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Judge Tyler Gill Seeks New Statute To Allow Circuit Judge to Have Access to Juvenile Records at
news.lawreader.com | 4 hours 22 minutes ago
Circuit Judge Tyler Gill of Russelville,  is seeking an amendment to KRS 610.340, the statute which makes most juvenile records confidential. Judge Tyler Gill notes that pre-trial release officers who should be supplying the court with copies of a defendant’s prior juvenile criminal history for use

Dr. Clarisse von Wunschheim On Arbitrating Your China Disputes, Part I. The Legal Context. : China
www.chinalawblog.com | Feb 2, 2012
<div> <div> <div> <div> <p>We are always writing on the importance of China contracts having a well-crafted <a href="http://www.pon.harvard.edu/category/daily/dispute-resolution/?cid=8" target="_blank">dispute resolution</a> provision. My favorite line about this is the following, from the post,

Cleveland Law Library Weblog: Law Firm Mergers Are on the Rise
suealtmeyer.typepad.com | Feb 2, 2012
Legal Current has reported that domestic law firm mergers rose 67% in 2011 compared to 2010 figures. There were apparently 45 mergers last year versus 27 in 2010, and a study by the Hildebrandt Institute predicts that the trend will...

PrawfsBlawg: "Cultivating Conscience" for Contracts
prawfsblawg.blogs.com | Feb 2, 2012
One of the biggest questions for me coming out of " Cultivating Conscience " is whether or not legal scholars can adapt the existing law & economics " utility-maximizing " framework to our new understandings of human behavior. Jolls, Sunstein & Thaler imported the psychological work on heuritics

beSpacific: Weathering financial crises: bond markets in Asia and the Pacific (BIS Papers)
www.bespacific.com | Feb 2, 2012
Weathering financial crises: bond markets in Asia and the Pacific, BIS Papers No 63, January 2012 " The Bank for International...

The Law Offices of John Caravella, P.C. Expands Practice into Fort Lauderdale | PRLog
www.prlog.org | Feb 1, 2012
The Law Offices of John Caravella, P.C. Expands Practice into Fort Lauderdale. The Law Offices of John Caravella, P.C. has announced that it is expanding its practice with the opening of its new office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The office is located at 110 East Broward Boulevard, Suite 1700. -

SEC Charges Former Credit Suisse Investment Bankers in Subprime Bond Pricing Scheme During Credit
www.sec.gov | Feb 1, 2012
<h3>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br> 2012-23</h3> <p><i>Washington, D.C., Feb 1, 2012</i><b> – </b>The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged four former veteran investment bankers and traders at Credit Suisse Group for engaging in a complex scheme to fraudulently overstate the prices of $3

Virtual Library Cat's Eye View: Contract Law Karaoke
deanelawlibrary.blogspot.com | Jan 24, 2012
Starting with Chicken in a Contract (Frigaliment Importing Co v BNS International Sales), tap your foot and listen to more songs from classic cases of first-year contract law by visiting R.B. Craswell's < a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL36131D32992573A4 & amp;feature=plcp"

TVA plans more lease-purchase deals like John Sevier » Knoxville News Sentinel
www.knoxnews.com | Jan 24, 2012
With a $1 billion lease-purchase agreement on its John Sevier Combined Cycle Plant now in hand, TVA is setting a course to make greater use of such alternative financing arrangements to meet capital funding needs without drawing closer to a $30 billion debt ceiling.

Legal Theory Blog: Richman on the Production of Contracts by Law Firms
lsolum.typepad.com | Jan 23, 2012
Barak D. Richman (Duke University - School of Law) has posted Contracts Meet Henry Ford on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Legal scholars and legal educators view contracts as a welfare-maximizing (or optimal risk-allocating) device for two or more parties....