Restrictive covenants and non-compete agreements have been a frequent topic of this blog in recent months, and rightly so. Non-competitors are generally thought to be effective tools to help firms protect trade secrets and competitive advantages. However, these agreements are falling out of favor across the country – the DOJ recently files a Statement of Interest in a state court case taking the position that non-competites may violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. Further, states continue to pass laws limiting or banning the use of noncompete agreements, including Illinois, Oregon, Nevada, DCand Colorado.
But one Texas court seems to buck this…
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 13, 2023 / Tsodilo Resources Limited (“Tsodilo” or the “Company”) (TSXV:TSD) (OTCQB:TSDRF) (FSE:TZO) wishes to provide a corporate update with respect to its legal action Botswana Ministry of Minerals & Energy (MME).
The litigation landing page has been update adding the Respondent’s Answering Affidavit filed on February 24, 2023, as well as the Company’s Replying Affidavit and Notice to Produce Documents filed on March 10, 2023.
Since the filing of the complaint against MME on October 31, 2022 (see, Tsodilo Resources Ltd. – News Releases), there has been an overwhelming request for proceeding filings…
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Ray Lachapelle’s cocaine addiction was an open secret among colleagues, clients and staff. It was an addiction so severe he lost his liberty and now his license to practice law.Article content
In a Feb. 24 ruling, the Law Society of Ontario’s disciplinary tribunal revoked Lachapelle’s license, effective immediately, for conduct unbecoming — notably his role in a 2017 conspiracy to import more than a tonne of cocaine from Colombia to Canada.
The Hawkesbury-based lawyer was found guilty in a Halifax court in 2018 and sentenced to seven years in prison.
The Mounties dubbed the project “Operation Halfpenny”…
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India’s Adani Group has hired New York-based law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to take on allegations against it raised by short-seller Hindenburg Research, the Financial Times reported, as the shares of the group’s listed firms continued to take a beating on the Indian stock market on Friday.Art school teacher Sagar Kambli gives final touches to a painting of Indian businessman Gautam Adani … [+] highlighting the ongoing crisis of the Adani group in Mumbai.
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Key FactsAccording to the Financial TimesWatchell will work on the Adani Group’s “legal, regulatory and public relations”…
Lance Reddick, a veteran character actor known for his intense roles in HBO’s hit series The Wire and the John Wick action films, died on Friday, the Associated Press reports. He was 60.
Reddick died “suddenly” from natural causes, his publicist told the AP.
TMZ, which first reported the news of Reddick’s death, said the actor’s body was found at his home in Studio City, Los Angeles, according to law enforcement sources.
The actor’s Wire co-star Wendell Pierce wrote on social media on Friday that Reddick was “a man of great strength and grace.”
“As talented a musician as he…
British Columbia will become the first province in Canada to systematically amend provincial laws to remove outdated gendered and binary language, better reflecting the diversity of the province and ensuring everyone can access provincial programs and services.
Brenda Bailey, Minister of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation, has introduced new modernizing legislation to correct outdated language by amending more than 2,300 instances of outdated gendered and binary terms from 21 ministries across 210 provincial statutes.
“Words have a powerful effect, whether written or spoken, and all British Columbians deserve to see themselves reflected in BC’s programs and services,” said Bailey. “We…
An attorney entered a not guilty plea Friday on behalf of one-time powerhouse lawyer Tom Girardi who is charged with defrauding victims of the 2018 Lion Air crash, even as his court-appointed attorney questioned whether Girardi has the capacity to be prosecuted.
Girardi appeared via videoconference in a light gray sport jacket before a federal judge in Chicago, where he and two codefendants are charged with diverting millions of dollars meant for victim families into an account his firm controlled.
Girardi did not speak, other than to consent to proceed by videoconference. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cummings appointed a federal defender,…
The federal Liberal government tabled a bill Thursday that would tweak Canada’s terrorism financing laws to allow foreign aid organizations to provide support in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and other terrorism hotspots.
The change comes after Canadian charities and other non-governmental organizations largely suspended their activities in Afghanistan because of the Criminal Code provisions that essentially prohibit them from operating there.
These organizations often have to pay taxes or fees to operate in the country — funding that is now collected by the Taliban, which controls Afghanistan.
Under the current law, these NGOs could be held criminally liable for materially supporting a…