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By Law.com International Staff | July 2, 2020
The new law marks the most significant shakeup to Hong Kong's Constitution since the city's return to Chinese rule in 1997. Global law firms say they are scrambling to deal with clients' inquiries about how the new law will affect their bottom lines.
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By Simon Lock | June 24, 2020
Figures including Ashurst's founder and a Freshfields partner played roles in the abolition of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic.
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By Jonathan Burke | June 15, 2020
The Dechert London trainee discusses his thoughts on the nature of racism in the UK and how the legal industry still has much to do.
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By Daniel Danso | June 12, 2020
Daniel Danso encourages his colleagues to recognise and acknowledge racism when they see it.
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By Hannah Roberts | June 3, 2020
Morrison & Foerster, Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance are among firms to up donations to anti-racism groups, while other firm leaders have issues statements of support to the movement.
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By Bryan Parker | June 2, 2020
As a black CEO and former Big Law M&A lawyer, Bryan Parker offers practical tips on what law firms and the legal industry need to do to facilitate meaningful change.
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By Phillip Bantz | June 1, 2020
"We didn't think of this necessarily as a political issue," said Minority Corporate Counsel Association chair Stuart Alderoty, general counsel of fintech firm Ripple Labs Inc.
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By Law.com International Staff | May 25, 2020
Legal organizations and foreign business interests have raised concerns about Beijing's proposed legislation, and massive pro-democracy demonstrations are once again filling Hong Kong's streets.
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By Lord Sumption | May 21, 2020
"Somebody has to speak up for rationality, objectivity, and a sense of proportion" regarding the COVID-19 lockdown, the former Supreme Court judge says.
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By Law.com International Staff | May 5, 2020
With the number of COVID-19 cases falling to zero in Hong Kong, pro-democracy protestors are planning to resume large-scale demonstrations, including one to mark the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests June 4.
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By Marianna Wharry | December 15, 2023
A lawsuit claims that a student's father staying in the school's dorm used abusive tactics and threats to create a "cult" with Sarah Lawrence students.
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By Emily Cousins | December 15, 2023
"It allows us to move forward and push our case to the District Court to reject the claims, which are entirely baseless on the merits," American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut's Elana Bildner said. "It doesn't endorse the plaintiffs' very distorted view of what Title IX means."
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By Allison Dunn | December 14, 2023
"The West Point School Board violated that constitutional command when it tried to force Vlaming to endorse the school's ideological viewpoints on gender identity," the plaintiff's counsel, Chris Schandevel, said in a statement Thursday. "And the Virginia Supreme Court rightly vindicated Vlaming's right to stand by his convictions in its decision."
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By Avalon Zoppo | December 14, 2023
In the lawsuit, Erma Wilson alleges that Midland County violated her due process rights by employing Ralph Petty as a prosecutor at the same time that, unbeknownst to her, he worked as a law clerk for the county judge who handled Wilson's drug-possession case.
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By Mason Lawlor | December 13, 2023
A federal lawsuit has accused Morehouse College in Atlanta of unlawfully dismissing a formal Title IX complaint of sexual assault against one of its students for allegedly adding a sexual stimulant to another student's alcohol without her knowledge in order to commit rape.
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By Jeffrey M. Winn | December 12, 2023
Prior to the United States' entrance into World War II, the U.S. Supreme Court -- mostly nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, had issued several important decisions that enforced the civil rights of a variety of Americans against government discrimination. But after America became a combatant, the court would issue morally corrosive rulings that ultimately deprived 120,000 people of the equal protection of the laws.
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By Law Journal Editorial Board | December 10, 2023
We urge colleges, law schools, CLE providers and others to highlight New Jersey's own 1947 ERA. And we urge New Jerseyans and others to renew the campaign to recognize the federal ERA as a ratified provision of our U.S. Constitution.
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By Allison Dunn | December 8, 2023
"It is immaterial that Muldrow identified as straight. A juror could reasonably hear the evidence at trial and assume that Muldrow was homosexual or identified with a sexual orientation other than heterosexual. It is the jury's perception of the defendant as homosexual that is the relevant consideration," Judge Joseph M. Getty wrote.
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By Riley Brennan | December 7, 2023
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By Colleen Murphy | December 7, 2023
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