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BARCLAY SIMPSON: Private Wealth Management/Regulatory Lawyer

This major financial services institution is looking to recruit a private wealth management regulatory lawyer into its London legal team.

The Private Wealth Management (“PWM”) team provides a comprehensive range of investment services to wealthy individuals and families worldwide. You will be responsible for assisting investment professionals with a variety of PWM related work. In particular, you will advise on regulatory changes and policy developments in the UK, EU and elsewhere, including analysing the impact of new regulation, introducing new policies in response to new regulation/legislation and revising current policies to meet the needs of the business. Thi

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Summary Judgments for May 15

On Posner’s own experience with gay people: “Although I knew in the 1950s that there were homosexuals, if asked I would have truthfully said that as far as I knew I had never met one, any more than I had ever met or expected to meet an Eskimo.”

On the change in mainstream American attitudes toward gay people, starting in the 1960s and accelerating in the 1990s and 2000s: “Greatly increased tolerance of nonmarital sex, and of cohabitation as a substitute for marriage, reduced the traditional abhorrence of homosexual sex.”

On the “cause” of gay sexual preference: It is “highly likely” that “genetic factors” and “prenatal and other biological factors cause homosexuality.”

On the evolutionary explanation for homosexuality: “Both menopause and homosexuality are ways of increasing the ratio of adult caregivers ot children, since homosexuals can provide care to their nephews and nieces and menopausal women to their grandchildren, without either group having obligations to their own children.”

On percentage of the population that is gay: 2 to 4 percent.

On the source material for the above statement: None cited.

On what the government should do about homosexuality: Nothing.

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Letter to Jerry Brown: get prayer out of politics

Gov. Jerry Brown speaks to religious groups about his tax initiative last month.

But a group of atheists and agnostics says the state should simply keep out of the religious realm.

“Leaving prayer as a private matter for citizens is the wisest public policy,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation said in a letter to Brown hours after the governor had issued his proclamation May 3.

“Both California and the country would be far better off if politicians encouraged people to think and use reason rather than instructing them to ‘reflect on eternal verities’ or encouraging them to attempt to ‘encounter the Divine Presence,’ ” the foundation said, quoting from Brown’s declaration and urging him to make it his last.

Day of prayer history

Sparring matches between politicians and advocates on both sides of the church-state debate have become a regular feature of the annual National Day of Prayer.

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House GOP pushes own women anti-abuse bill

WASHINGTON (AP) – House Republicans on Tuesday advanced their own version of an election-year bill to protect women from violence. The House Judiciary Committee voted 17-15 along party lines to renew the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. The Democratic-controlled Senate passed a conflicting version last month. The law historically has enjoyed bipartisan support. But this year, with the presidency and congressional majorities at stake and female voters a pivotal constituency, it’s become the latest vehicle for gender politicking over an issue on which there’s been little debate in less-polarized years. Republicans say they want to tighten provisions in the Senate bill that would protect abused immigrants. Read Full Post here…

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Uganda moves to limit political assembly

Uganda’s Parliament appears set to pass a law that critics say will make it nearly impossible for activists and opposition members to hold public rallies of the kind authorities have long wanted banned. The Washington Post reports that critics of the Bill, which could pass this week following Uganda’s ruling party endorsement of it last week, say the law would become a tool for Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni to consolidate power at a time when his authority is increasingly challenged by opponents who say his time is up. The report notes that the Bill would make the organisers of political rallies responsible for the safety of those who attend their events and it would require them to get the police chief’s permission in writing before holding any public event. Read Full Post here…

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Why Michigan Is Key To Both Romney, Obama

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says President Obama is given too much credit for helping the domestic auto industry. President Obama has made the auto industry’s turnaround a central point of his re-election campaign. Michigan Public Radio’s Rick Pluta reports on the campaign battle over the story of Michigan’s economic recovery.

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