On 15 June, the international legal rating publication Best Lawyers released the results of its research for 2017.

Partner at Maxima Legal, Vladimir Kilinkarov, was recognised in the category of Corporate Law (St Petersburg) as well as Head of the Tax Practice, Elena Kilinkarova, for Tax Law.

Best Lawyers is one of the oldest and respected ratings in the legal industry.  Inclusion in the ratings is a privilege for any lawyer and is regarded in the profession as an achievement. The main criteria on which Best Lawyers assesses lawyers is their work, analysis of their successes and reputation. The method of the rating is based on a peer-review conducted with leading lawyers in each sector.

For the results of the Best Lawyers ratings in Russia, please see click here.

Business newspaper, Delovoy Peterburg has published the results of its third large-scale study titled 'The Map of the Legal Market in St Petersburg', which compares 56 law firms including the regional offices of national and international law firms.

The criteria used in the study to determine the scale of activities of St Petersburg-based firms was their income for 2016, income for each practice area (divided into 13 practices) and by each client type (divided into 19 industries). Further to this, Delovoy Peterburg considered the results of leading international rating agencies: Chambers & Partners, Best Lawyers, Legal500 and IFLR1000 as well as the results of its regional ranking 'Lawyer of the Season', which were also included in the special edition.

For further information (in Russian), please see the following website.

Head of the Dispute Resolution practice at Maxima Legal, Sergey Bakeshin, has provided his comments for the website Pravo.ru on a decision of the High Court in Russia, which stated that the evaluation of arguments set out in an application for review of an earlier Court decision on the basis of new evidence or circumstances, can only be made by the Court in proceedings and after an application has been issued. In other words, the Courts should only make an evaluation of arguments on issued applications – and not simply decline to issue applications having made an evaluation of the arguments.