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New law says: Women in Saudi Arabia will be notified by text message if they are divorced
January 9th, 2019
Women in Saudi Arabia will be notified by text message if they are divorced under a new law designed to protect them from having their marriage ended without their knowledge, the government said on Sunday. The new law, that ...
Tackling mental health in law firms
December 14th, 2018
Recent news that the head of global law firm Baker McKenzie, Paul Rawlinson, is taking temporary leave due to exhaustion raises the question of whether law firms are doing enough to support the wellbeing of their employees, says Averil ...
German police raids the offices of multinational law firm
November 26th, 2018
For the second time in a year, prosecutors raided the Frankfurt offices of the prestigious law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The raid marked an extension of the investigation of Freshfields’ involvement in dividend stripping, Frankfurt state prosecutors confirmed to ...
The Robot lawyer Lisa; Clients in 80 countries have availed of Lisa’s skills
November 15th, 2018
Robot Lawyer LISA is officially a ‘cool vendor’ having been included in the Gartner 2018 ‘Cool Vendors in Artificial Intelligence for Small and Midsize Businesses’ report. LISA has also been nominated for AI Company of the Year in the ...
Victims of €20m French-Israeli ads scam to get some money back, not from Israel
November 7th, 2018
Seven years after French law enforcement began receiving complaints about a sophisticated advertising scam operated from France and Israel, hundreds of victims of the 20 million euro ($17.5 million) fraud are being notified by the French authorities that they ...
The time taken for law firms to be paid for work has fallen by a week
October 31st, 2018
The time taken for law firms to be paid for work has fallen by a week, but still takes over four months to hit the accounts. The billing time that is ’locked up’ has fallen by 7 days, but ...
Money-laundering watchdog to set first cryptocurrency rules by June
October 22nd, 2018
The global watchdog for money laundering will set up its first rules on oversight of cryptocurrencies by June, a major step towards creating international standards for an asset currently subject to patchy regulations. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force ...
The Association of Corporate Counsel Europe elects new president
October 5th, 2018
The Association of Corporate Counsel Europe (ACC Europe), serving over 2500 lawyers practicing in corporations and other organizations throughout Europe, has announced Hans Albers, chief of staff legal and associate general counsel, Juniper Networks, has been elected president of the ...
Is money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank the largest in history?
September 27th, 2018
The Russian-speaking caller refused to give a name but the threat was explicit: “Do you really feel you can walk home safely at night?” It was 2013 and officers at the Estonian branch of Danske Bank were beginning to ...
Pan-European tax fraud web leads to New Jersey and Dubai
September 12th, 2018
White-collar criminals aren’t usually so blatant about their intentions. But after tracking a trail of tax fraud that flowed from Denmark to Germany, the UK, Canada, Luxembourg and Malaysia, Danish investigators stumbled on a corporation in Delaware whose name ...
