The Equality Effect is a non-profit charity that uses international human rights law as a crowbar to pry open justice for women and girls around the world. Drawing on a team of feisty international lawyers, the equality effect supports its regional legal partners by initiating creative legal advocacy projects to achieve systemic change. In Kenya, …
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Big banks make up a third of all FTSE 100 litigation in the UK
Banks continued to make up by the far the largest share of all UK High Court cases involving FTSE 100 companies in the year to June 2014, according to research by Thomson Reuters. Data from Thomson Reuters Lawtel service shows that of the 178 cases involving FTSE 100 companies that made it to the High …
The criminalization of homophobia in Brazil
This article was written by guest author Maria Berenice Dias, attorney; president of the Commission of Sexual Diversity of the Federal Counsel of the OAB [Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (Brazilian Bar Association)]; national vice-president of the IBDFAM [Instituto Brasileiro de Direito de Família (Brazilian Institute of Family Law)]; and author of several works under the …
Health system turmoil affects attorneys
This post was written by Ferd H. Mitchell and Cheryl C. Mitchell, Thomson Reuters authors and attorney partners at Mitchell Law Office in Spokane, WA One of the major problems facing health care attorneys today is how to deal with the turmoil of a constantly-changing health care system. This turmoil extends to every level of …
Criminal Law Review 60th Anniversary celebrations
This post was written by Joe Mosby, publishing editor, UK&I Legal, Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters celebrated the 60th anniversary of Criminal Law Review with a drinks reception at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London on Tuesday. The event followed the Criminal Law Review conference, which was hosted by the editor, Professor David Ormerod QC. The …
Joe Borstein from Pangea3 on the rise of alternative legal solutions
Joe Borstein, global director of Pangea3, was recently interviewed by Ari Kaplan, author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011), on the rise of alternative legal solutions. In the interview, Borstein highlighted examples of the “not-so-new normal” trends that have transformed the legal industry, including collaborative content creation, dynamic legal …
Is doing more with less keeping you up at night?
The legal landscape continues to be filled with challenges impacting corporate counsels’ role as legal advisor as much as their responsibility to best manage limited resources. In addition to practicing law, corporate legal departments must manage a budget, staff, use of technology, outside counsel spend and non-law firm legal services, such as legal process outsourcing …
The vulnerability of LGBTI persons in Brazil
This article was written by guest author Maria Berenice Dias, attorney; president of the Commission of Sexual Diversity of the Federal Counsel of the OAB [Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (Brazilian Bar Association)]; national vice-president of the IBDFAM [Instituto Brasileiro de Direito de Família (Brazilian Institute of Family Law)]; and author of several works under the …
Cybershopping at work becoming a popular way to shop
Have you started your holiday shopping yet? Well, you better not be doing it at work! Most employers frown on employees using company time and computers to let their fingers do the shopping. Yet, that’s exactly what many of us do. A new survey from FindLaw found that 35 percent of Americans shop online while at work. …
EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with {Marshall}+, the first computer algorithm for predicting Supreme Court cases
As we mentioned last week, the most interesting participant in this term’s FantasySCOTUS is a rookie – {Marshall}+. Legal Current scored an exclusive interview with the elusive and very private {Marshall]+ as he prepares to square off against some of the best Supreme Court predictors in the FantasySCOTUS tournament. The newest rookie to FantasySCOTUS gave off …
