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Devereux Chambers to lead crowdfunded Brexit legal challenge
July 1st, 2016
Barrister Jolyon Maugham QC is teaming up with human rights firm Bindmands to take on the EU referendum result. A crowdfunding campaign launched by Mr Maugham has successfully raised £10,000 to underwrite a public law case against the result ...
Three EY firms have expanded their legal services offerings
June 22nd, 2016
Former Norton Rose Fulbright partner joins EY Law LLP in Canada to lead Business Law team New legal services practices established in Chile and Argentina Three EY firms have expanded their legal services offerings, further strengthening their ability to ...
Would Brexit even be legal?
June 21st, 2016
Top lawyers round on Gove and co’s “illegal” vote leave strategy A number of top lawyers have gone public with their concerns about whether a UK exit from the EU on Brexiteers’ terms would even be legal. As the ...
CFTC ordered a $2.4 Million penalty for Illegal Off-Exchange Precious Metals Transactions
June 21st, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Beth Bloom of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted the CFTC’s motion for entry of final default judgment Order against Defendants Harvard Assets LLC (Harvard ...
The first major collaboration between an international legal firm and one of the ‘Big Four’ professional services firms
June 14th, 2016
Allen & Overy today announces the launch of MarginMatrix™, a new digital derivatives compliance system to help major banks deal with new regulatory requirements that will come into force for the USD500 trillion over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market from 1 ...
Nextlaw Labs partners with Seedcamp to identify the Top Legal Tech Startups
June 13th, 2016
Nextlaw Labs, the innovative legal tech venture development platform launched by global law firm Dentons, has signed a partnership with Seedcamp, the first round fund for ambitious founders, to co-sponsor a global callout to early stage legal tech startups. ...
Law Society of Scotland and Legal Hackers Scotland to host access to justice ‘hackathon’
June 10th, 2016
The Law Society of Scotland and Legal Hackers Scotland are inviting teams to gather round their laptops for the Law Society’s first ever access to justice ‘hackathon’. The 48 hour event, which runs over the weekend of 17-19 June, ...
The Nine Law Firms that have won a place on French multinational aerospace global legal panel
June 9th, 2016
Eversheds, Hogan Lovells and Baker & McKenzie are among nine firms to have won places on French multinational aerospace, defence and security firm Safran’s inaugural global legal panel. Weil, Gotshal & Manges, as well as Fieldfisher and Osborne Clarke ...
Is your company in legal trouble? There’s an app for that
June 3rd, 2016
Australian law firms are servicing their clients on smartphones and with hackathons There have long been dedicated smartphone apps to order pizza, book flights and identify songs. But managing corporate strategy in a crisis is an entirely new function. ...
The CIO of Australian law firm Allens bets on Australian legal sector AI boom
June 2nd, 2016
The chief information officer at Australian law firm Allens believes that the rise of AI at large law firms in the country is fast approaching, but is sceptical that such technology will replace human jobs. In an interview withiTnews, ...
