Collyer Bristow's future looks secure as it defeats Innovator One claim
Collyer Bristow has defeated a £50m professional negligence claim that threatened the financial stability of the firm.
Proskauer hires Dewey City steering group duo
Dewey & LeBoeuf London restructuring partners Mark Fennessy and Hazel Miller are set to join Proskauer Rose, meaning that all but one of the firm’s London steering group will have found new homes.
Kirkland's White set for global management role
Kirkland & Ellis private equity partner Graham White is set to take over as de facto head of the US firm’s London office next week.
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Field Fisher and LG moot £150m merger
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Former BLP chair seconded to Tesco China ahead of Beijing launch
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Cuatrecasas wins Spanish financing mandate amid economic turmoil
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Freshfields turns to former lawyers to fill fee-earning gaps
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Irwin Mitchell clinical negligence head replaces Napier as City chief
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Trucking giant Eddie Stobart enters legal market with barristers business
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BLP on course for modest turnover rise at end of expansionist year
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Legal alliances Legal Networks International and Oasis announce merger
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Mayer Brown names new chair as Krueger steps down
Old dogs, new tricks?
Berwin Leighton Paisner has hired two magic circle veterans in a bid to realise its corporate ambitions. Will the strategy pay off?
Time to tackle UK Bribery Act
Businesses can no longer afford to close their eyes to the full implications of the UK Bribery Act
EU plans patently absurd
A report into the proposed Unified Patent Court highlights some serious issues
China’s competing interests
China’s competition authorities are enforcing the law seriouly, and are even targeting SOEs
Only some trespassers prosecuted
A new law on squatters fails to address the problems facing commercial landlords
Number crunching: Brazilian IPOs
In 2007-08, the Brazilian stock exchange (Bovespa) was one of the highest performing of its kind in the world, with 64 companies choosing to list there in 2007 alone, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
Judgment call: 14 May 2012
The tribunal gave guidance on the correct approach to the exercise of its discretion to permit an appeal to be made out of time.
Friendly fire
Translating Slaughter and May’s European best friends approach to Asia-Pacific faces major challenges
Smart thinking
As Aricent Group’s legal vice-president, Nichola Andrews is at the heart of the fast-moving and legally fraught mobile technology sector
Pitch battle
International law firms are having to fight tooth and nail for the right to practise in India
Step change
It’s promotion season for UK law firms, but what sort of training have the class of 2012 had to help them to partnership?
Notebook
Hong Kong phooey
Salans says it never really was in HK, but it’s still there anyway. Are you following this?
Tulkinghorn: Post-it office
At the bar, the years can go by in the blink of an eye, especially if you’re a clerk running around after the trade unionist’s silk of choice, John Hendy QC.
Freshfields turns to former lawyers to fill fee-earning gaps
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is rolling out a scheme to tap into its alumni network as a way of sourcing fee-earning staff at busy periods.
On The Lawyer.com
On TheLawyer.com:
China may be where all the action is at at the moment, but India has long been the Holy Grail for international firms. In this week's India Special Report we explore how international firms are having to fight tooth and nail for the right to practise in the country.
Meanwhile, a Special Report on training looks at the promotions class of 2012 and examines the training they had to help them attain the ultimate goal of partnership. Plus, a 2009 employment discrimination case hints at poisonous politics at the heart of Dewey and will BLP's strategy of hiring magic circle veterans pay off?
Lost in translation
The first hint came when Slaughter and May’s US friend Davis Polk raided Freshfields to set up an English-law capital markets practice in London.
In the money
Appetite for alternative litigation funding packages is on the rise, with the sector beginning to mature just as the Government passed the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, which will mean the end of no-win no-fee agreements.
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LG goes Fishing for a merger
Now, no one’s saying it’s definitely happening, but Field Fisher Waterhouse and LG are at least pondering whether to merge.
