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International Edition

Pinsent Masons Launches Flexible Services Business Vario in the Middle East

The launch will see the product rolled out in the region from the firm's Dubai base.
2 minute read

International Edition

Ashurst Expands Alternative Services Division with Poland Office Launch

Ashurst Advance's new office, in Krakow, is being opened in partnership with Elevate, a global ALSP based in Los Angeles.
2 minute read

Pro Mid Market

Former Tank Commander Turned Managing Partner: Traditional Legal Business Model Is 'Broken'

Greg Williamson's law firm, OGC, only hires lawyers with 15 years of practice and substantial in-house experience in order to give clients more cost predictability.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

Tech Transformation Means 'Different Things to Different People': A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Jeff Ikejiri

KPMG's tax and legal ops principal Jeff Ikejiri believes that alternate legal service providers (ALSPs) will be primed to take on more complex legal work, and more comprehensively help clients grapple with generative AI.
6 minute read

Pro Mid Market

A Year Under Arizona's Revised Ownership Rules: Axiom Leaders Reflect

"We're actually seeing a lot of traction with our enterprise and small and medium-size business clients to actually think about Axiom Advice & Counsel as another law firm alternative to their panel law firms," said Axiom's CEO David McVeigh.
10 minute read

Law.com

'I Was Always Frustrated': Talc Federal Bankruptcy Judge Wants This Rule to Change

In a Jan. 10 letter, U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Michael Kaplan of the District of New Jersey asked the Federal Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure to change a rule that prohibits bankruptcy judges from appointing special masters.
6 minute read

International Edition

EY Law Plots Sweeping Cuts, 24 UK Roles at Risk

The news conflicts with the Big Four firm's stated ambition of more than trebling in size in the UK and Ireland by 2025, and points to the difficulty the auditing giants have had in gaining a foothold in legal.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Considerations of the Unauthorized Practice of Law in the ADR Process

The statutes and case law related to the unauthorized practice of law are designed to answer the question of who can advocate on behalf of the parties in arbitration. Specifically, the cases and statutes set the boundaries with respect to whether one must in fact be a lawyer to represent parties or whether lawyers can cross state lines and represent parties in states in which the lawyer is not a member of that state's bar.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Resolving Litigation: Equal Empathy for Tenants, Landlords Highlight 'Radical Neutral Advocacy'

Mediation starts the moment everybody signs the confidentiality agreement and can go on for months. If there's no settlement, it's just suspended. There's no failure because mediation can always start again. I stress that with parties and lawyers. We can always come back.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

The Strategic Advantage of Using Joint Valuation Experts in Legal Disputes

Employ a jointly retained valuation expert. This underused approach can pivotally shift disputes, especially where emotional entanglement clouds judgment, as in divorce or business ownership conflicts.
4 minute read

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