FlexiLEX partners with Rézmovits & Poór

25 May 2023

We are very pleased to announce a new partnership with the law offices of Rézmovits & Poór, expanding the FlexiLEX international network in Hungary. Rézmovits & Poór is a full-service business law firm combining deep, localized expertise with twenty years of ...

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Apò mēkhanês Rantos

6 March 2023

Surprising Recourse to the Ancillary Restraints Doctrine in the “European Super League” Case

ABSTRACT: The ancillary restraints doctrine in EU competition law is normally used exceptionally for validating restrictions that are ancillary to a primary set of practices whose goals are clearly in the public interest. Relying upon this d...

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Football Fans’ Fashion Influence

28 November 2022

The Rise of Casual Chic

A new exhibit has recently opened at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool called Art of the Terraces telling the story of how football fans contributed to making cer...

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IP Round-up

10 November 2022

The latest in the ongoing saga of AI trained on datasets that use a living artist’s work without permission.

No joke: a recent example of how comedic material is protected by copyright upon performance or other recording.

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Monochronic Time vs. Prioritized Time

15 October 2022

(article review)

In an essay published on Substack, Anne Helen Petersen suggests making greater space for “polychronic time” in our lives instead of “monochronic time”. These a...

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FlexiLEX partners with Premier Sports Network

26 August 2022

We are very pleased to announce a new partnership with one of the world's leading global athlete networks, Premier Sports Network. PSN has led the way in the field of ‘player care’ since 2015, and FlexiLEX is proud to contribute by applying its decades of experience and expertise to the legal fra...

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New EU Vertical Block Exemption Regulation & Guidelines

12 May 2022

EU Commission adopts new VBER and VBER Guidelines to account for modern distribution and e-commerce practice

More than a decade in the making, the new VBER package brings EU competition rules in line with current market realities. The “Commission Regulation n° 2022/720 of 10 May 2022 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to categories of vertical agr...

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained

1 May 2022

Overly risk-averse legal recruiters are selecting bland candidates over more atypical creative profiles. Their Clients are then realising too late that no risk means no reward.

What better way to celebrate International Workers’ Day then with the results of a small survey we conducted on recent legal hiring trends. We’ll spare you the statistical details (it’s a holiday after all), but here’s what we found in our practice areas:

The COVID crisis added more legal job seekers to the market, without increasing the amount of roles available, thus further increasing competition. Legal recruiters are even more risk-averse than previously, and tended to prefer applicants who...

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