About: Brendan Tierney

An identifying characteristic of an engagement retainer is what it is not: It is not compensation for legal services. (As a Comment to Colo. RPC 1.5 states, A fee is an engagement retainer only if the lawyer is to be additionally compensated for actual work, if any, performed.) A lawyer...

The way people agree or disagree in an argument or discussion varies in different languages. Here students practice different phrases to express agreement and disagreement. Useful for developing speaking for FCE, CAE, CPE. Do this exercise to practise the language to agree, disagree or partly agree. It is worthwhile saying...

Expect pages and pages of guff: continuing security, cumulative with other security interests, not prejudiced by delay, waiver or indulgence, amendment, or any other act that might act to prejudice the security otherwise. the pledgor will have to waive its rights under the Luxembourg Civil Code, and also hold the...

The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel has affirmed the broad authority of agencies to settle EEO disputes by applying remedies a court could order if the case were to go to trial. In an opinion interpreting the authority of an agency to settle a Title VII class complaint,...

When the new Basel agreement is integrated into the European Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) in 2021, this will have a major impact on finance providers subject to these rules. The low risk of leasing portfolios is currently not recognised adequately, leading to substantially over-conservative capital requirements. Rectifying this situation is...