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Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Tony Elumelu has advocated the need to amend and improve the laws in Nigeria as he sees them as “Imperfect.” If done, it will bring rapid improvement in the lives of Nigeria and economy of the nation. Elumelu, spoke at the National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable in Abuja. […]

Someone must have been pretty high when they came up with this legal argument. A medical marijuana dispensary in Palm Springs recently argued that it does not need to comply with that city’s dispensary permitting program, which limits the total number of dispensaries to six. According to the dispensary, that permitting rule was preempted by […]

A developer in Jackson, Mississippi will get no relief from a lower court’s ruling that the mayor should not be held liable for alleged Constitutional violations against him. The case is interesting because the owner of the company alleged corruption at the state’s capitol and later tried to secure a contract with the city to […]

Walk through your corporate halls today and you might see something new on your colleague’s computer screens. Next to Word, Excel, Facebook, and Slack, everyone is checking their March Madness bracket. Is March Madness a largely harmless time suck, an inappropriate (and possibly illegal) example of gambling at the office, or the perfect corporate bonding […]

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. The Electronic Information Privacy Information (EPIC) has just filed a third-party intervention brief before the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) to help challenge the surveillance activities of intelligence organizations of the United States and the United […]

A lot of changes are happening on the law school/bar exam front. California’s Supreme Court finally gave its blessing to the state’s recent proposal to lop a day off its legendary three-day exam. Oklahoma’s Supreme Court okayed, “dumbing down” its state bar exam. The UBE is being adopted by more jurisdictions at a notable rate. […]Read More

A law firm is more than a collection of lawyers. Often, the staff keeps things running, handling case logistics, managing scheduling, and even researching and drafting. That is to say, your paralegals and legal assistants matter. A lot. Here are FindLaw’s seven best posts on how to get the best paralegals and legal assistants around […]

Following the various irregularities that characterised the conduct of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), 15 state coordinators of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have been served queries by the management of the Board over their role in the shabby conduct of the examination, it has been learnt. A source at the […]

First it was five weeks; then it was six straight weeks; then a whopping seven weeks of selling in a row even as the market rose 1.1% higher. And now, in an unprecedented for a bear market rally move, the “smart money”, i.e., BofA’s hedge funds, institutional, and private clients, havbe sold stocks for a […]Read More

Energy utility Electrabel is evacuating Belgium’s two nuclear power plants in the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels. Doel, made up of four reactors, and Tihange, with three are closed and all vehicles coming and going are subject to checks. “Employees who are not needed to run the two power plants are now leaving […]Read More

At the risk of being crass, we’ve said on several occasions that the Paris attacks, the San Bernardino massacre, and the wave of sexual assaults that have swept Western Europe are the best things that ever happened to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.  It seems exceedingly likely that Trump had very little conception of what was […]Read More

Given the extraordinary jumps in several regional Fed surveys, hope was rife that US Manufacturing PMI’s flash print would jump… it didn’t. Hovering near multi-year lows at 51.4, PMI missed expectations of 51.9 by the most since Aug 2013. With record highs in wholesale inventories, Markit claims that “pre-production inventories decline at the steepest pace […]Read More