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Third Year of Successive Growth Across the Legal Sector, Large Firms Dominate

12th May 2017
The latest annual Legal Benchmarking Report from MHA, the UK-wide group of accountancy and business advisory firms, reveals a third year of growth across the sector. However, while large firms continue to dominate the market, the fortune of small firms is more mixed as income and profit levels reduce and their cost base increases. Overall, […]
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Homeland Security and Public Safety Agencies to Spend $11 Billion on Big Data Surveillance by 2022

11th May 2017
According to a recent report by Homeland Security Research Corp. (HSRC), security and public safety organizations are spending large sums of money on big data infrastructure and software, in order to deal with growing global security threats. The rising use of smartphones, computers, and other personal devices is creating huge amounts of data, making it […]
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New Steps Planned to Enhance the Functioning of the EU Single Market

11th May 2017
The Commission presented a package of measures to make the Single Market work better for citizens and businesses. The Single Market is one of the EU's greatest achievements. It enables people, services, goods and capital to move freely. It has fuelled economic growth and made the everyday life of European businesses and consumers easier. A […]
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Global Censorship of News Reaches New Levels of Complexity

10th May 2017
Despite the promise of new information technologies, governments, non-state actors, and corporations worldwide are censoring vast amounts of information using complex and sophisticated tactics. The 2017 edition of Attacks on the Press, published last week by The Committee to Protect Journalists, chronicles singular methods of controlling the flow of information, including financial pressure on journalists […]
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Are Companies Willing to Pay More for Millennials with Specialized Skill Sets?

9th May 2017
As a fresh crop of students complete their studies this spring, a new report by The Conference Board of Canada indicates that recent graduates with a bachelor's degree can expect to earn an average annual starting salary in the range of $45,000 to $69,000. These numbers are slightly lower for those graduates with a college […]
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Jindal Law School Students Receive Global Legal Internships

9th May 2017
The students of Jindal Global Law School have received opportunities to pursue global legal internships in the United States of America, United Kingdom, China, Australia and Abu Dhabi. They have been invited to work in international law firms, NGOs and government agencies besides being given an opportunity to work as judicial clerks with the Supreme […]
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All You Need to Know About the New Africa-EU Partnership

8th May 2017
Why is this Communication being proposed now? Over the ten past years, the EU and Africa had already forged a more political partnership based on shared values and interests, enshrined in the Joint Africa-EU Strategy adopted in 2007. A series of events in 2017 – from the G7 and G20 Summits in May and June […]
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