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Maverick Nigerian Blogger Abiodun John Balogun Aka Weboga (Nigerian Webmaster) has Threatened to Sue Banking Giant GTbank also known as Gauranty Trust Bank .In a Series of Interviews The Blogger said his Decision came after Realising What Nigerians are subjected to by Local Financial Authorities in Various Attempts Intentional or Machine Induced to defraud them […]

  There are four distinct legal systems in Nigeria: English law which is derived from its colonial past with Britain; Common law, a development of its post colonial independence; Customary law which is derived from indigenous traditional norms and practice, including the dispute resolution meetings of pre-colonial Yorubaland secret societies and the Èkpè and Okónkò […]

  Posted by Kehinde Adegbite on April 16, 2012 at 10:00pm View Blog Many Nigerians never think it is important for them to know certain things about their country’s law until an event compels them to do so. Can you imagine that some people are in prison out of ignorance?             I paid a visit […]

Last year, the Supreme Court all but destroyed Aereo, a company that made its money by streaming over-the-air broadcasting to people’s computers and mobile devices. Because Aereo, unlike cable TV companies, didn’t pay broadcasters and content providers for Aereo’s “performance” of their work, the Court found copyright infringement. At worst, the decision could have doomed […]Read More

I don’t even know where to start. Maybe at the end? On January 16, Louisiana lawyer Jennifer Gaubert was convicted of misdemeanor criminal mischief for filing a false police report. Gaubert is scheduled to be sentenced on February 13 and faces up to six months in jail — quite a difference from the felony she […]

What is CISPA, and how is the current version of the bill different than in years past? In President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address, he urged Congress to “finally pass the legislation we need to better meet the evolving threat of cyberattacks.” One bill that’s been introduced is the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and […]Read More

Well, this one hits close to home. At the end of last year, the State Bar of California proposed a formal ethics opinion on attorney blogging. We here at FindLaw’s Strategist are all in favor of attorney blogs (well, when they’re good, anyway), but the California opinion raises a few issues that blogging lawyers will […]

Back in 2011, we learned that several Silicon Valley companies agreed not to poach each other’s employees, resulting in suppressed wages. The class ended up in federal court and looked close to a settlement by April of last year. Judge Lucy Koh, however, rejected the proposed $324 million settlement, which would have resulted in $5,000 […]

The results from Vault’s 2014 Law Firm Associate Survey are in, reports TaxProf Blog. Wait, why is TaxProf Blog reporting on this? Probably because “Tax” is the practice area with the highest associate satisfaction. Take that, antitrust! So what makes tax law so interesting? “Tax law may be satisfying work because it is often described […]Read More

In a case that Court-watchers were eagerly anticipating, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today in Holt v. Hobbs that a prison policy prohibiting inmates from growing beards unless they have a dermatological condition violates the First Amendment. Holt, a prisoner in Arkansas, converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul Maalik Muhammad. Muhammad’s […]

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. Should our digital pasts always follow us around, or should we have the right periodically to wipe out digital slates clean? The notion of “the right to be forgotten” has garnered quite a bit of attention in Europe, […]

It’s happened to you before: You get an unsolicited email from someone you don’t know, claiming that someone else did something to him and now he wants to sue. You’re pretty sure this person got your email address from the state bar website, because you’ve never heard of this person before. Opening up the email, […]Read More