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San Pellegrino for your soul

The unvarnished reality of a young family with two careers, and how to enjoy it. My husband Jonathan and I get invited to lecture at the Mario Negri institute in Bergamo, Italy.  Jonathan from his vantage point as a surgeon and medical doctor with a PhD in molecular biology, and I as a lawyer with … Read more

ChatGPT: what is it, and should the legal community embrace it?

See my Kluwer Arbitration Blog here: https://lnkd.in/eiQQjj3V   ChatGPT is short for “Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”.  It is an artificially intelligent text generation bot that can have a conversation.  It does so by using a language processing algorithm called a “Transformer”, which generates natural language responses to user input. There are various user platforms, for example, https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt.  ChatGPT … Read more

ChatGPT, AI and Arbitration: Are We Approaching a Turning Point?

How could ChatGPT and other AI technologies impact arbitration and dispute resolution? Join Orrick’s Tunde Oyewole, Aavagard LLP’s Hanna Roos and Digital Gate’s Adith Haridas for a dynamic conversation on AI, ethics and the potential impact on legal advocacy in the near future. Special thanks to Hafez Virjee and Delos Dispute Resolution for helping to coordinate this roundtable. Click below for the story at … Read more

From obituary to fovituary

Why loving words for the Queen came too late The death of the Queen has reverberated through London ever since her passing.  She is on everyone’s lips.  Politicians line up to pay respects on the airwaves, trying to sound human rather than humanoid.  Loving notes float in from around the globe.  Social media pushes royal … Read more

To lean in or to sit still? That is the question.

Sheryl Sandberg recently stepped down as the Chief Operating Officer of Meta.  It brought to mind her famous title “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead”, a manifesto for why a woman can work outside the home and succeed at it.  There was much in her message that I clung onto when the … Read more

Ex-Quinn Emanuel lawyer launches London practice

Hanna Roos has left her role as of counsel at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to launch an independent practice in London. Roos left Quinn Emanuel in London in June after nearly three years to launch Hanna Roos Dispute Resolution. At her new practice, she acts as counsel in commercial and investment treaty arbitration, including … Read more

How to Manage Work-Life Balance in Context of First Arbitral Appointments

I recently co-chaired with Gustav Flecke-Giammarco a Delos roundtable on this topic, at the kind invitation of its President and Co-Founder, Hafez Virjee. The topic links to a broader theme: how to be an international arbitration practitioner and manage some balance while at it? Read full article here

Diversity Checklist For International Arbitration (Part one)

This three-part blog provides a diversity checklist to help retain and promote young and diverse talent in international arbitration.  This first part contains an introduction to the state of diversity in international arbitration, and how checklists can help achieve excellence. Part two discusses the rationale for a ten-point diversity checklist in arbitration. Part three sets out … Read more

Diversity Checklist For International Arbitration (Part two)

This three-part blog provides a diversity checklist to help retain and promote young and diverse talent in international arbitration. Part one contains an introduction to the state of diversity in international arbitration, and how checklists can help achieve excellence. This part two discusses the rationale for a ten-point diversity checklist in arbitration. Part three sets out the checklist itself, … Read more

Diversity checklist for international arbitration (Part Three)

This three-part blog provides a diversity checklist to help retain and promote young and diverse talent in international arbitration.  Part one provides an introduction to the state of diversity in international arbitration, and how checklists can help achieve excellence.  Part two discusses the rationale for a ten- point diversity checklist in arbitration.  This part three sets out the checklist … Read more