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Construction giant, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, has announced Mutiu Sunmonu as its new Chairman. Spokesman to the company, Moses Duku, had earlier in March of this year announced Sunmonu’s appointment as the new chairman with effect from April 1, 2016. Sunmonu takes over from Air Vice Marshall Nurudeen Imam (Rtd). Imam had served on the […]

Mere hours after North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory doubled down on the state’s discriminatory bathroom access law, the U.S Department of Justice fired back, filing its own lawsuit to enjoin the state from enforcing the law. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had already warned McCrory that it saw the law, which prohibits people from using […]Read More

Circuit cases don’t often involve terribly outlandish scenarios. Here’s an exception. In this qualified immunity case, a police officer arrested the real estate agents for the new owners of his home after they foreclosed on his house. Based on that brief set of facts, how do you think the court ruled? You’re probable right. The […]Read More

Cyber defamation has been the tech tort that has dogged companies and individuals for almost a decade now. Who knew that the anonymity of the Internet would lead to some people to venture off into a character murdering campaign? We all pay a price for the ability to be able to reach literally millions of […]

Controversy aside, jurists will have to live with the fact that precedent does not allow a re-hearing of the Arab Bank suit which ruled against victims of suicide bombers late last year. This was the final say of the Second Circuit, which finally put to rest the suits brought by families of Israeli victims killed […]

The American Bar Association is currently considering amending the Model Rules on attorney misconduct to make “discrimination and harassment” a professionally punishable offense. That’s great, right? After all, pretty much no one is for discrimination and harassment. Except the wording of the proposed amendment has many attorneys up in arms — particularly over the inclusion […]

Humanity (and humanity’s spambots) send out over 196 billion emails ever day. Your share is probably a few dozen — maybe 100 or so if you’re unlucky. Email has fast become one of the primary ways we communicate, whether it’s about mundane lunch plans or sensitive legal topics. But for all its ubiquity, email sometimes […]Read More

Merrick Garland, chief judge of the D.C. Circuit and President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, submitted his completed questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. The questionnaire is a routine part of the Supreme Court nomination process — and, given the unprecedented fight over Garland’s nomination, part of the White House’s attempt to pressure […]Read More

Law school is out, the sun is shining, and summer is around the corner. For many lawyers that means one thing: summer intern season. And while the “internship economy” can be exploitive, and sometimes illegal, if it’s done right, a summer internship or clerkship can be a great experience for both lawyers and their clerks. […]

In some of the more ribald news we have had to discuss this year, Cross County District Judge Joseph Boeckmann stepped down from the bench after stories floated to the surface that he handed out softer sentences for men who went to his home and posed nude or who engaged in other related acts. According […]

A bevy of solo attorneys recently responded to the American Bar Association’s invite to comment on the proposal to allow non-lawyer investing in law firms. Forty-three individuals submitted their comments: only one thought it was a good idea. Now that may sound like good new for those opposed, but a growing number of advocates claim […]

Some youths on Wednesday set ablaze the residence of Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC, Kano South) in Gaya Local Government area of Kano State. The youths also set ablaze the campaign office and poultry farm of the House of Representatives member from the area, Alhaji Abdullahi Mahmoud (APC, Alabasu/Gaya/Ajingi). An eye witness told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in […]Read More