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  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    Russian business & finance
    London Lawfare: how lawyers helped Russia’s super-rich

    Since the invasion of Ukraine, work done by firms such as CMS, Harbottle & Lewis and Carter-Ruck for Russian billionaires has come under increasing scrutiny

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  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
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    Company lawyers are proving their value as advisers to the business

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    China’s ‘homecomers’ herald flow of deals

    Listings for groups expelled from the US are keeping lawyers busy

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
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  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
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  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
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  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
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    Law firms challenged to take political stance on clients

    Questions over neutrality, globalisation and staff skills are keeping Apac leaders awake at night

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
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    Ukraine war puts Japan’s clean energy transition at risk

    Legal problem-solving is required to keep sustainable energy goals on track amid geopolitical pressures

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    James Kynge
    US-China rift becomes a legal feud

    Trade war rhetoric has evolved into wrangling over laws and regulation in tech and finance

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    UK companies
    Workplace ‘banter’ lawsuits up by more than 40%

    Research finds that the term is increasingly used in UK tribunals as a justification for allegedly discriminatory remarks

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
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  • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
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    Pay model shake-up aims to keep profits high and retain lawyers with two-tiered structure

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
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  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
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  • Monday, 14 March, 2022
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    Lawyers cut ties with Kremlin-linked clients as reputational risks mount

    UK and US firms that have generated billions in fees from Russian business are under pressure as sanctions hit

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    David Allen Green
    England’s law, not its lawyers, is to blame for the oligarch gold rush

    It is substantive law and procedure which makes London attractive to Russian litigants, not the charms of its advocates

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