Expert Guides - Women in Business Law

Mature Compliance: New Challenges and Smaller Budgets

Over the past decade, compliance as a discipline has moved from infancy squarely into adulthood

01/09/2017 Carolyn Fitzhugh McNiven, Greenberg Traurig, US

Anonymous No More? The Saga of Virtual Currency Regulation in the EU

Last month, member states of the European Union were required to implement the European Union Commission’s Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (“Fourth Directive”)

01/09/2017 Marjorie J Peerce, Ballard Spahr, US Priya Roy, Ballard Spahr, US

A letter to my daughter

Dear Ariadne. The next 15 years I am going to be working for you

01/09/2017 Ágata Uceda, KPMG Meijburg & Co, Netherlands

Evolution of Indian Transfer Pricing Dispute Resolution Landscape

The Transfer Pricing Regulations were introduced in the Indian statute in 2001

01/09/2017 Karishma R Phatarphekar, BMR & Associates, India

Women in IP Law

Blogger Ron Coleman recently (July 14, 2017) started his post with a statement that might be taken as a challenge, or not

01/09/2017 Roberta Jacobs-Meadway, Eckert Seamans, US

IP, religion, culture and politics

Colleagues and clients alike often comment on the varied, topical and evolving nature of my field of expertise, IP law, as evidenced from my articles over the years

01/09/2017 Gaelyn Scott, ENSafrica, South Africa

Beware of the legal risks surrounding the rise of chatbots

A bot, short for “robot”, is a software program that performs automated repetitive tasks on the Internet

01/09/2017 Nathalie Dreyfus, Dreyfus & associés, France

Captain Morgan forces Admiral Nelson’s to jump ship proving trade dress protection is alive and well in Canada

Ekaterina Tsimberis, part of Smart & Biggar’s trial team, successfully represented Diageo Canada in protecting and enforcing its CAPTAIN MORGAN trade dress before the Federal Court

01/09/2017 Ekaterina Tsimberis, Smart & Biggar / Fetherstonhaugh, Canada Renaud Garon Gendron, Smart & Biggar / Fetherstonhaugh, Canada

Patent Protection and Trends in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing describes a type of Internet-based computing that provides access to shared computer processing resources and other hosted services

01/09/2017 Clara-Ann Gordon, Niederer Kraft Frey, Switzerland

Mandatory data breach notification laws to change the Australian cyber-security landscape

On 22 February 2018, data breach notification laws will commence in Australia

01/09/2017 Sophie Dawson, Ashurst, Australia

Helping Women Build “Careers of Yes”

Building a successful law career often boils down to a single word: Yes.

01/09/2017 Linda Z Swartz, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, US

Transfer pricing adjustments – the current Irish landscape

The work of the OECD, the EU State aid investigations, public perception and the hunt for public funds by various Governments, mean that transfer pricing disputes will likely increase over the coming years

31/08/2017 Catherine O’Meara, Matheson, Ireland

IP is the word: putting IP in the spotlight

With economies and companies worldwide thriving on ideas and innovation, now is the time to put IP in the spotlight.

31/08/2017 Frances Drummond, Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia Sophie Lees, Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia

Designing for privacy

Regulators, worldwide, are showing an increasing interest in the protection of personal data

31/08/2017 Francoise Gilbert, Greenberg Traurig, US

Capturing and exploiting patent value: a woman’s work?

In an era when discussion of economies has an overwhelming focus on new technologies rather than old heavy industries, the importance of patents has reached an all-time high

31/08/2017 Lorna Brazell, Osborne Clarke, United Kingdom

Intellectual Property Rights -Actions Beyond Power in Indian IP Scenario

India is an agriculture based economy even when it is India being recognized as the global power in the key economic sectors with consistent high economic growth

31/08/2017 Dr Neeti Wilson, Anand and Anand, India

Gen X hits its stride

Just as we’re seeing in global politics — Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau — we have been witnessing the emergence of Generation X leaders in the IP arena — Etienne Saez de Acedo (the INTA chief executive), Sarah Matheson (AIPPI Reporter General) and Alexander Ramsay (Chair of the Unified Patent...

31/08/2017 Catherine Mateu, Armengaud Guerlain, France

Female Litigation Lawyers: The Present-day Action Heroes?

This year, the International Bar Association (IBA) has launched a global survey to investigate why female lawyers leave law firms

31/08/2017 Inês Gomes da Cruz, PLMJ, Portugal Rute Alves, PLMJ, Portugal

Global diversity and pay equity: work in progress

Diversity is very often associated with gender diversity issues, including gender pay inequalities, but is of course a much wider issue, as indeed acknowledged by a number of legislators globally

31/08/2017 Laure de Panafieu, Linklaters, Singapore

Evolving employment benefits (and costs) for women in Asia

It is a cliche almost that women in Asia suffer certain degree of discrimination in terms of employment opportunities and benefits as well as the fact that they are not sufficiently protected in terms of having a secured workplace free from any form of harassment

31/08/2017 Julia Yeo, Squire Patton Boggs, Singapore

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