Law firms today are faced with many challenges including maintaining profitability, running efficiently, recruiting and retaining talent, and keeping up with the latest technology. All of this combined with the rise of the client-empowered era, where clients demand services be faster, simpler and tailored to their needs, is forcing law firms to take note of the fact they need to digitise or die.
An overwhelming majority (85%) of financial services professionals predict that demand for RegTech solutions will continue to grow until at least 2020 as the wave of new regulation a decade after the financial crisis shows no sign of abating.
Following INTERPOL recent red notice elections, Edward Grange and Danielle Reece-Greenhalgh, lawyers at leading criminal defence law firm Corker Binning, discuss the political neutrality of the organisation, and the different tests applied when removing red notices on political grounds compared to contesting extradition or claiming asylum on the basis of political persecution.
Hiring an attorney is often the first worry when something goes wrong and there are legal implications. Finding an attorney is actually quite easy, but for those who haven’t been there before, finding the right one can be tricky.
Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) established the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation to support the implementation and use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI).
Examining the cases of Letts and Lane and Honey Rose, Nick Barnard, lawyer at leading criminal defence law firm Corker Binning, discusses the legal implications of corporately funding active terrorism, even unintentionally.
When the federal, state or local government, or any agency possessing the power of eminent domain such as the Massachusetts Highway Department or the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, need a piece of property for a public purpose, it can take the title to that property from the owner by law of eminent domain. To better […]
Those outside the industry may truly believe so, but those who work in the legal sphere, where they may sometimes wake up thinking they can tackle the world and all its evil, are just like the rest of us; so why do the regulatory organisations, such as the SRA, give lawyers such a hard time? […]
The House of Lords has been told that there is a sense of unfairness when it comes to bribery, with the big corporates facing less prospect of prosecution than their smaller counterparts.
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