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Law firm Baker McKenzie is set to cut ties with major Russian clients as pressure mounts on firms to comply with strict sanctions aimed at strangling the country’s influence around the world. The Chicago-headquartered firm, that posted over $3 billion in revenue last year, said it was reviewing its Russian-related operations and clients to comply with sanctions. Baker McKenzie advised VTB Ban...

What may seem like a standard and practical procedure for employers working with our older generations will now become a mandatory law in 2022. Effective this year, the Older Michiganians Act will mandate local agencies on aging to conduct criminal background checks for new and existing employees, subcontractors, and volunteers that have “in-person client contact, in-home client contact, acce...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a dispute over the legality of decades-old federal requirements that give Native American families priority to adopt Native American children in a challenge pursued by a group of non-Native adoptive families and the state of Texas. The justices will review lower court decisions that declared several key parts of the Indian ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a dispute over the legality of decades-old federal requirements that give Native American families priority to adopt Native American children in a challenge pursued by a group of non-Native adoptive families and the state of Texas. The justices will review lower court decisions that declared several key parts of the Indian Child We...

Keypoint: This week the Utah Senate and Wisconsin Assembly passed bills, the Florida House Judiciary Committee advanced HB9, new bills were introduced in Connecticut and Kentucky, and Virginia lawmakers passed a VCDPA amendment. Below is our seventh weekly update on the status of proposed state privacy legislation in 2022. Before we get to our update. We regularly update our 2022 State Privac...

Mercer Law National Negotiation Competition Team MACON – Mercer University School of Law third-year students Michael Downing and Bryce Everett won the American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division Negotiation Competition. This is the first time Mercer Law School has won the national competition. Downing and Everett advanced to nationals after winning the Regional Negotiation Competition...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A frustrated O’Hare worker, a homeless population that’s grown in recent years, and a possible solution on the West Coast. CBS 2 Morning Insider Tim McNicholas weaves all that together as he dives into an age-old challenge at airports. READ MORE: An employee at O’Hare who asked to stay anonymous showed us these pictures of people sleeping in the airport. “This is what welcome...

What a new law on energy efficiency means for New Hampshire  New Hampshire Business Review

(L-R) Rosemary Martin, group GC at Vodafone and Donny Ching, legal director at Shell. Courtesy photos A group comprising some of Europe’s biggest clients and their general counsel is looking to include social mobility as one of its key pillars as it continues its push for industry-wide progress on diversity. The move by General Counsel for Diversity & Inclusion (GCD&I) means that law ...

OHIO: An Ohio judge whose orders have blocked investigations into FirstEnergy’s role in a corruption scandal was also involved in writing the power plant bailout law at the center of the controversy. (Ohio Capital Journal) HISTORY: Alice H. Parker, an African American woman who designed a groundbreaking indoor heating system more than 100 years ago, represents yet another “hidden figure” in t...