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The factors that can trigger supply chain disruption and litigation in the life sciences industry

Hogan Lovells – Change is coming to the life sciences industry. Price pressure, new market entrants, the emergence of personalized medicine, and even climate change are adding complexity to traditional manufacturing processes and supply chain operations. In this hoganlovells.com interview, Dr. Tanja Eisenblätter, co-head of our international litigation practice and dedicated life sciences industry litigator, […]

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5 Legal Services Lawyers Should Start Offering Online

The legal industry has been around for an extremely long time, but firms will have to change in the future as increased competition and technology increasingly affects the profitability and success of legal businesses. While many lawyers are reluctant to make changes, there is increasingly a need to focus on new or alternative business avenues

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Five Morrison & Foerster Lawyers Win Client Choice Awards

Lokke Moerel, Anna T. Pinedo, Jackie Liu, Maria Jayne Steeples, and Gary Mitchel Smith Five Morrison & Foerster lawyers have received 2018 Client Choice awards: Berlin senior of counsel Lokke Moerel for IT & Internet; New York partner Anna Pinedo for Derivatives; San Francisco partner Jackie Liu for Corporate; Singapore of counsel Maria Steeples for

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Man Indicted for Cyber Attack on LA County Superior Court

LOS ANGELES – A federal Grand Jury has indicted Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba, 32, of Houston, Texas, on multiple counts of unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, unauthorized access to obtain information and aggravated identity theft for a multi-stage phishing attack on the Los Angeles County Superior Court (LASC) computer system. According to the indictment, over

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Slaughter and May advised on SoftBank Vision Fund’s investments in Ping An Good Doctor and Ping An Healthcare Technology

Slaughter and May advised SB Investment Advisers (UK) Limited (SBIA), an investment adviser to SoftBank Vision Fund, on SoftBank Vision Fund’s investment in two technology companies in the Ping An group – Ping An Healthcare and Technology Company Limited (Ping An Good Doctor) and Ping An Medical and Healthcare Management Co., Ltd. (Ping An Healthcare

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Sweet 16 Hacks to Building Your Law Firm’s Facebook Group Fast (And Avoid Facebook’s Page Downgrade)

John Bowie* Recent changes by Facebook make their Groups rather than Facebook Pages a more attractive option for users, including law firms, seeking to increase their brand or general awareness. The fact is that Facebook’s recent algorithm changes have meant that Facebook pages are not generating the same level of engagement as their groups, showing

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Linkaters Partner Gets Three Years’ Jail After Oktoberfest Sexual Assault

In a #Metoo news round, we’ve been keen to avoid being caught up in any excessive paranoia over sexual harassment and sexual assault in law firms, but somehow it’s all about us. First there is the claim we reported about Baker + McKenzie’s apparent gagging of a solicitor accusing a partner of sexual assault, then

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The Law Firm Sex Abuse Issue – Is the “Clerking Culture” To Blame?

The mounting media storm surrounding the Russell McVeagh sex-intern scandal has seen Radio New Zealand and others interview key players, including Victoria University Vice Chancellor Grant Guilford, who told the Nine to Noon’s Kathryn Ryan that the Police had kept the allegations made against at least two senior male members of the firm open. No

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