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Stewarts appoints PwC lawyer as first tax litigation chief
November 6th, 2014
Pickstone has experience of acting for large corporates, financial institutions and high-net-worth individuals in tax disputes before the tax tribunals and in court. He said the new group would focus on both commercial tax disputes such as those arising ...
Top judges come together to judge The Lawyer European Awards
October 29th, 2014
A stellar line-up of judges for The Lawyer European Awards 2015, representing a wealth of experience within the Continental European legal market, is today revealed. The 25-strong judging panel includes a number of partners from UK top 50 firms ...
Keystone Law sells £3.15m stake to private equity house
October 23rd, 2014
Dispersed firm Keystone Law has received a £3.15m cash injection from private equity house Root Capital in return for a 35 per cent stake in the firm’s shares. Root was founded by investor Simon Phillips in 2003. The funds ...
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 ...
Facebook sues over ‘fraudulent lawsuit’
October 21st, 2014
Facebook is suing US law firms alleging they knowingly represented a fraudster who claimed to be owed Facebook shares, in a warning to other law firms representing anyone attempting to get a slice of Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune. The Silicon ...
The dark market for personal data urges for new laws
October 17th, 2014
Companies should disclose the information they sell about us. Having eroded privacy for decades, shady, poorly regulated data miners, brokers and resellers have now taken creepy classification to a whole new level. They have created lists of victims of ...
In Court, Lawyer Calls E.C.B. Bond Plan ‘an Egregious Extension’ of Powers
October 14th, 2014
In legal news, Europe’s highest appeals court began hearing arguments on Tuesday morning on a suit that aims to block a European Central Bank bond-buying program that has never been deployed — but whose mere announcement two years ago ...
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 ...
Kobre & Kim Adds Hong Kong Law to Follow the Money
October 6th, 2014
Kobre & Kim LLP, a law firm that secured an acquittal for one of the defendants in the U.S.’s first foreign bribery sting operation, added a local legal practice to its Hong Kong office this month according to latest ...
