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Senior lawyers from across Australia’s in-house legal community gathered at the General Counsel Summit in Sydney earlier this month. TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) sponsored the in-person event, itself exciting, and it was a pleasure to learn from a variety of speakers. Risk management,…

Introducing Marc Elshof, Co-Head of the European Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Sector Group at Dentons In part two of TLS Director of Business Development Dennis van de Schraaf's interview series, he speaks with Marc Elshof, Co-Head of the European Technology, Media and…

The ESI protocol is a negotiated document that expressly states how the parties to a litigation should produce electronically stored information (ESI). The ESI protocol assures against surprises and commands that ESI is preserved, collected, processed, and produced in an agreed upon, readily usable…

TLS Interview Series Part 1: Tobias Kruis, Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX Company Dennis van de Schraaf, TLS Director of Business Development, recently interviewed Tobias Kruis, European Director of Ethics and Compliance and Global Competition Counsel at Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX company, about the ins and…

This past May, the Quebec government adopted Bill 96, with the intention of ultimately strengthening the Quebec language laws and preserving the French language. Although businesses with more than 50 employees were already subjected to many of the Charter laws, such as the Charter of the French…

Cross-border M&A deals reached an all-time high of $2.1 trillion in 2021. Many of these transactions were subjected to merger clearance proceedings in the US and/or abroad. As a result, an unprecedented number of US second requests, Canadian SIRs, and EC Phase II proceedings involved large…

Intellectual property (IP) is one of the most valuable assets a life sciences innovator or start-up has. While these companies are often built on the foundations of successful pre-clinical studies, they face a substantial amount of time between obtaining regulatory approvals and introducing a drug…

For those readers who are not familiar with the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (the “Hague Service Convention”), it was established to facilitate service of process on parties living in another country. For those readers who…

You have been in Dubai for a while now; what brought you to the region? I have been living in Dubai since 2009. The main reason for my move was an opportunity to take a role within the technology division of the Big 4. I was initially recruited in 2008 for an India-based position and was then…

Welcome to the Lion City of Singapore. For those of you attending the AIJA 2022 Annual Congress next month from August 22-27, you can be safe in the knowledge that a smorgasbord of events has been planned by AIJA’s fantastic committee. Some of you, however, may be arriving early, others staying…

Investigatory review requires substantially more aggressive tactics than most other litigation review matters. Not all data has the same evidentiary significance. In fact, most data is noise that impedes case story building. A major focus for an experienced document review team is stripping that…

It is safe to say that most of the world’s adult (and child) population owns or has access to a mobile phone. These devices are capturing all kinds of private and sensitive data—some of which is generated by the user, while other data is generated by an app or the device itself.