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The post-banking crisis boom in litigation has put disputes work back at the centre of global law. As the economy…

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When I was at school trying to figure out what to study at university, the school organised a series of…

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I didn’t start school until I was 13. I grew up in Liberia and it was wonderful growing up in…

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I grew up on a military base, I was an army brat in what was then West Germany, and they…

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The launch of Legal Business’s debut Disputes Yearbook is just one of many signs of how dramatically the dynamics of…

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Introduction Leader The Disputes Dilemma Litigation Disputes overview: Martial Law Perspectives: Simon Davis, Clifford Chance Arbitration Perspectives: Jan Paulsson, Three…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Manfred Heider, secretary general of VIAC, talks to Zeiler. Partners’ Gerold Zeiler about how recent changes…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Following a high-profile internal squabble, the CIETAC is going global. Yu Jianlong, the institution’s secretary general,…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Freshfields’ head of international arbitration, Lucy Reed, talks to Singapore International Arbitration Centre chief executive, Lim…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Armed with a new set of institutional rules, the HKIAC’s secretary general, Chiann Bao, discusses the…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Why are so few awards rendered by the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution subject to challenge proceedings…

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 MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION  Maples and Calder’s BVI managing partner, Arabella di Iorio, looks at complex commercial litigation in the…

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 MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION  Al Tamimi & Company’s Hassan Arab, Rita Jaballah and Robert Maxwell Marsh examine the growing role…

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 MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION  Bonn Steichen & Partners’ head of disputes Fabio Trevisan explores the ‘soft alternative’ to bankruptcy and…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION CMS Cameron McKenna’s Guy Pendell and Lindy Patterson QC assess industry sectory arbitration and the role…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Shortly before the LCIA’s rule revisions came into effect on 1 October, the institution’s director general…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  ICSID secretary general Meg Kinnear talks annulment, case administration and the globalisation of treaty arbitration with…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  What’s next for the institution that pioneered the now-ubiquitous emergency arbitrator provision? WilmerHale partner John Pierce…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  What’s so great about scrutiny? ICC International Court of Arbitration secretary general Andrea Carlevaris discusses his…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  James Hope of Vinge talks to Annette Magnusson, secretary general at the Arbitration Institute of the…