178 ABA Journal Middle East articles.
Clifford Chance has taken the unusual step of replacing its office in Saudi Arabia in favor of an alliance with local firm, Abuhimed Alsheikh Alhagbani Law Firm.
Aug 23, 2016 5:07 PM CDT
In the wake of a failed coup attempt by the Turkish military, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrested about 3,000 lawyers, judges and journalists in the country without charges or…
Aug 9, 2016 3:32 PM CDT
More than 60 people died in a suicide bombing on Monday at a hospital in Pakistan where lawyers had gathered to mourn a slain colleague.
The director of the hospital…
Aug 8, 2016 9:01 AM CDT
Mayer Brown has opened an office in Dubai to serve as the hub of its Middle East practice.
On Wednesday, the firm announced in a press release that its…
Jun 23, 2016 10:00 AM CDT
A disclaimer on an Israeli Espresso Club video ad featuring a George Clooney lookalike tells viewers he’s not the famous Hollywood actor.
However, Nespresso, which uses the real George Clooney…
Jan 21, 2016 12:55 PM CST
A lawyer for a Turkish doctor accused of illegally insulting the country’s president made no headway with a free speech argument.
So lawyer Hicran Danisman is pursuing another line of…
Dec 3, 2015 6:15 AM CST
Thousands of people attended a funeral on Sunday for a Kurdish human rights lawyer fatally shot during a press conference in Turkey.
Lawyer Tahir Elci had led the Diyarbakir Bar…
Nov 30, 2015 8:51 AM CST
Railway police stand ready to ticket fare-dodgers and others who violate the rules at one of the busiest train stations in the world.
But a cumbersome judicial process, compared to…
Nov 18, 2015 4:35 PM CST
Expanding charges in a case against two Israeli men and a U.S. citizen, a federal prosecutor on Tuesday unsealed a superseding indictment (PDF) and accused them of playing a…
Nov 10, 2015 3:55 PM CST
Only a year after Allen & Overy became the first of London’s leading corporate law firms to open an office in Toronto, the so-called Magic Circle firm is closing the…
Sep 29, 2015 11:35 AM CDT
A Saudi Arabian businessman with an estimated net worth of nearly $20 billion has donated $10 million to Yale Law School to establish an Islamic law center there.
“The contemporary…
Sep 14, 2015 7:30 AM CDT
Fourteen years after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the legal system is still dealing with those alleged to be responsible for the hijacked commercial airlines that crashed into the…
Sep 11, 2015 12:20 PM CDT
ISIS—also known as the Islamic State group—has embraced sex slavery and is regulating the practice with sales contracts notarized by ISIS-run courts, according to a newspaper investigation.
The girls and…
Aug 13, 2015 9:09 AM CDT
Aug 1, 2015 1:00 AM CDT
The rule of law as embodied in the Magna Carta needs to be brought to the people who need it most, said Baroness Emma Nicholson during her luncheon speech at…
Jun 13, 2015 10:10 AM CDT
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