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China opens its huge 8.4 trillion payment cards market to foreign firms
June 10th, 2016
China will allow foreign payment card companies to operate in the country under rules issued on Tuesday, potentially giving groups like Visa Inc (V.N) and MasterCard (MA.N) access to its 55-trillion-yuan ($8.4 trillion) card payment market. Visa and MasterCard, ...
The owner of one the most largest real estate firms in Russia has been arrested
June 6th, 2016
Latvian law enforcement agencies have arrested the owner of the Miel real estate agency at the request of Russian prosecutors, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Friday. Grigory Kulikov, owner of one of the largest real estate firms in the Russian ...
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, ...
Global Law firm announced new association in Southeast Asia
June 1st, 2016
Leading global law firm Hogan Lovells has announced today that it will enter into an association with Indonesian law firm, Dewi Negara Fachri & Partners (DNFP). The association becomes effective from 1 June 2016. Hogan Lovells has also recruited ...
Global law firm Linklaters announces the election of new Senior Partner
May 24th, 2016
Global law firm Linklaters announces the election of Charlie Jacobs as the firm’s new Senior Partner. Elected on a five-year term the appointment will be effective from 1 October 2016, once current Senior Partner Robert Elliott’s term ends. Charlie Jacobs joined ...
Nearly a quarter of lawyers would quit and start their own firm
May 23rd, 2016
A poll by specialist recruiter Robert Half Legal has shown that 23 per cent of lawyers would choose to quit their current job and start up on their own if they had the capital. The figure represents an 18 ...
Partners from global audit firms will face grillig over role in BHS collapse
May 19th, 2016
Partners from Deloitte, PwC, KPMG and Grant Thornton will face a grilling from MPs next week over their lucrative advisory roles in distressed high street retailer BHS, following its plunge into administration which threatens up to 11,000 jobs. The ...
Global law firm launches in Latin America and the Caribbean
May 18th, 2016
Global law firm Dentons, Colombia’s Cardenas & Cardenas, and Mexico’s López Velarde today formalized their combinations. The launches follow the initial announcement last December that partners of each firm approved the combinations. With these combinations, Colombia and Mexico are ...
Five more women added in gender discrimination lawsuit against KPMG US
May 17th, 2016
Five more women have been added as named plaintiffs to the ongoing $350m (£243m) class action gender discrimination lawsuit against KPMG’s US arm. On 13 May, Sanford Heisler, the law firm representing the five plaintiffs, filed an amended complaint ...
Legal firms unleash office automatons
May 17th, 2016
Artificial intelligence is relieving junior lawyers of time-consuming tasks Linklaters and Pinsent Masons have become the latest law firms to invest in artificial intelligence, as the legal profession tries to automate the mundane tasks that have traditionally been the ...
