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The Technology Behind Bitcoin Could Replace Lawyers, Too
August 20th, 2015
Smart contracts promise to relieve businesses of the costs and lag-time of corporate legal work. This software-based change could affect services firms everywhere. Everyone has heard the hype about Bitcoin, but the real promise of the technology behind cryptocurrencies ...
Law firms head to the banks as lawyers target expansion
August 19th, 2015
Lending tops £7.3bn as firms borrow to fund M&A, overseas offices, and lateral hires Long-term lending to UK law firms has risen by 28 per cent over the last four years to £7.35bn, as firms compete to capture a ...
Greek lawmakers back 3rd bailout after all-night debate
August 14th, 2015
Greek lawmakers approved their country’s draft third bailout in a parliamentary vote Friday that relied on opposition party support and saw the government coalition suffer significant dissent. The vote came after a marathon all-night session marked by procedural delays ...
Mid-Size and Small Law Firms Confident They Can Succeed
August 12th, 2015
Survey from Thomson Reuters and Managing Partner Forum shows positive market outlook Leaders of mid-size and small law firms are meeting or exceeding their profitability goals, and are confident in their ability to succeed in the current legal environment. ...
Dentons, NextLaw Labs and IBM Cloud fuel legal tech startups
August 10th, 2015
Dentons, the global law firm, today announced that NextLaw Labs, its collaborative innovation platform, has joined with IBM to create a technology platform program using IBM Cloud to enable startups to create and deploy legal applications more quickly. NextLaw Labs ...
JPMorgan, Simpson Sued Over Mistake in GM Loan: Business of Law
August 4th, 2015
It was only a matter of time. One of the participants in a $1.5 billion term loan that JPMorgan Chase & Co. made to General Motors Corp. before its bankruptcy is now suing the bank and its lawyers at ...
Goldman tentatively agrees to pay $270 million to settle lawsuit by investors
August 4th, 2015
Goldman Sachs Group Inc has tentatively agreed to pay about $270 million to settle a lawsuit by investors, according to a source familiar with the matter. Pension funds led by NECA-IBEW Health & Welfare Fund of Illinois accused the ...
Will Law Firm Publishing Become Solely A Wire Service?
August 3rd, 2015
Vox columnist Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) believes the media is becoming a wire service. “…y guess is that within three years, it will be normal for news organizations of even modest scale to be publishing to some combination of their own websites, ...
Standard Chartered, Societe Generale are among four banks added to Forex Lawsuit by investors
August 3rd, 2015
Standard Chartered Plc and Societe Generale SA are among four banks added to a suit by investors claiming banks manipulated the $5.3 trillion a day foreign-exchange market. The investors filed a revised complaint Friday in which they broadened their ...
Foreign lawyers working in China could be at risk of arrest
July 29th, 2015
Australian commercial law firms operating in China should be seriously concerned about the recent crackdown on human rights lawyers, a professor of Chinese law says. Professor Bing Ling from the University of Sydney told Lawyers Weekly that all lawyers working in China ...
