http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp en-us 05/16/2012 Copyright 2008 incisivemedia. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/law/international/international_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp A growing number of European tech companies are hiring Silicon Valley lawyers to take their companies public in the U.S., where the markets are more receptive to tech offerings, lawyers say. It's not quite a flood of IPO work from across the pond, but they're working on a steady stream of deals. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553566003 2012-05-15 00:00:00 The Hong Kong Court of Appeal has reinstated a $55 million arbitral award, finding that the alleged instances of procedural unfairness were not sufficiently egregious to merit setting aside the award and that the lower court judge had improperly interfered with the arbitral tribunal's management of its case. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553316006 2012-05-14 00:00:00 Washington University in St. Louis School of Law is the latest to add an online LL.M. The program, set to start in January 2013, will allow foreign lawyers to complete a master's degree in U.S. law without leaving their home country. Administrators hope to enroll 20 students during the program's inaugural year and eventually as many as 100. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553143466 2012-05-11 00:00:00 In a verdict hailed as a watershed moment, former Liberian President Charles Taylor last week became the first head of state since World War II to be convicted by an international war crimes court. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202550622885 2012-04-30 00:00:00 The European Union parliament on Friday condemned Argentina's move to seize control of the YPF division of Spanish oil and gas company Repsol and demanded that the EU take action against Buenos Aires at the World Trade Organization as well as consider punishment for any country that attempts to nationalize a European company's assets. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202549764771 2012-04-23 00:00:00 International tax partner Gary Kaplan has left Arnold & Porter to join Sidley Austin in San Francisco. Kaplan had been with Howard Rice since 1993, becoming a partner at Arnold & Porter when the firms merged in January. Kaplan said he was drawn to Sidley for its transactional practice and international platform. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202549599939 2012-04-20 00:00:00 DLA Piper has shaken up its international management with a number of top-level changes, including the appointment of Andrew Darwin as the firm's new chief operating officer and U.K. managing partner. The firm has also added to its executive board HR director Carol Ashton and marketing and business development director Zelinda Bennett. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202548865589 2012-04-13 00:00:00 As a World Court judge from a nation that questions its authority, Judge Joan Donoghue sought last week to justify the court's existence as a "potent force" for peace despite the lack of full participation by the United States. Donoghue, the U.S. judge on the 15-member International Court of Justice, spoke at the University of Georgia School of Law. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202548313929 2012-04-09 00:00:00 The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord on Wednesday of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world's most serious crimes and the first judgment in the court's 10-year history. Thomas Lubanga faces a potential sentence of life imprisonment. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202545669880 2012-03-15 00:00:00 DLA Piper is set to move to an all-equity partnership across the U.K., Europe and Asia after partners at DLA International voted to abandon the existing three-tier structure in preference of a single rank of partner, bringing the firm's international partnership in line with U.S. partners, who moved to an all-equity structure in 2008. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202545642713 2012-03-15 00:00:00