On October 8th, 2018, the city of Rome will become a venue for the evening reception “Leaders of the Russian legal market Pravo.ru-300” under the auspices of the Pravo.ru legal information portal gathering leading Russian law firms featuring at the top of the Pravo.ru-300 national rating. Lidings is a proud sponsor of the event together with its peers — best in their fields of law legal advisors in Russia (full list of partner firms is available on  the event’s official website).

Lidings’ Corporate and M&A practice Associate Julia Kuzmenko will take part in South Legal Forum scheduled to take place on the 28th of September 2018 in Sochi.

Lidings Dispute Resolution practice partner Stepan Guzey will take part in an international conference on the Resolution of CIS-Related Business Disputes hosted by American Bar Association (ABA) on September 27th in Moscow.

Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Partner Boris Malakhov will run a webinar on Protection Against Counterfeit and New Fighting Trends as part of a series of webinars led by experts from the leading law firms and heads of legal of large companies, organized by Pravo.ru.

Partner of the dispute resolution practice at Lidings Alexander Popelyuk will take part in the Eastern European Dispute Resolution Forum (EEDRF), scheduled to take place on September 20-22, 2018 in Minsk, Republic of Belarus.

Partner of the Lidings’ Intellectual Property practice Boris Malakhov will take part in a conference entitled Regulatory Issues in Medical Practice: Regulation and Court Practice organized by Pravo.ru. The event will take part in Moscow, September 19th, 2018 in the Newsroom event hall.

Partner of the dispute resolution practice at Lidings Alexander Popelyuk will speak at the conference dedicated to the employment issues organized by Pravo.ru.

Partner of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice at Lidings Alexander Popelyuk will speak at the 8th Annual British Russian Law Association (BRLA) Seminar on Strategies for debt recovery and asset tracing. This year’s event is scheduled on 10-11 of September to take place in two cities: Ekaterinburg and St. Petersburg. First to host the seminar’s guests on September 10th is Ekaterinburg’s Yeltsin Centre. The venue of the seminar on September 11th is St. Petersburg’s Chamber of Advocates.

Lidings Managing Partner Andrey Zelenin heading Intellectual Property practice of the firm will conduct a webinar dedicated to the Regulation of Advertisement of Drugs and Overview of Recent Cases as part of a series of webinars led by experts from the leading law firms and heads of legal of large companies, organized by Pravo.ru.

Trade dress becomes an effective tool in fighting against unfair competitors. The scope of its protection is broad: from design of a package to the interior of the cafe. However, since trade dress has been mentioned in the law, neither the antimonopoly nor court authorities have explained how to use it correctly.