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How one lawyer discovered the ‘Boomerang Effect’ of Doing Good
A friend recently observed that lawyers (like many other professions) have the potential to apply their work skills to do good for the community.
He noted that practitioners of the legal...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Payback Time: Trump and EU’s “Exorbitant” Fines vs US Tech Companies
The election of Donald Trump for a second term of the US Presidency is of considerable concern to the European Union (EU), NATO, and states worldwide in general owing to...Read more

Roy Girasa
Professor of Law, Pace University, USA
Mediation: The Jimmy Carter Way!

Tributes have abounded for James Earl Carter, Jnr., the 39th President of the United States of America who died in late December 2024. This virtually unknown Southern peanut-farmer-turned-politician, former Governor...Read more

Siddharth Raja
Partner, Vertices Partners, India

Roopa Doraswamy
General Counsel, Ideaspring Capital, India
NIS2 & Cybersecurity in Practice: Compliance Challenges

The recently adopted NIS2 Directive places novel and stringent compliance requirements before a wide selection of essential and important entities (energy, transport, food production, telecoms, etc). The actual number of...Read more

Andrej Savin
Professor, CBS LAW, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Bridging the Divide: The Essential Collaboration Between Legal and Financial Advisors for Effective Business Solutions
The PR is right, promising to deliver what we know GCs and in-house counsel want from their advisors. But does this always happen in reality? In short, not nearly...Read more

Ross Meadows
Partner, Oury Clark, UK
Prompt Engineering for Lawyers
Every human invention should be celebrated, and generative AI is a true human invention. But too much optimism and hype may lead to the premature use of technologies that are...Read more

James Lau
Singapore
Changing Perceptions: How to stop your colleagues from assuming you’re the ‘Department of No’

An in-house colleague of mine once disclosed that he was known as the ‘Sales Prevention Officer’ in one of the businesses he worked for. And this sort of attitude towards...Read more

Sarah Davis
General Counsel, The Legal Director, UK
The Art of Transforming Lawyers into Directors on Receptive Boards
In August, US rental car giant Hertz announced that it is adding two lawyers as board members, a current and a former general counsel of corporations. This is the latest...Read more

Jeffery Tan
Group General Counsel & Chief Sustainability Officer , Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited, Singapore
Redomiciliation of companies to "Russian offshores"
Over the past 25 years, Russian corporate law has developed very rapidly, absorbing previously unknown concepts. One of these concepts was the possibility of redomiciliation of companies. For this purpose,...Read more

Vladislav Gorobinskiy
Head of the Legal Support Department for International Projects, Mediator, New Investment Group LLC, Russia
Legal Profession in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence - An Update
This article is an update of my 2 articles in 2023 Legal Profession in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (“Legal Profession in an Age of GenAI”) and Generative...Read more

James Lau
Singapore