A recent opinion piece in The Moscow Times by Dewey & LeBoeuf Moscow office head Brian Zimbler portrays Russia as a country ripe for legal reform. Zimbler’s column comes as Russia’s legal system is under attack following the death last week of a prominent lawyer and accountant.
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has ordered an inquiry into the death of Sergei Magnitsky, head of the tax practice at Moscow’s Firestone Duncan, the law/auditing firm founded in 1993 by American lawyers. He died Nov. 16 while in custody at a pretrial detention facility in Moscow. The lawyer had been caught up in a “battle between the Russian authorities and the international investment fund he was representing,” as the New York Times reported.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
