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Thirty Nine Essex Street launches in Kuala Lumpur

Thirty Nine Essex Street has launched an office in Kuala Lumpur, making it the first UK chambers to have a presence in Malaysia. The set has taken an office at the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration.
3 minute read

Inside Counsel

Senator Rand Paul files class action suit against NSA, national security leaders

Although many lawsuits have been filed against the NSA, Rands suit may receive particular attention because of his public nature and his outspokenness against the agencys secrecy.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: Controlling litigation expense and exposure through appropriate self-help

Businesses can dramatically cut cost and risk in litigation by adopting and enforcing appropriate document retention policies that ensure the routine destruction of all ESI that need not be maintained for legal or business purposes.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: 6 ways in-house counsel can aid outside counsel in litigation (Part 2)

Insurance is a valuable asset, and when a significant loss or liability presents, corporate counsel can assist in pursuing and maximizing insurance coverage if they have a basic understanding of insurance concepts.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: Proportionality in discovery proposals for amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Several proposed amendments seek to promote proportionality in discovery by directly amending the scope of discovery, promoting clearer responses to Rule 34 requests for production, and explicitly recognizing the authority to allocate expenses in discovery.
11 minute read

Inside Counsel

Former SEC enforcement co-director lands new litigation gig

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has revealed that Canellos will head up the firms litigation department
3 minute read

International Edition

TTIP of the iceberg – what the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership means for lawyers on both sides of the Pond

It has been billed as the largest free trade agreement in history, yet many trade lawyers are still in the dark when it comes to the details of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal. TTIP, which was announced last summer and is now being negotiated, will for the first time create a trade treaty between the US and the EU in its entirety. Designed to drive growth by removing trade barriers and tariffs, independent research cited by the European Commission suggests the annual benefits could be as much as €120bn (£99.9bn) to the EU economy, €90bn (£74.9bn) to the US and €100bn (£83.2bn) to the rest of the world. "Everybody is going to be affected by this, and it really will change the balance of political power," says Ross Denton, a UK-qualified partner in Baker & McKenzie's European competition and trade department. "In recent years the balance [of US trade] has been gradually shifting towards Asia, because they don't have the same heavy tariffs. But if you eliminate most tariffs between the EU and US, then this will have huge ramifications for business."
11 minute read

Inside Counsel

New tool from LexisNexis offers help with litigation budgets and forecasting

Legal research and business information database company LexisNexis has a launched a new product for law firms to rate benchmarking data which will allow general counsel to forecast the cost of potential litigation in order to make informed decisions with strategy.
3 minute read

Inside Counsel

Barclays reveals massive increase in litigation provisions

U.K. firm Barclays' report issued on February 11 details the huge increase in litigation provisions that the company allotted for 2013.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

The bodies and cases that have framed e-discovery precedent in arbitration

Arbitration panels and participants need a clear set of guidelines to signal their responsibilities, and those guidelines ought to be set in line with the goals of arbitration itself.
11 minute read

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