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News & Analysis as of May 19, 2013

Corporate Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship: Part Five

by Robert Freedman - Partner at Tharpe & Howell,... on 11/7/2012

Fifth in a Series of Articles Last week’s article in this series noted that there is significant support in the law of corporate governance for companies pursuing a double bottom line, i.e. pursuing profit while doing...more

Corporate Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship: Part Three

by Robert Freedman - Partner at Tharpe & Howell,... on 10/24/2012

Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media baron Rupert Murdoch and a successful media executive in her own right, recently criticized her brother James, a top executive at News Corp., for pursuing profit at all costs. According...more

City of Los Angeles Moves Forward With Farmers Field, Challenges Loom

by Peter Bauman - Senior Associate at Tharpe &... on 10/4/2012

What does pro football in the City of Los Angeles have to do with affordable housing? According to a coalition of community activists, the decision to build a stadium in downtown LA for an NFL franchise “would create a...more

Case Alert!! Decisions Which Will Affect Financing of Companies with Pension Plans and Potential Environmental Liability Expected...

by Domenico Magisano | Lerners LLP on 9/4/2012

Supreme Court of Canada is considering two key insolvency related cases where their findings could have significant ramifications on the financing of companies with pension plans and/or potential for environmental liability....more

Legislative Update Report No. 2012-14 -- August 1, 2012

by Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP on 8/1/2012

In This Article: Federal Government; Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; New Brunswick; Newfoundland; Northwest Territories; Nova Scotia; Nunavut; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Québec/Quebec; Saskatchewan; and...more

The Trials And Tribulations Of Highly Educated Immigrants

by NPZ Law Group, P.C. (f/k/a Nachman &... on 1/20/2010

In today's global economy, for the US to remain a leader in education, the arts, sciences, and business, it needs to be able to recruit the best and the brightest. In a world no longer constrained by national borders,...more