In the wake of an unprecedented loss of a government database containing confidential information about tens of millions of people, British legislators are reportedly considering new data-protection safeguards.
A significant number of British clients are unhappy with their lawyers and, like their American counterparts, many complain about a lack of communication.
Mention “Skadden” to students at prestigious U.S. law schools, and most if not all will recognize a reference to what many would consider one of the nation’s most successful corporate…
Extradition is only one way for the U.S. government to get suspected criminals in foreign countries back to American soil for trial. Another legitimate option is to kidnap them, a…
Updated: The lawyer-entrepreneur is a fairly regular story. TheStreet.com published anecdotes about several this week. But this one from London knocks the rest out cold.
Latham & Watkins has hired five partners from Italian firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo. One of them will stay in Rome in the law firm’s first office there.
In an unusual example of Chinese company resorting to litigation to enforce its intellectual property abroad, a Beijing curd maker has won a trademark infringement suit against a German company.
Updated: A major police investigation reportedly has been launched in Britain after the government’s entire database concerning every child in the country for whom benefits have been paid was lost…
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