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Across the pond

18 September 2015 / Roger Smith
Issue: 7668 / Categories: Opinion
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Roger Smith surveys legal news on the other side of the Atlantic

A summer stay in Saratoga Springs, once famous for its spas and now for its racecourse, has reawakened an interest in US legal developments. This was largely because I was staying on a lake with a fellow lawyer interested in discussing such matters. He also encouraged me to renew my digital subscription to The New York Times, whose coverage of legal—as other—issues puts even the best of the British press in the shade. But, had I been more aware of history at the time, it might also have been—as a judge later pointed out to me—because the city was the birthplace of the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1878. This had from the beginning high aspirations for its members. They were to be “attorneys of unquestionable professional attainments, men who made waves in their community, state and nation”. Certainly, there are enough issues to detain men, and now women, of such eminence—many of them very similar to those over here.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
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Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
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The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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