Insights: Results

Inclusion in the UK Legal Market: Why Diversity Really Matters

by Financial Times

Diversity and inclusion are increasingly important in law firm business models, driven by client and stakeholder demand, corporate responsibility and recruitment and retention success.

Fighting Goliath—And Winning

by Johanna Marmon

Lytal, Reiter, Smith, Ivey & Fronrath holds corporate America’s and the insurance industry’s feet to the fire in its quest for justice and consumer safety.

Achieving Justice For Essential Workers

by Justin Smulison

Patrick Regan of Regan Zambri Long describes how the recent resolution of a corporate negligence case brought closure to survivors of a fatal 2016 apartment building explosion.

Liability of Administrators: Key Issue for the Australian Insolvency Professions

by Patrick Monahan and Damian Clancy

While corporate administrators often operate in firms, their appointment is personal. When an administrator leaves the employ of their firm, their appointment is unaffected by that departure.

Employment Alterations

by Ariel Beverly

As corporate America continues to grapple with pandemic-induced employment shifts, companies are still facing wage-hour compliance issues. Here’s some advice for navigating a post-pandemic work world.

Class-Action Claims to Increase in the Wake of Societal Emphasis of ESG

by Agenique Smiley

Corporate litigators and state lawmakers anticipate a mounting rise in ESG-related issues surrounding class-action lawsuits. One Best Lawyers recognized firm is weighing in with survey data supporting this increase.

Merging Business and Responsibility: Gilbert + Tobin

by Best Lawyers

Attorneys Costas Condoleon and Sam Nickless from the Australian firm Gilbert + Tobin discuss the firm's 2020 award, how Australia’s Corporate Law practice is preparing for the world’s transforming economic landscape, and the international community’s demands of its businesses.

Why Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos Developed Its Own Legal Tech

by Best Lawyers

Juan Pablo Matus of Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos, 2019 "Law Firm of the Year" award for Corporate and M&A Law in Chile, discusses his firm's joint venture with Cognitiva in creating Lexnova, a legal AI system.

Working With Changes

by Best Lawyers

Carolyn Pugsley, the Joint Global Head of Practice for Corporate, Australia at Herbert Smith and Freehills, discusses policy changes affecting the M&A market in Australia as well as the impact of the pandemic on the practice.

The New Business Immigration Regime

by Corporate Immigration Partners

Five things executives and HR should do.

Treacherous Waters, Uncharted Territory

by Bryan Driscoll

Political shifts around the globe this year are forcing international law and business to navigate a more intricate compliance landscape

Protecting High-level Executives With the Apex Doctrine

by Sara Collin

The Apex Doctrine, developed to shield high-level executives from inappropriate depositions, is a beneficial asset to lawyers and clients, at least in the states where it’s been adopted.

CEO Acquitted of Securities Fraud Charge

by Bart Daniel

On April 19, 2017, after a two-week trial, a federal jury unanimously acquitted Revolutions Medical Corporation (RMCP) CEO Rondald Wheet on all three counts of securities fraud and false filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A Better Bottom Line

by Margaret Pierce

How Benefit Corporations are leading the charge to save the world.

Scofflaws Without Borders

by Gilbert + Tobin

Bribery and Corruption Know No Boundaries. Increasingly, Neither Do the Laws Designed to Combat Them.