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Pinsent Masons has confirmed it will raise the starting salaries for its newly-qualified lawyers in both London and the regions. London NQs will benefit from a 22.6 per cent increase from £75,000 to £92,000. Meanwhile in the firm’s regional offices in the UK, NQ rates will increase to the tune of 35.5 per cent from […] Brought to you by ...
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Hogan Lovells expects the majority of staff to spend at least 60 per cent of the working week in the office once its employees return in mid-September. With staff set to spend just under half of the week working remotely, the firm said this will serve as a response to certain staff’s wishes for a ]
In a further amendment to the economic substance regulations, The Income Tax (Substance Requirements) (Implementation) Regulations, 2021 were made by the Policy and Resources Committee of the States of Guernsey on 15 June 2021, and came in to force on 30 June 2021. These regulations update and consolidate the previous amendments to the original economic substance regulations made in 2018.
From the impact of livestock feed ingredients on subsequent food products, to the opportunity to divert food waste from landfills , livestock feed plays an important role in food production.
EIOPA launches consultation on contract boundaries. The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has launched a consultation on the revision of the Solvency II Guidelines on contract boundaries (Guidelines).
Kennedys has increased its global turnover by 11 per cent to £264m, in its first year of double-digit growth since 2018/19. This tops the results from the previous financial year (2019/20) ,which saw the firm’s global revenue rise by nine per cent to £238m. Kennedys also delivered double-digit growth at its offices in Europe, Latin ]
In late 2019, Linklaters’ global head of banking Davide Mencacci left his base in Hong Kong to visit the London headquarters of the firm. It was a standard trip for a practice leader; catching up with fellow partners, updating management and shaking hands with clients. All seemed normal, but there was something brewing.
Fountain Court has hired an international counsel from Debevoise & Plimpton, the set’s fourth barrister recruit this year. Robin Lööf is joining the chambers at the end of this month. He has been at Debevoise since 2013, working in its white-collar and regulatory defense group. As such, he advises on anti-corruption matters and other criminal ]
In particular, they rarely sue individual authors, partly because authors may not have assets worth pursuing, partly because of the expense of litigation, but also because they do not want to be perceived as being unfriendly to authors.
A publishing agreement will typically provide for an author to be remunerated either by the payment of an agreed fee or by the payment of a royalty. Where payment is by way of royalty, there may also be an advance, which will need to be earned-out before the royalty payments commence.
The importance of copyright. The heart of our chimera is copyright law, which gives legal protection to works that lie at the heart of publishing: books, journal and magazine articles, blog posts, and other literary formats. Copyright prohibits, amongst other things, the publication of a work protected by copyright without the permission ...
While copyright protects the monetary value of literary works, the law of contract enables their effective exploitation. The rights that copyright creates (including the right to copy and publish a work) can be “dealt with” by means of a contract.
The most important moral rights are the right of paternity (i.e. attribution), the right to object to the derogatory treatment of a work, and the right to object to the false attribution of a work.
Assignments of copyright involve the transfer of ownership of the copyright; licences, on the other hand, involve the granting of an express right to do something which would otherwise be an infringement of copyright.
A good written agreement provides the best evidence of the contract, helps ensure that the parties are of one mind, reduces the risk of a dispute and helps with the management of a dispute should one arise. A lack of good contractual documentation can render a publishing business unsaleable. 6. Fees, royalties and advances.
In December, less than a month after the divorce filing, news broke that Erika and Tom were being sued for allegedly using their split to embezzle money. Law firm Edelson PC filed the suit in an Illinois federal court on Dec. 3 on behalf of several families who lost loved ones in a 2018 Boeing plane crash.
In March, Tom's lawyers claimed that he had "had issues" with "mental competence" and it was later announced that he had been diagnosed with dementia and late-onset Alzheimer's disease. He underwent a mental assessment on Feb. 26 as part of his younger brother Robert's petition to become his permanent conservator.
During a June hearing, a judge ruled that Robert be appointed as the permanent conservator of Tom's "person and estate," leaving him responsible for deciding the appropriate care for Tom, as well as giving him control over his estate, according to court records obtained by PEOPLE.