Organisation: Microsoft

The Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center has named GAR’s recent correspondent on technology-related issues, Paul Cohen, and IP disputes specialist Grant Kim as co-chairs of an international task force to engage with companies and lawyers in other tech centres around the world.

01 March 2017

As technology develops, Paul Cohen and Sophie Nappert consider the “brave new world” of the not-too-distant future where artificial intelligence meets international arbitration and technology potentially supplants the role of arbitrators, counsel and experts.

15 February 2017

The electronic arm of South Korea's Samsung has filed a US$429 million ICC claim against three companies thought to include Japan's Sharp, to be seated in New York.

23 January 2017

Following Sundaresh Menon’s proposals, Herbert Smith Freehills partner Alistair Henderson describes the “inchoate sense of acceptance and engagement” that flows from clients’ first involvement in the process – picking an arbitrator – and warns that establishing a central disciplinary body could prove "a powerful new weapon" in due process attacks on tribunals.

25 November 2016

After eight years in London, Tim Lindsay, former head of the London international arbitration practice at Dechert, has returned to New Zealand to join the partnership of his old firm, Lowndes Jordan in Auckland.

17 August 2016

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