There are of course many worse things in this world, but for bar takers from this past summer one of their worst things is the final week waiting for results, having folks asking about it non stop and trying to remember how they did months ago to reassure yourself. Its long been put out of [...]
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If you’ve ever watch practically any major sporting even you are probably aware of those little breaks where they mention that ‘this broadcast and any descriptions may not be used without the express authority of the commissioner…’ or something of that nature. Without really thinking about it people may somehow think that wow, these sports [...]
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I have followed for a bit the story of AT&T’s $10 DSL saga, where they basically hide the fact that they offer to former Bell South customers ‘low’ high speed internet (768 Kbps) as part of an agreement to overcome antitrust hurdles of the merger. Anyway, the truth of the matter is they don’t really [...]
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Well Its been over a week now of living in post bar exam bliss, all the useless knowledge that had been methodically crammed in over the course of two months has been dumped unceremoniously on the concrete floor of Veterans Memorial hall in downtown Columbus, if it didn’t end up on one of the 12 [...]
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Antitrust law has many goals, but mainly to ensure competition by preventing unfair monopolization as well as other uncompetitive practices such as collusion among business and price fixing. Under the federal antitrust laws mergers get scrutinized to see if too much of a particular market is going away, but as part of this analysis is [...]
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So this morning I strode into the halls of Capitol Law School in downtown Columbus to begin my six days with PMBR, a law review course for the multistate bar exam portion of the bar exam (the bar exam is in late July). The course is not cheap and consists of taking multiple choice practice [...]
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Events like those at VA Tech usually get people talking about the laws concerning guns, although at this point its unclear what arguments will emerge (some have already blamed gun laws for not allowing students guns to defend themselves with), what is clear already is that the guns used in the shootings were legally purchased [...]
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Maybe not the greatest idea we learn from the saga of TN blogger Katherine Coble, who posted her opinion of an encounter with a headhunting firm, only to get a demand letter from King & Ballow, a law firm that apparently doesn’t spend enough time researching the law (specifically on comments) that is emerging around [...]
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You may have seen a recent series of commercials where apparent Coke managers ask lawyers on hidden cameras how to go about suing Coke Zero, their own product, for ‘taste infringement’ or other novel theories. In reality the managers were actors, but the lawyers were real and they weren’t in on the gag. See Law.com [...]
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No, not OJ Simpson, but Conrad Black, the Canadian turned British lord, faces is on trial up in Chicago. Black, also know as Lord Black of Crossharbour, is charged along with others, of looting tens of millions from the media company the ran is the huge story in Canada. The trial concerns Black’s alleged stealing [...]
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