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With the cost of litigation rising, and fewer firms willing to take IP matters on contingency (thanks in part to the added risk injected into the IP disputes market in the wake of the TC Heartland decision), Litigation Finance is becoming an ever-more attractive alternative for firms in need of IP protection.
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Expense and invoice management solutions provider Chrome River entered an alliance with PwC to provide customers with global templates for expense reimbursement compliance. Chrome River will offer VAT and other country-specific data provided by PwC as templates for its customers to deploy to
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A budget windfall could be on the way. Donald Trump's gleeful warning that Russia should “get ready” for a missile barrage in Syria sent the ruble to its lowest level in 16 months. At the same time, it unnerved oil traders, who pushed the price of Brent to a more than three-year high on fears of supply
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The House Ways and Means Committee voted Wednesday on a bipartisan basis to approve a set of bills to “redesign” the Internal Revenue Service, including measures to help victims of identity theft and create an independent office of taxpayer appeals. “It's been 20 years since Congress and the Ways
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