The Black Solicitors’ Network has become the first ethnic minority group to gain Law Society recognition. The network, aimed at improving the status and profile of black solicitors, is now one of eight recognised interest groups that receive Law Society funding. The network, which was formed in 1995, has formulated a number of initiatives for the coming […]

Linklaters ally Gianni Origini Grippo & Partners has hired Banco di Napoli’s legal director to help launch an office in Naples.Gianni Origoni is the first major firm to open in Naples and hopes to capitalise on future economic growth thanks to a regional investment program started by the previous government. Nicola Tremante joins from client […]

ashington DC firm Hogan & Hartson has taken two finance partners from the London office of Dorsey & Whitney as it continues its determined push into the City. Former Dorsey London head Peter Kohl and partner Jeffrey Hurlburt resigned on Friday (26 September). Their arrival at Hogan & Hartson in two weeks’ time will take […]

Andrew Visintin, the Hammonds equity partner and London head of finance whom the firm suspended last September, has resurfaced at the London office of German firm Haarmann Hemmelrath. Visintin resigned from Hammonds last year after the firm’s decision to suspend him on grounds of ill health after he had been away on sick leave for […]