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$50bn Russian oil lawsuit set for next stage; Yukos
February 7th, 2017
Russian businessmen trying to overturn a decision to deny them a record $50bn arbitration award following the collapse of oil company Yukos will file their grounds of appeal next month. The businessmen are all ex-shareholders at the company, which ...
An AI Law Firm Wants to ‘Automate the Entire Legal World’
February 6th, 2017
AN AI LAWYER Whether it’s a new employment contract, a rental contract, or sale contract, it needs to be checked before signing. Everyone knows the struggle of working through the dreaded small print, searching for pitfalls hidden in the tiniest details, ...
International law firm appoints team from PwC and establishes international tax disputes practice
February 3rd, 2017
Bird & Bird has today launched an international tax disputes practice based in the UK, with the appointment of a team from PricewaterhouseCoopers (‘PwC’). Andy Brown and Julian Balson join as partners, along with Ben Holloway as Legal Director, ...
Virtual reality lawsuit costs Facebook $500m
February 2nd, 2017
Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus has been ordered to pay out half a billion dollars to rival games company ZeniMax. The lawsuit between Oculus and ZeniMax centred on allegations that Oculus chief executive officer Palmer Luckey had violated a ...
Leading law firms announced tie-up and launched globally
February 2nd, 2017
Eversheds Sutherland, created by the combination of leading law firms, Eversheds, headquartered in the UK, and Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, based in the US, launches globally today under the name Eversheds Sutherland. With more than 2,300 lawyers in ...
Multinational law firm launches alternative legal services platform
February 1st, 2017
Fieldfisher launches multi-product ALS platform with initial focus on the derivatives and securities financing markets. The European law firm Fieldfisher launches Condor Alternative Legal Solutions (Condor) – a multi-product alternative legal services platform and the brain-child of derivatives partner ...
Trump fired top federal government lawyer
January 31st, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. It was another ...
Lawyers are being replaced by machines that read
January 27th, 2017
Lawyers are the professionals everyone loves to loathe. Jokes about attorneys abound, and Shakespeare’s line from Henry VI remains a cultural favorite: ”The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Soon, that dream may come true, and ...
Judge denies $80 million penalty in Wal-Mart truck drivers lawsuit: AP
January 26th, 2017
A federal judge refused to order Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) to pay $80 million in penalties in a lawsuit alleging the retailer failed to pay hundreds of truck drivers in California the minimum compensation for certain tasks, the Associated ...
Trump faces lawsuit for violating Constitution two days after taking oath
January 23rd, 2017
An all-star team of lawyers, including two leading experts on presidential ethics and two of the most prominent constitutional scholars in the nation, will file a lawsuit on Monday challenging President Trump’s ongoing violation of an anti-corruption provision in ...
