Modern Technologies and Complicated Cases

In our work we try to make full use of the achievements the “digital age” provides a modern lawyer with in so many fields of his or her work (starting from organizational approaches to the preparation for hearings). These achievements significantly enhance the data available for legal research and, of course, allow a lawyer to take into account important developments in legal doctrine and case law applicable to the dispute at stake.

We work with Russian and western legal databases and make use, whenever necessary, of the British Library and other West European libraries and portals, such as the ICCA - International Council for Commercial Arbitration), UNILEX - a database of precedents at courts of various jurisdictions in respect of the application of UNIDROIT Principles and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, UNCITRAL Digest – a collection of precedents at courts of various jurisdictions in respect of the application of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, WIPO Case studies – a database of cases connected to the application of intellectual property laws etc., which provide electronic access to their databases. We also make active use of electronic services (such as nalog.ru etc.), which have been currently increasingly implemented by Russian governmental authorities, and undertake distance training (WIPO etc.). All this allows us to provide the client with the promptest but still most efficient preparation for proceedings and to develop non-standard approaches to resolving existing problems. Lawyers of Genuine Arbitration Service Ltd. have represented their clients before Russian state courts (commercial or "arbitrazhnye" under Russian laws terminology, and of general jurisdiction) as well as before arbitral tribunals (both domestic and international) from the year 1999 and 2002 respectively.

Under all circumstances, we endeavour to represent our clients with maximum efficiency and unsparingly use our resources and energy to build up the least vulnerable position. In our opinion, the key to the achievement of a positive result in complicated cases is our attention to minute details and active work with evidence.

A detailed knowledge of evidence provided by the client, an active search for new evidence using the various techniques at the lawyers’ disposal, attracting reputable and independent experts, lawful communication with witnesses (which is particularly important for arbitral tribunals and courts where witness statements are readily accepted and have significant evidential value) and the most thorough analysis of opponent-provided evidence in terms of their reliability, integrity, and the (often) beneficial role which such evidence can play in supporting the client’s position: these are the key components of working with evidence, which is – here we will say it without doubt – in our opinion, the most important factor for the successful representation of a client’s interests in highly complicated disputes.