In the world of sport, conflicts are resolved before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), seated in Lausanne, Switzerland. The CAS was created…
On 16 December 2015, the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice rendered a decision, published on 22 February 2016, which put an end to a…
On 18 March 2016, the new Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure entered into force. The main goal of the new code is to reduce…
On 20 and 21 February 2016, the São Paulo office of Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, in cooperation with Baker & McKenzie, will welcome…
In 2015, the body supervising the Brazilian Judiciary (Corregedoria Nacional de Justiça, or CNJ) included among its yearly objectives the specialization of two first…
On June 8, 2015, the Brazilian President issued Decree No 8,465 of 2015 (the “Decree”), which lays down the procedural criteria according to which government and…
The entry into force – on 26 December 2015 and on 17 March 2016 – of two innovative pieces of legislation, the Mediation Act and…
The Brazilian Federal Lawyers’ Bar (Conselho Federal da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil) has approved on June 14 a draft bill for a new Code of Ethics…
On June 2, 2015, the Brazilian Senate approved on a statute on judicial and extrajudicial Mediation (“Mediation Act”). The text in Portuguese is available here.…