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Chairman of NERC wearing safety helmet I’m very skeptical of single narratives, i.e. arguments that view an issue from just one angle so in writing this I’d like to state that I’m considerably aware of the constraints with gas prices, gas infrastructure, transmission capacity, distribution and transmission losses etc among various other issues that have […]Read More

The year of the 2015 will now be marked as year of the student loan-crisis. Last year, the number of students who applied to have their student debts forgiven under the Education Department’s obscure defense to repayment (DTR) program capped out at somewhere north of 7,500. This doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a jump […]Read More

Salaries and compensation used to be highly-guarded information. Employees generally didn’t know what their colleagues were making or how much they earned relative to the cubicle next door. But pay secrecy’s days are numbered, given new state and federal laws, NLRB rulings, and the anonymity of the Internet. Salary Transparency and the Law “The legal […]Read More

Four years ago, in Miller v. Alabama, the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences without parole were an unconstitutional violation of the Eighth Amendment. Since then, there has been significant debate about Miller‘s reach: are automatic life without parole sentences verboten only for offenders sentenced after the Court’s ruling, or should childhood offenders from […]

It was a rough start and quick finish for the first trail over General Motors’ defective ignition switches, which have left over 124 dead and many more injured. The first bellwether case fell apart last week as evidence emerged that the plaintiffs had lied about the extent of their injuries. The plaintiff dismissed his claim […]

Despite bringing in $24 million dollars in business and generating nearly $8 million in revenue, former LeClairRyan partner Michele Burke Craddock says her success was devalued and diminished — not because it wasn’t enough, but because Craddock wasn’t a man. Indeed, sometimes credit for her accomplishments was stolen right out from under her, Craddock alleges […]

In a rather circuitous line of cases generally revolving the issue of free speech, a plaintiff in Laguna Beach California successfully convinced the Ninth Circuit that he was entitled to attorneys’ fees because his primary goal was not money, but some other injunctive relief. Looks like you have to not want money to get money. […]

A new proposal to amend the ABA rules of Professional Conduct is on the table. Its aim is to address workplace discrimination. Not that you weren’t being careful about what you said in the workplace before, but the proposed amendment will perhaps coax you into thinking twice before you make that off-color joke at the […]

There are apps for monitoring your billing, apps for tracking your time, apps for invoicing clients. There are even apps that allow you to send and receive cash with the click of a button, meaning you can pay and get paid without ever having to see a bank teller again. Such money transfer or “peer-to-peer […]

Lagos state Government (LASG), said on Monday, that it will ask bondholders next month to agree a change to the payment schedules for N167.5 billion($842 million) of bonds. The meeting between the Government and the bondholders will be held on February 23, the LASG wants to pay interest and principal semi-annually rather than making a […]

Capital Gains Tax – 2011 – 2015.Source: Nairametrics Research Nigeria earned just N49.5 billion from capital gains tax in the last 5 years according to data from the Federal Inland Revenue Service. Capital gains tax are taxes earned from selling assets and properties and attract a 10% tax on the gains made. Property taxes are […]

Power, Works & Housing minister, Babatunde Fashola has given an indication the Federal Government may not cancel contracts awarded under former President Goodluck Jonathan. Fashola spoke at the weekend during the Nigerian pension industry strategy implementation roadmap retreat. He said that revoking the concessions, especially those awarded to local investors, would send the wrong signal […]