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LIDW’s Main Conference addressed a range of hot topics including how courts around the globe are innovating and how practitioners are building the dispute resolution practices of the future.
Karen Dunn has left along with three other DC-based and disputes-focused colleagues, in the wake of President Trump’s continuing executive orders against high-end law firms for “harmful activity”.
Arbitration still has a role to play in settling a new generation of energy and hydrocarbon disputes, particularly in Africa, according to lawyers speaking at Paris Arbitration Week (PAW) 2025. That ...
Rhys Williams and Mariangela Bucci of Conyers discuss the Bermuda Court of Appeal's examination of discovery issues between a parent and its subsidiary, and privilege between a company and its ...
By luring a litigator to the UK from Quinn Emanuel’s Brussels office, Milberg London plans to enhance its competition credentials and expand into arbitration. Milberg London has today (15 May) hired ...
Rising insolvency has brought the litigation finance firm a wave of business opportunities according to its latest half-year financial results. Manolete Partners has reported a record 437 new ...
The civil justice system in England and Wales is paying the price for lockdown delays and decades of underfunding. Justice delayed is justice denied and, while delays in England and Wales’ criminal ...
The weekly summary of people and firms news includes shareholder, financial services and real estate litigators, European firm mergers and a new office in the US. The round-up kicks off in the English ...
As the new year edges closer, CDR explores what big litigation trends will sweep the US in 2025. While Big Tech antitrust actions, IP battles and shareholder disputes dominated the US litigation ...
From CDR’s Tech Issue: Lauded for their efficiency, transparency and rapidity, smart contracts are fast becoming a popular commercial option. But there is a not-so-clever side to these cyber pacts.
The London Court of Appeal has ruled that litigation funders can be paid their fee before class action members get their cut of the damages. Industry players have lauded a pivotal judgment made last ...
A class action brought against a notorious car shipping cartel is on the verge of securing a GBP 37.25 million settlement with two of the four remaining defendants. A high-profile UK class action ...