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Important update for customers of Porter Davis (in liquidation)

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Following from the Grant Thornton’s, liquidator of Porter Davis, Customer Meeting this morning, there are still many questions left unanswered and we can appreciate that there may be some uncertainty that exists regarding what your rights and obligations are and what you should do next. Our Building team at PCL Lawyers will use tomorrow’s Webinar to address those outstanding questions and set the record straight with regard to some concerning answers. In addition to answering the commonly asked questions regarding including insurance, deposits and contract termination in more detail. Our Webinar will be informative with practical and commercially sound legal…
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Trump lawyer ordered to give additional testimony in documents case | Donald Trump

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Donald Trump’s main lawyer involved in turning over classified-marked documents at the Mar-a-Lago resort to the justice department last year must provide additional testimony in the criminal investigation, a federal judge ruled on Friday, overriding his objections of attorney-client privilege . The ruling marks a major moment in the investigation into Trump’s unauthorized retention of national security materials and obstruction of justice that could open up new avenues of information to the special counsel overseeing the matter. In a sealed ruling, the chief US judge for the District of Columbia, Beryl Howell, found that the justice department had shown sufficient…
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Ex-prosecutor warns Trump to get a new lawyer over potential “conflict of interest” in Stormy case

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Stormy Daniels, whose hush-money payment is at the center of the ongoing Manhattan investigation into former President Donald Trump, handed over communications between her and Trump’s lawyer to District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Wednesday, according to CNN. The communications between her and Joe Tacopina are said to date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking legal representation. Her lawyer, Clark Brewster, said Daniels had disclosed confidential information to Tacopina about her situation involving the former president. This has raised questions as to whether the attorney could be sidelined from his defense of Trump in the hush money case. “[The…
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Michael Cohen’s lawyer compares Trump to Clinton-Lewinsky case | Michael Cohen

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A lawyer representing a key witness in the investigation into Donald Trump over hush money payments has drawn comparisons between the case and the sex scandal that embroiled Bill Clinton, as it became clear there would be no indictment in the Trump investigation until next week at the earliest . Lanny Davis, who represents Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer, hypothesized about what might have happened if Clinton had handled his affair with Monica Lewinsky differently. Clinton was impeached in his second term after lying about his relationship with Lewinsky while he was president. Davis, who served as a special adviser…
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Spilling Secrets Podcast: Trade Secrets on Film and TV

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Now on Spilling Secrets, our podcast series on the future of non-compete and trade secret law: The 2023 Academy Awards are over, but we’re keeping the awards season alive with our very own Trade Secrets Fail Awards, highlighting Hollywood’s biggest missteps in depicting trade secret issues on-screen. Panelists Peter A. Steinmeyer, Katherine G. Rigby, A. Millie Warner, and Daniel R. Levy discuss their picks for the worst trade secret theft and misappropriation in the movies and on television. * * * Tune in to Spilling Secrets, a podcast series on the future of trade secrets and non-compete law. Each episode…
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China balloon sparks international law debate – JURIST

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The Chinese balloon that floated over US airspace last week before being shot down by a US military jet Saturday has raised questions of international law on both the US and Chinese sides. The US claims that the balloon was a spy balloon, while China maintains that it was a civilian scientific research balloon that had strayed off course. On Friday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken canceled a planned trip to Beijing. Speaking at a news conference, Blinken said: It’s very important to emphasize that the presence of this surveillance balloon over the United States, in our skies, is…
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Man shot by Indianapolis police in grandmother’s driveway files legal demand

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The city of Indianapolis and its police department have been sent a legal demand for financial compensation by a man who says officers shot him multiple times at the same time they were asking him to put his hands up. Anthony Maclin was hit three times by gunfire from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers while he was in a rental car outside his grandmother’s house early in the morning of Dec. 31. He had a gun on his lap, but his attorneys say body camera footage from the shooting never shows Maclin with the gun in his hand. more:Indy police…
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Kanye West’s ex-lawyers finally found him after months of trying to tell him they quit

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Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is seen on November 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.MEGA/GC Images/Getty Images Lawyers who represented Ye — aka Kanye West — finally found him after months of trying. They handed him a judge’s order explaining they quit and he had to find new attorneys. Ye has several pending lawsuits against him, alleging millions of dollars in damages. Kanye West’s former lawyers have finally found him. After months of searching, attorneys at Greenberg Traurig LLP, the firm that represented West for everything from contract disputes to employment lawsuits, tracked Ye down and told him they…