The winners of the Iberian Lawyer IP&TMT Portugal Awards 2022 were announced during the gala ceremony held at the Museu do Oriente in Lisbon, on July 6th 2022. Once again, the IP&TMT Awards recognised the excellence among Portuguese professionals active in this area. The list of winners, with their motivations, can be found on Iberian Lawyer: […]
In line with the current rotation concept, Wenger Vieli’s Executive Board will be newly composed as follows as of July 1, 2022. Beat Speck will be Wenger Vieli’s new Managing Partner stepping in for Roman Heizin this position, who will remain on Wenger Vieli’s Executive Board. Beat Speck has been a member of the Executive […]
Niederer Kraft Frey, a Zuric-based law firm, joins forces with Geneva firm Tavernier Tschanz and a team from Python. From 2023, they will form in Zurich and Geneva one of the most important national law firms. By combining the strengths of the different teams, NKF will further expand its leading position within Switzerland two economic […]
Putting together some different 2019’s surveys results, the outcome is similar: alternative legal service providers are globally on the rise and often use used by in-house legal functions.
Somebody has predicted 2020 to be the “year of remote work". Nobody would probably expect that coming so fast and under these circumstances. Here you can find some tips for legal sector to be an efficient and happy remote worker.
Kellerhals Carrard is among the first Swiss law firms to use Skribble, a system which allow you to sign without Usb stick or card reader with the highest e-signing standard.
Homburger have adopted Kira, one of the market leading artificial intelligence and machine learning software for contract and legal documents analysis.
The main concern is the gender pay gap, which ranks particularly highly in Switzerland. The Federal Statistical Office of Switzerland shows that women were paid 18% less than their male colleagues in 2016.
The number of deals of at least Usd 10 billion in Europe hit the lowest number since 2009, but two out the top five major deal are in Switzerland.
Jeff Carr is not shy, and he doesn’t like to sit still. For years he was the general counsel who was most vocal about how the legal profession had to change in order to survive. From his bully pulpit as the top lawyer for FMC Technologies, he railed against hourly bills and other traditional practices […]
