It is more than ten years since Richard Susskind completed his provocative work, The End of Lawyers? He was right to end the title with a […]
Will technology kill all the lawyers?
Calling time on the death penalty
New laws in small countries rarely make big headlines.
Don’t litigate – mediate instead
Commercial disputes arise as an inevitable consequence of globalisation. Internationally, they have continued to grow in number as a direct result of increased cross-border activity. Those […]
Ask me not what I know
Nick Clegg to face questions in ENRC Court action
Is Singapore the future of law?
It is thirty years since my first visit to Singapore. At the time, I had no idea that within a decade I would be managing a […]
The SFO: masters of their fate?
Sir David Green is an honourable man. That much was confirmed last December when the former Director of the Serious Fraud Office was knighted by the […]
Lawyers: why crime doesn’t pay
The link between crime and poverty, particularly urban poverty, was established long ago. Anxious about the impact of a ‘criminal class’, the Victorians set about examining […]
How many ethnic minority partners are there in your law firm?
Every summer, the American Lawyer publishes a Diversity Scorecard “to provide a snapshot of where the industry is headed.” It records the number of full-time minority […]
Judges’ warnings: we need to listen
By convention, judges very rarely give interviews and never make political comment. Even in our all pervasive media age, they still follow the dictum of Lord […]
Turkish M&A and beyond
According to Deloitte, Turkish M&A hit the $10.3bn mark in 2017 with nearly 300 transactions – a Y-o-Y increase of 41% by total value. Foreign investors […]
How lawyers can survive the coming recession
Recession, what recession? It may not have landed yet, but there is one on the way. Nearly a decade has passed since the Great Recession in […]
Is a cast of characters circling FBME Bank for commercial gain?
What does the self-proclaimed “first and only Judeo-Christian intelligence agency and protective intelligence service in the world” have to do with the United States government’s fight […]