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Lou Dobbs, via screengrab/Fox Business; Majed Khalil, courtesy of Sigmund S. Wissner-Gross

A Venezuelan business has settled with his defamation lawsuit against Fox News Network and former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs for their coverage of him and voting software companies Dominion and Smartmatic.

In a complaint filed in New York federal court, Majed Khalil sued the Fox Corporation, Fox News Network LLC, Lou Dobbs, and attorney Sidney Powell over a Dec. 10, 2020, broadcast and related Twitter posts. Khalil’s legal team alleged that the interview and related social media promotion disseminated a “lie totally devoid of reality,” vilifying him

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Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) is significantly expanding its legal services for those who’ve been affected by domestic abuse.

Known as “Justice Centre,” the service provides trauma, and violence informed, multilingual and culturally responsive legal services to survivors of harm.

It’s a service that Amanda Kroetsch was able to use four years ago. “I can remember being really scared and just a million things going through my mind,” Kroetsch said describing the first time he called BWSS.

She reached out after experiencing abuse from her then partner, leaving her with a brain injury. She says she found hope

Evan Corcoran, a key member of former President Trump’s legal team, has recused himself from the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after he was questioned by a grand jury last month, according to The Washington Post.

Trump is under investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith over allegations that he intentionally mishandled classified documents during and after he left office, including storing documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and hiding them from federal investigators.

Corcoran will still represent Trump in other cases, including Smith’s investigation into the former president’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrections.

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This newsletter provides general information and is not intended to be comprehensive or to provide specific legal advice. Professional advice appropriate to a specific situation should always be sought.

Contents:

1. Shell directors personally sued by ClietEarth over alleged mismanagement of climate risk
2. Arbitration agreements in “subject to” contracts
3. Commercial Court decision on arbitrator is biased
4. Witness statements and hearsay – risks for parties and lawyers
5. Russian petroleum product price cap implemented
6. The government announced new Department of Energy Security and Net Zero
7. UK government budget announcement concerning carbon capture and nuclear energy

As regulators from the European Union to Australia ramp up measures against corporate greenwashing, South Korea has broken ground as the first country in Asia to seek to hand out fines for false environmental claims in advertising.

Under a draft law, a financial penalty of 3 million won ($2,270) will be handed out to companies by South Korea’s Ministry of Environment that are deemed to have misled the public about their environmental impacts and green credentials. The law falls under a series of proposed environmental reforms to be made this year.

Jihyeon Ha, head of legal at Seoul-based nonprofit Solutions

A giant US law firm is continuing its raid of Bay Street corporate legal talent as it aims to establish a foothold in the capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, funds and employment and pension practices.

Boston-based Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC said in a release Tuesday that it had recruited four more lawyers to its new Toronto office, three weeks after announcing it was opening shop here. Mintz also revealed his goal is to have 20 lawyers in Toronto by the end of this month, 50 within the next 18 months and 75 within three years.

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