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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES/LEGAL | Alpha Bierneza, Singapore Published: 19 Dec 16 30921 view(s) Singapore’s 70 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under in 2016 Check out the story of a young lawyer who studied law while he was behind bars. Singapore’s most influential lawyers aged 40 and under is now on its third year. There are more or […]

The reason why I'm here today, in part, is because of a dog: an abandoned puppy I found back in the rain, back in 1998. She turned out to be a much bigger dog than I'd anticipated. When she came into my life, we were fighting against a huge waste facility planned for the East River waterfront, despite the fact that our small part of New York City already handled more than 40 percent of the entire city's commercial waste: a sewage treatment pelletizing plant, a sewage sludge plant, four power plants, the world's largest food distribution center, as well as other industries that bring more than 60,000 diesel truck trips to the area each week. The area also has one of the lowest ratios of parks to people in the city.

Political prisoners aren't the only ones being tortured — the vast majority of judicial torture happens in ordinary cases, even in 'functioning' legal systems. Social activist Karen Tse shows how we can, and should, stand up and end the use of routine torture.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has two powerful stories to tell — of her own life's transformation, and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. Can we transform the world by unlocking the greatness of girls?

Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous talk, she tells three powerful stories, as well as her own, and calls for a more humane approach to helping these young victims rebuild their lives.

Now all of us in here are individuals, and those individual differences mean that we could react very differently and sometimes in unpredictable ways to drugs. I myself, a couple of years back, had a really bad headache, just couldn't shake it, thought, "Well, I'll try something different." I took some Advil. Fifteen minutes later, I was on my way to the emergency room with a full-blown asthma attack. Now, obviously it wasn't fatal, but unfortunately, some of these adverse drug reactions can be fatal.

So how do we prevent them? Well, we could imagine one day having Geraldine on a chip, having Danielle on a chip, having you on a chip.

Personalized medicine. Thank you.

Ninette Dodoo as counsel and deputy head of the firm’s China antitrust practice

De Grandpré Chait is proud to announce that our partner Stéphanie La Rocque is one of this year’s recipients of the prestigious Rising Stars – Leading Lawyers Under 40 award.

has been appointed as general counsel of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

2014 Toronto Intellectual Property Law "Lawyer of the Year."