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E-discovery: 4 tips on cost effectively responding to a litigation hold

In todays modern economy, corporations are faced with many challenging new issues, not the least of which is minding their bits and bytes.
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International Edition

Herbert Smith recruits top-rated white-collar partner from Slater & Gordon

Herbert Smith Freehills has recruited Slater & Gordon business crime and investigation head Rod Fletcher following a string of recent exits from the Anglo-Australian firm's litigation practice. Fletcher will join Herbert Smith in April, and will lead the firm's corporate crime and investigations team alongside partner Graham More.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Judge tosses copyright suit against LexisNexis, Westlaw

Legal research companies LexisNexis and Westlaw can breathe a sigh of relief now that a judge has tossed a copyright suit against them.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

IP: 5 things to discuss at your first case meeting with outside trial counsel

As a trial lawyer who has conducted many complex intellectual property case kickoffs between inside and outside counsel teams, Ive discovered that covering five key questions during that first meeting provides a dependable format for success.
12 minute read

International Edition

4-5 Gray's Inn set to merge with public law set Atlas Chambers

4-5 Gray's Inn Square has merged with public law specialist Atlas Chambers, with Atlas director John Lister and a team of eight barristers set to start operating under the 4-5 Gray's Inn Square banner.
2 minute read

International Edition

Osborne Clarke boosts litigation and TMT with double partner hire

Osborne Clarke (OC) has strengthened its litigation and TMT practices with the hires of Tom Ellis and John Buyers from Wragge & Co and Stephenson Harwood respectively.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

U.K. regulators probe Autonomy’s finances

U.K. regulators are stepping in to have a look into Hewlett-Packard Co.s accusations of accounting fraud against Autonomy.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Fraud allegations cannot reopen voluntarily dismissed foreclosure cases

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday found that voluntarily dismissed foreclosure cases cant be reopened when there are allegations of fraud, an important ruling in a state that saw a lot of foreclosures during the housing crisis.
2 minute read

International Edition

39 Essex Street silk convicted of £600,000 tax fraud

39 Essex Street Chambers Rohan Pershad QC was today (11 February) found guilty of tax fraud worth more than £600,000 at Blackfriars Crown Court. Investigators at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) found that Pershad failed to declare or pay £627,839 of VAT over a period of 12 years, instead spending the cash on luxury homes and private school fees for his children.
3 minute read

International Edition

Rules of the game - the lawyers making their mark in the sports sector

For decades, sport has continued to confound the laws of economic gravity that seem to so often drag other industries back down to earth. Year after year, broadcasting rights escalate – as do sponsorship deals – and ticket prices jauntily rise upwards while the financial fortunes of the millions of fans and spectators that turn out in sunshine and rain have generally stagnated or slumped during the recession. In short, sport is big business, and lawyers agree that it is a profitable segment of the legal services market to be involved in.
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