Mark Friend, partner and head of the London antitrust group at Allen & Overy, argues competition law in the UK is ‘currently at a crossroads’ and cites the current political climate and comments made by the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) former chairman, Lord Tyrie. ‘This crossroads is partly driven by Brexit, and what that …
It doesn’t need to be said that the current Covid-19 pandemic will have significant, lasting impacts on businesses. Parties negotiating contracts even a year ago could never have envisioned the situation in which they would now find themselves, and the resulting tangle of part-performance and non-performance is expected to significantly overburden courts around the world, …
Recent times have been witness to the steady rise of nationalist regimes across Latin America. With a number of unprecedented landslide victories in the past years, concern has risen among many Latin American’s business leaders.
The Covid-19 pandemic brought significant disruptions to all aspects of life. No economy was immune to the unprecedented situation and all active businesses had to adapt their operation to the circumstances.
New Law is as a breed still a lot better at promise than delivery, particularly on claims of providing better value than law firms.
Sivan Whiteley’s legal career began with the study of rational choice theory at university – decoding why people make the decisions they make.
Mark McAteer, The In-House Lawyer: How has the role of the general counsel changed over the last five years and how will it be different in five years’ time?
‘How does an organisation maintain resilience when everything it designed and built was for a different way of working?’ asks DWF’s global head of data protection, privacy and cybersecurity, Stewart Room. As the world battles a pandemic, organisations around the globe are turning homes into offices and personal devices into office tools. The sudden change …
Julie Brannan, Solicitors Regulation Authority: It certainly is an important moment for the training of the profession, so it is sensible to start with a reminder of what it is all about. First, better assurance of high professional standards is at the heart of this. Protecting consumers of legal services by making sure everybody we …
Rising temperatures and sea levels, shrinking ice sheets and sea ice, extreme weather events. They’re all mainstays of today’s news cycles with a worrying – and growing – frequency.