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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Malaysia's securities regulator on Tuesday said it was unable to "conclusively establish" whether the country's top anti-graft official violated a law on securities trading after conducting a probe. Azam Baki, the chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), faced calls this month to explain allegations that he owned millions of share...

Stephen Lam/The Chronicle Humberto Navarro, a 57-year-old San Francisco native, says it felt like his blood emptied out of his body when his roommate told him they'd received eviction papers at their flat in the Mission District. "I was like shocked as to where the heck did this come from?" he says."Why are we getting evicted?" Navarro, who is on disability after being injured while working a...

A tower built to provide high-speed broadband service. Broadband and telecom operators face potential hurdles under the new Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act as they extend coverage to areas that have historically been underserved, say Womble Bond Dickenson’s Carri Bennet and Jeff Lanning. They offer six recommendations for overcoming these obstacles. Today, our nation’s nervous system r...

Administrators at Heritage University, a small commuter school near Yakima, noticed a trend in tracking what its students did after graduating in the past five years: Only one of them went to law school. One out of approximately 1,200 graduating undergrads. Heritage University, a federally recognized Hispanic Serving Institution and Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institution, has instead ...

In a recent article, Cadwalader attorneys argue that the SEC should revisit the application of the securities regulations to the sale of utility tokens on blockchain networks. The attorneys address two key questions as to the treatment of "utility tokens" for purposes of the securities laws: Is there a way for the creators of a blockchain network to fund the development of that network throu...

The course will explore how lawyers solve conflicts between different countries in a variety of contexts, like bankruptcy and national court litigation. A new GW Law course offered this spring will help students examine increased international business disputes caused by globalization. Law school officials added the Global Economy and International Disputes course this semester following reco...

On March 16, 2016, Massachusetts State Trooper Thomas Clardy was killed when his cruiser was struck on the Massachusetts Turnpike by a speeding motorist swerving across three lanes of traffic. The motorist was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but not driving under the influence of marijuana, despite having THC, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana, in his blood at the time of the c...

Welcome to the 21st-century legal market — it's more competitive than ever, and client expectations are at an all-time high. As if you didn't already have enough pressure on you to be an outstanding attorney, you also are faced with the challenges that come along with running a small law firm. And as most lawyers soon find out, while law school may have prepared you to be a lawyer, it hardly ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed over 100 new bills into law on the first day of his second term. The bills touch on everything from student education to warding off potential voter suppression. Police officers can now review their own body cam footage before filing incident reports or interviews under one of the new laws. But there are some exceptions, such as if the video shows the use of police for...