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Female lawyers in Saudi courts: ‘We are equal to male counterparts’
December 30th, 2016
After years of being prohibited from appearing in court, female lawyers in 2013 achieved a significant victory in being able to practice law and argue their cases in Saudi courtrooms. Female lawyers have the right to advocate for issues ...
Cyber Hack Exposes Law Firms’ Weak Spots
December 29th, 2016
Cyber Hack Exposes Law Firms’ Weak Spots Firms have made strides but still need to do more to shore up cybersecurity, experts say Major U.S. law firms have become more vigilant in recent years about the risks of cyberattacks, ...
Oil, EU exit and diversity will dominate law sector in 2017
December 28th, 2016
The impact of the downturn in the oil and gas industry will continue to be felt in 2017, despite some signs that the worst is over for the sector, according to Ledingham Chalmers chairman Jennifer Young. However, Ms Young, ...
Chinese Traders Charged With Trading on Hacked Nonpublic Information Stolen From Two Law Firms
December 28th, 2016
Marks First Time SEC Charges Hacking Into Law Firm Computer Networks The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three Chinese traders with fraudulently trading on hacked nonpublic market-moving information stolen from two prominent New York-based law firms, racking up ...
Law Firms’ Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk
December 27th, 2016
Law Firms’ Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk Hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly siphoned from Malaysian state fund 1MDB passed through firms’ pooled accounts in U.S., prosecutors say Tens of billions of dollars every year move through opaque law-firm bank ...
Lawsuit Accuses Google of Unlawfully Censoring its Workforce
December 22nd, 2016
An anonymous Google product manager is alleging in a lawsuit that the internet giant unlawfully censors current and former employees by imposing sweeping confidentiality policies that deter whistleblowing. The lawsuit was filed this week by a California labor law ...
Why Lawyers Sue Yahoo?
December 19th, 2016
On Wednesday afternoon, Yahoo disclosed that it had discovered a data breach exposing the private information of more than one billion user accounts. Less than 12 hours later that same day, a plaintiffs’ firm in Los Angeles had cranked out and ...
International Law Firm making greater use of Artificial Intelligence
December 14th, 2016
Addleshaw Goddard has announced its deployment of Kira Systems’ software having integrated it into its delivery model to provide legal services more efficiently, quickly and accurately. The firm carried out an 18 month pilot of a range of artificial ...
Lawyers less trusted than hairdressers – but more than pollsters
December 8th, 2016
Lawyers are less trusted to tell the truth than hairdressers or priests, but those who reach the bench soar in the public’s esteem. That is one finding of the Veracity Index, a poll undertaken by Ipsos Mori since 1983 ...
Italian Law Threatens Call Centres in Albania
December 6th, 2016
Moves by Italy to clamp down on Italian companies outsourcing work to Albania have alarmed the government in Tirana, which fears thousands of jobs are at risk. An amendment that Italy passed on November to a law from 2012 ...
