, an advocate, who was dressed completely in black with a full-face veil leaving only her eyes visible. The judge, George Glossop, asked Shabnam to "kindly remove her veil to assist with communication". He reportedly told her: "It will allow me to see your face and I cannot hear you as well as I would like."She declined to do so and Immigration Judge Glossop briefly adjourned the case.... | |
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| | | Legal considerations | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:03:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Entrepreneurship involves the creation of new business ventures. One of the aspects of establishing any new business venture is considering the legal impacts on the proposed project and ways in which the business can best be protected through the law. There are some basic steps that every new business should take to ensure its best prospects for future success. Here are some of those key areas where legal considerations may benefit a new business venture. Establishing the business Legal advice should be sought on the best way to structure the business for not only its current needs, but also its future growth plans and any founder exit strategies. For example, in Oman there are a number of corporate forms under which a business can be conducted.... | |
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| | | Legal system exposes immigrants to scams | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:11:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | Hundreds of immigrants across North Carolina are getting cheated out of thousands of dollars by people posing as attorneys and legal experts, according to immigration lawyers and Latino advocates. Scammers often persuade clients, typically illegal immigrants, to apply for asylum or other avenues of residency, knowing requests aren't likely to be granted, they say. "The net result is the client pays money for something that does them no service," said David Stewart, a Charlotte immigration attorney and executive director of the International House. "And, in a worst case, it gift-wraps them for the deportation people." Raids against illegal immigrants and calls for tougher enforcement of residency laws are driving more immigrants to seek legal advice.... | |
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