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July 21, 2008 |

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July 11, 2013 |

Cleary Leads Lobbying on Cross-Border Swaps Rules

After months of "long and sometimes difficult" negotiations, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the European Commission on July 11 announced a framework for cross-border regulation of swaps market.
4 minute read
May 21, 2010 |

Oil disaster could prolong tourism-related job losses

Job losses in the leisure and hospitality industry may persist this summer if the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico remains largely uncontained.
6 minute read
October 19, 2006 |

Novel strategy pays off big in lead contamination liability case

TO BREAK THE paint industry's 15-year winning streak in lead liability cases, a team of New England litigators abandoned the standard products liability theories in favor of a novel application of the common law doctrine of public nuisance. The long march in what popularly has been called the Rhode Island lead paint case began in 1999.
5 minute read
March 16, 2007 |

Act Would Create Higher Hurdles for Oil Mergers

Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., the chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, introduced legislation on Wednesday that would make it harder for gasoline mergers to win antitrust approval. The Oil Industry Merger Antitrust Enforcement Act would change the current review process by demanding proof from merging parties that their transaction will not harm competition and allow the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department to block proposed mergers that do.
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June 18, 2012 |

Cleaning Up City Waterways

In his Municipal Law column, Jeffrey D. Friedlander, first assistant corporation counsel of the City of New York, writes that the Law Department's Environmental Law Division, together with technical and legal staff from the DEP, the Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation and outside counsel, are working to develop strategies to ensure that the CERCLA cleanups at Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek will be protective of human health and the environment, cost-effective, and compliant with sound scientific and legal principles
11 minute read
December 01, 2011 |

When Choosing a Data Center, It Comes Down to Trust

Reacting to an IT emergency isn't the only factor to consider when weighing an in-house or third-party data center to maintain infrastructure, writes COO Kenneth Jones of Xerdict.
6 minute read
July 14, 2010 |

Take away these stock tips from the World Cup

Some people might think the hours you spent over the last month sitting around, drinking beer and watching the soccer World Cup being played in South Africa was a waste of valuable time. Of course, they are wrong. Between cries of "No way was that offside" in front of the television, some of us have been carefully constructing an investment portfolio that will make us a fortune in the next year.
4 minute read
March 12, 2007 |

Tattooed Man's Lawsuit Revived

For Oxford piercing artist Christopher Russo, the "King Tut" and other tattoos covering his forearms should have been an automatic get-out-of-jail-free card, if only Bridgeport police had checked the videotape from the Amoco gas station he was accused of robbing on Aug. 1, 2002.
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