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UK law: Digital courts get green light
September 19th, 2016
In her first significant announcement since taking office, lord chancellor Liz Truss will today back a £1bn programme to extend online courts to criminal offences. A vision paper to be published by the Ministry of Justice and HM Judiciary ...
Mike Lynch’s Invoke Aims to Replace M&A Lawyers With Robots
September 15th, 2016
Former Autonomy CEO backs startup using AI for due diligence Move comes a week after HP sold former Autonomy assets Could the armies of lawyers needed to close billion-dollar deals soon be a thing of the past? That’s what Invoke ...
China’s elite law firms moving from strength to strength
September 12th, 2016
China’s legal market is defying a slackened economy, with turnover on the up at most of the country’s elite law firms. The latest revenue ranking of Chinese law firms fromThe American Lawyer has shown that China’s biggest firms are continuing ...
Four in ten senior associates regret choosing a career in law
September 7th, 2016
If you had your time again, would you still choose to become a lawyer? This was the question put to respondents in industry publication The Lawyer’s most recent Salary Survey. While around 60 per cent of bright-eyed trainees had no ...
Dubai: No access to lawyers due to financial constraints? Now there is free legal consultation
September 5th, 2016
Dubai: Having no access to lawyers for legal consultation in Dubai due to financial constraints will now be a thing of the past, officials said. The Community Development Authority (CDA) in Dubai this week launched the Legal Clinic to ...
Magic Circle law firm Freshfields to defend Apple in EU tax battle
September 2nd, 2016
Magic Circle heavyweight Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has secured the mandate to defend Apple against the single largest EU tax bill in history. With the global business community still reeling over the European Commission’s surprise decision to order Apple to ...
Cheers! Lawyers net £200m from SABMiller deal
September 1st, 2016
Law firms will bank almost £200m from advising on the third-largest corporate takeover ever – brewer SABMiller’s £79bn acquisition by Budweiser owner Anheuser-Busch InBev. In total, the two companies will pay an astonishing $2bn in fees and taxes to ...
Multinational Law Firm predicts A$1 Billion Loss; largest financial loss ever recorded in legal sector
August 29th, 2016
Slater and Gordon Limited (“Slater and Gordon”) (ASX: SGH) today provides an update on key earnings and balance sheet expectations for the financial year ended 30 June 2016. Total Revenue (and other income) is expected to be $908.2m. H2 ...
Fake law firm used Craigslist to find real lawyers to do their work
August 26th, 2016
A fake law firm reportedly used Craigslist to find real lawyers to do their work while reeling in hundreds of clients who were near being foreclosed from their homes. The Sun-Sentinel reports that the owners of The Asset Protection ...
Taiwan to toughen anti-money laundering law after US fine
August 25th, 2016
Taiwan moved Thursday (Aug 25) to toughen its anti-money laundering law after US authorities fined a local bank linked to the so-called Panama Papers scandal. Last week, American regulators fined Taiwan’s Mega International Commercial Bank US$180 million for showing ...
