We have launched the Asia-Pacific Posse List which will include our Asia job listserv (to get on the Asian-Pacific job list click here) and this page.   Our focus will be the legal markets in Australia, China, Hong Kong,  Japan and Singapore but we will include other Asian locations as they develop.
This page is sponsored by our strategic partner in Asia, CCH [...]

CCH is one of the leading global providers of information services, software and workflow tools for tax, accounting, HR, employment, safety, legal and business professionals. At CCH, our business is driven by one goal: to be “The Professional’s First Choice”.  This goal remains at the forefront of all our business operations and decisions.
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In July 2009, LexisNexis sponsored the first conference ever held in Hong Kong bringing together a panel of leading international experts and prominent local practitioners to share their knowledge and experience on key issues concerning e-discovery and digital forensics, with special focus on the legal aspects. 
Among the presenters were:
* Scott Nonaka of O’Melveny & Myers whose presentation titled “Using Digital [...]

China was miffed by the outcome of what we last year called the corporate “deal of the century.” But shareholder interests prevailed. How often will that be said in the future?  Politics, that ugly dynamic when mixed with business, was already back in play last week as Rio Tinto, an Australian mining giant at the [...]

        
 
E-Discovery and Digital Forensics, are powerful and valuable tools to discover and process electronic evidence necessary for litigation. It is becoming increasingly essential for practitioners in Asia to gain crucial awareness and understanding of e-discovery and digital forensics tools for litigation cases.  LexisNexis is sponsoring the first conference ever held in Hong Kong to bring [...]

With class actions on the rise in Australia, it is important for potential applicants and respondents to be familiar with the procedure underpinning these claims.
The increasing incidence of class actions in Australia has occurred in a range of different contexts, such as:

shareholder class actions (for example the Multiplex, Centro and Aristocrat actions);
cartel class actions (for [...]

Google AdWords, the auction-based program where advertisers bid on search terms to place text ads alongside search results, has been the subject of controversy and litigation around the world. In response, Google, in an attempt to maintain its viable business model and to assist trade mark owners in protecting their registered rights from misuse by [...]

The future could see a host of new job titles emerge in law firms, said Matthew Parsons, author and former global director knowledge at Linklaters, as they adapt to a rapidly changing world of knowledge management.
Speaking at the Janders Dean Law Firm Knowledge Management (KM) conference in Sydney on Thursday, Parsons took a crystal ball [...]