Post-Schrems II: Clarity and practical steps
regarding international data flows

Organisations will now have clearer guidance of the road map to follow when transferring data outside the EEA. It involves a  multistep plan that covers the diligence of the envisaged transfer and the monitoring of contractual and security safeguards for the transfer over time...

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Law is not ready for Amazon.
Is Amazon ready for law?

Amazon has three criteria that must be satisfied to pursue ideas, all of which the trillion-dollar global legal industry meets... and they've already made their first move in the intellectual property space. But can Amazon apply it's customer-centric and highly scalable model to broader legal services?

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Black women lawyers outline
struggles of succeeding at City firms

At the Law Society’s Fiona Woolf Lecture 2020, leading black women lawyers spoke about the challenges of succeeding in City law firms. Participants spoke of their experiences battling stereotypes and assumptions and shared their advice for others finding themselves in similar situations. 

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Hale and Sumption to be grilled
on Covid emergency powers

Baroness Hale and Lord Sumption were to be asked their opinion on how the government's COVID restrictions have impacted the constitution. Earlier this year Hale published a paper on the topic. She concluded her essay pleading that "we get back to a properly functioning constitution as soon as we possibly can". 

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