In today’s digital-first world, how you manage your online asset portfolio is critical to protecting the reputation, privacy and security of your family, company and senior executives. Allan Dunlavy, partner at Schillings, explains how.
easyJet flies off with Legal Business Awards The Legal Business Awards, held at Grosvenor House on 30 September, provided the perfect backdrop to honour the leading lights of the in-house legal community from the last year. Taking the top prize of GC of the Year was easyJet’s legal chief Maaike de Bie (pictured), recognised for …
New Law is as a breed still a lot better at promise than delivery, particularly on claims of providing better value than law firms.
According to Sandy Bhogal, co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s global tax practice, ‘General counsel will probably be more involved in tax affairs now than they’ve ever been’. With this in mind, he identifies three major trends in corporate tax that will keep lawyers busy for the foreseeable future: the knock on impact of the pandemic to …
‘There is a creative and artistic side to me but also a very pragmatic and logical one. While I left that creative side behind, sometimes it still wants to get out.’ From speaking to Stephanie Dominy, general counsel of the hyper-complicated, open-source software security start-up Snyk, both her logical and creative credentials are in no …
A cursory glance at The Legal 500’s IP coverage – which was recently split into a distinct patents table alongside a trade marks, copyright and design table – makes for a head-scratching read. In a legal discipline that attracts sophisticated, technical expertise, fortune favours the innovative as much as the who’s who of the City …
It was the football story of the year – eclipsing even Lionel Messi’s move to PSG and football not quite coming home – almost beyond belief in its audacity. On Sunday 18 April, The Times broke a story that 12 leading clubs from England, Spain and Italy had agreed to break away from UEFA’s Champions …
The In-House Lawyer (IHL): What has been keeping you busy in banking litigation over the past 12 months?
The Lithuanian court system consists of courts of general jurisdiction and specialised courts.
While an agreement to settle disputes through arbitration means that the parties have contracted to have their dispute resolved away from the Courts, an aggrieved party can still (in limited circumstances) challenge an arbitral award in Court.