“I was always afraid of the squid and whale fighting,” Jesse Eisenberg’s Walt tells his therapist in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical tale of two brothers caught in the middle of a nasty divorce between their literary parents. “I can only look at it with my hands in front of my face.” The …
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Regardless of who filed, many women feel overwhelmed as they begin to gather financial statements and documents. The more they learn about their financial status, the more embarrassed and ashamed they feel. They may even feel defeated. The first onset of emotions often stems from not being involved in the financial landscape during the marriage. …
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A woman’s fight for access to a widowed parent’s allowance is testing the rights of unmarried couples across the country at the supreme court’s first hearing in Belfast. The state’s refusal to pay Siobhan McLaughlin the benefit amounts to discrimination against children born out of wedlock, the UK’s highest court has been told. The special …
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Business News Digital Legal Top Stories By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 30 April 2018 A Japanese internet service provider last week announced that it would voluntarily block its customers from accessing a number of piracy websites. This came after the country’s government urged such action while it considers how to formally instigate web-blocking …
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Private practice litigators are seeing increasing involvement of in-house lawyers on files they once had domain over. Many see it as an opportunity to support clients and in the meantime retain the larger matters over time. Mark Harrington is seeing more in-house lawyers showing up on files where they didn’t before, even on more complicated …
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