To celebrate 25 years of Law Update, this month we interviewed Essam Al Tamimi, the man behind the firm and the newsletter to find out more about how it all started.

Can you give a brief overview about how Law Update started? 

25 years ago, we were a very small law firm. There was myself, a secretary, office admin and two assistant local lawyers and we mainly focused on litigation. I was, at the time, wearing two hats; one working with Clifford Chance and one handling my local advocacy before the Courts.  

At the time, there was one legal newsletter, in English, that was circulated among the small legal community in Dubai, with updates about what was happening in terms of laws, regulations, draft laws and so on.