United Kingdom: On 27 January 2026, Dentons hosted its annual Real Estate market predictions event in London, bringing together a panel of leading industry experts to examine the outlook for the year ahead.

Vietnam: Law on Intellectual Property 2005, amended in 2025 (“IP Law 2025”) will officially take effect on 01 April 2026. Among the amendments and supplements, a notable and groundbreaking new matter is that, for the first time, IP Law 2025 recognizes and governs the issue of the creation and establishment of the rights in intellectual property (“IP”) objects created with the assistance of AI. This reflects the responsiveness of Vietnamese laws to the rapid evolution of AI technology and represents a proactive effort of Vietnam to adapt the digital transformation era and the swift growth of AI technology, which has been posing numerous challenges to the traditional legal framework of the laws on IP.

United Kingdom: The emergence of generative AI (genAI) has fast-tracked the dispute resolution (DR) sector (including ADR) into a period of extraordinary procedural upheaval. More than 4,500 people attended October 2025’s Legal Geek conference. That number is not a typo. 4,500 people – not limited to tech geeks – gathered to learn about the legal tech revolutionising DR. Based on selected talks from Sir Geoffrey Vos, Shilpa Bhandarkar, Carlos Carvalho, Gordon Crenshaw, Stephen Dowling, Anthony Seale, Shruti Ajitsaria and Muzzy Rahman, here are key use cases/themes of which DR practitioners (DRPs) should be aware.