Clifford Chance is to ‘neutralize’ gender-specific language from its legal documents by using a new artificial intelligence tool that will remove greetings like ‘Dear Sir’ to provide a non-sexist language to its documents. ‘He’ or ‘she’ will be replaced with ‘they’ or ‘them’ in the future documents and ‘chairman’ will b no more. The move
The risks to businesses of civil claims arising out of data breaches have been underplayed. Data litigation is on the rise and the exposures are potentially significant. In this briefing, we explore the key defences to such claims and the arguments available – in light of the emerging case law – to challenge the large
Clifford Chance is delighted to announce that Adelina Prokop and Mateusz Chruściak were promoted to Counsels on 1 November 2020. Adelina Prokop is an advocate who focuses on dispute resolution in commercial, financial and international law. Adelina specialises in particular in investment arbitration. Adelina has vast experience acting for clients in court and arbitration proceedings
Clifford Chance – In an increasingly global world, it is more likely than ever that litigators will be faced with managing cross-border cases in unfamiliar locations. The Clifford Chance Litigation Guide App provides a guide to litigation on a country by country basis. The easy to navigate Q&A format means you’ll be able to quickly find what
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance announced today that Shaun Langhorne will join its Singapore office next week as partner in the firm’s international Restructuring and Insolvency team. Shaun is a senior practitioner with vast experience in complex, multi-stakeholder and cross-border restructuring matters covering contentious and non-contentious situations across the Asia Pacific region. Kai-Niklas Schneider,
Clifford Chance has started an interesting robotics training programme, together with ‘Josef’, a legal automation platform, to train lawyers on how to work with a ‘no code’ platform to develop contracts. LawFuel wrote about Melbourne-based legal ‘bot’ Josef and receiving investment funding earlier this year. The firm’s press release explaining the initiative is below –
A 2 per cent increase in pay rates for newly qualified (NQ) solicitors and trainees in London legal work may not sound much, but when it sets a starting base pay rate of £83,000 it sounds mighty attractive to young lawyers. The increase came from Linklaters which has 100 training contracts issued annually. Firm trainees
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International law firm Clifford Chance has advised Investa Capital Management on the sale of the shopping centre Allee-Center in Leipzig to EQT Real Estate. The Allee-Center in Leipzig-Grünau offers a total space of 40,000 square metres and the largest tenants are Rewe, Saturn and Aldi. Clifford Chance had already advised Investa on the purchase of
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Leading global law firm, Clifford Chance has announced two new senior level appointments designed to support the delivery of the firm’s strategy. Caroline Firstbrook, who joins the firm in mid February, succeeds Amanda Burton as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. Meanwhile, Bas Boris Visser, Managing Partner of Clifford Chance’s Amsterdam office, takes on the new
Clifford Chance today announced its results for the year ended 30 April 2013. Revenues were £1,271 million (USD1,995 million; EUR1,551 million), broadly flat year on year excluding the effect of exchange rate movements (in Sterling, down 2%) Partnership profit was £404 million (USD634 million; EUR493 million), 6% lower than the previous financial year
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