By the Decree of the Minister of Justice of Italy Hon. Andrea Orlando of April 29, 2014 LEAD Consulting partner Maurizio Sala is appointed member of the Standing Technical Commission of the Ministry of Justice of the Italian Republic for Implementation of Electronic Civil Procedure in the courts of Italy. Mr. Sala is one of the most active and persistent advocates of electronic exchange of procedural documents between the parties of civil disputes in Italian courts. For several years he acts as the representative of the Order of Advocates of the City of Milan in relations with the Ministry of Justice of Italy on matters related to the implementation of the electronic civil procedure.
LEAD Consulting Senior Associate Dmitriy Smola participated in the «round table» discussion of the key issues of development of commercial arbitration in Russia which took place at the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on April 17, 2014. The discussion was centered primarily on the project of the Federal Law «On Commercial Arbitration Courts and Arbitration in the Russian Federation» recently published by the Ministry of Justice of Russia.
The beginning of the second quarter of 2014 is marked by significant accomplishments of the leading LEAD Consulting professionals Leonid Karpov and Dmitriy Smola. Each of them has set a new impressive personal professional record.
On February 26, 2014 the Direct Line the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation Papalympic Winter Games 2014: on the way to medals was hosted by the Member of the Civic Chamber Diana Gurtskaya and LEAD Consulting Partner Alexander Linnikov.
Alexander Linnikov was invited by the Council of the Federation Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Legal and Judicial Affairs and Civil Society Development to take part on the «round table» on the topic of «Legal protection of the constitutional order and security of the state: contemporary approaches and international experience».