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Steinhardt Pledges Picassos for Real Estate as Art Loans Surge – Bloomberg

Michael Steinhardt, the former hedge-fund manager who has spent at least $200 million on fine art, is using part of the collection to secure low-cost funding for his latest real estate venture … chairman of the art law group at … Continue reading

Labour vows to repeal Hobbit law – New Zealand Herald

A Labour-led government would change the law around film workers, even if it meant losing the The Hobbit films overseas, as part of a major policy release around employment relations. The Work and Wages policy, released yesterday, has at its … Continue reading

Law Firm Teams with IBM to Help Veterans Get Benefits Faster While Increasing Revenue by 80 Percent – TMCnet

As part of the company’s evolution into a social business, the law offices chose IBM social software over Microsoft software to more than double its client base, resulting in increased gross revenues by 80 percent. Story continues below ↓ To … Continue reading

Facebook Plaintiffs Seek to Consolidate Tracking Cookie Cases in California; Retain Professor of Law – PR-USA.net

Consolidating these cases and transferring them to San Jose is in the best interest of the class and judicial … J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. Professor Perritt noted the intense interest Facebook’s actions have recently received …

Elder Oaks testifies before Senate on charitable giving – ksl.com

Columbus School of Law Source: Deseret News Hatch supports charitable deductions since they encourage non-governmental ways of providing help to those in need. Hatch told KSL Newsradio that Elder Oaks’ and others’ testimony was well received by …

Alabama Immigration Law: Experiment To Replace Workers With Unemployed Coming Up Short – Huffingtonpost.com

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Jerry Spencer had an idea after Alabama’s tough new law against illegal immigration scared Hispanic workers out of the tomato fields northeast of Birmingham: Recruit unemployed U.S. citizens to do the work, give them …

Biotech Comes Alive: A New Era Of Cheap Genomics Brings Opportunities for Innovation – Forbes

Hessel heralds a new era of biotech, a near future in which the means to manipulate life at a fundamental level will be inexpensive and widespread. A former drug developer, he points out that the faster-than-Moore’s-Law drop in prices of … Continue reading

Tax misclassification packs a punch for GAs – Daily Illini

A federal tax law has left a handful of classified graduate assistants and pre-professional graduate assistants receiving a reduced paycheck this past week ­­— some even earning as little as nothing. This semester, 147 graduate students received …

Fla businesses see bright future with free trade – CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog)

More than a dozen other biotech, intellectual property law and transport firms, have also recently moved in, most with an eye on Latin America, he said. Meanwhile, Goya Foods is opening a new, state-of-the-art distribution center in Miami next …

Fla businesses see bright future with free trade – msnbc.com

More than a dozen other biotech, intellectual property law and transport firms, have also recently moved in, most with an eye on Latin America, he said. Meanwhile, Goya Foods is opening a new, state-of-the-art distribution center in Miami next …