US super-investor William Berkley has become the first major new entrant into solicitors’ professional indemnity (PI) insurance since law firms have been able to buy their insurance on the open market. Berkley’s New York Stock Exchange-listed company WR Berkley has set up a European casualty insurer, WR Berkley (Europe), based in London with a strong […]

Clifford Chance has lost co-head of private funds Stephen Ross to the asset management arm of client Man Group, a global provider of alternative investment products. Jason Glover, who currently shares the role, will head private funds when Ross leaves to join Man Investments as global head of legal structuring and corporate finance in December. […]

Immigration lawyers hit out at the Government’s plans to cap publicly-funded advice to asylum seekers at a maximum five hours of initial legal advice, as responses were submitted to the Department for Constitutional Affairs last week. In a withering retort, the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) concluded that the proposals represented “a gross and unjustifiable […]

The two partners at the centre of the ongoing litigation between Deacons and White & Case used a lunch paid for by their old firm to lure key client Standard Chartered to White & Case, the Hong Kong High Court has been told. The court was told that, on 5 March 2002, partners Mark Fairbairn […]