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Lawyers warned that legal automation could dull their brains
April 23rd, 2015
Lawyers need to be careful not to lose some of their ‘deep human talent’ in the coming years as software systems take over many of their traditional tasks – a process which has dulled human expertise in other sectors, ...
Legal Revenue Grows as Elite Law Firms Set the Pace
April 6th, 2015
Tech sector, M&A fees help to make 2014 law industry’s best year since recession Last year, on average, was the best year for law firms since the recession. But averages can be misleading. Revenue at large, corporate law firms ...
Baker & McKenzie is a winner at the Legal Community Finance & Tax Awards
March 31st, 2015
Baker & McKenzie was awarded as “Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year” at the Legal Community Finance & Tax Awards which took place in Milan on March 24, 2015. The award was assigned by an external jury made up ...
FINRA Sanctions First New York Securities L.L.C. $916,000 for Illegal Short Selling in Advance of 14 Public Offerings
March 26th, 2015
Firm Fined $400,000 and Ordered to Pay More Than $500,000 in Disgorgement; Prohibited From Participating in Secondary Offerings for Six Months The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has sanctioned First New York Securities L.L.C. $916,000 ...
BCSC panel fines former registrant for illegally advising on purchase of securities
March 11th, 2015
A British Columbia Securities Commission panel has fined Roberta Merlin McIntosh (a.k.a. Berta McIntosh, Roberta Sims, Roberta Butcher, Roberta Mayer) $30,000 for illegally advising an investor to purchase exempt market securities. The panel also ordered that McIntosh be banned from participating ...
Letter From Alpari to Forex Trend Regarding its Illegal Use of the Trademark “PAMM Account”
February 12th, 2015
Alpari released an open letter to Forex Trend Regarding its Illegal Use of the Trademark “PAMM Account”: Dear Clients and Industry Colleagues, There is an ongoing scandal surrounding Ukrainian forex broker, Forex Trend (“Форекс Тренд”). The company, which operates in ...
Why now is the time for London to be proud of its world-leading legal sector
February 10th, 2015
The foundations of any transaction in a market economy are based on one simple thing: trust. And key to this is the legal system that enforces that trust – by making sure that both sides know exactly what they ...
EU-US legal services break-through
January 30th, 2015
Conference of chief justices offers a way out of the old plot-line. A very significant step was taken a few days ago in the ongoing negotiations between the US and EU legal professions on opening markets in legal services ...
Al Tamimi & Co. to provide Legal Consultancy in Support of the “New Egypt
January 29th, 2015
Al Tamimi & Company is proud to announce a new association with Nour & Taha Law Firm, a key player in the Egyptian legal market. From 1st April 2015 Mohamed Khodeir, a partner at Al Tamimi & Company regionally ...
Latham & Watkins published on various legal developments in the field of securities law in France
January 28th, 2015
Securities Law in France: 9 Recent Legal Developments In the last six months, various legal developments have taken place in the field of securities law in France. 1. The Law of 29 March 2014 introduced certain legal and regulatory provisions ...
