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How Will Blockchain Impact Your Company? It will likely affect industries far afield from financial services
This is an exciting time for blockchain, the highly secure, distributed database technology best known as a core component of the digital currency bitcoin. Many people find the subject intimidating and arcane. But Stephen Obie, a Jones Day partner who has immersed himself in it, has...
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Definitively Driving Diversity: Exposing students to law firm life early can make all the difference
Introduction: Yvette McGee Brown, a native of Columbus, Ohio, has had a varied career. She’s been a common pleas court judge, she ran the child abuse and behavioral health division of a children’s hospital, she made a run for lieutenant governor of Ohio, she’s served on the...
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Mustering Up for VetLex: Jones Day and the ABA join forces to meet the wide-ranging legal needs of 21 million U.S. veterans
Introduction: On November 11 – Veterans Day – inside and outside counsel alike gathered across all 18 of Jones Day’s U.S. offices to talk about VetLex, a joint effort of the firm and the American Bar Association (ABA) designed to pull together the resources needed to address the...
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Robust Midwest Markets Fuel Strategic Expansion: Jones Day’s new Minneapolis office set to service local and global clients
Partner-in-charge Brian West Easley discusses the services available at Jones Day’s new Minneapolis location, previewing the firm’s expectations for the office and the region as a whole. His remarks have been edited for length and style. MCC: Tell us about your background and your...
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Surviving an Unannounced Search: Employees must balance compliance and rights when facing an antitrust dawn raid
Antitrust and competition enforcement authorities are increasingly undertaking unannounced searches of premises to obtain evidence of possible competition law violations. Most commonly, these searches are being conducted at business premises, and therefore business managers need to know how to...
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Volatility Elbows Out Stability in International Tax: Dealing with the dark side of competition makes for perilous tax planning
In many ways, the career of Jones Day tax partner Raymond J. Wiacek tracks the evolution of the international tax system. He started in the firm’s Washington office, became captivated by the complexities of taxation, and, as the world’s economies and the companies the firm represents...
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Encouraging the Power to Dismiss Indictments: Courts should embrace the criminal analogue to the civil power to dismiss
Courts routinely dismiss civil complaints for failure to state a claim but seldom dismiss criminal indictments under the analogous Criminal Rule 12 for failure to state an offense. This divergent application of materially identical procedural rules has dramatic consequences for criminal defendants...
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