Countries: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen Source: International Rescue Committee The countries on this list all have something in common – despite contributing little to greenhouse gas emissions, they are especially vulnerable to the effects of […]

Boston – A team of lawyers from K&L Gates LLP successfully represented mortgage lender James B. Nutter & Company in a tax foreclosure case before the New York Court of Appeals, with the Court, in a unanimous decision, adopting the firm’s arguments regarding the interpretation of the state’s Real Property […]

Introduction On 22 March 2023, the Office of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (General Counsel) issued a policy memo (March 22 GC Memo)1 clarifying the recent McLaren Macomb decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board),2 which restricted the ability of employers to draft broadly worded […]

Effects continue to reverberate around the world and in individual countries.

Country: Haiti Source: World Food Programme “We need $125 million over the next six months and our donors are simply not stepping up,” WFP Haiti country director says. “If funding doesn’t come through, the next IPC figures will be much worse.“

Photo: Pixabay/life_is_beautiful About 25 million kilometres of new roads are expected to be built around the world by 2050. Along with power lines and railways, roads cut through the landscape everywhere, disrupting ecosystems. This linear infrastructure prevents animals from moving safely around their habitat. It also reduces access to the resources […]

Introduction  On Wednesday, 1 February 2023, HM Treasury announced its intention to regulate a variety of crypto-asset activities under the UK financial services regulatory regime. The announcement arrived in the form of a consultation paper (Future financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets) in which the government highlighted its ambition for […]

A K&L Gates team in Pittsburgh secured a major pro bono win in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which not only reversed a summary judgment loss for the client, but also created a new standard — at the K&L Gates team’s urging — for the […]

Photo: Pixabay/R_Winkelmann Climate change is happening faster with its impacts becoming progressively worse, but it isn’t too late to act to ward off climate catastrophe, say scientists from the Australian National University who contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest global report. “The latest IPCC report triggers many […]