The bitcoin world continues to turn itself on its head with tales of massive, near-instant wealth and scandal and The Australian recently profiled the tale of a 37 year old Australian math whizz at the centre of a bitcoin scandal. As the newspaper reported, “if the pictures of Lamborghinis lined up outside bitcoin conferences in
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MinterEllisonRuddWatts–Continued responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, greater regulatory action and adjustments to legislation will all shape the litigation landscape in the year ahead. These are among the predictions made by MinterEllisonRuddWatts’ leading dispute resolution team in its Litigation Forecast 2021.Partner and co-leader of the national law firm’s Dispute Resolution team, Andrew Horne (pictured) says that
Armstrong Teasdale proudly announces the acquisition of London firm Kerman & Co., effective Feb. 5, 2021. The addition of over 50 lawyers and staff bolsters Armstrong Teasdale’s roster to over 340 lawyers and over 300 staff professionals around the world. “We have long served clients around the world, and now we’re in a position to
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Bell Gully is delighted to announce the appointment of three new partners, five senior associates and a special counsel for 2021. The new partners are specialist banking and finance lawyer Jennifer Gunser (pictured)and two experienced litigators Blair Keown and Kirsty Dobbs*. Bell Gully’s three new partners “The firm’s market leading litigation and financial services teams continue to be very busy
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The one thing that has forced change upon the legal profession and the legal technology world has been the pandemic. The law, after all, is one of the most conservative businesses in the world, filled with risk-averse practitioners. Legal technology itself can act as a potential threat, rather than partner in the growth of their
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has further strengthened its expertise in legal tech, hiring Adriaan Schakel, Moritz Biersack, Fillipe Galiza and Ramesh Kumar in January 2021. Part of the firm’s Global Technology & Innovation team, they are located in the Berlin and Munich offices. All of the new hires are proven specialists in machine learning and were
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Zoom has been the big boom for the pandemic, but a recent Zoom filter mishap with a US lawyer has seen what can happen when the Zoom ‘cat’ filter – or any filter, actually – is not switched off. “I’m here live, I’m not a cat,” a voice can be heard saying, while a kitten’s
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Senior Associate Eva Roe has been promoted to Senior Associate in Anderson Lloyd’s Queenstown Property and Private Client Team. Eva specialises in property law, with a focus on projects, property subdivisions and developments, and has a background in banking and finance. Heidi Bendikson has been promoted to Senior Associate in Anderson Lloyd’s Queenstown Property and Private Client
Attorney allegedly spent investors’ money on himself and his family, and to pay some investors in Ponzi-like fashion Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the arrest
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Powered by LawFuel – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has launched an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practice, which provides holistic advice to clients on their corporate responsibility and ESG risks and opportunities. The new practice is led by Dallas senior of counsel Ronald Kirk, London partners Susy
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