Dan Peachey is the Commercial Director at City Legal Translations - certified as the UK's fastest growing translation company in 2016 by the association of translation companies. Here Lawyer Monthly talks to Dan about what every good law firm should know about translation. Q: How important is translation to the legal sector? DAN: Legal translation […]
A new study examining the security practices of law firms has found that only one organisation out of the top 100 UK firms, Walker Morris, has sufficient measures in place to fully protect against email fraud. With the threat of phishing attacks increasing by 65% in 2016, this revelation serves as a stark warning to […]
As part of A&O’s 2017 Annual Review, ‘Leading in Uncertain Times’, its ‘Perspectives on Brexit’ report considers some of the key questions for Allen & Overy and its clients regarding a UK exit from the EU. The A&O website reads: “With the negotiations gaining momentum, we have focused this report on three main issues: the future of EU/UK trade, […]
DLA Piper has advised hotel owner and operator QHotels Group on its acquisition via joint purchase agreement by China's Cindat Capital Management and UK investment firm Aprirose. The two purchasers will each acquire a 50% stake in the company. The final purchase price was £525 million, making it the largest deal in the UK hotel […]
Big Data, it seems, is everywhere. The capacity and speed delivered by new technology systems allows incomprehensibly large sets of data to be analysed by computers, revealing patterns, trends, and associations that can then be used to analyse and predict with greater certainty. This is very useful in the practice of law which is characterised […]
Here Richard Grint, financial services expert at PA Consulting Group warns firms to start acting now to implement a framework that will monitor and mitigate risks of the new tax evasion fines to be implemented by HMRC this month. Firms need to start acting now to implement a framework that will monitor and mitigate risks. […]
We speak with Marc Mercier, a Barrister based in Brisbane, who touches on corporate law, human rights and equality, as well as the keys behind to becoming a successful barrister. Marc is soon releasing the first body corporate law textbook for Queensland, which will help simplify the complicated, and somewhat fragmented nature of the law. His […]
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