A season has passed since AIJA’s 60th Annual Congress in Singapore, providing a welcome opportunity to reflect on the event. For participants from TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS), attending Richard Susskind’s keynote address was one of the great privileges of the Congress.

Panel Summary: TransPerfect Legal Solutions Antitrust Clearance & Merger Enforcement Conference 2022 

The COVID-19 pandemic augmented our increasingly virtual world. As such, the plethora of data at our fingertips has changed. Business Insider reported that Zoom meeting participants rose from 10 million in December 2019 to 300 million by April 2020. Although some in-person meetings have resumed, meeting recordings and other media files are increasingly in scope in discovery. This means all investigations will need a varied range of technology to handle the unique challenges media files present.

Senior lawyers from across Australia’s in-house legal community gathered at the General Counsel Summit in Sydney earlier this month. TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) sponsored the in-person event, itself exciting, and it was a pleasure to learn from a variety of speakers.

In part two of TLS Director of Business Development Dennis van de Schraaf's interview series, he speaks with Marc Elshof, Co-Head of the European Technology, Media and Telecommunications Sector Group at Dentons, about his career and the future of data privacy.

The ESI protocol is a negotiated document that expressly states how the parties to a litigation should produce electronically stored information (ESI). The ESI protocol assures against surprises and commands that ESI is preserved, collected, processed, and produced in an agreed upon, readily usable format.

This past May, the Quebec government adopted Bill 96, with the intention of ultimately strengthening the Quebec language laws and preserving the French language. Although businesses with more than 50 employees were already subjected to many of the Charter laws, such as the Charter of the French Language, the government has made significant changes to the Charter and introduced new laws through Bill 96.

Cross-border M&A deals reached an all-time high of $2.1 trillion in 2021. Many of these transactions were subjected to merger clearance proceedings in the US and/or abroad. As a result, an unprecedented number of US second requests, Canadian SIRs, and EC Phase II proceedings involved large volumes of documents in different languages. In the big data era, multilingual data sets are not just a nuisance; they’re a serious threat to substantial compliance given the expedited schedule of most merger review proceedings. With the right workflows and technology, however, the challenge presented by large, multilingual data sets can be surmounted without breaking the bank or jeopardizing compliance. This article reviews some of the relevant tradecraft.

The richest person in the world, and one of the most recognized businesses on the planet, are squaring off in a legal battle for the ages.

For those readers who are not familiar with the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (the “Hague Service Convention”), it was established to facilitate service of process on parties living in another country. For those readers who are familiar, we hope that this article is not a PTSD trigger and only serves to make future encounters with the Hague Service Convention more manageable.

Welcome to the Lion City of Singapore. For those of you attending the AIJA 2022 Annual Congress next month from August 22-27, you can be safe in the knowledge that a smorgasbord of events has been planned by AIJA’s fantastic committee. Some of you, however, may be arriving early, others staying late, and there may be some who wish for a little solo exploring during the congress.