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UK Lawyers and US Lawyers in the market of private equity
December 16th, 2014
UK firms are in battle with their US counterparts to win more private equity and related work – and a report suggests ways that the UK lawyers could make greater advances. A report by Fox Rodney Search into the ...
Initiative promises legal advice for those without lawyers in courts
October 23rd, 2014
A network of in-court advice centres providing support for unrepresented litigants in civil and family law cases is to be funded by the Ministry of Justice and expanded to cover the whole country. There has been a surge in ...
Hong Kong Is Hot Spot for U.S. Lawyers as Probes Rise
October 22nd, 2014
When Cathy Palmer first came to Hong Kong as a U.S. prosecutor more than 20 years ago, she was chasing heroin-smuggling triads who later sent a booby-trapped package to her Brooklyn office. Since March, she has been in the ...
Cybersecurity training ‘essential’ for lawyers
October 7th, 2014
Government urges lawyers and accountants to develop skills to defeat computer attacks. Solicitors urgently need to develop skills to protect their clients and themselves from cyber attacks, urges the government and Law Society. They are to make available a ...
Alibaba IPO shows why lawyers matter
September 29th, 2014
Following the record-setting IPO of Alibaba, Jack Ma is now a global business icon. In China he has been a business titan for a much longer period of time. When the appointed date arrived, Ma was incensed to learn ...
Keeping Corporate Lawyers Silent Can Shelter Wrongdoing
August 27th, 2014
Have you heard of Maritza I. Munich? The answer is almost certainly no, yet she is a central figure in Walmart’s unfolding bribery scandal. Ms. Munich was a Walmart lawyer who advocated an aggressive response to investigating the scandal ...
Wonga-style fake letters means headaches for in-house lawyers
July 25th, 2014
After Wonga and others were caught sending fake legal letters, what are the professional risk implications for in-house lawyers of using pseudo-solicitors to chase debts? The profession needs to grapple with serious legal and ethical issues following recent reports ...
Lawyers trained to help deal with transnational cases
July 23rd, 2014
More training will be offered to law firms and lawyers specializing in cross-border lawsuits to expand their presence in an area dominated by foreign competitors, a senior official from the Justice Ministry said. By next year, the All-China Lawyers ...
Gibraltar lawyers jailed over £40m client money scam
July 9th, 2014
Three brothers who ran one of Gibraltar’s largest law firms were jailed last week for fraud, four years after their firm, Marrache & Co, was put into liquidation. Benjamin, Isaac and Solomon Marrache were found guilty of fraud last ...
Commercial property lawyers warned over capital allowance changes
March 11th, 2014
Commercial property lawyers could face future action for negligence if they fail to advise clients about impending tax relief changes. From 1 April, capital allowances, which allow for tax relief for fixtures in property, must be identified and documented ...
