The 2019 edition of Dutch Arbitration Day looked at a changing profession, one which needs to come to terms with its own flaws if it is to continue to flourish.

Scott Greenberg, Steven Domanowski and Michael Cohen have left Jones Day in New York to join the business restructuring and reorganisation practice of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, all bringing experience in in-and-out-of-court proceedings.

The London office of Los Angeles-headquartered Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has welcomed financial services litigation partner Michelle Kirschner, who joins after nearly nine years at Macfarlanes, while Stateside it makes some heavyweight additions.

With a focus on intellectual property rights and their enforcement in the United States, Shana Ting Lipton takes a look at a patent review process that is shaking up the pharmaceutical world, and assesses what the future holds for pharma companies.

Disputes lawyers gathered at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London last week to consider what impact a UK exit from the European Union would have on the dispute resolution market.