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Specialist IT lawyer and Head of Technology at national law firm, Clarke Willmott LLP, Susan Hall, warns that the idea of ‘hacking’ can cover a number of offences and online pranksters should be aware that what they’re doing probably won’t be considered harmless fun. Online pranks can carry serious consequences. When a journalist asked Kemi […]
Law students and young lawyers are faced with many employment considerations: what practice area to pursue, how to land a position with growth opportunity, and how to negotiate a salary and benefits package commensurate with the time and effort their career will require. Below Angela Ferrante, Senior Vice President of operations at GCG, a leading […]
Music is often a determined sequence of chords and rhythms, words and melodies, but sometimes a song has an ‘essence’; this is according to The Script’s lawyer, and plaintiff against James Arthur, Richard Busch. Below Robert Lundie Smith, Partner at EIP Legal, talks Lawyer Monthly through a complex history of subconscious copying and IP infringement […]
Business has never been more complicated in the legal arena. The role of today’s General Counsel (GC), supported by in-house legal teams, has gone from providing sound legal advice to also delivering strategy and direction in both legal and business matters. Below Bryan Melchionda, Director of Alliances at Seal Software, explains for Lawyer Monthly why […]
Jonathan Molot, a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and co-founder & Chief Investment Officer of Burford Capital, here discusses the moves law firms are making to pursue growth in the sector. A recent Deloitte law firm study sheds light on an all-too familiar topic: sluggish law firm growth, particularly among the largest […]
The Commercial Courts Report 2018, produced by Portland’s specialist Disputes practice, has found that London continues to be a destination of choice for litigants from around the world, with 69 countries represented over the past year. This tally maintains a steady upward trend. There was also a 22% increase in the total number of litigants […]
The Bar Council’s new report ‘Barristers’ Working Lives 2017: Barristers’ attitudes towards their working lives, reveals that barristers across England and Wales are struggling with a number of factors affecting their overall working lives, such as workload, stress, and work-life balance. The survey, which received 4,092 responses (representing over a quarter of the profession) brings […]
This week Hasbro, the internationally renown toy company, has been granted trademark rights to the very particular smell of Play-Doh, describing the smell as a “sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.” The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Hasbro a […]
London Central Portfolio has carried out detailed analysis of residential Stamp Duty returns for 2017. This includes the new Additional Rate Stamp Duty (ARSD) of 3% for all additional property purchases such as buy to lets and second homes. This has shown: The most expensive 10% of properties contributed around 60% of all Stamp Duty […]
On May 17 2018, the Supreme Court heard its first ever case on divorce itself rather than issues relating to finances or children. The family justice organisation Resolution was the only third party given permission to intervene in the appeal to the Supreme Court in support of Mrs Owens. Mills & Reeve represented Resolution on a […]
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