KIAP lawyers held a series of lectures in Institute of business law of Kutafin Moscow State University

KIAP lawyers held a series of lectures in Institute of business law of Kutafin Moscow State University

From 6 to 20 March 2018 KIAP lawyers held a series of lectures on the most current topics for students of the Institute of business law of Kutafin Moscow State University. Seven partners and heads of practices shared their personal experience with future colleagues and revealed the main secrets of a job of a lawyer in a modern law firm.

The first lecture took place on February 6, 2018. Head of KIAP Commercial practice, Attorney at law Julia Kirpikova spoke about the structure of the law firm and about key rules of work in consulting. Lecture attendees found out about the principles of legal project assistance and the most effective methods of transformation of the stream of consciousness into a legal channel.

Alexey Sizov, Partner, Attorney at law, Head of Customs and International trade practice, on the second lecture persuaded future colleagues that Customs law is actually interesting and explained how to use the knowledge of customs law effectively in profession and in life.

The third lecture was devoted to intellectual property and new tendencies in regulation and protection of IP assets. Daria Chernysh, Head of IP practice, Trademark and Patent attorney, told about the most controversial and debatable cases on intellectual property protection, touched upon the issues of artificial intelligence protection as a new object, as well as a new direction in the IP sphere – fashion law.

Fourth and fifth lectures were held by Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration Partner of KIAP, Anna Grishchenkova and Head of arbitration and mediation projects Irina Suspitcyna. Anna told about the last tendencies of International Commercial Arbitration and how to start your own career in International Commercial Arbitration; Irina highlighted the main peculiarities of enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Russia.

During the sixth lecture Ilya Dedkovskiy, Attorney at law, head of Bankruptcy practice, highlighted the topic of subsidiary responsibility in bankruptcy cases, and Dmitry Shnaydman, Partner and Head of Insurance practice, disclosed to the audience all the nuances and pitfalls of insurance contracts.

KIAP, Attorneys at law received a lot of positive feedbacks from organizers and attendees of lectures, so that KIAP is going to continue the cooperation with Institute of business law of Kutafin Moscow State University in future.