Best legal reads of the week: May 4-8
Published on 8th May 2015
It’s been a jam-packed week for news and blogging at Osborne Clarke. Aside from the general election announcements, there’s a hub full of the latest developments around the EU’s Digital Single Market Strategy, a blog looking at how you can tackle the increase in cyber security and 5 new Partner promotions at OC.
Here are this week’s most read and shared legal updates…
On 6 May 2015 the European Commission published its “Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe“. The Commission’s proposals are aimed at producing a true digital single market, one with – in President Juncker’s optimistic words – “pan-continental telecoms networks, digital services that cross borders and a wave of innovative European start-ups”. Osborne Clarke’s experts across Europe have recorded their thoughts on the Commission will approach the many aspects of its DSM initiative.Visit our dedicated hub for insight into each of the topics.
- Cyber security: What should you do if you have suffered an attack?
According to Government estimates 81% of large businesses and 60% of small businesses have suffered a cyber security breach in the last year. Cyber breaches can take a number of forms; threats from rogue employees, or inadvertent data loss can be as serious as those from organised criminals. Our blog post explains what to do if you are hit by an attack.
As this week’s election gathered pace, our employment team speculated on how a Conservative win and subsequent EU referendum might affect employers. Read the update here.
This week we promoted five senior lawyers to Partnership, bringing the total number of Partners at the firm to over 200 for the first time ever. Read all about our five new Partners here.
Our international chief executive Simon Beswick and international chair Stefan Rizor have been re-elected for a second term. Beswick is also set to take on additional responsibilities as OC’s head of markets internationally. Read the article in full on Legal Week.
