by keithlim | Dec 21, 2013 | Journal, Legal/Tech News, MTTLR Journal, Technology
Korea has opened its legal market to foreign law firms under Free Trade Agreements about one and a half years ago. According to the Ministry of Justice, 16 foreign firms have opened shop and are currently operating in South Korea: • 13 US-based firms: Cleary Gottlieb...
by justinac | Dec 17, 2013 | Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
Bitcoin, the creation of Satoshi Nakamoto, an anonymous person or group, is commonly touted as the “world’s first decentralized digital currency”. Since its launch in 2009, users around the world have “mined” just over 12 million Bitcoins, leaving about 9 million to...
by seanlk | Dec 13, 2013 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News
It’s often said that it’s better for a guilty person to go free than for the innocent to be wrongfully convicted. Recently, the state of Massachusetts released over 300 criminal defendants from prison and hundreds have had their charges dismissed amid a crime...
by msharko | Dec 6, 2013 | Cases, Legal/Tech News
Recent class action lawsuits and state regulators are confronting head-on the tribal payday lending business model. [1] Tribal lenders are companies that originate small dollar (payday) loans online from servers located within Indian Country, permitting them to...
by sindhoo | Nov 24, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
If you are anything like the average college student, you have probably scrambled for a book desperately needed for a research project in the last few days before said project is due. The most common fix to this problem is a technique perfected over the last decade –...
by pratter | Nov 24, 2013 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
In yet another unfortunate turn of events in the Authors Guild’s fight to enforce their interpretation of copyright law, the United States District Court in Manhattan ruled in favor of Google in Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. The court held that by digitizing books and...
