CLIG - City legal Information Group

CLIG - City legal Information Group

• Membership Renewals for 2010
  Membership renewals for the forthcoming year are now due. The CLIG membership year runs from 1 April to 31 March. The fee is being held at 2008 levels - just £18, entitling you to the member rate on seminars and events throughout the year. If you are currently not working and would like to discuss reduced rate membership, please contact membership@clig.org. For any queries contact Sara Batts, Membership Secretary, at membership@clig.org...
• New event: New Year drinks with CLIG & TFPL
  CLIG & TFPL are holding a drinks party to usher in the New Year. More information about the event can be found by going to the Events section via the left-hand menu bar, or by clicking here. ...
• Employment Law and Tax Issues Seminar - 21st September, 2011
  We are now taking bookings for the CLIG seminar on Employment Law and Tax Issues, held on Wednesday 21st September. Please complete the form below....
• CLIG AGM and Networking Drinks
  Please join the CLIG Committee for its AGM followed by networking drinks, generously sponsored by Complinet, a Thomson Reuters Business. ...
• New event: Understanding international taxation
  This seminar, on the law of international taxation, is kindly sponsored by BNA International. For further information and to book please see the event listing here: http://clig.org.uk/event-details/events/understanding-international-taxation-what-you-need-to-know.html...
• EU Legislation Seminar
  A reminder that the City Legal Information Group is hosting a seminar focusing on EU Legislation next week. Our speaker will be Hester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Hester will guide you through the different types of primary and secondary legislation. You will learn which are the best printed and electronic sources of legislation, as well as how to update EU legislation, the implementation of directives in to member states' law, and an overview of the legislative process. Venue: Law Society Library, 113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1PL Date: Wednesday 26th November 2008 Time: 6.15pm to begin at 6:30pmFor more details and to book your place at this event, please see the flyer below......
• New event: Resilience in today's market place
  CLIG and BIALL co-host this workshop detailing strategies on optimising your CV and job applications. For further information and to book, please click here. ...
• BIALL Conference bursary
  Locks and Keys - Safeguarding Legal Information 18 - 20 June 2009 Manchester City Legal Information Group is pleased to offer two of its members financial assistance towards attending the 2009 BIALL conference. Each bursary will cover the early bird conference fees and may also contribute towards travel and accommodation costs. For more details, and the application form, see this PDF document. Applications must be received by 17 April 2009; decisions will be taken by 24 April. If you're not already a member of CLIG, or have yet to get round to your renewal, please download our PDF membership form. The CLIG membership year runs from 1 April to 31 March each year - your membership must be current at 17 April to be eligible for these bursaries. If you have any queries about membership or the bursaries please contact membership@clig.org. Details of the BIALL conference are available online from their site....
• Statutory Interpretation - 7th March 2012
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• Statutory Interpretation
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• New Year's Networking Drinks - 12th January 2012
  CLIG's popular New Year networking drinks party will take place this year at the Master Gunner pub, Finsbury Square. Full details to follow shortly. ...
• CLIG membership 2011- 12
  The Membership Secretary has now sent out renewal reminders to all of last year's members, but if you have not received your reminder email including the membership form please mail Anne Storey, or you can find the form on the CLIG website. Do remember to let us know if you move jobs during this year so that we can update your record and therefore keep in touch. every year we have a small number of people on our list whom we can't contact and therefore miss out on the benefits of being a member, which is a great shame....
• CLIG summer walk
  CLIG is pleased to announce another of its popular walking tours. For more information, please click here....
• BIALL Conference 2010
  Tina Reynolds Information Officer at Drivers Jonas Deloitte was the recipient of a CLIG Bursary to attend the BIALL Conference in Brighton. Tina has written an account of the Conference for CLIG which you can read in full. ...
• Membership 2009/2010
  City Legal Information Group's membership year runs from 1 April to 31 March, which means renewals are now due. The membership rate is £18, held at 2008 levels. If you're not currently working, then do contact me in confidence (membership@clig.org) for details of a reduced rate. New members are always welcome. If you have any queries then please do contact either membership@clig.org or chair@clig.org Further details and the membership form are available in the PDF below......
• Forthcoming seminar has limited places
  City Legal Information Group is delighted at the level of interest in the forthcoming seminar Providing legal services in a downturn: An introduction to insolvency. However, places are limited, and due to high demand we have to limit places to CLIG members only....
• Credit Crunch Seminar: booking deadline approaching
  If you are intending to attend this event next week, the deadline for booking your place is midday on Friday 23 January. *** Researching the credit crisis - how information units can help steer a course through troubled waters. The $50bn Madoff Ponzi scheme fraud recently hit the headlines. It demonstrates shortcomings in business research by several huge banks failing to spot risk they were opening themselves up to. Effective business research not only shields an organisation from risk, but can assist it in finding its way through turbulent financial scenarios such as the current credit crisis. CLIG is delighted that Sylvia James, author, expert in business research and recent recipient of the ALA's Excellence in Business Librarianship Award, has agreed to speak on the subject and will detail what information units can and should be doing. Sylvia has forty years of business research experience, the last twenty as an independent management and research consultant. The hour long talk, including time for questions, will be given in three parts: Part one - will explain how the credit crunch came about and how money markets are supposed to function Part two - will cover the issues IS departments ought to be picking up on and how these units can proactively assist their employing firms Part three - will detail the sources IS units might best use and how team members can keep themselves up to date in this rapidly changing environment You are warmly invited to attend this topical, practical talk; in particular if you wish to learn how you can increase the value you add to your firm and raise the profile of your business research unit. Venue: Macfarlanes LLP (20 Cursitor Street, EC4A 1LT) Date: Tues Jan 27th 2009 Time: 6:30pm, with drinks and canapes served from 6.15pm. CLIG Member Price: £30.00 / Non Member Price: £45.00 For further details the booking form is available from this link......
• CLIG Spring Party - an important update!
  It's another lovely sunny day outside today and we're still hoping for a similar outlook on Friday 8 May, when CLIG will be holding its 2009 Spring Party. Even more so, because now we have received additional sponsorship from Westlaw Business, CLIG is delighted to be able to offer the Spring party free for CLIG members and at the reduced price of £15.00 for non-members. This year we return to the elegant Smoking Room at Middle Temple. Site of the first performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Middle Temple's stunning Hall was built using timbers from the crushed Spanish Armada fleet. We hope the weather will be clement enough to allow us to enjoy its beautiful gardens, amongst the oldest and finest in London. We are very grateful to Complinet, Kluwer Law International and 7Side for their extremely generous sponsorship of this event. Venue: The Smoking Room, Middle Temple, Middle Temple Lane, London EC4Y 9AT Date: Friday 8 May 2009, 6.30pm Price: Free for members (thanks to generous sponsorship); £15 non-members (includes canapés, drinks, a raffle, with prizes kindly donated by a number of publishers and suppliers, and a quiz, with team prizes generously provided by Sue Hill Recruitment). The revised booking form for this event will be available on the CLIG website shortly....
• New event: CLIG and PLC insolvency seminar
  CLIG and PLC are running another of their popular seminars on insolvency. Taking place on Weds 30 Sept between 6.15pm and 7.15pm, it is entitled Working through the downturn: core insolvency concepts and recent trends. For further information and how to book a place, please see this event entry....
• New CLIG website launched!
  If you have visited the CLIG website in the last few days, you may have noticed some changes here. We have totally overhauled our site, bringing it up to date with new and increased functionality. We have also completely redesigned the site, giving it a new, modern, clean look. Some of the site's new functions include: A new design and structure, making information about us much more accessible and easy to read. Separate sections for CLIG events that are forthcoming, news items on a variety of CLIG matters, and articles on previous CLIG events. Dedicated RSS feeds for events and news, allowing you to keep up to date with CLIG with the minimum of effort. We are very pleased with the new site, but the work doesn't stop here. In the next few months we intend to add more functionailty, including an online payments system for events and membership fees, and the integration of our membership database with the new site. Announcements about these will follow in due course. We also would like your feedback, whether you are a CLIG member or a visitor to the site. If you would like to get in touch with your thoughts, you can do so via the online contact form, or by emailing a member of the committee. We look forward to hearing from you....
• New event: Visit to the Supreme Court
  CLIG is offering the opportunity to be amongst the first in the country to look inside the new Supreme Court. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 To read more about it or to book a place click here ...
• New article: BIALL Conference 2009 write-up
  Laura Payne was a recipient of a CLIG bursary to help her cover the costs of attendance at the 2009 BIALL Conference, held in Manchester. In exchange, we asked her to write about her experiences at conference, particularly since she was a first-time attendee. You can read her write-up by navigating to the articles section of the website, or by clicking here....
• New event: Companies Act 2006: What’s new at Companies House?
  CLIG is running a seminar on the implementation of the Companies Act 2006. It takes place on the evening of Weds 28 Oct. To read more about it or to book a place, click here....
• Invitation for BIALL bursary applications
  BIALL 2010 Conference Bursaries Invitation for Applications Risks and Opportunities: Managing information in difficult times 10 - 12 June 2010, Brighton CLIG is please to offer assistance to one member towards the cost of attending the 2010 BIALL Conference. The bursary will cover the ‘early bird’* conference fees and may also contribute towards travel and accommodation costs. The CLIG Committee will also consider applications for assistance with Day Delegate places - in these instances, accommodation and conference dinners will not be reimbursed. If you would like to be considered for the full bursary, or apply for a Day Delegate place, please complete the application form and attach a document of no more than 500 words in support of your application detailing the following: • Why you would like to attend the BIALL Conference • How attendance would benefit your professional development • The contribution (if any) your employer will be making towards your attending the conference • Your involvement with CLIG to date, such as seminars attended and / or committee posts held A condition of accepting the bursary is that you write a piece of no more than 1,000 words on the conference for the CLIG website. Please return this application form and your supporting document to Olwen Walker, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8AF The closing date for applications is 16th April 2010 The successful applicant will be chosen by majority vote of the CLIG committee. All applicants will be contacted by 23rd April 2010 to confirm whether or not their application was successful. *To qualify for early bird booking rates, an application must be made by 30th April 2010. The bursary does not cover the costs of the pre-conference seminar. BIALL 2010 Conference Bursaries Invitation for Applications Risks and Opportunities: Managing information in difficult times, 10 - 12 June 2010, Brighton CLIG is please to offer assistance to one member towards the cost of attending the 2010 BIALL Conference. The bursary will cover the ‘early bird’* conference fees and may also contribute towards travel and accommodation costs. The CLIG Committee will also consider applications for assistance with Day Delegate places - in these instances, accommodation and conference dinners will not be reimbursed. If you would like to be considered for the full bursary, or apply for a Day Delegate place, please complete the attached form and attach a document of no more than 500 words in support of yourapplication detailing the following: Why you would like to attend the BIALL Conference How attendance would benefit your professional development The contribution (if any) your employer will be making towards your attending the conference Your involvement with CLIG to date, such as seminars attended and / or committee postsheld A condition of accepting the bursary is that you write a piece of no more than 1,000 words on the conference for the CLIG website. Please return the attached application form and your supporting document to Olwen Walker, Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8AF The closing date for applications is 16th April 2010. The successful applicant will be chosen by majority vote of the CLIG committee. All applicants willbe contacted by 23rd April 2010 to confirm whether or not their application was successful. *To qualify for early bird booking rates, an application must be made by 30th April 2010. The bursarydoes not cover the costs of the pre-conference seminar....
• Online Information 2009
  CLIG is proud to be an event partner for Online Information 2009, taking place at Olympia Grand Hall, London, between the 1st and 3rd of December 2009. CLIG members can take advantage of a discounted booking rate for delegate bookings to the Online Information Conference 2009. To book a place, please visit the pricing area of the Online Information Conference 2009 website....
• New event: Hints and tips for trainers
  CLIG is pleased to announce a new seminar, designed to help you run effective training sessions. For more information, and to book, please click here....
• Tour of the Royal Courts of Justice
  CLIG would like to invite you to attend a tour of the Royal Courts of Justice on Friday, 1 April 2011. You can find out more about the history, art and architecture of the RCJ, together with learning about who does what and where in court by taking a guided tour and talk. The tour will start at 2pm and last for up to two hours. The deadline for bookings is Friday, 11 March 2011. Date – 1 April 2011 Time – meet at 13.45 Venue – Royal Courts of Justice, inside building, report to Reception in Main Hall, The Strand, London WC2A 2LL, http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk. Cost: £10 members/ £20 non members To register please send a cheque made payable to 'CLIG' for £10 / £20 and your details on the form below by 11 March 2011 to: Tracey South, TFPL Intelligent Resources, 160 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BF, tracey.south@tfpl.com. ...
• Why Companies Use Debt Funding Seminar
  This seminar will give an overview to the debt market, looking at why companies use debt instruments rather than equity, what the differences are between debt and equity, the main sorts of debt instruments, and the role of the adviser. The presentation will be given by Carrie-Anne Holt, Managing Editor of Debtwire Europe, and will be held at the Debtwire offices on The Strand. There will be networking drinks afterwards.To book on this seminar please complete the booking form. ...
• New Year Drinks with CLIG Sponsored by TFPL Intelligent Resources
  To welcome in 2011, the CLIG Committee would like to invite you to come and have a drink, network with the committee and other CLIG members and tell us what events you would like to see during 2011. To book on please complete the booking form. ...
• Tour of The City Business Library and The Guildhall Library
  Tuesday 25 January 2011 at 6.00pm The City Business Library and the Guildhall Library are probably names that you know well - but don't have a clear view of what they can offer the Law Librarian or where they are based in the City. Now is your chance to find out by joining our visit to their newly opened premises in Aldermanbury! City Business Librarian Considine Goretti and Principal Librarian Dr Peter Ross will be our guides. For more information, please download Tour of The City Business Library and The Guildhall Library....
• Researching Without Borders presentation
  On Monday 8th November, around 50 CLIG members and non-members gathered at Morrison & Foerster to hear Barry Vickery and Peter Jenkins from 7Side present a seminar on international company information. Barry took us through an overview of several jurisdictional requirements, illustrating the inconsistencies between jurisdictions. It was key to note that in jurisdictions where we find it difficult to locate information, there are often minimal filing requirements within those jurisdictions (such as the Cayman Islands, BVI and Bermuda), or that there is potentially no registry or online searchable registry (parts of Africa, for example). We are very lucky in the UK, that companies are obliged to file comprehensive information under legislative requirements, and that we have a freely searchable online registry (although comically Companies House is obliged to file documentation, even if it has been filled out incorrectly). In Russia there is no central company registry. In Cyprus there is no easy access to company information without going through an agent and waiting 5-8 days. In Malta annual reports are compulsory, but annual accounts are not always. These are just a handful of the jurisdictions covered throughout the event. In addition to this, Barry talked the attendees through the enigma that is USA company filings. The 51 jurisdictions of the USA all have different filing requirements, and many companies will file in Delaware because of their lack of obligation to lodge company information, allowing companies to disclose minimal information and be established anonymously. Companies can also incorporate in one US state, yet do business in another. Most interestingly we were shown an example of how it is possible to make a company disappear. It is possible, given the minimal filing requirements between jurisdictions, to incorporate a company in Delaware, have subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands, BVI and the UK, but due to the (lack of) filing requirements for companies in Delaware and the BVI (where companies are not required to keep business accounts, and any information filed is not required to be publically available) it is possible that the subsidiary in the Cayman Islands would never be connected to the parent company in Delaware nor the other subsidiaries. In addition to the fantastic presentation by Barry and Peter at 7Side (successfully completed without a single shameless promotion of 7Side’s product, which was perhaps due to the threat of Jas sounding the rather loud ‘shameless-promotion-horn’!) there was ample opportunity to imbibe fine wine and nibbles and network pre and post event. It was an enjoyable and quality seminar and event indeed. Kristel Petrou Mayer Brown International LLP Information Officer ...
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• Annual General Meeting & Networking Drinks
  Please join us for our Annual General Meeting and networking drinks at The Master Gunner pub. The venue is in the vicinity of the Honourable Artillery Company and Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, both of historical importance to that area of London. The business of the AGM will include giving you a brief overview of the success of CLIG over the past year, and a glimpse of future events and seminars in the pipeline. We will also welcome the new Chair and Committee members. The AGM will then be followed by networking drinks and nibbles, with an opportunity to play some games of pool and darts too! For details for how to book, please download the flier available below....
• Tour of Lloyd's of London
  The CLIG committe is holding two tours of Lloyds of London on 5th and 11th July 2011 from 1.45 - 3.30 pm. Have you ever wondered what really happens inside Lloyd's insurance market? CLIG is delighted to offer two tours to get a behind-the-scenes look. The tour will last up to an hour and a half and will include an introductory talk on the history, development and present-day activities of Lloyd's, with plenty of time for questions, followed by a tour of the iconic building including the underwriting room to see business in progress. Places are limited to 8 per group so early booking is advised. This event is limited to members only. For more details and a booking form, please download this form. ...
• CLIG Spring Party 2011
  We are holding our annual spring party at the City University Club in the City on the 10th May from 6.30pm to 9pm. Please come and join us as wine and canapes are served. There will be a quiz with some great prizes, and you can network with friends and colleagues. We will also be running a raffle with kindly donated prizes from a number of suppliers and the proceeds of the raffle will be going to the Japanese Tsunami Appeal fund. We are very grateful to our sponsors 7side, Hammicks and Westlaw, who have allowed us to run this event free of charge for members to attend. Non-members are welcome to attend for just £15. The booking form is available below. Please note that you must be a current member of CLIG at 6th May for free entry to the party. ...
• BIALL Conference Bursary Deadline
  Today is the deadline for applications for the CLIG bursary to attend the BIALL Conference held in Gateshead in June. To apply complete an application form on the BIALL website here....
• Equity Offerings seminar (part II) - 13th October 2011
  This is the second of two sessions going through the basics of equity offerings. Roland Peters of Perfect Information will provide a refresher of the basics and then look at specific features of deals to give an insight into equity offering circulars and how they are structured. It is not necessary to have attended part one in order to gain some understanding of the market from part two. Please complete the form below if you wish attend....
• Equity Offerings seminar (part II)
  This is the second of two sessions going through the basics of equity offerings. Roland Peters of Perfect Information will provide a refresher of the basics and then look at specific features of deals to give an insight into equity offering circulars and how they are structured. It is not necessary to have attended part one in order to gain some understanding of the market from part two. Please complete the form below if you wish attend....
• Annual General Meeting & Networking Drinks - 6th September, 2011
  Please join us for our Annual General Meeting and networking drinks at The Master Gunner pub. The venue is in the vicinity of the Honourable Artillery Company and Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, both of historical importance to that area of London. The business of the AGM will include giving you a brief overview of the success of CLIG over the past year, and a glimpse of future events and seminars in the pipeline. We will also welcome the new Chair and Committee members. The AGM will then be followed by networking drinks and nibbles, with an opportunity to play some games of pool and darts too! For details for how to book, please download the flier available below....
• New Year's Networking Drinks
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• Law Librarian of the Year 2009
  CLIG's Treasurer James Mullan was honoured at the recent British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) Conference as Wildy's Law Librarian of the Year. This prestigious award, established in 2005, is seen by many as the apogee of law librarianship. James is particularly well known for his blog, The Running Librarian, as well as for his work on BIALL's Web Committee. Blogs are not his only speciality however, he has long been a champion of a range web 2.0 tools that have come to our attention, and has spoken and written widely on the subject. The City Legal Information Group committee wishes to congratulate James on this our brand new website....
• First event for 2009 - Booking form now available
  The booking form for this event is now available below as a PDF. CLIG wishes you all a Happy New Year and is pleased to present details of the first seminar for 2009.. Researching the credit crisis - how information units can help steer a course through troubled waters. The $50bn Madoff Ponzi scheme fraud recently hit the headlines. It demonstrates shortcomings in business research by several huge banks failing to spot risk they were opening themselves up to. Effective business research not only shields an organisation from risk, but can assist it in finding its way through turbulent financial scenarios such as the current credit crisis. CLIG is delighted that Sylvia James, author, expert in business research and recent recipient of the ALA's Excellence in Business Librarianship Award, has agreed to speak on the subject and will detail what information units can and should be doing. Sylvia has forty years of business research experience, the last twenty as an independent management and research consultant. The hour long talk, including time for questions, will be given in three parts: Part one - will explain how the credit crunch came about and how money markets are supposed to function Part two - will cover the issues IS departments ought to be picking up on and how these units can proactively assist their employing firms Part three - will detail the sources IS units might best use and how team members can keep themselves up to date in this rapidly changing environment You are warmly invited to attend this topical, practical talk; in particular if you wish to learn how you can increase the value you add to your firm and raise the profile of your business research unit. Venue: Macfarlanes LLP (20 Cursitor Street, EC4A 1LT) Date: Tues Jan 27th 2009 Time: 6:30pm, with drinks and canapes served from 6.15pm. CLIG Member Price: £30.00 / Non Member Price: £45.00 ...