COUDERT Brothers has opened a Berlin office, moving Brussels-based Dr Karl Pilny out as resident partner. Pilny moved into the offices of local firm Murawo & Hausler & Partners last Monday to concentrate on Couderts’ industrial clients in the region. The US firm has signed a “corporation agreement” with Murawo, known for its work in […]
SHIPPING lawyers from City-based Stephenson Harwood have been appointed to handle the legal representation in London of familiesbereaved in the Estonia disaster. They were chosen to act for the relatives’ steering committee following the tragedy in which nearly 1,000 people died when the ferry sank on a voyage between Estonia and Sweden last year. The […]
BRITISH lawyers are taking centre stage in a historic legal action which may establish the first court ruling on genocide since World War II. The case, being heard in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, involves an action by the Bosnian government against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). Two […]
GLASGOW practice Bishop and Robertson Chalmers has opened an office in the Lithuanian city of Vilnius. The firm, one of the largest in Scotland, is opening in the former communist state after 18 months of research in the region showed there was a market for providing advice to Western businesses and investors. The office, officially […]
HUNGARIAN government officials called on young European lawyers to help the country in its economic restructuring process. Delegates at the European Young Bar Association’s third annual conference heard how the country needed investment and economic stability as it adapted to a market economy. Dr Lajos Bokros, the Hungarian Minister of Finance, said his government was […]
Hill Taylor Dickinson assistant Roderick Palmer has been seconded to the Kalpeida branch of the Agricultural Bank of Lithuania for a three-month placement. Palmer, who works in the firm’s commercial department, will assist the bank’s legal department with banking, ship finance and other transactional work. Partner Malcolm Entwistle said Palmer’s secondment provides “a tremendous opportunity […]
Chair of the British Czech & Slovak Law Association Jan Grozdanovic has been appointed as a partner in the commercial department of London firm Seddons. Grozdanovic, a native Czech who defected to the UK in 1980, is qualified as a solicitor in England. In the past he has worked as an associate with the Central […]
The International Tribunal of War Crimes indicted two Bosnian Serb leaders last week. Peter Weiss examines its powers Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic have been charged with crimes against humanity and genocide by Justice Richard Goldstone, a former South African judge and the independent prosecutor for the International Tribunal of War […]
FIVE senior Estonian lawyers, including the president of the country’s bar association, Aare Tark, have arrived in Scotland for placements with law firms, The visit, organised by the Law Society of Scotland, is funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Know-How Fund. Scottish law firms McGrigor Donald, McClure Naismith Anderson & Gardiner, Dorman Jeffrey, Murray […]