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Drafting Commercial Contracts Some Practical Ideas
Over 35 years of working with legal documents I have seen more horrors than is healthy: services agreements with goods warranties wallowing in the undergrowth; clauses that ran for hundreds...Read more
Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
Merger and Acquisition During Covid 19 Situation – Strange Experience

Globally we have been in a strange situation for almost 18 months. Covid 19 has created havoc worldwide. Many lives have been lost and families destroyed. Livelihoods of many have...Read more

Abhijit Mukhopadhyay
President (Legal) & General Counsel, Hinduja Group, London, UK
Considering the Rationale of Incorporating Force Majeure Clauses in Commercial Contracts Between the Parties to a Commercial Contract

Force Majeure clauses are often incorporated by practising lawyers (other than Counsels) as a matter of practice in drafting commercial contracts, be they domestic or transnational, apparently without realising that...Read more

Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK

Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK
Contract Design and Simplification – is this now a must-do?

Is the pendulum shifting? In a fast, technology-driven world, business stakeholders are keen to move away from dense walls of text in contracts. Increasingly, they understand that contracts are a...Read more

Paula Doyle
Chief Legal Innovation Officer, World Commerce & Contracting , USA

Stefania Passera
Contract Designer, Passera Design, World Commerce & Contracting, University of Vaasa, Finland
Research Data Management – An Overview by a Librarian

Data management is an organizational service in term of designing , organizing, and delivering data and knowledge .Research Data Management (RDM) is data management within the context of research activities....Read more

Sangita Purohit
Head Library, Ahmedabad University, India
‘LawWithoutWalls’ Program in the Eyes of an In-House Counsel
Are you an in-house lawyer seeking a unique conference opportunity that assembles hundreds of students and professionals to develop real-world solutions to challenges that your business currently faces? Read...Read more

Alda Loureiro
Regional Legal Counsel, Americas, Wäsrtilä North America, Inc, USA
Key Learnings for In-House Legal Counsel from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Covid-19 presents a distinctive and profound challenge for every corporate organisation. It has impacted the global economy and forever changed the way we conceptualise work and business.
In-house legal counsel...Read more
Veronica Aina Oyetunde
Contracts Specialist, Dangote Industries Limited, Nigeria
Doing More with Less: Structuring Legal Knowledge to Transform Your Legal Department


‘We have to do more with less’ – has been the predominant ethos of in-house legal teams since the 2008 financial crisis. In the intervening decade, companies have strived to...Read more
Martin Kwedar
Senior Counsel and de facto General Counsel to i360, Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC, USA

Erik Smetana
Political Compliance Specialist, Koch Companies Public Sector LLC, USA
A Typical Day When the Regulator comes Knocking on your Door

In Hong Kong, it is not uncommon for regulators to conduct unexpected raids at companies' offices. Are companies in Hong Kong well prepared to tackle "dawn raids" conducted by regulators?...Read more
Valarie Fung
Partner, Yang Chan & Jamison (Member Firm Of Deloitte Legal), Hong Kong

Catherine Leung
Senior Associate, Yang Chan & Jamison (Member Firm Of Deloitte Legal), Hong Kong
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
SLAPP lawsuits are a strategic litigation tool where the aim is more often than not, not so much to win or get a remedy, as to silence or discourage criticism...Read more

Gillian Phillips
Director Editorial Legal Services , Guardian News and Media Limited , UK