Friday, 2nd December 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Brazil’s pro bono clearinghouse is celebrating its tenth birthday. Clare Bolton looks at just how far the practice of pro bono has changed over the last decade, and the next steps for law firms and legal departments
Friday, 25th November 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Mass litigation maybe out of fashion for Brazil’s top firms, but clients are still facing hundreds of thousands of claims against them and billions in liabilities. Clare Bolton asks what can be done about this aspect of the ‘Custo Brasil’
Friday, 4th November 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Walmart prides itself on spending very little, and so on providing low cost to consumers. How does its Brazilian general counsel reconcile that with rising legal costs in the country, asks Clare Bolton
Sunday, 11th September 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: UOL's Carol Elizabeth Conway describes a professional life spent fighting in the weak regulatory landscape of the media sector in Brazil
Thursday, 4th August 2011 by Clare Bolton
BRAZIL BLOG: Vale's new general counsel Clovis Torres talks to Clare Bolton about how continuity is the balm to soothe the company's changeable 2011
Friday, 16th July 2010
Thales de Miranda, the coordinator for Argentine legal affairs at Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro, talks about the companyís approach to international arbitration and expecting outside lawyers to pass on bad news immediately
Friday, 11th June 2010
Ignacio Walker, vice president and assistant general counsel in Latin America for office products manufacturer Avery Dennison, offers tips for making the most of trade compliance
Tuesday, 2nd June 2009
Chile's attempts to regulate the effect of insolvency in its derivative markets, enacted during the global economic crisis, have created a complex web of rules which might mean the regulator has to return to the drawing board, argue Chilean counsel Alejandro Rubilar Camurri and New York University student Fernando Eyzaguirre Salas
"Protectionism is in the eye of the beholder"
Tuesday, 27th January 2009 by Clare Bolton
The interaction between the capitals of Latin America and Washington, DC will be crucial in recovering as much and as quickly as possible from the financial crisis. Barry Schumacher, senior VP of trade consultancy APCO Worldwide, gave Clare Bolton his view on the multilateral financial institutions, trade, and the Obama administration
Monday, 10th November 2008
Roberto Berry, general counsel of Delphi Corporation in Latin America, shares some thought on taking compliance on the road
Wednesday, 16th April 2008
Máximo Spinedi, tax counsel at Siemens in Argentina, says recent changes to Argentine tax law should help investors overcome devaluation of the peso and encourage further investment
