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After the failure of the consumer’s class action provided under the Italian Consumer Code, the reform of the discipline – to be in force in May 2021 – is expected to stimulate the utilisation of the collective redress instrument.
IBA Young Lawyers' Committee Training: Becoming a champion
Jul 16, 2020
As global fashion companies saw profits threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic, many pushed the impact of losses down to suppliers in countries like Bangladesh and Myanmar
This session will talk about how young lawyers can build their personal brand.
Fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice: IBA Young Lawyers’ Training Course Helsinki
Are you being recognised as a compelling leader and the go-to expert in your field? Do you get results from networking online and offline? Do you know how to connect to the right people? Do you nurture your relationships on a regular basis? Do you struggle with getting your relationships to help you to grow your business? Do you have trouble with standing out and building your personal brand?
IBA European Fashion and Luxury Law Conference
Tuesday 16 March 2021 (TBC)
1300 – 1400 GMT
Learn how to create and maintain a strong personal brand that sets you apart in the legal profession.
IBA Young Lawyers' Committee Training: Next generation legal summit
We know that personal branding is no longer optional, but what is the most effective way to go about it, without diminishing your professionalism or the legal profession at large?
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2026
Practical measures to combat the grey market goods under Chinese law-China Working Group April 2020
Built in 2023, this award-winning structure, known for its innovative and inspiring design in the heart of downtown Toronto, the Ontario Court of Justice is the largest courthouse in Ontario, and the second-largest in Canada. Attendees can observe hearings from 3:00 to 3:30 pm, with the formal tour taking place from 3:30 to 5:00 pm.
Spaces are limited and are assigned on a first come first served basis. Registered conference delegates can register at the speaker registration desk during the annual conference.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Jun 08, 2021
Fashion labels and brands have become more protective of their intellectual property rights. This consciousness is undoubtedly more pronounced in Europe and North America. Sub-saharan Africa and Nigeria, in particular, are still playing catch-up. The fashion industry in most parts of Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa involves a lot of innovation and creation, so much so that the owners of the labels give a second thought to the issues of intellectual property protection. This article explores the challenges of inadequate regulatory frameworks in this respect and makes a case for a change.
Built in 2023, this award-winning structure, known for its innovative and inspiring design in Toronto, the Ontario Court of Justice is the largest courthouse in Ontario, and the second-largest in Canada. Attendees can observe hearings with the formal tour taking place afterwards.
Spaces are limited and are assigned on a first come first served basis. Registered conference delegates can register online or at the speaker help desk during the Annual Conference.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Six years after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building caused the tragic death of 1,138 workers in Bangladesh, the release of the 2019 Fashion Transparency Index indicates progress is being made in the industry, though there remains considerable work to be done.
How can law firms build stronger client relationships? The role of social media in business development and reputation management.
Law Firm Management Committee Latin America Conference - Building the law firm of the future
Jun 08, 2021
In today’s modern sporting world, image rights can hold enormous commercial value to both the professional athlete and his club. Image rights can be defined as the proprietary rights that arise from the commercial exploitation of a sporting personality’s name and image. Sports image rights are very valuable assets. The iconic 1970s English soccer player, Kevin Keegan was the first sports personality to enter actively into what was known at the time as a ‘face contract’ for what was essentially his image rights. This article analyses the concept of image rights contract, a comparative analysis of the image rights regime in Europe and the United States of America, the regulatory challenges in the Nigerian Professional Football League, and the untapped commercial opportunities for athletes.
In this session, the panellists will share tips and advice on how to strategically build and expand your personal brand through the IBA, like many other young lawyers in other jurisdictions have, as well as how to use the IBA as a tool to build your personal and professional network.
On 17 December 2018, the European Commission (the ‘Commission’) fined clothing company Guess €39.8m for practices that were held to constitute a single and continuous infringement of Article 101 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union and of Article 53 of the Agreement of the European Economic Area. Its investigation into Guess was initiated on the back of the e-commerce sector inquiry and reflects the Commission’s resolve to step up enforcement activities in support of the digital single ma
In this workshop you will learn how to enhance and develop your personal brand. We will also consider presentation skills and how you can boost your social media presence in the global legal market.
Annual IBA Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2024
IBA Global Insight, February/March 2016. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is taking action to reduce the number of counterfeit goods on its sites. As the company looks to expand internationally, gaining the trust of major retailers will be key to driving success.
3) Can these alliances realistically compete with the brand power and integration of global law firms?
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
A webinar presented by the IBA Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee, 24 February 2021, 0900 – 1000 GMT
IBA Global Insight Aug/Sept 2019 - Fashion industry tackles exploitation six years after Rana Plaza tragedy; IBA contributes to global
debate on future of work; America and the world order – podcast; IBA President in South Africa; blockchain yet to transform legal sector
Attendees will gain practical frameworks and contract clause concepts to safeguard brand assets across jurisdictions and channels while supporting scalable growth in franchise and distribution systems.
IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
IBA Global Insight, June/July 2016. One by one, car giants have been drawn into a global emissions scandal. Global Insight goes back to the beginning as Volkswagen faces an uncertain future and a major reputational repair. Its handling of the crisis will offer valuable lessons for multinational businesses.
The session will cover main strategies in three main areas:
1) Firm branding vs. personal branding
Should I build a personal brand? Should I allow my firm’s members to build their personal brand? Or should I build the firm’s brand?
IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
Sep 06, 2022
The rise of child influencers – or ‘kidfluencers’ – on social media has prompted calls for greater regulation of the industry.
Representatives from the brands and the sustainability sector will debate the challenges faced in a more visible on-line marketplace, particularly:
- Upcycling and the increasing trend to reuse or upcycle luxury goods. As a brand should you be objecting to such reuse or does it help satisfy sustainability goals to reuse material?
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Jan 21, 2022
Since the People’s Republic of China’s adoption of the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) in 2007, and its coming into effect in 2008, scant enforcement attention has been directed at abuse of dominance in the digital economy. While there have been some – mostly unsuccessful – abuse of dominance cases brought by private plaintiffs, the enforcement authorities, previously the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) and, currently, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and their provincial and local counterparts, have put relatively less emphasis on abuse of dominance cases.
This panel will discuss and analyse a new trend where mining companies are sued in their home jurisdictions for operations located outside those jurisdictions.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Jun 03, 2025
The spread of false information is a major issue for corporates. Misinformation can hurt organisations by damaging consumer trust and ultimately affecting their bottom line. In-House Perspective assesses the threats and how counsel can help counter them.
The growth of ESG is a priority for many corporations as well as law firms. What is less settled is the connection between the two. Companies are certainly investing internally and externally to grow their sophistication and success in how they govern ESG - and law firms are rapidly growing practice areas in the ESG space. But there are significant questions about the scope of the law and legal counseling in serving clients on ESG, which areas warrant outside counsel support versus being handled in-house or through non-legal consultants, and how in-house leaders perceive the rapidly exploding law firm marketing efforts in this space.
This panel will bring together corporate leaders in ESG programmes to share their tips and pointers for providing their counsel to law firms in the ESG arena, which practice areas drive the biggest demand for outside counsel legal work, and what they see as working and not working on law firms increasingly aggressive efforts to market their counsel in this space.
ESG: The Role of Lawyers Today and in the Future
Jan 21, 2022
In rapid succession, a number of jurisdictions have moved away from focusing on antitrust enforcement to the proposed regulation of digital platforms. Ostensibly, the regulatory focus is about competition and potential concerns that traditional ex post enforcement may be ill-equipped to address the power of digital platforms. This article focuses on the realities of what platform regulation might mean, and how to better frame and structure the nature of appropriate regulation. This article first identifies a number of the different approaches to regulation that various jurisdictions have put forward, and then lays out six basic principles for platform regulation to help address some of the potential harms that such approaches may unwittingly be pursuing.
Orchestrating a cybersecurity symphony: why call your lawyer to prevent cybersecurity risks
Aug 18, 2021
A person’s most valuable asset is their personality, and the wealth that is beginning to be associated with this in the 21st century is increasingly becoming evident. Technological advancement, especially the evolution of social media, has introduced complexities into the exploitation of image rights in the fashion industry. These platforms have suddenly become a theatre of sorts, for infringers who commercially exploit the images and persona of athletes, models and fashion brands without permission. Consequently, the efforts to commercially control both images and information belonging to fashion brands have never been greater. For elite models and fashion brands at the pinnacle of their career, not even the engagement of social media experts and consultants has been able to address this malaise.
Consumer claims are becoming more prevalent. Access to justice and the growing recognition of consumer rights are one factor behind this. At the same time governments in many countries are trying to stimulate growth through encouraging enterprise and innovation. Producers can be caught between balancing these competing risks and opportunities. Are we achieving an appropriate balance of risk as between consumers and producers? Should producers accept greater risk of product claims? How will that impact innovation? Is it becoming easier for consumers to bring and prove their claims? European Union (EU) moves in this area include a change of approach to presumptions of defect and a shift in the evidential burden for consumers. Is this fair? This session will take a cross-jurisdictional perspective on these questions, looking at the status quo and what is on the horizon for consumer product liability claims across the globe.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
In-House Perspective November 2019, profile of Siobhán Moriarty, General Counsel & Company Secretary, Diageo
The panelists will discuss significant antitrust/competition enforcement actions in the M&A context, developments in enforcement policy, and foreign direct investment and national security regimes around the world.
20th Annual International Mergers & Acquisitions Conference
Sep 03, 2023
One of the most critical aspects in drafting and managing franchise agreements concerns encroachment. This article will explore the different approaches followed by Italian courts with respect to: (i) the competing activity of the franchisor, selling through parallel sales channels; and (ii) the indirect liability of the franchisor for competing activities enacted among its franchisees.
Orchestrating a cybersecurity symphony – Part two: Why law firms should consider cybersecurity as an alternative business structure
The EU rules on jurisdiction (notably, Brussels 1a Regulation) provided for jurisdiction of EU courts over non-EU domiciled defendant in a number of cases. An increase of these cases might be expected in future revisions of the Brussels 1a regulation. We will discuss the intricacies of these regulations in this session.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
Feb 03, 2021
Covid-19 has exacerbated the economic conditions in which modern slavery thrives. Global Insight reports on how work on solutions continues despite the global turmoil created by the pandemic.
The reform of collective redress mechanisms marks a turning point for access to justice and corporate accountability. This session will explore the implications of the new class action regime, with a particular focus on its impact on multinational litigation. Panellists will debate how the framework reshapes procedural safeguards, evidentiary standards and damages assessment, while also addressing concerns of forum shopping, litigation funding and harmonisation across jurisdictions. Comparative perspectives from Europe, North American and emerging markets will shed light on opportunities and challenges for practitioners.
IBA Annual Litigation Forum - The world has lost its compass: we need to talk about litigators!
Jul 27, 2022
This article the benefits of implementing trademark strategies that allow to create new lines of business, alliances or revenue opportunities using the existing brand and intellectual property.
The increased emphasis on delivering safe products to consumers has made product safety regulations in various parts of the world more and more complex and demanding for all stakeholders.
For example, under the new EU product safety legislation – the General Product Safety Regulation that will become effective in December 2024 – manufacturers and distributors who want to sell products into the EU market will have to comply with more rigorous product safety requirements. Product safety regulators from different parts of the world cooperate in order to achieve common goals.
The session will present an overview of changes to product safety regulations in various continents and give practical tips as to what economic operators must take into account in regards to product safety and litigation risk.
IBA Annual Conference Mexico City 2024
Apr 29, 2022
With the pandemic hitting hard, online shopping has become the new normal. The pandemic accelerated the shift towards a more digital world and fuelled e-commerce growth, not just on a business-to-consumer basis but on a consumer-to-consumer basis as goods and services become more ‘fluid’ and transactions become less territorial. This article considers the hazards of using e-commerce platforms for various transactions.
When your name becomes your brand, you need to consider trademarks, reputation, goodwill and potential restraints and restrictions on use if you sell your business.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
Foreign investment in India – shift in regulatory powers by Rishabh Bharadwaj and Neil Deshpande
Jun 07, 2022
Football 256 purported to carry out an awards ceremony via their social media channels – ‘Football 256 Best of the Season Awards’ – for the recently concluded 2020-2021 StarTimes Uganda Premier League. In response, the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) threatened legal action against Football 256, the football clubs, club officials and players.
The hiring of Robert Mueller as special counsel is a triumph for the rule of law. Stanley Brand, who served as counsel to Congress after Watergate, says that it confirms an unshakeable ‘post-Watergate ethos’ placing the President under independent supervision. ‘[W]e have weathered the most incredible storms in our history of any democracy in the world,’ he says, ‘and we came out the other side in one piece. And I expect that to happen here.’
This LPD Showcase session will be divided into two panels:
Panel 1: Fashionably Metaverse, AI and Web3: everything you need to know about the intersection of fashion and technology
Major luxury brands are seeking creative ways to embrace high technology.
IBA Annual Conference Paris 2023
During the current Covid-19 pandemic, businesses and corporations of all sizes – particularly start-ups and budding entrepreneurs, are being pushed to their limits. Even such routine tasks such as paying rent and employees on time have proved to be game changers and given us a chance to examine the way we function, process and plan our business models so that everyday operations are not interrupted.
The International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) has released the eighth episode in its Inspirational Legal Women podcast, featuring Akila Agrawal, Senior Partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in New Delhi, India. A corporate lawyer with over 23 years’ experience in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, corporate restructuring and corporate advisory, Ms Agrawal has been consistently recognised by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific for her expertise in Corporate and M&A law.
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Managing brand reputational risk arising from political or social controversy
Brands today face heightened risks from political and social controversies due to increased connectivity and rapid information sharing. This roundtable will focus on strategies for managing and mitigating these challenges, emphasising the importance of protecting brand reputation. Participants will examine real-world case studies, exchange best practices, and discuss proactive steps to address potential issues before they escalate.
IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025
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