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Washington, D.C. – May 1, 2016: Crowell & Moring is pleased to announce that it has secured nine attorney rankings for six individual attorneys in the 2016 Chambers Europe guide. Four practice areas were also ranked in the guide. The prestigious rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and members of the legal community at peer firms.

Washington, D.C. – March 24, 2016: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that it has secured 12 attorney rankings for nine individual attorneys in the Chambers Global 2016 guide. Four practice areas were also ranked in the guide. The prestigious rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and members of the legal community at peer firms.

Washington, D.C. – November 16, 2015: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that it has secured 17 attorney rankings for 12 individual attorneys in the Chambers Global, Europe, and U.K. guides. Eight practice areas were also ranked in the guides. The prestigious rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and members of the legal community at peer firms.

A number of important Belgian and EU legislative changes are likely to have an impact in 2024. On the one hand, there are new laws that have been adopted and will start to bite, and, on the other, there are proposals that are expected to firm up into law.

In November 2018, the European Patent Office (EPO) published a study aimed at providing a comprehensive picture of current trends and emerging leaders in technologies related to self-driving vehicles (SDV), based on patent applications ranging from 2011 to 2017. Below are some examples of the key findings from this study.

On May 1, 2018, Belgium became one of the first European countries to allow fully autonomous vehicles to be tested on the public highway without a driver.

Crowell & Moring's Brussels office is featured in an article highlighting recent partner and senior counsel appointments, as well as an overview of the practice strengths of those individuals and the office as a whole. Brussels partner and office head, Kristof Roox, praises his colleagues, saying, "Jan-Diederik [Lindeman]'s promotion and the addition of Geert [Bogaert] reinforces the strength and breadth of experience that our Brussels office offers and demonstrates our continued investment" in staff appointments. The piece also focuses on the key aspects of the Brussels office, in particular the advising and litigating experience in EU and Belgian Law, intellectual property, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences.