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Facebook, Google Balk at Loophole in Bill to Rein in NSA

22/05/2014(0)
A group of technology companies, including Facebook Inc. (FB), Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple Inc. (AAPL), said the bill U.S. lawmakers plan to vote on today to limit National ... Read More
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Roberts Reunites High Court Majority After Obamacare Vote

19/05/2014(0)
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is back to being the conservative majority. Two years after the court upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law and a year after it ... Read More
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Deutsche Bank’s Birmingham legal team is growing

16/05/2014(0)
Deutsche Bank has appointed a new head of legal for its Birmingham office, charged with growing the department’s size and the range of business-critical advice it provides to the ... Read More
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Clifford Chance, Eversheds and Allen & Overy triumph at Middle East awards

16/05/2014(0)
Clifford Chance (CC), Eversheds and Allen & Overy (A&O) were the main law firm winners at the third annual Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards last night (15 May), which ... Read More
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Detroit Creditors Seek to Defend Pension Debt in Lawsuit

16/05/2014(0)
A bond insurer wants the chance to fight Detroit’s effort to cancel $1.4 billion in pension debt, while the city is asking a judge to take a bus tour ... Read More
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High Court dismisses JR on unfair dismissal cap

15/05/2014(0)
The High Court has dismissed a request for a judicial review challenging the newly introduced cap of one year’s salary in compensation for unfair dismissal. The cap came into ... Read More
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Telefonica-KPN Review Said to Focus on Small Operators

15/05/2014(0)
The European Commission’s review of the proposed merger of Telefonica SA (TEF) and Royal KPN NV (KPN)’s German wireless units focuses on bolstering smaller competitors that lease capacity rather ... Read More
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Investors May Have Gained Early Word on Fed Policy, Study Finds

14/05/2014(0)
Some investors may have gotten early word of changes to Federal Reserve policy between 1997 and 2013 and profited by trading before the policy shifts were publicly announced, according ... Read More
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Ex-Barclays chief to be quizzed by fraud office over alleged bribes

13/05/2014(0)
Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond is to be grilled by the Serious Fraud Office over alleged bribes paid by the bank to Middle East investors during the financial crisis. ... Read More
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Old, Fired at IBM: Trendsetter Offers Workers Arbitration

12/05/2014(0)
For at least a decade, International Business Machines Corp. gave fired employees information detailing a severance package that asked them to waive age-discrimination claims and also included a page ... Read More
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