Freshfields promotes in three cities
Freshfields has promoted Rohit Bhat in Singapore, Joshua Kelly in London and Katharina Shingler in Frankfurt to the partnership.
People, firms and organisations
Ex-Arnold & Porter partner launches advocacy resource
US academic and ex-Arnold & Porter partner Mallory Silberman has set up a new freelance consultancy for practitioners – offering mocks and moots, advocacy practice and other forms of practical guidance.
Ciarb issues guidelines on AI
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, or Ciarb, has published guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in arbitration – the latest effort to provide practical guidance on ethical use of the technology.
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Working group unveils cybersecurity protocol at ICCA
A GAR award-winning joint working group formed by ICCA, the New York City Bar Association and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution has unveiled a draft protocol on cybersecurity in international arbitration at the ICCA Congress in Sydney.
17 April 2018
HKIAC launches women’s group for China
The Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre has launched a new group that aims to promote women arbitration practitioners in China.
19 February 2018
Debevoise censured over “fraud” in casino dispute
A SIAC tribunal has censured Debevoise & Plimpton and its Texan co-counsel for making misrepresentations in a dispute over the sale of a casino in Laos, it has emerged.
02 February 2018
Burford poaches from rival funder
Third-party funder Burford Capital has hired Vannin Capital senior counsel Jeffery Commission, who was previously at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, as a director in Washington, DC.
15 December 2017
Clifford Chance partner fined over role in third-party funded lawsuit
A UK disciplinary body has fined Clifford Chance and a member of its international arbitration practice, Alex Panayides, £50,000 each over their role in a controversial litigation that left a group of third-party funders on the hook for tens of millions in legal costs.
04 December 2017
ArbitralWomen president resigns and attacks "despotic regime"
UPDATED. Rashda Rana SC has resigned as president of ArbitralWomen after her proposals to reform the organisation’s internal governance were resisted – stating that without change to its “despotic regime” it cannot be “the vehicle of hope that I and so many others imagined it could or would be.”
30 November 2017
Van Houtte quits Hague tribunal
Belgian arbitrator Hans van Houtte has resigned as president of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague after seven years in the role.
09 June 2017
Blackaby looks back
At an event in Houston, Nigel Blackaby, the Washington, DC-based head of international arbitration at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, reflected on his career in the field and the most rewarding moments of his professional life to date.
12 May 2017
CIArb shows policing potential by expelling Ukrainian lawyer
Showing its potential to uphold ethical conduct in international arbitrations, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators has expelled a Ukrainian lawyer for false representations regarding the engagement of experts on Kazakh tax law for an ICSID case.
11 March 2016
Austrian group elects new president
26 January 2016
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