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Do you dislike your summer firm? If you were to stumble upon a new job offer at the end of the summer, would you jump on it? Fear not, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is dangling a $35,000 sign-on bonus for lucky associates who join the QEUS team — after a summer stint at another […]

Electronically stored information is vulnerable to hacking, point blank. Even some of the most sophisticated computer systems can find themselves vulnerable to a sophisticated cyberattack — or, more likely, a careless employee. And so long as you have valuable information stored on computers, you need to be ready for a potential data breach. To help […]

A Superior Court in California has just penned off on a settlement that requires Christian Mingle to accommodate LGBT singles who use the site. Now, people visiting ChristianMingle.com aren’t restricted to searching for a partner of the opposite sex; they can now search for same-sex matches. This will surely not be the last word on […]

As the kids say, Justice Sotomayor is woke. In the era of #BlackLivesMatter, a time when Travon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner (and so many more) are household names, Justice Sotomayor is taking on the criminal justice system from the Supreme Court bench. Over the past term, she has increasingly called out, often in […]

You wake up and check your phone. Before you go to bed, you send a last-minute email from under the covers. Twenty years ago, doing so much work in your pajamas would have been unthinkable. Now, it’s the norm. And you’ve got your smartphone to blame. Mobile phones have changed how the law is practiced […]

The legal marketplace has changed dramatically over the last decade: the Great Recession halted the legal boom of the mid-aughts, putting a renewed focus on value and efficiency in BigLaw, while the rise of online legal services has undercut business that was once handled by smaller practitioners. But as the legal market has evolved, many firms […]

Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s information and culture minister, has described legendary Nollywood actress, Zainab Bukola Ajayi, who died on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 as an iconic thespian and a colossus of her time who has left an indelible footprint in the country’s creative landscape. In an e-mailed statement sent to The Trent on Thursday, July 7, 2016, the minister said […]Read More

The first episode of the highly anticipated discussion series, Untold Facts aired on Thursday, June 30, 2016, on the YouTube page of The Initiative for Equal Rights – @TIERsNigeria. Guests included Kenny Badmus, a brand expert and advocate for social change; Doyin Olaniyan, a blogger, traveler and TEDx speaker; and Mike Akanji, sexual health and rights […]

ast week, a total of 1.469 billion shares worth N17 billion in 21,246 deals were traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Only 126,979,844 shares have been traded this week (Monday, July 4, 2016) so far. The market will be closed for 3 days out of a 5-day working week. That is a significant volume of […]

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has accused the minister of interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, a retired army general, of a breach of section 10 of the Nigerian Constitution for taking directives from a private religious leader, the Sultan of Sokoto, in adjusting a national holiday from two to three days. The group has also […]

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti State has accused Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari of using corrupt anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to fight corruption in Nigeria. In a statement released on Wednesday, July 6, 2016, Governor Fayose insists that the Buhari must start the corruption fight from his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and his immediate […]Read More

Court jails fuel station owners for illegal oil transactions A 30-year-old Nigerian man, Francis Ihenwe Oderah, who claimed to be a footballer in Cambodia has been sentenced to 8 years in imprisonment and fined 40 million riel (about $10,000) for drug trafficking. DailyMail reported that Oderah was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Choam Chao commune in […]