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The International Lawyers Network (ILN) is a leading association of 91 high-quality, full-service independent law firms.

Since 1988, the ILN has helped its members keep pace with today’s global economy, through access to the tremendous strength and depth of the combined expertise of 5,000 lawyers in 66 countries on six continents.

ILN member firms are among the most respected and most experienced counsel in their jurisdictions. Clients’ increasing need for reliable foreign counsel is well-met by the personalized, high-quality and cost-effective legal services provided by ILN member firms. Unique to the ILN are the strong personal and professional relationships among its members and their clients developed over the past 24 years. Far from a mere directory, the ILN is an affiliation of lawyers who gather on a regional and worldwide basis annually and work routinely with each other to address client requirements and needs.

Each of the ILN’s member firms is international in outlook and staffed by highly trained senior attorneys, who are experts in a broad range of practice areas. ILN members have demonstrated experience in working successfully with international companies. They are independent, mid-sized firms within their jurisdictions, and are committed to the focus of the International Lawyers Network, admitted to the Network only after a rigorous application process. The ILN provides clients with high-quality service from experienced local counsel who work in firms that maintain excellent reputations in their own countries. This means that clients have immediate access to attorneys who are native, both linguistically and culturally, to the country of interest.

The ILN’s international directory app is available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry smartphones. To access the app, click here or log on to ILNmobile.com from your smartphone.

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The Gift that Stopped Giving

In 1996, Kismet Enterprises Ltd. (“Kismet”) owned approximately 2 acres of land in Nanaimo, British Columbia. In April, 1996, Kismet leased the property to Rascal Trucking Ltd. (“Rascal”). Rascal began operating a topsoil processing facility on the property.

Rascal’s topsoil operation generated significant complaints from the neighbourhood. As a result, the City of Nanaimo (the “City”) passed resolutions declaring that the facility was a nuisance and authorizing the City to remove the topsoil if neither Kismet nor Rascal did so. The City subsequently removed the topsoil and lodged the costs incurred (approximately $110,000) against the property as tax arrears. Rascal brought an action challenging the City’s authority to pass these resolutions but in 2000, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of the City.

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Deadline for Avoiding the eRx Payment Adjustment Approaching at End of the Month

The June 30, 2013 deadline to participate in the Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program (“eRx”) and avoid the 2014 eRx payment adjustment is fast approaching.  Eligible Professionals (“EP’) looking to avoid the 2% payment adjustment in 2014 (payment adjustment means that EPs will only receive 98% of his/her Medicare Part B Physician Fee Schedule amount for [...]

For more information please visit www.omwhealthlaw.com or click on the headline above.

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Call for L drivers to be allowed on the motorway

Young drivers must be allowed to gain early motorway driving experience, according to road safety charity Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM).

With a green paper on learning to drive due to be published later this month, the IAM are calling on the government to ensure that any new system includes allowing supervised L drivers onto our motorways.

Motorways are our safest roads and many countries including Australia and the USA already allow their use by learner drivers, often with few restrictions.

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Intellectual Property Alert: Myriad: How it impacts DNA testing labs

In a unanimous opinion issued on June 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court distinguished between isolated naturally-occurring DNA, which is non-patentable, and a synthetic version of DNA, complementary cDNA, which is patentable. Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics.

In this case, Myriad owned several key patents that gave it the exclusive right to isolate the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes on human chromosomes for genetic testing. Through isolating these genes, Myriad was also able to change the genetic sequence, resulting in cDNA, a non-naturally occurring DNA sequence.

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Nigel Kent and David Buxton-Forman published in Canadian Insurance Top Broker magazine

A commentary by Nigel Kent and articled student David Buxton-Forman was published in the May 2013 edition of Canadian Insurance Top Broker. The commentary discusses a recent decision that considered whether a breach of the duty of good faith could arise in the absence of damages flowing from a breach of an express term of the underlying insurance contract.

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Golf Skills for Professional Women: Mixing business with pleasure.

Program:
Golf etiquette
Driving range and basic skills clinic
Networking
Limited tee times are available after the program at 6:30 p.m. (9 holes, scramble format)

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"U.S. Senate committee approves draft compounding legislation," Ned Milenkovich for Drug Topics

Ned Milenkovich wrote the article “U.S. Senate committee approves draft compounding legislation,” for the June 2013 edition of Drug Topics.

Click here for full text.http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drug-topics/news/us-senators-introduce-draft-compounding-legislation

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Week of June 14, 2013 on ILNToday – A Roundup!

It’s Friday again, and without further ado, here are this week’s top stories!

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Happy reading!

 

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Dean DePiero’s annual 5k run raises money for local charities

The event raised money for the Parma Hospital Health Care Foundation and the Cleveland Courage Fund, which benefits kidnap victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

Click here to read more.

http://www.cleveland.com/parma/index.ssf/2013/06/dean_depieros_annual_5k_run_ra.html

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McDonald Hopkins Government Strategies Advisory: This Week in Washington — June 14, 2013

The Obama Administration and defenders of the domestic surveillance programs that were disclosed last week went on the offensive this week, seeking to defend against charges that the government was invading the privacy of law-abiding Americans.

National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday that the domestic surveillance programs disclosed last week have aided the agency’s efforts to combat terrorism. According to General Alexander, “it’s dozens of terrorist events that these have helped prevent…. Both here and abroad, in disrupting, or contributing to the disruption of terrorist attacks.”

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