Is the general counsel the ringmaster managing risk effectively within their organisation, or a stage prompt waiting in the wings? These were the main discussion points of a recent panel debate before an audience of more than 40 senior in-house lawyers gathered together at Eight Members Club in Moorgate.
On 21 July 2017, the House of Lords EU Internal Market Sub-Committee (the EU Committee), chaired by Lord Whitty, launched an inquiry into the key issues that will arise in the negotiations on Brexit and the impact of Brexit on UK competition policy.
The firm Elias Neocleous & Co is the largest law firm in Cyprus by a considerable margin, and is generally recognised as the leading firm in south-east Europe and the eastern Mediterranean region. It has more than 140 fee-earners operating out of three offices in Cyprus, and a network of offices overseas.
The firm ICT Legal Consulting is an international law firm founded in 2011 with offices in Milan, Bologna, Rome and Amsterdam, and a presence in 19 other countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the USA).
The legal implications of new technologies have been making headlines recently, with a group of more than 100 specialists in robotics submitting an open letter to the United Nations urging a ban on the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in weapon systems. But on the commercial side the change capturing lawyers’ attention is …
Ah, despite the changing fashions, technology and economic realities of the day, in law you can always rely on that curious mix of mutual hypocrisy, miscommunication, mistrust and conflicting agendas between clients and law firms to endure.
Tesco commits to BLP for real estate Supermarket giant Tesco has gifted Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) with another three-year stint as its lead property adviser. The mandate was last extended in 2014 when Tesco dropped Ashurst from its panel and the extension is a further endorsement of BLP’s key practice area and low-cost Manchester base. …
To coincide with the 20th annual Legal Business Awards, a launch reception was held on 23 March to mark the launch of our fifth annual GC Powerlist which, under the unifying title The Clients of Tomorrow, looked at both the outstanding rising star in-house counsel and high-growth companies with the prospects of becoming the global …
In a world where newspapers are branding judges ‘enemies of the people’ and fake news dominates public discourse, these days the media itself is the story.
‘There are known knowns… There are known unknowns… but there are also unknown unknowns.’