The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed many aspects of our lives, from the way we work to how we live. And in doing so it’s given rise to an increase in fraud.

On Aug. 21, a group of WeChat users in the U.S. officially filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s executive order banning the usage of this app from Sept. 20. On Sept. 17, the federal court of San Francisco will hold the first hearing on a preliminary injunction concerning enjoining the government from enforcing the order.

Quyen Hoang, managing partner at LNT & Partners, talks about her journey to becoming a lawyer, the steps her firm put in place to counter the repercussions of the pandemic, and how LNT has been a pioneer in developing its own technology to manage timesheets and cases.

Christophe Montane, Senior Vice President, APAC Sales at Intralinks gave a presentation on The Evolution of Technology Adoption in Bankruptcy & Restructuring Opportunities during ALB’s ALB Virtual Cross-border Debt Restructuring Forum 2020 held on 3 September 2020. Given the overwhelming questions asked on that day, we sat down with them recently to get some of the key questions related to this topic answered.

Legal insights firm Acritas has unveiled its Asia-Pacific Law Firm Brand Index 2020, revealing the top 10 law firms in the region by brand value.

Kim & Chang and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are representing China’s Anbang Insurance Group in a lawsuit before the Delaware Chancery Court over a terminated $5.8 billion deal to sell 15 U.S. luxury hotels to South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investments, according to a report in the Korea Times.

Harry Elias, one of Singapore’s best-known trial lawyers and the founder of Harry Elias Partnership (HEP), passed away on Aug. 26. He was 83.

Nishith Desai, founder of Nishith Desai Associates (NDA), talks about how in-house departments are appreciating tech-forward law firms, the benefits of the “Inverted T” model, and why true leaders combine will and humility.   

UK firm Withers has appointed international arbitration expert Shaun Leong as a partner in Singapore from Eversheds Sutherland.

Facebook is a non-partisan platform which denounces hate and bigotry, the company’s India head said on Friday, amid a controversy over how the U.S. social media giant regulates political content in its biggest market by number of users.