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Legal Week is essential reading for business lawyers, offering clear reporting and hard-hitting analysis of the biggest and most up-to-date news in the legal profession, as well as investigating the issues behind the stories from the UK and around the world. Legal Week Events manages high-profile events, creating unrivalled programmes and networking opportunities while legalweek.com provides an indispensable online resource with daily news bulletins and an archive of over 27,000 news stories.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) practice of Ernst & Young has operated since 1923, and our longevity in the region gives us a deep understanding of business in this part of the world. We are the largest professional services provider in the region, with around 4,200 people in 15 countries and have won numerous awards and accolades for our work.
The culture of Ernst & Young is to ensure that we understand our clients concerns and work with them to provide creative, innovative and cost effective solutions. We help to improve regulatory regimes and company reporting models. We promote transparency in financial reporting and use our influence to strengthen global corporate governance. We encourage entrepreneurship, which leads to growth, jobs and prosperous communities. And our people share their business skills and knowledge with others in their communities.
Habib Al Mulla & Company is a full service UAE law firm, established in Dubai by Dr Habib Al Mulla over 25 years ago. Today, the firm has offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and a team of over 60 Arabic and internationally qualified lawyers.
As an indigenous UAE firm, we have an intimate knowledge of the laws, business practices and culture of the UAE. We provide our clients with a comprehensive range of legal services and have the largest litigation and dispute resolution team in the UAE, with full rights of audience before the UAE and DIFC courts.
SNR Denton is a client-focused international legal practice delivering quality and value. We serve clients in key business and financial centres from over 60 locations in 43 countries, through offices, associate firms and special alliances across the Middle East, the US, UK, Europe, Russia and the CIS, South-East Asia and Africa, making us a top 25 legal services provider by lawyers and professionals worldwide.
Over 160 legal professionals staff our Middle East network of offices and associate offices spanning Abu Dhabi, Amman, Bahrain, Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait, Muscat and Riyadh. We also have access to further resources from our associate firm in Lebanon and special alliance in Turkey.
We provide a full range of international and local legal services. More than 40 of our legal staff in the Middle East are bilingual Arabic and English speakers. Over 40 years on the ground in the region has given us long-standing relationships with local business communities and governments and an unrivalled understanding of the legal and business environment in the Middle East.
www.snrdenton.com
Thomson Reuters Legal has a comprehensive and current offering of information and knowledge tools for legal and business professionals practising in the Gulf. Everything you need to stay in your profession relevant is right here at your fingertips.
Westlaw Gulf, Thomson Reuters leading online legal research tool for the Middle East, was launched in September 2011. The highly innovative and intuitive tool lets you access laws, cases, journals and current awareness from across the Gulf at the touch of a button. The highly sophisticated Thomson Reuters developed Westlaw platform, means that you can search through a massive amount of information to find what you are looking for - in seconds.
A recent acquisition by Thomson Reuters Legal, The Brief is an indispensible publication for lawyers practising in the GCC and wider Middle East. The Brief will satisfy your need for hard hitting journalism, and in-depth analyses of the most topical issues affecting the professionals in the business and legal world.
Thomson Reuters Legal has exciting plans to expand its offering in the coming years, bringing even more content, technology and value to you. Locally rooted, globally powered. To find out more about our future developments contact Nic Potter nic.potter@thomsonreuters.com or visit www.westlawgulf.com.
Corporate Counsel Middle East Group
Founded in June 2007 through its predecessor organisation (the DCCG), the newly named Corporate Counsel Middle East Group ("CCME") was the first group for in-house counsel in the Middle East. Led by its founding members and Board of Directors, it quickly established itself as a leading regional legal organisation. The group expanded regionally and rebranded in 2011 to the CCME. The CCME has more than 200 active members, a network of 500+ in-house counsel and over 1000 practicing lawyers in the Middle East, and has established valuable partnerships with leading international and national law firms, executive search firms and publishers.
The CCME was created by and continues to be managed by senior in-house counsel operating in the Middle East region, coming together to promote the in-house practice of law in the Middle East. In recent years, legal practice in the Middle East has become increasingly sophisticated, complex, fast-paced and dynamic. As a result, many internationally trained in-house lawyers (as well as many international law firms) have come to the region offering their expertise and legal services to the region. Legal organisations, however, remain relatively new and undeveloped and the CCME hopes to be a part of the growth of the legal sector in this exciting, dynamic and fast-developing region.
www.corporatecounsel.me
Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards 2012
Hosted by Legal Week and the Corporate Counsel Middle East Group, the Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards 2012, taking place in Dubai on Thursday 17 May at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi.
The awards will be a celebration of legal excellence in the Middle East and will be open to in-house legal teams and law firms operating throughout the region. They will take place the day after the annual networking forum for general counsel, Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum Middle East.
The evening will be hosted by Elias Hayek, president of the Corporate Counsel Middle East Group and vice president, legal, EAME division, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. Elias will also chair the judging panel, which will be made up of senior in-house lawyers and other legal and business figures from the region.
Further information on the award categories, entry procedure, venue and table bookings will be made available in due course via email, event website, Legal Week's in-house briefing enewsletter and LinkedIn In-house lawyers group.
N.B. Discounted tables and individual tickets for the awards ceremony will be made available to paid-up members of the Corporate Counsel Middle East Group.
KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:
Entries open: Monday 23 January 2012
Entry deadline: Thursday 15 March 2012
Awards shortlist: Wednesday 21 March 2012
Awards ceremony: Thursday 17 May 2012
