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Homeowners accuse 12 banks of manipulating Libor

The banks, man. It is just one debacle after another with them.
2 minute read

International Edition

Let's play master and servant: the curious relationship between barrister and clerk

"There is a well-known clerking phrase 'when a barrister is busy it's because they are brilliant, when they are quiet it's because their clerk isn't doing enough'..."
7 minute read

Inside Counsel

5 celebrity lawsuits in the news

Battling over Marvel character ownership, Billy Corgan's tree destroys a neighbor's house and more
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

Nigerians bring pollution case against Shell in the Netherlands

Four Nigerian villagers taking a stand against Royal Dutch Shell over the alleged pollution of their homelands may end up paving the way for all plaintiffs suing multinational corporations.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

E-discovery: Collect metadata to avoid ESI headaches

Electronically Stored Information (ESI) has the context information embedded within every file. This is called the metadata, or data about the data.
9 minute read

International Edition

Berezovsky agrees to near-£40m payout of legal costs

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has agreed to pay £35m of Roman Abramovich's £40m legal costs today (12 October) following his high-profile litigation defeat to the Chelsea FC owner earlier this year. Berezovsky, who has been represented by Addleshaw Goddard on the long-running litigation since 2008, has agreed to pay the majority of Abramovich's costs after losing the $6bn (£3.8bn) court battle.
2 minute read

International Edition

Legal Week Law - quarterly peer review

A round-up of the best legal briefings on Legal Week Law in the past three months
1 minute read

Inside Counsel

Supreme Court hears arguments in UT-Austin affirmative action case

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the high-profile case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which could determine the future of affirmative action in public university admission.
7 minute read

International Edition

(Another) Bar Standards Board faux pas?

Baroness Deech, the chair of the Bar Standards Board (BSB), recently gave an interesting speech on legal education and legal regulation. It appears from the text of the speech that it was given to a group of South African lawyers. It begins: "There is no more appropriate nation than S. Africa in which to examine legal education and the lawyers that it produces." I ask every lawyer reading this blog to pause and think of the most famous South African lawyer.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: How to win jurors’ hearts

Facts. Reason. Logic. These are some of a trial lawyers essential tools
16 minute read

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