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Over 50 Bar Organizations Stand Up For The Rule Of Law

Above The Law

From American Bar Association : We support the right of people to advance their interests in courts of law when they have been wronged. government can punish lawyers and law firms who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways. We reject the notion that the U.S. Why the hell not?

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Panama court acquits all defendants in “Panama Papers” and “Car wash” cases

JURIST

This landmark legal process involved 28 individuals in the “Panama Papers” case, stemming from the leaked documents of the now-defunct Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co., million digital files from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co.

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Pandora Papers reveal widespread tax evasion and hidden assets of world leaders

JURIST

This 2021 investigation is slightly different as it is based on records from these 14 off-shore service providers, whereas the 2016 investigation of the Panama Papers was based on only the records from only a single law firm. The Panama Papers implicated the names of 12 heads of state and caused significant turmoil across the world.

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More Information on the ‘Quiet’ Launch of a New Legal Research Service by LexisNexis Parent RELX

LawSites

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. Virgin Islands, and four-dozen metropolitan, county and specialty bar associations, for a total number of users of more than 1 million lawyers, out of an estimated 1.3

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LexisNexis Parent RELX Quietly Launches Legal Research Service for Bar Associations and Small Firms

LawSites

A new legal research service has quietly launched, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms, but what is not obvious from the service’s website is that the company behind it was formed as a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis. million lawyers in the country.