At the beginning of the second "pandemic" year, the legislator changed the rules on telecommuting: they became more flexible, which means more opportunities for formalisation of workers. The rules of personal data processing have changed: now entrepreneurs have to obtain more permits and there are new penalties for violations. IT companies have been the most innovative. They now have tax breaks and the opportunity to create a regulatory sandbox with their own rules. Read about these and other important amendments for entrepreneurs in our material.

The ability to manage emotions is one of the fundamental qualities of a good lawyer, but it should not be confused with coldness and indifference. A human rights defender who is disinterested in the judicial process and in his or her client is doomed to failure. Ksenia Amdur, a practising lawyer at Alliance Legal CG, talks to us about the distinctive features of a true legal professional as well as about her own development in the profession and the corporate culture of Alliance Legal CG.

Awards were given to women leaders who develop businesses in different sectors - education, pharmaceuticals, law.

A company's IPO is an indication of its maturity, but it is easy to violate the strict requirements of US laws when preparing financial statements. Rod Tuvaev, Head of sanctions law practice at Alliance Legal Consulting Group, explains how to prepare Russian companies for an IPO.

A new "frame of reference" is emerging in the relationship between control bodies and supervised persons

Nikita Rozhentsov's article on the courts' pivotal decision for mining companies

On 1 November 2020, a reform of oversight activities, the so-called regulatory guillotine, came into force. The problem was that each type of oversight was not prescribed according to a standard matrix, but individually for a particular agency. The reform announced by the President of the Russian Federation is designed to make an inventory of obsolete regulations from the Soviet era and adopt new ones in line with the current principles of establishing mandatory requirements.

In courts, issues often arise that require special knowledge in the field of handwriting and forensic document examination. An article by Olga Podoprigorina, Sergey Ovechkin and Ksenia Amdur.

Alina Manina spoke at the Pravo.ru conference "Bankruptcy - 2021: regulation and court practice".

The Constitutional Court celebrates its birthday on 30 October. It turns 30 years old. In recent years, the court has increasingly focused on the work of lawyers and related legal relations. In 2021, it issued three such rulings. We decided to collect the most significant legal positions of the Constitutional Court during the 30 years of its existence. Office searches, searches in pre-trial detention centres, jury questioning, pocket defenders, censorship of correspondence, reimbursement of lawyer's expenses.