Contract of Agency and Its Essentials: A contract of agency is a two-party relationship in which one person acts as representative to the other in business dealing in order to create contractual relations between that other and a third person. An agency may be created to perform any act that […]
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Causes of Failure of 1956 Constitution Of Pakistan
Causes of Failure of 1956 Constitution of Pakistan: Muhammad Ayub Khan abrogated the 1956 Constitution of Pakistan and enforced Martial Law in the Country in 1958. Following are some important causes of the failure of the 1956 Constitution of Pakistan. Advertisements One Unit Electorate issue Unicameralism Lack of Proper Election […]
BTRTN Assesses the MLB Hall of Fame Contemporary Baseball Era Ballot
Tom takes a break from politics to assess the MLB Hall for Fame ballot for the committee looking at modern era players previously overlooked by the writers in the regular ballot. As many readers know, apart from forecasting the outcomes of political elections, we also annual make predictions for the […]
WEBINAR: Copyright Basics for the Generalist In House Counsel
What does the generalist in-house counsel need to know about copyright? While patents and trademarks often receive the lion’s share of an organization’s intellectual property focus, copyrights comprise a critical third prong to a healthy overarching IP strategy – even for companies whose products and services involve little or no […]
Different Types of Lawyers and When to Hire Them
And when you might need to hire one? If so, read on. This article will introduce you to some of the different types of lawyers out there and when you might need to seek their help. From divorce lawyers to criminal defense lawyers, there is a lawyer for just about […]
Show, Don’t Tell « ABA TECHSHOW
Show, don’t tell, is the central rule of story-telling. And yet so many lawyers feel that the best marketing comes from telling their clients and other lawyers how great they are, rather than proving it. But there are so many ways to let people know the truth: that you have […]
Malaysia passes Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill with very minor amendments, despite widespread criticism
Malaysia’s Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) has passed the Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill 2021, despite unaddressed concerns of significant shortcomings in the Bill. The Bill was initially tabled for its first reading in December 2021 (Read our previous post: “Malaysia’s Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill tabled in Parliament”). It was then withdrawn from […]
Tech Adoption Named Top Non-Legal Skill for In-House Counsel
The State of Corporate Litigation Today, published in collaboration with EverLaw, noted that 47% of respondents believe that technology adoption will be the ost important skill needed by the next generation of in-house legal professionals. The report, which was issued at the ACC 2022 Annual Meeting, showed the results of […]
Two Former Mississippi Department of Corrections Officials Indicted for Excessive Force Against an Inmate
A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Mississippi returned an indictment that was unsealed yesterday charging two former Mississippi Department of Corrections officials with deprivation of rights under color of law. According to court documents, both Jessica Hill, a correctional officer at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF), […]
Important Lesson From the Ukraine Invasion
Photo source: Sunday Times When I see the atrocities being committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, it diminishes my hope for peace even once Putin is no longer in power. There seems to be some “psychopathic gene” in the way they will inflict pain on others just to survive. Decades […]
Fighting conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine — Global Issues
As the Russian invasion erodes the security of Ukrainians across the country, the risk to women and girls is two-fold. “There’s no doubt that no one feels safe because of Russia’s war against Ukraine,” says Ms. Kit, “And women and girls have become even less protected from gender-based violence. Rape—usually […]
Wonkette Weekend Chat Holiday Fire Sale!
It’s the first Sunday in December, and I’ve already finished my Christmas shopping. I don’t mess around. Sammy Davis Jr. sang “It’s Christmas Time All Over The World,” which is somewhat culturally insensitive, but it’s starting to look a lot like Christmas outside my window. Of course, if it was […]
Andy Warhol Art Headlines Busy Week for Supreme Court of United States
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases last week. The most high-profile case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, will determine whether Andy Warhol infringed photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright when Warhol used Goldsmith’s images of the musician Prince to create a series of silkscreens […]
How Long Should a Paragraph Be?
Get more writing tips! How long is a paragraph? The answer, like so many things in life, is: It depends. Formal documents tend to have longer paragraphs. But short paragraphs produce a more readable document. A discredited theory holds that every paragraph should start with a topic sentence and follow […]
The Chemistry of Leadership – Leading As Lawyers
In order to succeed as lawyers while leading, we must react and cooperate, advocate with empathy, and earn respect by giving respect. Sarah Beth Cain Hardwick Fellow University of Tennessee College of Law, Class of 2023 As a child, I quickly recognized what would certainly be one of the most […]
Employment Act to apply to all employees from 1 January 2023, some sections subject to increased salary threshold of RM4,000/month
[Note: When this article was first published on 16 August 2022, the amendments to the Employment Act were scheduled to come into force on 1 September 2022. In late August 2022, the government announced that the implementation date would be deferred to 1 January 2023. This article has been edited […]
Leading While Leaving – Leading As Lawyers
We should all treat our positions of leadership as if today is the last day. Beth Ford Director, Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee I have a half-completed Leadership Institute blog post on my computer that I began about a month into the pandemic. I naively thought that I would […]
“Have I Just Met the Jewish Hitler?”
Have I just met the Jewish Hitler? This question ran through my mind as I stepped out into Jerusalem’s chilly night air earlier this month after attending a small gathering with Itamar Ben Gvir. Just three days earlier, it became clear that the far-right Otzma Yehudit party leader would join […]
A Rare Inside Look at Our Corrupt Supreme Court
I suspect that every member of the National Press Club may at one time have met the Reverend Rob Schenck. This indefatigable evangelical pastor has used the club many times—to thank the kingdom of Morocco for its cooperation with Christian missionaries in 2010, for example, or to decry the creation […]
Bodies of 1,700 dead seals found along Russia’s Caspian coast | World News
Around 1,700 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia, according to officials. Their cause of death so far remains unclear, but authorities in the Russian province of Dagestan said the animals had likely died of natural causes. On Saturday, regional officials initially said 700 […]
Peters makes play to lead state GOP as second worker agrees to testify against her
It looks like Colorado Republicans are doing what so many Republicans do best in the face of defeat — make matters it worse. Just to refresh on winning strategies, a splintered party that attacks itself and pulls each other down like crabs into a boiling pot of hot death is […]
The US Men’s Soccer Team Beat Iran On Tuesday, But Iranian Players Deserve All The Credit
In the past, I found it easy to root against the imperialist teams, but that calculus gets complicated the more those teams change. Paris-born star Kylian Mbappé is the son of a Cameroonian father and a mother of Algerian descent. Canada’s Alphonso Davies was born in a refugee camp in […]
Non-Occupational Long Term Disability
Wednesday, 27 July 2022 Non-occupational long-term disability (LTD) typically comes with chronic pain, emotional anguish, and hefty health expenses. These are bad enough. However, the worst thing about it is it keeps you from going back to work to cover those expenses. It’s a catch-22. Up to 12% of Canadians […]
Why the Scottish Independence debate is not over – politicalbetting.com
A special report from Gerry Hassan The UK Supreme Court judgement that the Scottish Parliament does not have the right tohold a referendum on independence because it is a ‘reserved matter’ to Westminster maynot have been a surprise, but this was still a landmark day for Scotland, independence andthe UK. […]
And Thus the Divide Manifests: The Bundeskartellamt’s First Proceedings Based on Section 19a(2) GWB (Meta/Oculus)
The wheels of the German competition authority’s enforcement of its dedicated rules on digital markets have started to turn (on the technical and substantive aspects of Section 19a GWB, see previous posts here and here). According to the recently introduced rules, the Bundeskartellamt first formally determines that an undertaking is […]