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Dec 17, 2024 | 
dailynewsegypt.com | Claudia Salomon
For centuries, business leaders and traders have traveled far and wide and braved challenging conditions to conduct commerce in person. Today, however, virtual communication technologies make it possible to meet via a screen, eliminating excessive travel time and costs. Still, in places like the Middle East, where the business culture is deeply rooted in personal relationships and trust, can virtual meetings fully replace face-to-face interactions?
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
law.com | Claudia Salomon
Claudia Solomon, ICC. Courtesy photo. Expert Opinion In-person meetings are still the best way to get things done, a conclusion that most business leaders reached during pandemic lockdowns, writes the president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. November 27, 2024 at 06:20 AM 6 minute read For centuries, world leaders, diplomats, and merchants have traveled great distances to meet one another.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
solicitorsjournal.com | Claudia Salomon
The potential of new technologies such as AI to transform the legal field is immense, promising greater efficiency, accessibility, and transparency. It is already having a dramatic impact on how we deliver dispute resolution and prevention services—and will continue to do so at a pace that is almost beyond imagination. Yet, alongside the opportunities that new technologies offer come significant risks.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Claudia Salomon
The best way to understand the future of dispute prevention and resolution is to “follow the money.” The catchphrase, first popularized in the 1976 film All the President’s Men, about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon, has come to mean the process of identifying and tracing the movement of funds through various financial transactions and records to uncover corruption or other criminal activities.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Eric Troutman |Hannah Daigle |Allen Trask |Claudia Salomon
On July 1, 2024, a new agreement between the EU and Japan facilitating data flows between the two jurisdictions (the “Data Flow Agreement”) entered into force. The Data Flow Agreement was concluded in October 2023 and will be incorporated into the text of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Claudia Salomon
Cross-cultural differences and the misunderstandings that often arise from them play a powerful role in how businesses build relationships and conduct their commercial and legal affairs. At a time of expansive growth in transnational business, trade, and investment, a lack of knowledge about local culture, values, and customs in business and legal dealings are leading to ever more complex and tense international legal disputes.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
solicitorsjournal.com | Claudia Salomon
On International Women’s Day, I had been thinking a lot about “girl power.”
The slogan—made popular in the 1990s by the British pop group, the Spice Girls, and the American punk band, Bikini Kill—focused on the importance of female friendship. Later it morphed into a rallying cry for more self-reliance and confidence, in songs such as Beyonce’s Run the World, or Miley Cyrus’ Flowers.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Peter Shaw-Smith |Linda Thompson |Claudia Salomon |Christopher Niesche
2023 wasn’t easy anywhere in the world. With rates rising steadily throughout the year, inflation time after time exceeding expectations and geopolitical struggles intensifying, the year really was characterized by waiting. Waiting for market conditions to improve, waiting for mandates to increase in size and frequency, waiting for clients to do what firms had come to expect from them in the boom years— that is, make deals. Want to continue reading?
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
law.com | Claudia Salomon
As the first woman—and the first American—to serve as the president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration in its 100-year history, I knew that coming into this job would present unique challenges and expectations. I was determined to do things differently, while always being true to myself and the goals of the institution.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Claudia Salomon |Gail Cohen |Alfred Olufemi |Kasvi Sehgal
Will you be greeting your colleagues today with a smile or a grimace? Jan. 2 is always tricky. It seems, no matter how strong one’s workplace culture, we’re all psychologically hardwired to resent this day, just a little bit. It’s the day the platter of your life’s obligations is returned to you, the day on which you’re reawakened to the fact that you’re not completely in charge of every aspect of your life. You’re accountable to others: bosses, equals, juniors. But don’t worry.
