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A seminar, organized jointly by the European Association of Football Agents (EAFA), the Law Firm "YUST", the Swiss BSI bank and the Aon International company for Russian sports agents, lawyers, representatives of sports clubs and the RFU, was held on April 26. Mikhail Prokopets, Head of sports law group, represented the Firm.

The leading Russian law firm “YUST” celebrated its 20th anniversary. Friends and partners of the Firm congratulated all employees of “YUST” on such a remarkable event.

The V International Forum “Intellectual Property – XXI century” was held in Moscow on April 17-20. The Forum was organized with the support from the World Intellectual Property Organization and was timed to the International Day of Intellectual Property – 26th of April. Advocate Denis Shumskiy represented the Law Firm "YUST".

Yury Pilipenko, Managing Partner at the Law Firm "YUST", gave an interview to Pravo.RU. He spoke on the top of the Russian advocacy, which causes pity and laughter, on what the judicial authority has turned into, why the advocates lose their status and the most frequent causes for this, how the ethical code of the advocacy should be amended and of what the “Bermuda triangle” of the causes of its violation consists.

Lawyers of the Law Firm "YUST" – Associated Partner Evgeny Zhilin, Lawyers Igor Kostennikov and Natalia Gornostay – took part in the drafting of a two-tome edition “Media, Advertising&Entertainment Law Throughout The World”. The legal survey was issued in March 2012 under the auspices of the International association of independent law firms (Multilaw).

An article by Ekaterina Shelopina, Lawyer at the Law Firm "YUST", on the latest changes to the Family Code introduced late last year, was published in the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” within the framework of the “Law Week” project (No. 87(5760)).

Mikhail Prokopets, Head of Sports Law Group of the Law Firm "YUST", gave to “Sport.Business.Consulting” magazine an interview on the legal details of interaction of sports industry and beer brands to the special legal project of SBC.

Alexander Bolomatov, Associated Partner at the Law Firm "YUST", gave RAPSI an expert’s commentary on possible perspectives of creation of commercial arbitration with participation of foreign lawyers.

Yury Pilipenko, Managing Partner at the Law Firm "YUST", gave to Pravo.RU an expert’s commentary, why P.Ivlev’s arguments of absence in his conduct of violations of the professional ethics code are not convincing.

An Article by Denis Shumskiy, Advocate at the Law Firm "YUST", on legal peculiarities of international registration of trade marks, its advantages and drawbacks was published in the “Company Lawyer” magazine No. 3 (March 2012).