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Over 50 Bar Organizations Stand Up For The Rule Of Law

Above The Law

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

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Lawyer moved into Wynn Las Vegas, spent over $10M in ‘massive fraud,’ suit alleges

ABA Journal

A lender based in the British Virgin Islands has accused a California lawyer of spending and gambling away more than $10 million that was supposed…

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“Does the Gentlelady Have a Problem?” : Yes, Delegate Plaskett Most Certainly Has a Problem

JonathanTurley

Despite being a lawyer, Plaskett has insisted in Congress that hate speech is not constitutionally protected , a demonstrably false assertion. There is no question that the Virgin Island has a high percentage of veterans for its population (which stands at only 104,000). ” The Virgin Islands is not a “colony.”

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British Virgin Islands: The Recoverability Of Foreign Lawyers' Fees - Forbes Hare

Mondaq

When the Legal Practitioners Act, 2015 (the "LPA") came into force in the British Virgin Islands (the "BVI"), it rewrote the rules governing the legal costs that parties to BVI court proceedings can recover.

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Chile lower house votes to impeach President Sebastián Piñera

JURIST

The transaction was effected in the British Virgin Islands allegedly to evade taxes. President Piñera’s defense was led by lawyer Jorge Gálvez. The mine was sold through a firm owned by the president’s children to a close friend of the president, Carlos Delano, for $152 million.

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Cayman Islands: The Recoverability Of Foreign Lawyers' Fees - Forbes Hare

Mondaq

The recoverability of foreign lawyers' fees is an issue which has frequently been considered by the British Virgin Islands Courts in recent years. This has resulted in a significant body of case law on the topic.

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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