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Women’s Day: these lawyers’ associations are helping to close the gender gap in the legal field

Marina Vanni

This Friday, March 8, marks Women’s Day, a date that annually highlights the struggle of women to achieve equality in the political, economic, social, labor and interpersonal spheres. In the legal sector, numerous wage gaps, prejudices and barriers persist. Faced with these problems, various organizations of women lawyers work to help professionals grow in their field.

Women in a Legal World Women in a Legal World (WLW) is a Spanish non-profit organization that promotes the presence of women in leadership roles in...

NP Pérez-Llorca analyzes the trends that will mark the labor market in 2024 in its conference ’Pérez-Llorca Laboral al Día’

Spain

The Labor, Compensation and Benefits area of Pérez-Llorca held a new session of ’Pérez-Llorca Laboral al Día’ with the participation of Daniel Cifuentes and Isabel Moya, partners of the area, and Yolanda Valdeolivas, Of Counsel of this practice, who addressed the main trends in the labor market in t...

Regulation for the validation of environmental permits granted prior to the start of works and projects in Nicaragua

Nicaragua, Rodrigo Ibarra, Jonathan Rugama

March 2024, Nicaragua - For the development of works in Nicaragua it will now be necessary to have an environmental certification issued by the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (hereinafter "PGR"), on the environmental permits and authorizations granted by the Ministry of Environment and Na...

How does the RGAE work?

Guatemala, Rodolfo Salazar

The General State Procurement Registry (RGAE) has become a very important part of the State’s procurement and contracting process in Guatemala. This system seeks to modernise and introduce efficient and transparent measures in the relationship between the State and its suppliers. The RGAE is the ...

The impact of AI on the Legal World

NeoSmart

A ThomsonReuters report on the use of ChatGPT in law firms includes a statement from Charlotte Woolven-Brown: It was March 2023 and the head of the Employment and Partner unit at UK law firm Sternberg Reed emphasised: "In six months’ time, everyone in the firm will be using it [ChatGPT]. And ther...

TCA Tanoira Cassagne appoints new partners

Argentina

TCA Tanoira Cassagne has appointed two new partners: Ignacio Criado Díaz for its areas of "Banking and Finance Law" and "Capital Markets" and Ignacio Gonzalez Zambón for its areas of "Administrative Law" and "Environmental Law".

The appointment of Criado Díaz will enhance the firm’s growing capital markets and financial law practice, an area in which the firm is a market leade...

CMF regulates management of financial service providers under the Fintech Law, including investment advisors

Chile, Felipe Cousiño - Francisca Donoso

Alessandri - On January 12, 2024 the Financial Market Commission (CMF) issued General Applicability Rule No. 502 (NCG), containing the implementing regulations on the registration, authorization and obligations of crowdfunding platforms, alternative transaction systems, financial instrument intermed...

Marval O’Farrell Mairal advises BNP Paribas group in the sale of BNP Asset Management and BNP Paribas Argentina Asset Management S.A.

Argentina

BNP Paribas has recently sold 100% of the shares of BNP Asset Management Argentina S.A.S.S.G.F.F.C.I. and BNP Paribas Argentina Asset Management S.A. The former is a mutual fund management company in Argentina, pursuant to Law 24.083, while the latter acts as trustee and asset manager of complementa...

Pérez-Llorca appoints Iván Gayarre as new Partner in the Labour & Employment Department

Spain

Pérez-Llorca has announced the appointment of Iván Gayarre as new partner in the Firm´s Labour & Employment Department. Gayarre, who joins the Madrid office from Sagardoy Abogados, will work in coordination with the Employment teams located in Barcelona and Lisbon. Gayarre has almost 25 years ...

What is ChatGPT’s real practical scope in Law?

NeoSmart

In the world of law, where words and time are critical and valuable, the advent of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT marks the beginning of a new era that could revolutionise standard practices. GPT-4, the most advanced version of OpenAI’s language models, has proven its competence in th...

G20 Meeting in Brazil: Lula highlights role of the Global South while Western powers argue over Russian assets

Brazil, Marina Vanni

As finance ministers from the world’s largest economies gathered in Sao Paulo for the G20 meeting, the focus was set on economic cooperation to tackle pressing issues like climate change and poverty. But as discussions got underway, geopolitical tensions, particularly regarding Russian assets, resur...

LATIN COUNSEL successfully sponsors a new edition of the training and professional development course "Structure of an M&A Deal"

Rodolfo Papa

LATIN COUNSEL was pleased to sponsor a new edition of the international training and professional development course "Structure of an M&A Deal" (Fifth Edition), which took place from 23 to 26 January 2024. The Continuing Education Centre of SIJUSA (Panama), has organised the fifth edition of the ...

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