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Brodie Clark v Home Office

21-Nov-2011

The former head of the UKBA, Brodie Clark, appeared before the Home Affairs Committee on 15 November to answer questions from MPs about the fiasco at the UK’s borders over the summer.
Graphic Health Warnings for Alcohol Products...

21-Oct-2011

Where paternalistic regulation clashes with international trade obligations
#AshurstStaffAreFree

11-Jul-2011

No longer shall Ashurst workers be cut off from the cultural zeitgeist.
A nasty, irritating little possibility of a full-scale disaster

13-Dec-2011

I am beginning to think that I may have hidden talents as an economist. It is true that I don’t have much by way of training for the role but have found that my own self taught methods have produced consistently excellent forecasts, and certainly better forecasts than those of Osborne and of the Office of Budget Responsibility.
A perfect storm brews at the bar

9-Dec-2011

I am writing this on a Sunday morning in my flat in The Temple. The Temple is a great place at weekend – quiet and serene, a lovely place to be. But the bar is far from quiet and serene. Many are fearful of whether they have a secure future and whether they will be able to afford to live, particularly if they work in areas such as Crime or those in the area of Family Law which are publicly funded.
Alber & Geiger hires senior partner's son as litigator

12-Feb-2010

Brussels lobbying firm Alber & Geiger has added to its ranks with a lawyer from EU law firm Kemmler Rapp Böhlke.
And what of the discarded lawyer?

6-Dec-2011

In the dark days of early 2008, when it seemed like the magnitude of the then financial meltdown was neither accepted nor understood by many in the industry, my firm took the decision to downsize
Baker & McKenzie bolsters Tokyo with five Linklaters lawyers

5-Jan-2012

Baker & McKenzie has hired a team of five lawyers, including two partners, from Linklaters’ Tokyo office in a bid to expand its Japan corporate and M&A practice.
Barristersaswell.com - why consumer review sites aren't such a bad idea

3-Nov-2011

A very interesting Chatham House Rules seminar at the LSB, gave me pause for thought. The vexed topic of consumer information sites popped up with the words Solicitorsfromhell ghosting across a few peoples lips. I’m reasonably sanguine about the evolution of consumer sites to help choose lawyers.
Camerons welcomes nine to partnership

30-Apr-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has promoted nine lawyers to its partnership, as part of a 23-strong round across the entire CMS Europe network.
Chancellor saves energy-intensive industries from double carbon tax, but what about the rest of us?

30-Nov-2011

On 1 April 2013 the Government will introduce a carbon floor price (“CFP”) as part of a package of measures designed to incentivise reductions in carbon emissions and help shift the UK to a low carbon economy.
ECJ stem cell ruling poses serious threat to medical research

10-Nov-2011

A new ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) means that human embryonic stem cell-related inventions are deemed to be no longer patentable in EU Member States.
Elizabeth Roberts: SJ Berwin

22-Oct-2010

How did you spend your last bonus? (If you have never received a bonus, how would you hope to spend it in the future)? On a holiday to Laos.
Fascination with LLMs in India

23-Jan-2012

An LLM provides an acceptable avenue of mixing things up a little and hopefully returning a little wiser. Master of laws programmes are expensive and as the accompanying story shows there are few jobs going in the US.
Freshfields and Links lead on RBS's UAE sell-off

17-Jun-2010

Magic circle duo Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have bagged the leading roles on the sale of RBS’s UAE retail banking business to Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB).
Jones keeps up

3-Aug-2009

What the world needs now is more management consultants. That’s what Addleshaws’ Mark Jones thinks, anyway.
Julian Assange in the Supreme Court

1-Feb-2012

Julian Assange today takes his argument against extradition to Sweden to the UK Supreme Court. The hearing is due to finish tomorrow – it’s not clear yet when the Court is likely to publish its judgment, says Carl Gardner.
Negotiation: the art of compromising positions

24-Jan-2012

Negotiation is an art form, not a science, and countless books have been written on the subject.
No5 barristers ready to rumble in memory of former chambers head

17-Jun-2011

Ten barristers from No5 Chambers are to trade blows with each other and a number of private practice solicitors in a bout to honour the memory of former chambers head Ralph Lewis QC.
Olswang raids Dechert for Paris launch, expands in Madrid

2-Feb-2011

Oswang has launched an office in Paris with the hire of five partners, including a senior finance partner from Dechert.
Private equity-backed funds boutique MJ Hudson opens its doors

19-Jul-2010

Former SJ Berwin private equity partner Matthew Hudson has launched his own practice with backing from private equity house Coller Capital.
Promote an open internet; but don’t overlook internet hate

31-Oct-2011

The UK takes over the chairmanship of the Council of Europe on 7 November and has made as one of its priorities the promotion of “an open internet, not only in terms of access and content but also [in terms of] freedom of expression.” Without question, an open Internet has allowed the free exchange of knowledge and information, and has played a critical role in established and emerging democracies. Free expression on the Internet is to be valued and promoted.
The bar mourns Sir Ian Brownlie QC

6-Jan-2010

The sudden death of Sir Ian Brownlie QC has left the world of international law mourning the loss of one of its most prominent figures.
The Freemen, law blogging, and the public understanding of law

24-Nov-2011

David Allen Green, media correspondent of The Lawyer, on what the legal blogging about the Freemen of the Land really tells us.
The Role of Social Media in the Legal World

24-Jan-2012

2011 was the year that the “super injunction” hit the headlines and the rumour-mill was in overdrive as to which celebrities had used the law to prevent private indiscretions from becoming public scandals. Pre-Twitter, the effect of such injunctions would have been to bar anyone, particularly the press, from reporting the details protected by the injunction and also from revealing that the injunction itself existed.
Yorkshire's Keeble Hawson and HLW agree terms of merger

29-Jul-2011

Yorkshire firms Keeble Hawson and HLW Commercial Lawyers have merged to form one of the region’s biggest legal practices.
#WithoutPrejudice 17: The Jury – European judges meddling – More weird cases

24-Jan-2012

Welcome to the first Without Prejudice of 2012.
China Watch – A Foreign Lawyer’s View from the Inside

23-Jan-2012

It’s a new year and I am sure there are some of you who may be interested in my take on the pending King & Wood Mallesons merger, but that will have to wait. Now that the year-end deal closings and (western) holidays are behind us, it is time to finish off my series of blogs on the VIE structure and cloud computing in China.
Generation i-Employee: how social media is blurring the lines between work and private life

4-Nov-2011

Employees phoning in sick and posting pictures of themselves on the beach or bragging about the extent of their hangovers on Facebook; we have all heard variations of this story before. The (predictable) response? *Groan, silly employee, good bye.*
Jones v Kernott - into forbidden territory without a fig leaf?

25-Nov-2011

Just when lawyers who are called on to advise cohabitants thought we knew where we were, we find ourselves wandering into forbidden territory without a fig leaf!
"What UK and US Law Firms Can Learn From Mallesons?"

2-Nov-2011

For any law firm in the UK or US that is currently considering the use of lower cost delivery models, last week’s Mallesons/ Integreon deal is a real reminder of the two main options available: “Build Your Own (BYO)” or “Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO)”.
"World's worst tennis pro" loses Telegraph libel case

28-Apr-2010

The High Court has thrown out a defamation claim brought against the Daily Telegraph by tennis player Robert Dee, who claimed the paper had defamed him by dubbing him the “world’s worst tennis pro”.
#WithoutPrejudice 19 podcast: The Leveson Inquiry and The Twitter Joke Trial appeal

10-Feb-2012

On the panel: Carl Gardner, David Allen Green, Dr Evan Harris and Charon QC
#WithoutPrejudice podcast 18: Legal education – Human Rights left wing twaddle? – Assange extradition

3-Feb-2012

Our guests tonight are resident panelist Carl Gardner, Professor Gary Slapper Director of New York University in London and former ’left wing’ Tory MP Jerry Hayes, a practising barrister specialising in the more serious criminal cases.
“Extreme inertia”: Why change if nothing’s on fire?

20-Jan-2012

It is often said that we only really contemplate change when there is a “burning platform”; in other words when the motivation for change is so pressing that we are in immediate peril or at the very least the status quo has become deeply, deeply unattractive.
11 Stone Buildings adds insolvency silk to its ranks

9-May-2011

Lincoln’s Inn set 11 Stone Buildings had added insolvency silk Lexa Hilliard QC to its membership.
11KBW follows bar trend by installing first-ever chief executive

16-Jan-2012

11KBW has appointed its first chief executive with the hire of David Stead, currently director of marketing and business development at patent attornies Gill Jennings & Every.
11KBW secures CoA win in Tullett Prebon appeal

22-Feb-2011

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected an appeal by City broker BGC that it had not acted unlawfully when it conspired to poach senior staff from rival Tullett Prebon.
18 get the nod in Herbert Smith partner promotions

20-Apr-2010

Herbert Smith has promoted 18 lawyers to its partnership, a third of whom are based abroad.
2010 Promotions

11-May-2010

Check out the 2010 partner promotions at UK firms as they come in and compare them with last year.
2Birds announces 12 partner promotions globally

11-Apr-2012

Bird & Bird has made up a dozen new partners in a return to 2009 promotion levels.
2Birds beefs up venture capital team with BLP hire

3-May-2012

Bird & Bird has hired a private equity partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) in a bid to develop its venture capital practice.
2Birds enters Tunisia via local association

16-Feb-2012

Bird & Bird has made a rare move for an international firm and signed an association with a law firm in Tunisia.
2Birds' expansionist strategy sees fee income rise by 30 per cent

14-Jul-2009

Bird & Bird has announced a 29.7 per cent increase in gross revenue for the 2008-09 financial year.
2Birds gains Casablanca foothold via local tie-up

7-Oct-2011

Bird & Bird has joined the rush into North Africa by sealing an association agreement with Moroccan firm El Amari & Associés.
2Birds posts record turnover, PEP continues to fall

7-Jul-2010

Bird & Bird has broken through the £200m revenue barrier for the first time, posting a total turnover of £201.8m for the 2009-10 financial year.
2Birds promotes one City partner in 10-strong round

16-Apr-2010

Bird & Bird has made up 10 lawyers to its partnership, more than double the number that made the grade last year.
2Birds promotes two in depleted partnership round

15-Apr-2011

Bird & Bird has made up just two lawyers in its annual partnership promotions round, eight fewer than last year and 12 down on the number promoted in 2009.
2Birds seals alliance with Chinese IP firm

21-Aug-2009

Bird & Bird has formed an alliance with Beijing IP boutique Xiang Kung Law Firm, with the aim of strengthening its contentious capabilities in China.
2Birds signs cooperation deal with Denmark's BvHD

26-Jan-2012

Bird & Bird has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Danish IT boutique Bender von Haller Dragsted (BvHD).
2Birds snares 13-strong media team from Hogan Lovells Germany

30-Aug-2011

The mass exodus from Hogan Lovells in Germany has continued with the departure of a team of 13 Hamburg-based media lawyers to Bird & Bird.
2Birds taps Orrick for double corporate partner hire

7-Apr-2010

Bird & Bird has bolstered its corporate team with the hire of two partners from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.
2Birds targets Middle East with Abu Dhabi launch

27-May-2010

Bird & Bird is to open an office in Abu Dhabi - its first base in the Middle East region.
2Birds votes to give CEO and chair another term at helm

23-Mar-2010

Bird & Bird has re-elected its longstanding chief executive office David Kerr and chairman Michael Frie for additional three-year terms.
2Birds, Simmons and RPC benefit as seven partners quit Clydes in Hong Kong

4-Apr-2012

Clyde & Co has been hit for seven Hong Kong partners, with RPC announcing an office opening on the back of a four-partner team appointment.
3 Verulam Buildings loses senior clerk to Three New Square

20-Jan-2012

3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) senior clerk Nick Hill is to leave the set to take up the same role at intellectual property set Three New Square.
36 Bedford Row barrister acts on OFT's Groupon investigation

16-Mar-2012

36 Bedford Row barrister David Ball advised the OFT on its investigation into discount voucher company Groupon.
39 Essex Street silk joins Leveson LJ on NoW inquiry

29-Jul-2011

A silk from 39 Essex Street has been appointed as counsel to Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry into the phone-hacking allegations levelled at the defunct tabloid News of the World.
39 Essex Street silk opens Leveson LJ's phone-hacking inquiry

14-Nov-2011

Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press got underway today with 39 Essex Street’s Robert Jay QC opening proceedings with an outline of the course of investigations.
3VB leads Collyer Bristow defence in case brought by Rangers FC administrators

16-Apr-2012

Three Verulam Buildings (3VB) will today ’vigorously contest’ claims of professional negligence on behalf of Collyer Bristow’s role in the Rangers FC administration.
3VB picks up Keating Chambers' Cooklin

7-Feb-2012

Gray’s Inn set 3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) has hit Keating Chambers for its director of clerking Paul Cooklin who will rejoin his former chambers as practice director.
3VB practice director takes charge at Riverview Chambers

3-Apr-2012

Riverview Law has appointed 3 Verulam Buildings’ (3VB) practice director Jeremy Hopkins as director of operations.
4 New Square defeats race discrimination case

3-Mar-2010

The London barrister who sued three members of 4 New Square and the set’s senior clerk on grounds of racial and disability discrimination has lost her case.
4 Pump Court silk quits bar for partnership at Australia's Clayton Utz

8-Feb-2011

Insurance and re-insurance silk John Rowland QC, who practises at 4 Pump Court, is to leave the English bar to join Australian firm Clayton Utz.
4 Pump Court silks target Hong Kong with arbitration launch

22-May-2012

Six silks from commercial set 4 Pump Court are to launch a new venture in Hong Kong aimed at attracting arbitration specialists from around the globe.
4 Pump Court to face Brick Court in bank bonus litigation

9-Sep-2009

Stewarts Law has instructed 4 Pump Court’s Nigel Tozzi QC to represent 72 bankers who have brought a multi-million pound claim for unpaid bonuses against Dresdner Kleinwort, which was taken over by Commerzbank last year.
4NS silk defects to Hailsham "on a matter of principle"

11-Jun-2010

Bernard Livesey QC has quit 4 New Square to join Hailsham Chambers, claiming that a difference of opinion with the former prompted his departure.
5KBW silk calls Reggae Reggae sauce man 'barefaced liar' in breach of contract case

18-Nov-2011

The barrister representing the claimants in a High Court case brought against Reggae Reggae sauce entrepreneur Levi Roots has branded him a “barefaced liar”.
65 firms seek SRA approval for ABS conversion

19-Jan-2012

The SRA has received 65 applications from firms looking to convert to alternative business structures (ABS) in its first two weeks of taking submissions.
7 Bedford Row barrister begins Polly Peck prosecution

24-Jan-2012

Philip Shears QC of 7 Bedford Row has begun arguments for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the Old Bailey trial of disgraced tycoon Asil Nadir.
A better chance for CC

27-Jul-2009

Clifford Chance has had a tough time in recent months - what with mass job cuts and plunging PEP, the firm has been desperately in need of some good news.
A bitter Raue?

23-Mar-2010

So much has been written about the love-in that is the Hogan-Lovells merger it seemed like there might be nothing left to say.
A blast from the past

1-Jul-2009

It was the moment we’d all been waiting for and, announcing its financial results today, Clifford Chance did not disappoint.
A Chance to downsize

30-Nov-2009

The enormity of the downsizing at the UK’s top firms has been revealed today (see story).
A Christmas tale

10-Dec-2009

Once upon a time there was a QC. This QC, called Jonathan Sumption, was feared throughout the land, losing just one case in a whole year.
A clog in the heart

12-Nov-2009

Cultural sensitivity training might be the order of the day at the Netherlands Bar Society, after an article about Scotland on the society’s website was coupled with a bizarre picture (see story).
A costly business

7-Mar-2012

The pressing need for tighter case management by the judiciary has again been thrown into focus this week in a wasted costs dispute between West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) and Willbros Global Holdings.
A delicate balance

29-Mar-2012

With uncertainty over how the law can be used to combat content piracy in the video games industry, Paul Groves and Michael Lister examine the position of rights holders
A fair Kop?

13-Oct-2010

The press pack at the Royal Courts of Justice was salivating at the court doors yesterday morning with not one but two high-profile showdowns on the lists.
A fine balance

20-Dec-2010

At this time of year, it’s understandable if work takes something of a backseat.
A fixed deal for fixed share partners

1-Feb-2012

The concept of partnership has been transformed in the post-Legal Services Act world, says Michelle Chance in response to today’s Appeal Court ruling in Tiffin v Lester Aldridge LLP
A flowering lawyer

25-Jun-2009

We promise, we’re trying hard not to be smug, but it’s hard.
A frosty reception

6-Jan-2010

It’s pretty frustrating being a lawyer sometimes.
A funny old game

9-Feb-2012

The country is reeling after the man with the second most important job in the land quit out of the blue, leaving everyone in agreement about his obvious successor.
A game of two halves for A&O

10-Nov-2011

t’s half-year figures time and Allen & Overy has come out of the blocks in stonking form, posting an 11 per cent rise in turnover (see story).
A g'day for RJW

30-Jan-2012

After several years of watching UK firms carve up the market Down Under, an Aussie firm has struck back.
A grand time had by all

29-Jun-2009

Slaughter and May is in the firing line again. Having been exposed to the harsh glare of the national media over its role in Barclays’ tax ‘reduction’ schemes, the elite firm is making headlines for raking in taxpayers’ money.
A helping hand for A&O

4-Feb-2011

It’s nice when they do something for the little guy isn’t it?
A Hendy man to know

4-Nov-2009

Think you’ve got a busy week? Chances are it’s nothing compared to Old Square Chambers silk John Hendy QC.
A litigation feast

11-Jan-2012

The New Year has brought with it a new look for The Lawyer, with a keen focus on the litigation markets and the cases dominating the courts.
A little lesson about a bag... ( or how to create sustainable and scalable profit)

14-Dec-2011

…Sometimes I just sit; sometimes I just sit and watch. A few days back I was able to observe a small moment in someone’s life. They were holding a bag of shopping, not a “bag-for-life” but the flimsiest of plastic carrier bags.
A load of Bunce

5-Mar-2010

“Beneficial owners” are celebrating this week after Simmons & Simmons’ Court of Appeal win in the Buncefield case yesterday (see story).
A long time ago, in a courtroom far, far away...

5-Jan-2011

The cast for the latest Star Wars epic is still being thrashed out, but with George Lucas already in place, was there ever any doubt that it would be a star-studded affair?
A mania for merger

15-Oct-2009

Perhaps it’s stock market optimism. Perhaps it’s the fruitful autumnal vibe. But you know things are looking up when absurd merger gossip starts making the rounds again.
A matter of privilege

14-Sep-2010

Today is not a great day to be an in-house lawyer.
A mountain to climb

17-Jun-2010

Numbers can be very persuasive but, as a wise owl once said, there are lies, there are damned lies and then there are statistics.
A new era for litigation?

9-Sep-2009

There are international litigation practices and then there are “international” litigation practices.
A new transatlantic firm born as SNR Denton goes live

30-Sep-2010

Denton Wilde Sapte and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal merged today, creating SNR Denton, the latest in a string of transatlantic firms to emerge since the recession.
A Passage to China

26-Sep-2011

You can’t take your eye off the Asian market for one day without another UK firm trying to muscle its way in.
A passage to India

18-Aug-2009

Firms have used secondments to develop relationships with their clients for a long time.
A passage to India

5-Oct-2009

It takes a little bit of imagination to picture Slaughter and May’s highly paid partners working alongside a legal outsourcing unit in India.
A Payton the back for Clydes' QC

29-Feb-2012

The annual QC appointments are in and congratulations to the 88 barristers extraordinaire who took silk (see story).
A place in the sun

17-Feb-2010

Once upon a time, a law firm was for life not just for Christmas. Now, it seems that all it takes to turn a partner’s head are some fluttering eyelashes and the flash of a shiny new office.
A pretty public penny

1-Jun-2010

Whitehall reverberated today with the low din of purring.
A question of class

21-Dec-2010

Would you Adam and Eve it? It turns out some of the top City firms discriminate against job applicants because of their accents (see story).
A question of costs

27-May-2009

In the offshore world a small litigation can have far reaching implications, as a decision made in the Jersey Court of Appeal last week shows.
A question of jurisdiction

30-Nov-2011

As thousands of public sector workers take to the streets in protest against widespread spending cuts the court yesterday gave its backing for equal pay claims to be heard in the High Court.
A question of success

20-Jan-2010

Last week we had Lord Justice Jackson’s review of civil just costs.
A Rose by any other name

7-May-2010

Some secrets are better kept than others… and SJ Berwin’s dogged pursuit of a transatlantic merger has been about as discreet as a Reeperbahn window display.
A sandwich short...

20-Sep-2010

The list of those who suffered from Halliwells’ collapse stretches far and wide.
A Signy of the times

18-Sep-2009

It looks like the private equity market could be nearing the end of its enforced period of inactivity, and who better to lead the march into the new era than one of the City’s most respected deal doers?
A star is reborn

19-Oct-2009

In recognition of Linklaters veteran Nick Eastwell’s departure from the firm after almost 30 years (see story), here are a few facts about the man you might not have known.
A sticky situation at ACS:Law

28-Sep-2010

Tens of millions of men across Britain must have suffered a few hairy moments this morning after reading the headlines about how internet-porn users’ details had found their way onto the internet.
A Supreme first year?

14-Jul-2010

The end of the legal year is fast approaching and with it the end of the first year of the Supreme Court.
A universalist approach

21-May-2012

As Rubin v Eurofinance gets underway in the Supreme Court, Nick Moser highlights why it could represent a milestone in the promotion of international trade
A Vested interest

27-Feb-2012

Not all is happy in the good ship DLA Piper. As we exclusively reveal today, Sir Nigel Knowles has taken a bit of a battering from his partners over his personal stake in ABS-in-waiting LawVest.
A view from the Bar: Pupillage and the Bar's need to adapt

20-Oct-2011

The legal profession is changing but some may say that the Bar hasn’t adapted to that change quickly enough.
A week in the life of Dewey & LeBoeuf

4-May-2012

Few stories in the legal world have moved as quickly and been covered as comprehensively as Dewey & LeBoeuf’s meltdown.
A year in the strife of Lehman Brothers

15-Sep-2009

A year to the day since Lehman Brothers collapsed, Linklaters partner Tony Bugg, who has played a pivotal role in the winding down of the fallen bank, recalls what happened when the instruction came in (see story).
A year to review

13-Jan-2010

This week The Lawyer unveiled its list of cases to watch in 2010 - and what a diverse bunch they are.
A&L Goodbody docks snow-bound secretaries' wages

3-Dec-2010

A&L Goodbody is encouraging its staff to leave early to combat worsening travel conditions, but those ‘on the clock’ must take the time out of their pay or annual leave.
A&L Goodbody names London chief as next managing partner

1-Oct-2009

A&L Goodbody corporate partner and London head Julian Yarr has emerged victorious from the firm’s contested managing partner elections.
A&L Goodbody promotes four and poaches one from local rival

2-Jun-2010

Irish firm A&L Goodbody has added five to its partnership, making up four lawyers in Dublin and hiring a partner in Belfast from rival Arthur Cox.
A&L Goodbody sends two partners to US for Palo Alto launch

22-Dec-2011

Irish firm A&L Goodbody is opening an office on the West Coast of the US, relocating two partners to Palo Alto.
A&L Goodbody turns to MOP for IP hire

15-Dec-2010

Irish firm A&L Goodbody has hired Mark Rasdale as a partner in its IP and technology team.
A&O abandons deferred bonus for associates

20-Nov-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) has abandoned its deferred bonus system following its annual survey of associates.
A&O adds £21m to war chest after cashflow drive

7-Sep-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) strengthened its cash position by £21m in the financial year 2010-11 thanks to a seven-day reduction in lockup, the gap between starting work for a client and being paid.
A&O and CC win key roles on Man Group's £1.1bn GLG buyout

19-May-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance joined a trio of US firms on Man Group’s $1.6bn (£1.1bn) acquisition of hedge fund GLG partners in a deal that has seen the creation of a combined entity with $63bn of assets under management.
A&O and Clifford Chance among firms on new SocGen panel

16-Dec-2011

Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance have both made the cut in French bank Société Générale’s 12-strong global panel.
A&O and Dewey advise on News Corp's Bulgarian disposal

22-Feb-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Dewey & LeBoeuf have claimed advisory roles on the sale of News Corporation’s (News Corp) Bulgarian terrestrial TV business.
A&O and Eversheds join Cameron's Russia delegation

12-Sep-2011

Allen & Overy senior partner David Morley and Eversheds managing partner Lee Ranson have joined Prime Minister David Cameron on his visit to Russia.
A&O and Freshfields lead as LSE agrees merger with Canadian exchange

9-Feb-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer took the UK side mandates on the merger of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the owner of its Toronto counterpart.
A&O and Herbies advise on Man Group's Citi outsourcing deal

5-Apr-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Herbert Smith have taken the mandates on a landmark outsourcing deal between Man Group and Citibank’s specialised outsourcing arm.
A&O and Herbies lead on major software merger

8-Feb-2012

Allen & Overy (A&O), Herbert Smith and Swiss firm Homburger have won lead roles on the proposed £2bn merger of Misys and Temenos, two major European banking software companies.
A&O and Herbies share £3m of public funding for Belfast launches

4-Feb-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Herbert Smith will together receive almost £3m of taxpayers’ money to help fund their operations in Northern Ireland.
A&O and Hogan Lovells lead as SABMiller goes hostile on Foster's

17-Aug-2011

Allen & Overy, Hogan Lovells and Australian firm Arthur Allens Robinson have been retained as advisers on SABMiller’s takeover bid for Foster’s, which went hostile today.
A&O and HogLov guide News Corp to success on BSkyB deal

3-Mar-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Hogan Lovells have helped Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation as its bid to take over satellite broadcaster BSkyB got the green light from the UK Government.
A&O and Latham tackle Man U bond

11-Jan-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Latham & Watkins are understood to have scored lead roles on Manchester United’s £500m bond issue.
A&O and Linklaters lead on landmark Indian energy deal

21-Feb-2011

Magic circle duo Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have taken the prize mandates on today’s “landmark” $7.2bn (£4.4bn) tie-up between BP and India’s Reliance Industries.
A&O and Links act on £3bn RBS project finance sell-off

12-Jan-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have advised on the sale of part of RBS’s £3bn project finance portfolio to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
A&O and SJ Berwin lead on $3.2bn General Electric deal

8-Apr-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and SJ Berwin have taken the leading mandates on the $3.2bn (£1.96bn) sale of engineering group Converteam to General Electric.
A&O and Slaughters lead as GE pays $2.8bn for Wood Group division

15-Feb-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Slaughter and May have taken the prize mandates advising the John Wood Group on the $2.8bn (£1.7bn) sale of its Well Support Division to General Electric (GE).
A&O and Sullivan bag key roles in Goldman fraud case

19-Apr-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Sullivan & Cromwell will play key roles when Goldman Sachs defends fraud allegations brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
A&O and Weil act on Thomson Reuters' acquisition of Complinet

6-Jul-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Weil Gotshal & Manges have scored plum roles on the sale of regulatory and compliance solutions provider Complinet to Thomson Reuters.
A&O associate takes on News International compliance role

20-Sep-2011

News International has created a senior compliance role with an Allen & Overy (A&O) lawyer filling the position on an interim basis.
A&O beats budget with rises in turnover and profits

6-Jul-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has posted a 7 per cent rise in revenue and an 8 per cent hike in net profit for the 2010-11 financial year.
A&O beefs up Frankfurt with hire of Norton Rose partner

8-Mar-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has taken a banking regulation partner and three associates from Norton Rose in Frankfurt.
A&O beefs up Sydney office with Mallesons hire

22-Jun-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) has boosted its fledgling Australia practice with the hire of a competition partner from local firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques.
A&O boosts Riyadh with hire from Saudi associate firm

4-Aug-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) has hired a partner from its Saudi associate firm for its office in Riyadh.
A&O boosts Singapore with Venture Law bolt-on

1-Jun-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) has expanded its Singapore offering by merging with local firm and former White & Case ally Venture Law.
A&O boss vows to limit job cuts as firm transfers support function to Belfast

2-Feb-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) managing partner Wim Dejonghe has pledged to limit the number of redundancies that are likely to come about as a result of the firm’s decision to transfer up to 180 support staff to Belfast.
A&O confirms up to 155 London layoffs ahead of Belfast launch

5-May-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has entered into redundancy talks with 155 London support staff ahead of the launch later this year of the firm’s support services centre in Belfast.
A&O corporate partner becomes Sheriff of London

25-Sep-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) corporate partner David Wootton has been elected as Sheriff of London.
A&O extends best friends tie-up with India's Trilegal

8-Feb-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and its Indian best friend firm Trilegal have extended their preferred referral arrangement indefinitely after having first entered into it for a limited three-year term.
A&O faces fresh claim from erotic-fiction-writing former associate

16-Jun-2011

A former Allen & Overy (A&O) associate who was sacked after refusing to stop publishing an online erotic novel is suing the firm for $35m in New York following a failed unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination claim in London.
A&O goes first

1-Jul-2010

And so June is behind us, bringing to a close the phoney war section of this summer’s biggest sporting contests.
A&O hires Bingham partner for New York ICM practice

3-Aug-2010

Allen & Overy’s (A&O) New York office has hired capital markets partner Ed De Sear as a partner in its international capital markets (ICM) group.
A&O hires capital markets lawyer from Linklaters Frankfurt

23-Jan-2012

Allen & Overy has expanded in Germany, taking a capital markets expert from Linklaters.
A&O hires co-head of Hogan Lovells' global employment group

21-Jan-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has bulked up its Frankfurt office with the hire of the co-head of Hogan Lovells’ global employment practice.
A&O hires Simmons partner for Qatar team

15-Aug-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has boosted its Middle East finance practice with the hire of Simmons & Simmons partner Samer Eido.
A&O hit with £3.4m claim from erotic-fiction-writing former associate

20-May-2010

Former Allen & Overy (A&O) Moscow-based senior associate Deidre Dare, who was sacked after she refused to stop publishing an online erotic novel, is claiming £3.4m in compensation over allegations of unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination.
A&O introduces partner flexi-time to improve female retention

21-Jan-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) is to allow equity partners to work part-time in a bid to retain more of its female workforce.
A&O launches in Australia

8-Feb-2010

Allen and Overy has raided Australian firm Clayton Utz to launch a practice in the jurisdiction for the first time, in a bid to strengthen its pan-Asian offering.
A&O launches in Qatar a week after taking on Australian market

15-Feb-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) has followed its move into the Australian market by opening an office in Qatar.
A&O launches in US capital with O'Melveny team

29-Jun-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) is to expand its US footprint with the launch of an office in Washington DC, following magic circle rivals Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer into the American capital.
A&O leads for Nationwide on Dunfermline takeover

30-Mar-2009

Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Overy, Dundas & Wilson and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won key roles in the rescue of Dunfermline Building Society, Scotland’s largest mutual.
A&O litigators seconded to News International on phone-hacking case

16-Sep-2011

A&O joins growing list of lawyers on Hackgate; Clifford Chance brought in to advise James Murdoch
A&O looks to usurp Linklaters in Singapore joint venture

3-Nov-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) is holding exploratory conversations with Linklaters’ Singapore joint venture partner as it looks to expand its reach in Asia and Australasia.
A&O loses German corporate heavyweight to Oppenhoff & Partner

21-Sep-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) star German corporate partner Rolf Koerfer has left the firm for partnership at Linklaters spin-off Oppenhoff & Partner.
A&O loses one partner and 20 lawyers to Italy's Bonelli

30-Nov-2010

Allen & Overy’s leading project finance lawyer in Italy is set to leave the firm to join Italian firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo.
A&O makes up 15 to role of counsel

29-May-2009

Allen & Overy has promoted 15 to the position of counsel, an alternative career path created by the firm in 2006.
A&O makes up 21 in global promotion round

4-Apr-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has made up 21 partners across 13 offices in its annual round of promotions, with the majority of new partners coming from outside London.
A&O names corporate chiefs as Cranfield steps into ambassadorial role

2-Feb-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) global co-head of corporate Richard Cranfield has stepped into the role of chairman of the practice, with London corporate chief Andrew Ballheimer taking his place in the firmwide role.
A&O names Shearman joiner as German managing partner

2-Jun-2010

Allen & Overy has named a relative newcomer to the firm as its next German managing partner, with the incumbent preparing to step down at the end of this year.
A&O opens in Jakarta after posting 10 per cent PEP rise in 2009-10

1-Jul-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) has posted 10 per cent growth in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the last financial year with turnover dropping 4 per cent over the same period.
A&O outsource of course

18-Nov-2009

It’s finally happened. A magic circle firm has taken the decision to outsource less complex litigation work offshore.
A&O partner joins Mumbai office of Indian alliance firm

18-Aug-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) partner Srinivas Parthasarathy is to leave the firm’s Singapore office to take up partnership at the Mumbai office of A&O’s Indian alliance firm Trilegal.
A&O partner resigns after arrest on child porn charges

15-Jul-2011

An Allen & Overy (A&O) New York partner has resigned from the firm after being arrested and charged with distributing child pornography.
A&O picks up Mayer Brown partner for Vietnam launch

24-May-2012

Allen & Overy (A&O) is set to launch two offices in Vietnam after hiring Mayer Brown JSM’s managing partner in the country.
A&O posts 11 per cent revenue hike at half-way point

10-Nov-2011

Allen & Overy’s (A&O) turnover is up 11 per cent at the half-year stage, with the firm raking in £582m compared with £526m at the mid-way point of 2010-11.
A&O promotions: more women, more in banking

1-May-2009

Allen & Overy has made 20 promotions to the partnership this year, forty per cent of whom are women.
A&O raiding down under

22-Jun-2010

A&O caused quite a stir when they opened in Australia earlier this year with a raid on Clayton Utz (see story).
A&O raids Clifford Chance for Paris M&A team

7-Jan-2010

Allen & Overy has boosted its Paris M&A practice with the hire of a partner and five senior associates from Clifford Chance.
A&O redundancy programme ends with 400 layoffs

29-Apr-2009

Allen & Overy has completed a redundancy programme which has seen at least 400 partners and staff lose their jobs globally and cost the firm £44m.
A&O refreezes associate salaries after tricky trading year

11-May-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) is freezing associate salary bands following a sluggish financial year.
A&O rehires Dubai partner after spell at Abraaj

20-Mar-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) Dubai-based alumnus Pervez Akhtar has returned to the magic circle firm after defecting to private equity house Abraaj Capital last year.
A&O sends London partner to bulk up NY infrastructure group

15-Oct-2010

Allen & Overy is to relocate London infrastructure partner Andrew Fraiser to its New York practice.
A&O sets up shop in Deacons' old home

9-Feb-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) is to move into Deacons’ former offices in Sydney following its decision to launch in Australia.
A&O signs outsourcing deal with LPO provider Integreon

18-Nov-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the first magic circle firm to outsource legal work as an increasing number of UK firms embrace legal process outsourcing (LPO) in a bid to reduce their overheads.
A&O signs up to Nick Clegg's 'business compact'

5-Apr-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the first law firm to sign up to the Government’s ’business compact’ on social mobility.
A&O snares Herbies' capital markets head in two-partner raid

4-Oct-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) is set to hire two capital markets partners from Herbert Smith, marking the magic-circle firm’s second raid on the litigation giant this year.
A&O snares Herbies' newly promoted European litigation chief

27-May-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has raided Herbert Smith’s Paris office for a three-partner litigation team headed by French dispute resolution chief Denis Chemla.
A&O spin-off boosts partnership with double lateral hire

28-May-2010

Allen & Overy spin-off Maurice Turnor Gardner (MTG) has hired two pensions partners.
A&O star US partner Cunningham quits for Quinn

19-Mar-2009

Allen & Overy New York senior partner Dan Cunningham (pictured) has defected to US litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges.
A&O takes lead role as DTZ seeks buyer

27-Oct-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) is advising property services group DTZ as the company puts itself on the market following a failed takeover bid.
A&O to ditch compulsory retirement at 60

10-Feb-2012

Allen & Overy is set to abolish rules that force partners to retire at 60.
A&O to launch Casablanca office with three Gide partners

20-Jul-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) is set to become the first magic circle firm to open an office in Africa, with a Casablanca launch scheduled for September.
A&O to sub let Canary Wharf base as banking team moves to City

23-Aug-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) is relocating 200 staff from its Canary Wharf offices to its headquarters in the City in a cost-cutting move.
A&O tops up Washington DC practice with O'Melveny partner

19-Oct-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has once again turned to O’Melveny & Myers as it expands its Washington DC practice.
A&O turnover down 7 per cent at half-year stage

6-Nov-2009

Allen & Overy’s (A&O) global revenues are down seven per cent year-on-year for the first half of 2009-10, with turnover standing at £511m.
A&O turns to Allens Arthur for Aussie partner hire

6-Jul-2010

Allen & Overy has hired an energy partner for its Australian operation, the 19th partner for its fledgling offices in Perth and Sydney.
A&O turns to Freehills for Aussie banking hire

11-Feb-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) is continuing to expand its Australian presence with the hire of a banking partner from local firm Freehills.
A&O usurps Freshfields on reduced National Grid panel

28-Jan-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has replaced Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as one of two corporate advisers to National Grid after the utility giant reduced its roster of legal advisers by a quarter following a panel review.
A&O welcomes 18 new partners in latest promotions round

31-Mar-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) has made up 18 lawyers to its partnership across 13 countries, with the vast majority joining from non-UK offices.
A&O, CC and Freshfields win roles on £2bn private equity deal

11-Dec-2009

Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have bagged leading roles on one of Europe’s biggest private equity deals since the Lehman bankruptcy in September 2008.
A&O, CC postpone promos due to partner culls

7-Apr-2009

Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy (A&O) have postponed their annual partnership promotions due to their global restructurings.
A&O, CC, Freshfields hold steady - for now

9-Dec-2011

Magic circle law firms tend to travel in packs.
A&O, Cleary and Herbies lead on Bank of Ireland fundraising

26-Apr-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Herbert Smith led a clutch of firms advising on Bank of Ireland’s (BoI) €3.4bn (£2.9bn) integrated debt and equity capital raising.
A&O, Clifford Chance, Freshfields: We're not cutting our partnerships

9-Dec-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have vowed not to carry out a partnership cull in response to the latest downturn, as it emerges that Linklaters is set to cull over 30 partners globally as part of its biggest restructuring in three years
A&O, Freshfields and Links advise on duo of French deals

5-Apr-2011

A trio of magic circle firms have won roles on the multi-billion euro acquisitions of stakes in French companies Rhodia and SFR.
A&O, Freshfields and Uría act on Qatar Holding's €2.1bn Iberdrola acquisition

16-Mar-2011

Magic circle pair Allen & Overy (A&O) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have been joined by Spanish giant Uría Menéndez to guide Qatar Holding’s purchase of a €2.1bn stake in Iberdrola.
A&O, Herbert Smith and Weil act on CoL sale

26-Jan-2012

Allen & Overy (A&O), Herbert Smith and Weil Gotshal & Manges have landed roles on the potential sale of The College of Law (CoL).
A&O, Herbies and Skadden lead as News Corp's BSkyB bid flounders

11-Jul-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O), Herbert Smith and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have all held on to leading advisory roles as News Corp’s bid for BSkyB heats up.
A&O, Linklaters lead on €12bn Schaeffler debt restructuring

20-Aug-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have played key roles in the restructuring of German company Schaeffler’s debt, paving the way for the ball-bearing maker to merge with auto-parts manufacturer Continental.
A&O, Links advise BAE on SFO's bribery investigation

1-Oct-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters are advising BAE Systems on its response to a Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations of bribery.
A&O, Links advise on Sainsbury's capital raising

17-Jun-2009

Two magic circle firms have secured lead roles on Sainsbury’s £445m capital raising.
A&O: 'We were not acting for Gordon Brown'

12-Jul-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has issued a denial that it has ever worked for Gordon Brown or held personal files containing information on the former Prime Minister, following the latest development in the phone hacking saga.
A&O’s PEP pips a million as currency exchange boosts revenues to a billion

10-Jul-2009

Weak sterling has helped generate a seven per cent increase in global turnover at Allen & Overy (A&O), which brought in £1.091bn for the 2008-09 financial year.
A&O's American dream

29-Jun-2011

Just when we were starting to think that UK firms’ US ambitions were so three years ago, A&O proves the UK-US love affair is alive and well.
A&O's Bamber to join BLP in acquisition finance push

26-Jun-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner has hired Allen & Overy leveraged finance partner Andrew Bamber into its banking and capital markets department.
A&O's global gain

9-Sep-2010

“The next 80 years.” Four score might strike you as an odd amount of time to choose for a law firm to be projecting forward, but then they do have their quirks, bless ’em.
A&O's Italian employment team jumps ship to LabLaw

21-Sep-2009

Italian employment law boutique LabLaw has hired the entire employment team from Allen & Overy’s Milan office.
A&O's Mansell instructed by News Group in Mulcaire fees fight

2-Dec-2011

Allen & Overy partner Mark Mansell is to represent News Group Newspapers in its battle over legal fees with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
A&O's Morley set for two-month stint in Asia and Middle East

14-Jul-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) senior partner David Morley is to spend two months touring the firm’s Asia and Middle East offices, starting in Singapore.
A&O's Paris corporate chief breaks away to establish boutique

6-Jan-2011

Allen & Overy’s Paris corporate head has quit the firm to set up a boutique practice dedicated to M&A and tax work.
A&O's senior moment

14-Jul-2011

Firms that grapple with the distinction between senior and managing partner roles should look to Allen & Overy for the definitive answer.
A&O's top-earning partner pocketed £2.3m last year

8-Sep-2009

Allen & Overy’s highest-earning partner in the last financial year was paid a total of £2.3m, according to the firm’s Annual Review 2009.
A&O's turnover up 3 per cent at half-year stage

8-Nov-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O) has seen turnover rise three per cent in the first half of the current financial year, bringing in £526m.
A&O's waste of space

5-Jan-2012

What price togetherness? For Allen & Overy, a cool £25m.
A&Over there

3-Feb-2011

You have to wonder what the good people of Belfast make of the sudden influx of legal professionals to their great capital.
Abby Ewen: Simmons & Simmons

8-Oct-2010

What’s the most boring thing you’ve been asked to do in your job? In a previous firm I had to search through pages and pages of website activity in an attempt to spot anything ‘inappropriate’. I didn’t.
Able & Wired

8-Apr-2009

One of the most popular litigation double acts act will be back in court at the end of the month. Slaughter & May has instructed One Essex Court’s Lord Grabiner QC to defend a $100m claim against its client Cable & Wireless (C&W).
Abramovich enlists ex-Herbies chief Gold to review witness statements

1-Nov-2011

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has drafted in former Herbert Smith senior partner David Gold to review witness statements associated with his legal battle with Boris Berezovksy.
Abramovich to answer Berezovsky coercion claims in court

31-Mar-2010

Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich must answer allegations that he used coercive tactics to force former business partner Boris Berezovsky to sell his assets at an undervalued market price, the High Court ruled today.
Absolute Radio legal head to join Perform Group

7-May-2012

Absolute Radio’s head of legal is set to leave the company for digital rights company Perform Group.
ABSs won’t launch in October as parliament not ready

26-Jul-2011

The implementation of the Legal Services Act will be delayed because the primary legislation needed to enact it has not been debated in parliament.
Abu Qatada and the law of time

19-Apr-2012

Head of Legal’s Carl Gardner examines the Abu Qatada deportation case and whether Home Secretary Theresa May was right to say his appeal is out of time
Access Denied: Infiltrating the bar

24-Oct-2011

Last year, I was mostly angry. Not the sort of American-take-a-sniper-rifle-to-the-clock-tower angry; I get the impression that you can only pull that one off once in a lifetime. No, this was like a creeping itch of rage, manifesting itself in a cynical outlook and a hefty dose of class-envy.
Access to Justice Foundation takes on first-ever CEO

13-Feb-2012

The Access to Justice Foundation has appointed its first chief executive officer (CEO) as the organisation looks to raise the profile of the pro-bono sector.
Accident phone

4-Dec-2009

“Want to book a restaurant? There’s an app for that. Want to see a show? There’s an app for that too…”
Acculaw: Worth your while?

26-Sep-2011

The more I think about it, the more the Acculaw training model reminds me of a cut-price suit. It looks great at first glance, but you start having doubts on closer inspection.
Acquisitive Shakespeares hires Guildhall Chambers' CEO to drive further growth

13-Mar-2012

Midlands firm Shakespeares has appointed Guildhall Chambers chief executive Hamish Munro as commercial director as it pushes to hit turnover of £50m by the 2012-13 year-end.
ACS:Law drops file-sharing cases amid death threat claims

25-Jan-2011

ACS:Law has dropped its litigation against 27 individuals accused of illegally sharing adult films over the internet.
ACS:Law faces investigation over porn-users list

28-Sep-2010

London-based firm ACS:Law is to be scrutinised by the Information Commissioner’s Office over allegations it breached the Data Protection Act.
ACS:Law file-sharing claims dropped as firm closes doors for business

8-Feb-2011

The long-running attempt by ACS:Law to sue individuals accused of illegally sharing adult movies online has ended after the firm ceased trading.
ACS:Law file-sharing claims finally settle as SRA moves on firm chief

15-Jul-2011

The saga of claims brought by ACS:Law against individuals accused of file-sharing has come to a conclusion with all outstanding claims settling.
Act of disunion

11-Oct-2011

The merger talks between Scottish-headquartered Dundas & Wilson and wee Bircham Dyson Bell have come to a conclusion, just two short weeks after both parties came clean about their mutual interest.
Actuarial Profession hires Kingsley Napley partner as general counsel

29-Nov-2011

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (the Actuarial Profession) has named Ben Kemp as its general counsel.
Addleshaw Goddard plays host to Halliwells mediation

23-Apr-2012

Addleshaw Goddard will host the mediation between 32 ex-Halliwells partners and the firm’s liquidators, BDO partners Dermot Power and Shay Bannon, today.
Addleshaw Goddard promotes six to its partnership

27-Mar-2012

Addleshaw Goddard has made up six new partners in its annual round of promotions.
Addleshaw Goddard to launch in Singapore after six-month hiatus

4-Apr-2012

Addleshaw Goddard is preparing to open its long-awaited Singapore office, with a London partner set to relocate to lead the launch.
Addleshaws appoints four partners to unitary board

22-Jun-2011

Addleshaw Goddard has appointed four partners to its new unitary board as the firm looks to pick itself up after a “disappointing” financial performance.
Addleshaws bolsters litigation with double Winston & Strawn hire

19-Aug-2009

Addleshaw Goddard has hired a litigation partner duo from US firm Winston & Strawn.
Addleshaws bulks up City banking team former DLA partner

7-Sep-2010

Addleshaw Goddard has continued to hire into its London banking practice with the recent addition of a former DLA Piper partner.
Addleshaws chooses litigator Burch to fill senior partner role

31-Mar-2010

Addleshaw Goddard litigation partner Monica Burch has won the partnership’s backing to succeed senior partner Paul Lee following a contested election.
Addleshaws continues to build litigation with Lloyds hire

23-Apr-2012

Addleshaw Goddard has continued it litigation hiring spree with the appointment of Chris Brennan, until now head of regulatory in Lloyds Banking Group’s legal team.
Addleshaws' former litigation chief to leave at end of month

8-Oct-2010

Addleshaw Goddard’s former litigation chief Simon Twigden is set to leave the firm at the end of the month, taking partners Pietro Marino and Michael Green with him.
Addleshaws H1 figures down as 'no-win no-fee' strategy takes its toll

10-Dec-2010

Addleshaw Goddard has seen revenues drop for the first six months of 2010, with the firm attributing the dip in part to its decision to pursue cases on a “no win no fee” basis.
Addleshaws hands second term to managing partner Devitt

12-Jan-2012

Addleshaw Goddard managing partner Paul Devitt will serve another term in the post following an uncontested election.
Addleshaws joins Links and Slaughters on BA's first post-Iberia panel

27-Apr-2012

British Airways’ (BA) first panel review since its merger with Spanish counterpart Iberia has been finalised, with Linklaters and Slaughter and May among the seven firms to land roles.
Addleshaws joins social enterprise movement with new team

16-Nov-2011

Addleshaw Goddard has launched a dedicated social enterprise team to support the growing momentum for public service reform.
Addleshaws litigation chief quits to set up boutique

23-Apr-2010

Addleshaw Goddard’s head of litigation Simon Twigden is to leave the firm along with another litigation partner to set up a boutique.
Addleshaws loves litigation

3-Jun-2010

Addleshaw Goddard has posted its results for the last financial year and it’s a mixed performance (see story).
Addleshaws names new litigation head as Ablyazov lawyer steps down

15-May-2012

Addleshaw Goddard litigation head Richard Leedham, who is the lead advisor on the multi-billion pound Ablyazov case, will step down from his management role next month.
Addleshaws names new professional practices head as Linsell retires

10-Jan-2011

Addleshaw Goddard partner William Wastie is taking over as head of the firm’s professional practices group, replacing group founder Richard Linsell.
Addleshaws pilot shows that privilege is 'not prerequisite' for legal career

17-Aug-2011

Addleshaw Goddard has successfully piloted its first legal work experience for 16 and 17 year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Addleshaws pledges excitement, and lots of it

7-Feb-2011

Today we take our Homburgs off to Addleshaw Goddard for acknowledging what many have known for a very long time: that perhaps not all legal work is pant-wettingly exciting.
Addleshaws promotes five in latest partnership round

22-Mar-2010

Addleshaw Goddard has promoted five lawyers to partner, shrinking its round for the second year running.
Addleshaws recruits Chadbourne's Pring in litigation push

12-Jan-2012

Addleshaw Goddard has raided US firm Chadbourne & Parke for insurance disputes partner Mark Pring.
Addleshaws replaces chairman title with senior partner

9-Dec-2010

Addleshaw Goddard partner Monica Burch has ditched the chairman title for that of senior partner because she felt the previous designation confused people.
Addleshaws seals victory for Standard Life in £100m insurance dispute

2-Feb-2012

Addleshaw Goddard has won a £100m High Court dispute for Standard Life in a professional indemnity insurance dispute with its insurers Ace European Group.
Addleshaws sees half-year turnover rise 11 per cent

17-Nov-2011

Addleshaw Goddard has posted revenue of £86.6m for the half year period – 11 per cent up on the same period in 2010-11.
Addleshaws sees turnover drop as PEP edges up

3-Jun-2010

Addleshaw Goddard has reported a single figure drop in turnover and a slight increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009-10 financial year.
Addleshaws' Singapore plans stall as launch partner defects to BLP

27-Sep-2011

Addleshaw Goddard has lost the litigation partner who was preparing to launch its Singapore office to Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP).
Addleshaws strengthens litigation with first partner hire in two years

25-Nov-2011

Addleshaw Goddard has made its first partner hire in litigation since 2009, with a lawyer from Consensus Business Group.
Addleshaws to cut 40 jobs after 17 per cent profit drop

24-May-2011

Addleshaw Goddard has begun a redundancy consultation among its support staff at the end of a financial year that saw net profit drop by 17 per cent.
Addleshaws to reinstate non-partner bonuses at year end

11-Mar-2010

Associates and support staff at Addleshaw Goddard have been told that they will be paid a bonus this year after an effective freeze on non-partner bonuses last year.
Addleshaws to seek new senior partner as Lee steps down

8-Dec-2009

Addleshaw Goddard senior partner Paul Lee has announced that he will stand down when his term comes to an end next April.
Addleshaws trainee quits firm after becoming Labour MP

10-May-2010

An Addleshaw Goddard trainee has left the firm after winning a seat for Labour at the general election.
Addleshaws wins key mandate on West Brom deal

12-Jun-2009

Addleshaw Goddard has advised the West Bromwich Building Society in a deal with its bond holders designed to bolster its financial position.
Addleshaws wins right to protect Ablyazov whereabouts

17-May-2012

Addleshaw Goddard will not be forced to disclose the whereabouts of its client Mukhtar Ablyazov, the Kazakh billionaire accused of embezzling funds worth billions of dollars out of the Kazakh-nationalised JSC BTA Bank.
Addleshaws, DLA and Linklaters advise on Homeform administration

8-Jul-2011

Addleshaw Goddard, DLA Piper and Linklaters have taken key roles advising on the sale and restructure of kitchen, bedroom and bathroom chain Homeform Group, which traded under the Moben Kitchens, Dolphin Bathrooms, Sharps Bedrooms and Kitchens Direct brands.
Addleshaws, Freshfields and HogLov among top 50 employers for women

13-Apr-2011

Addleshaw Goddard, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Hogan Lovells are the only law firms to feature on The Times’ Top 50 Employers for Women list.
Addleshaws, Hammonds score as Blackburn sold to Venky's

19-Nov-2010

Addleshaw Goddard and Hammonds have advised on the £23m sale of Premiership football club Blackburn Rovers to Indian poultry and pharmaceuticals company Venky’s.
Addleshaws, Latham advise on listing of litigation funder Burford

16-Oct-2009

Latham & Watkins partner Nigel Campion-Smith has advised commercial litigation investor Burford Capital on its listing on the Aim.
Addleshaws’ Russian roulette

8-Nov-2010

Time was that ’no win, no fee’ was the exclusive preserve of those firms whose adverts formed the punctuation marks between Countdown and Fifteen To One during soporific student lunchtimes.
Admiral moots ABS move in wake of referral fee ban

13-Dec-2011

FTSE100 insurer Admiral is considering a move into the legal sector following the ban on personal injury referral fees by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) earlier this year.
Advent installs Weil Gotshal's Boston head as chief legal officer

19-Sep-2011

Private equity house Advent International has hired Weil Gotshal & Manges private equity co-head James Westra as managing director and chief legal officer.
After Setanta - Sky's the limit

18-Jun-2009

Given the regulator’s reluctance to split up Sky, will the government realise that competition law is not fit for purpose, if the purpose is changingSky’s behaviour to make life easier for its rivals?
AG to launch contempt case against Mail and Mirror over Milly Dowler murder coverage

22-Nov-2011

The Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC is launching a High Court action against the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror over coverage of the conviction of Milly Dowler’s killer Levi Bellfield.
Age concern

7-Jul-2010

Firms across the country might think any issues relating to partner retirement age have been ironed out, but one case going through the courts could change all that.
Agog on the Tyne

6-May-2011

The town’s favourite daughter might have flown the coop recently, but any Geordies regretting the loss of Cheryl Cole-Tweedy from these shores can delight in the arrival in Newcastle of DWF.
Akin Gump and Bakers act on Chinese company's stake in Argentinian oil giant

22-Mar-2010

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Baker & McKenzie bagged leading roles in the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp’s (CNOOC) $3.1bn (£2.1bn) investment in Argentinian oil producer Bridas.
Akin Gump and Cleary advise on £14bn VimpelCom acquisition

4-Oct-2010

US duo Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have landed the prize mandates on a deal to create a $21.5bn (£13.58bn) mobile phone group.
Akin Gump appoints CMS Russia real estate head

16-Nov-2011

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired CMS Russia’s head of real estate Vlad Sourkov in a bid to build a local real estate practice.
Akin Gump bolsters City funds team with double Simmons hire

1-Feb-2012

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its London funds group and English law capabilities with the hire of two financial services partners from Simmons & Simmons.
Akin Gump bulks up in LA with six-partner Chadbourne team

18-May-2011

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has powered up its project finance and renewable energy practice in Los Angeles with the hire of six partners, five counsel and five associates from Chadbourne & Parke.
Akin Gump Geneva lawyer defects to Holman Fenwick

30-Sep-2011

An Akin Gump Geneva lawyer who joined the US firm from legacy Hogan & Hartson last April has quit for Holman Fenwick & Willan (HFW).
Akin Gump hires Chiomenti lawyer for Abu Dhabi office

3-Jun-2010

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has strengthened its corporate practice with a partner hire in Abu Dhabi.
Akin Gump launches in Hong Kong with Shearman, Norton Rose hires

20-Feb-2012

Akin Gump has opened an office in Hong Kong with newly recruited partners Gregory Puff and Andrew Abernethy, joining from Shearman & Sterling and Norton Rose respectively.
Akin Gump posts PEP of $1.6m on back of small revenue rise

2-Feb-2011

Texas-headquarterd Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has posted a 2.5 per cent increase in total revenue for the 2010 financial year coupled with a significant hike in profit.
Akin Gump posts rises in turnover and PEP

16-Feb-2012

Texas-headquartered Akin Gump has posted a 4.5 per cent increase in gross revenue along with a 4.3 per cent rise in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2011 financial year.
Akin Gump promotes seven to partner, one in London

5-Jan-2012

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted seven lawyers to its global partnership with one in London.
Akin Gump raids Hogan Lovells for Moscow partner

5-Aug-2010

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired a corporate partner from Hogan Lovells in Moscow.
Akin Gump taps A&O for Moscow partner hire

10-May-2011

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its Moscow-based international transactions practice with the addition of Allen & Overy partner Varun Gupta.
Akin, Skadden and White & Case advise on £5,3bn MegaFon deal

25-Apr-2012

Akin Gump, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and White & Case have all landed roles on the $8.5bn (£5.3bn) shareholder restructuring of Russia’s second largest mobile phone operator OAO MegaFon.
Akin-Orrick merger talks collapse

4-Oct-2010

Talks between US firms Akin Gump Hauer & Feld and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe have broken down just five days after the pair announced they were discussing a possible merger.
Al Tamimi launches in Kuwait

10-Nov-2009

Al Tamimi & Company has launched in Kuwait after hiring former DLA Piper Kuwait head Alex Saleh.
Al Tamimi to expand footprint with Libya launch

22-Dec-2011

Gulf-based firm Al Tamimi & Company is poised to launch an office in Libya.
Alan Hanson:Ashurst

14-Feb-2011

What time do you start work each day? As soon as I’ve finished my first cup of coffee.
Albania in CMS' sights after nine-lawyer Eversheds raid

19-Apr-2011

CMS’ international network has expanded into Albania after its Italian outlet, CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni, snared a nine-lawyer team from Eversheds Bianchini.
Alcoa appoints Fried Frank partner as chief legal officer

13-Apr-2012

US aluminium group Alcoa has appointed Audrey Strauss as its new chief legal officer, succeeding retiring incumbent Kurt Waldo.
Alex Payne, Nabarro

30-Sep-2011

The most unusual Christmas present I’ve received from a colleague was a kitsch dolphin snow globe from Lanzarote.
Ali Malek QC appointed head of 3VB as set raises pupillage award to £60,000

15-Oct-2009

Gray’s Inn set 3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) has appointed Ali Malek QC as its new head of chambers.
Alix Newbold: Norton Rose

8-Jul-2011

What time do you start work each day? I’m at my most productive in the mornings so I aim to get in before 8am. Sometimes it’s just too hard to get out of bed though.
All aboard the roundabout

13-Jul-2009

There’s nothing quite like a downturn for shaking things up a bit.
All because Kraft loves...

19-Jan-2010

So after we gave you yesterday’s Blue Monday pick-me-up list, more good news follows - depending on your point of view - with today’s announcement that the Deal of the Decade (so far) may have finally got away.
All change at Dechert

4-Jun-2010

Is Dechert copying Baker & McKenzie? The short answer is “no”, though it’s tempting to think so.
All change with Jackson - and Eversheds

14-Jan-2010

The litigation world is a-buzz after Lord Justice Jackson today published his 500-page report into civil litigation costs (see story) - and already the backlash has begun.
All eyes on in-house

2-Apr-2012

It’s time for firms to step up their retention policies. A survey by The Lawyer, published today, reveals that more than 65 per cent of private-practice solicitors would consider moving in-house - a stat that points to a dramatic rise in the popularity of working for the client rather than the firm.
All go at Addleshaws

24-May-2011

Just one day after we brought you news of a regional revolt at Addleshaw Goddard, yet more news has emanated from the firm.
All go, for Collyer Bristow

30-Mar-2012

’There’s no such thing as bad publicity’ might be the mantra inside Collyer Bristow towers this morning after another busy week at the firm.
All shook up

31-Aug-2011

Since the 1977 death of rock and roll legend Elvis Presley there have been persistent rumours of his continued existence. While most would dismiss these as mere wishful thinking by fans, one thing is certain - Elvis’s legacy lives on.
All tomorrow's partners

26-Apr-2010

Spread across five pages in today’s copy of The Lawyer you’ll find more than 30 examples of who we think are some of the most promising legal practitioners in the market
Allen & Allen all Overy Singapore

4-Nov-2011

Allen & Gledhill must be feeling pretty good about itself right now - the Singapore firm has two magic circle players vying for its affections.
Allen & Out of here

23-Aug-2010

As any estate agent or aspiring couch potato will tell you, there are three things that are important when choosing your dream pied-a-terre: location, location, and where the damn thing is.
Allen & Overy and Allen & Gledhill call time on tie-up talks

26-Mar-2012

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Singapore’s Allen & Gledhill have called off tie-up talks after failing to agree terms.
Allen & Overy and Allen & Gledhill eschew full merger in favour of alliance

1-Mar-2012

The combination between Allen & Overy (A&O) and Singaporean firm Allen & Gledhill is likely to take the form of a Formal Law Alliance (FLA) - the loosest kind of association possible - rather than a full merger.
Allen & Overy and Freshfields lead as Virgin Money buys Northern Rock

17-Nov-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer both had key roles advising on Virgin Money’s acquisition of nationalised bank Northern Rock, with the deal officially unveiled this morning.
Allen & Overy and Linklaters lead on Baosteel dim sum bond

13-Dec-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O), Linklaters, Jingtian & Gongcheng and Fangda Partners have acted in Shanghai-based state-owned steel manufacturer Baosteel Group’s recent issuance of RMB3.6bn (£363m) offshore renminbi bonds in Hong Kong.
Allen & Overy bolsters Hong Kong practice with local partner hire

19-Sep-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has secured the services of Hutchison Whampoa’s deputy head group general counsel Bernardine Lam, who will join the firm’s Hong Kong corporate practice as a partner early next year.
Allen & Overy cultivates its garden

28-Nov-2011

An equity partnership is like a shrub. Both need a bit of a tidy every now and then to clear out the dead wood, improve health and prevent falling branches.
Allen & Overy launches Aussie disputes group with hire of ex-Mallesons partner

21-Nov-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has expanded its Australian practice to cover litigation and regulatory investigations with the appointment of Australian litigation lawyer John Samaha to the partnership.
Allen & Overy leads on SAP's £2.2bn SuccessFactors takeover

6-Dec-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Californian firm Fenwick & West won key roles alongside a raft of firms in the US and Europe on software maker SAP’s $3.4bn (£2.2bn) acquisition of cloud-based human resources provider SuccessFactors.
Allen & Overy partner Alan Paul set to leave firm

28-Nov-2011

One of Allen & Overy’s (A&O) most senior corporate partners is set to leave the firm at the end of the 2011-12 financial year.
Allen & Overy reappoints senior and managing partners

13-Jan-2012

Allen & Overy’s (A&O) senior and managing partners will each serve another term in their respective roles following uncontested elections.
Allen & Overy rebuilds in Germany with Linklaters hire

2-May-2012

Allen & Overy (A&O) has hired Linklaters’ Germany IP head, boosting its depleted team following a raid by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
Allen & Overy seals two deals for Kingdom of Morocco

22-Dec-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O) has landed roles acting for the Kingdom of Morocco on two multi-billion dollar deals since launching its office in Casablanca in September.
Allen & Overy welcomes 23 to its partnership, six in London

30-Mar-2012

Allen & Overy has announced the largest round of 2012 promotions by any City firm so far, with 23 joining the partnership on 1 May.
Allen & Overy, Cleary and White & Case lead on £110bn Greek bailout

22-Feb-2012

Allen & Overy (A&O), Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and White & Case all took roles advising on Greece’s £110bn bailout.
Allen & Overy, Skadden and White & Case advise on $10bn Barzan financing

6-Jan-2012

A trio of firms closed 2011 with the successful completion of Qatar’s largest-ever single financing project, the $10.3bn (£6.7bn) Barzan Gas Project.
Allen & Overy's Canary Wharf exit cost firm £25m

5-Jan-2012

Allen & Overy (A&O) incurred one-off costs of £29m in 2010-11, with the decision to abandon its Canary Wharf satellite office accounting for the bulk of the figure.
Allen and Goetz to launch UK base for Boston's Ropes & Gray

22-Oct-2009

Ropes & Gray has hired finance partners Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz to spearhead its London office launch.
Allen wrenched

2-Mar-2012

When news broke last November that Allen & Overy (A&O) was holding exploratory talks with Singapore firm Allen & Gledhill eyebrows were raised at A&O’s perceived brazenness.
Allens Arthur Robinson signs alliance with top Japanese firm

30-Sep-2010

Australian firm Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR) and Japanese firm Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu have entered in to an alliance to serve Japanese clients’ across Asia and Australia.
Allens' Thai affiliate opens base in Laos

13-Oct-2011

Allen Arthur Robinson’s Bangkok alliance firm Siam Premier has opened a branch in Laos with the aim of capitalising on growing levels of foreign investment in the country.
All's well that Eastwells

18-Oct-2010

It can be hard for some people to work out what to do with themselves when they quit private practice.
All's well that Halliwells

21-Jul-2010

After weeks of negotiations, three firms will carve up the bulk of failed firm Halliwells (see story).
Alstom Transport to appeal latest Eurostar procurement ruling

30-Jan-2012

Alstom Transport has been given permission to appeal a ruling that handed victory to Eurostar in a case regarding the latter’s decision to order Channel Tunnel trains from Germany company Siemens.
Altered realty

19-Apr-2012

A rather turgid High Court case about a former Halliwells partner was livened up yesterday by an off-the-cuff comment from a lawyer for the LLP’s liquidators (see story).
Altogether now

7-Oct-2009

The global downturn will sort the men from the boys when it comes to litigation. Domestic litigation has failed to reach epidemic proportions, but firms with strong international practices are picking up a plethora of instructions that will keep them in good health for several years to come.
Alyn Williams at The Westbury

1-Mar-2012

As a part-time Freshfields paralegal and 100/200m sprint Olympic hopeful, I am in the throes of a hectic training schedule with less than six months until the starting gun fires on London 2012.
Amanda Noble-Simmons: Hassans International Law Firm

2-Sep-2011

What time do you start work each day? 8.30am
Amarchand breaks the mould with two Mumbai lateral hires

12-May-2009

Top Indian firm Amarchand & Mangladas & Suresh A Shroff & Co has taken the highly unusual step of making two lateral hires - just a few months after it shook up its lockstep and internal governance.
Amarchand opens equity and anoints practice heads to kick off five-year plan

17-Oct-2011

Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted five partners into its lockstep equity pool and created 11 practice heads as part of a five-year plan to grow to 1,000-lawyers and 100 partners by 2017.
AMEC names acting general counsel after incumbent's departure

16-Mar-2012

FTSE100 engineering, project management and consultancy company AMEC has installed strategic development director François-Philippe Champagne as acting general counsel following the incumbent’s departure less than a year into the role.
America's Foley Hoag launches in Paris with team from Winston

1-Jul-2011

Boston firm Foley Hoag has opened its first overseas office with the hire of Winston & Strawn duo Bruno Leurent and Thomas Bevilacqua in Paris.
America's Littler Mendelson seals Chinese alliance

15-Feb-2011

US employment boutique Littler Mendelson has formed a strategic alliance with Chinese firm TransAsia Lawyers, a move designed to expand the firm’s reach outside of the Americas for the first time.
An Addleshaw thing

19-Aug-2009

Earlier this summer The Lawyer reported that Addleshaw Goddard had shrunk its partnership by 19 since January this year.
An African adventure

10-Oct-2011

I write this, my first piece for The Lawyer, amidst a scene of carnage. Not in the legal landscape – though recent weeks have seen some big stories, and the future promises similar excitement – but in my house.
An Akzo Nobel cause?

15-Sep-2010

The European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) decision to refuse in house counsel legal privilege in cartel cases has been met with disapproval by the British legal community.
An expensive habit

17-May-2011

If possession really were nine tenths of the law, then former Hogan Lovells litigator Christopher Grierson would only be faced with paying back £100,000 to his erstwhile partners.
And the survey said...

21-Sep-2009

Delving into the shadowy world of legal bills, you are likely to encounter behaviour usually found in a John Grisham novel.
Anderson Strathern prepares to re-enter top 100 with Bell & Scott takeover

1-Jul-2011

Edinburgh-headquartered Anderson Strathern has taken over fellow Scottish property player Bell & Scott, giving it a sporting chance of re-entering the UK 100 this year.
Andrew Woolfson, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain

27-May-2011

What is the most unusual Christmas present that you have received from a colleague? An ID and avatar set up for me on Second Life.
Angel clocks on at DLA after winning partner backing

8-Nov-2011

Former Linklaters managing partner Tony Angel has today started work at DLA Piper after his hire won the backing of the firm’s partnership.
Angel face

26-Aug-2009

Milbank is going all guns blazing to beef up in the City. Today’s news that the New York heavyweight has hired Ashurst’s head of restructuring Nick Angel is a statement of intent (see story).
Angel returns to the law at SJ Berwin

11-Mar-2011

Former Linklaters managing partner Tony Angel has joined SJ Berwin as a non-executive director.
Anheuser-Busch shuns Lovells in panel review

7-Aug-2009

Lovells has lost out on a place on global drinks company Anheuser-Busch InBev’s legal panel due to its role advising rival SAB Miller.
Anita Zazzi, Linklaters

25-Mar-2011

What’s the most boring thing you’ve been asked to do in your job? Filing, without a doubt.
Annual Secret Santa fest could lead to court, firm warns

17-Dec-2010

Manchester firm Lewis Hymanson Small has issued a timely reminder to office workers to exercise caution over when choosing their Secret Santa presents.
Another 85 jobs to go in Addleshaws restructuring

18-May-2009

Addleshaw Goddard has launched a firm-wide restructuring, which is expected to see 85 non fee-earners lose their jobs, fee-earners work reduced hours and salaries cut.
Another day, another Orrick merger proposal

29-Sep-2010

Seemingly unabashed by a string of doomed romances, serial seducer Ralph Baxter is back. As reported on the TheLawyer.com today, the Orrick chairman is locked in talks about a potential tie-up with US firm Akin Gump (see story).
Another law firm goes bust

24-Sep-2009

Things have been looking more than a little rosy of late: law firms seem to be over their mass redundancy programmes, dealflow is making a tentative return and, if the recruitment pages of The Lawyer are anything to go by, the jobs market is beginning to wake from its year-long slumber.
Anthony Collins defends Baptist Church against ex-footballer's claims

13-Mar-2012

Anthony Collins Solicitors is set to defend the Baptist Church against a £10m claim launched by a retired footballer who claims his faith stopped him playing for Manchester United.
Apax appoints Goldmans lawyer as first-ever general counsel

14-Dec-2010

Apax Partners has concluded its 20-month search for a general counsel with the appointment of Simon Cresswell from Goldman Sachs.
Apparently, there's some football happening

11-Jun-2010

And this year’s Diana Ross Missed Penalty Memorial Prize for most ingenious World Cup-related press release goes to…Beswicks Solicitors.
Appeal court overturns Hildebrand rule in Tchenguiz divorce case

29-Jul-2010

The Court of Appeal has ruled that separating couples will no longer be allowed to secretly obtain and use documents belonging to their partner in divorce proceedings.
Appeal Court rejects MoD's attempt to cut wounded soldiers' compensation

13-Oct-2009

Attempts made by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to cut the amount of compensation awarded to two wounded soldiers have been thwarted in the Court of Appeal.
Appeal court removes Peter Smith J from Mills & Reeve negligence case

25-Jan-2011

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has told Mr Justice Peter Smith to stand down from presiding over a professional negligence claim brought against Mills & Reeve after he expressed views unfavourable to the firm.
Appeal court throws out pensions cases from Lehman and Nortel

14-Oct-2011

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed an appeal by Nortel and Lehman Brothers International (Europe) against the Pensions Regulator over obligations to members of their respective pension schemes.
Appeal ruling allows hedge funds to access Lehman funds

3-Aug-2010

The Court of Appeal has ruled that hedge funds whose money was not properly ringfenced when Lehman Brothers went into administration will have access to client money deposited with the UK division of the bank, Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE).
Apple loses Chinese iPad trademark challenge

9-Dec-2011

Technology giant Apple is considering its next step after losing a court case in Shenzhen over the ownership of its iconic iPad trademark.
Apple of our i

23-Oct-2009

Have you got a phone? Well forget it granddad (and grandma). You might as well be talking into an old shoe. The iPhone is where it’s at.
Appleby brings Serle Court silk on board in Cayman

24-Jan-2012

Serle Court silk Peter McMaster QC is joining offshore firm Appleby as a partner in the Cayman Islands.
Appleby establishes Hong Kong litigation practice

23-Mar-2012

Offshore firm Appleby is continuing its investment in both litigation and the Far East by setting up a dispute resolution team in Hong Kong.
Appleby hires founder of Bermuda's Mello Jones & Martin

23-Feb-2012

The founder of Bermuda firm Mello Jones & Martin, Michael Mello QC, has been snapped up by offshore giant Appleby.
Appleby hires hedge fund administrator's legal chief as deputy GC

29-Nov-2010

Offshore firm Appleby has hired Mike Ellis, formerly European legal and compliance head for hedge fund administrator GlobeOp Financial Services, as deputy general counsel.
Appleby names Bermuda managing partner as incumbent returns to practice

19-Jan-2012

Offshore giant Appleby has appointed Kiernan Bell as its new managing partner in Bermuda.
Appleby partner quits for membership at Wilberforce

9-May-2012

Offshore firm Appleby has been hit by the exit of litigation partner Graeme Halkerston, who is rejoining the bar and taking up membership at Wilberforce Chambers.
Appleby scoops Cayman litigation head from offshore rival Ogier

16-Mar-2012

Appleby has raided rival offshore firm Ogier for its Cayman head of litigation Chris Russell as the firm continues to bulk up its dispute resolution practice.
Appleby welcomes Jersey lawyer to partnership

31-Mar-2011

Offshore giant Appleby has made up one new partner in this year’s promotions round.
Appleby, Conyers Dill & Pearman make redundancies in Bermuda

19-Jan-2011

Appleby and Conyers Dill & Pearman have both made redundancies in their Bermuda offices as work flows remain sluggish in the offshore jurisdiction.
Apprentice blog

26-May-2011

Episode four of The Apprentice: the candidates head to Birmingham in a bid to turn a profit from selling beauty treatments.
Apprentice blog

2-Jun-2011

Episode five of The Apprentice: The candidates come up with a unique pet food brand and a marketing campaign.
Apprentice blog

19-May-2011

Episode three of The Apprentice: the contestants are given a list of 10 items to purchase for London’s Savoy Hotel.
Apprentice blog

11-May-2011

Week One of The Apprentice: the contestants spend £250 on fruit and veg with the aim of turning a profit.
Arbitrators are not bound by equality laws, Supreme Court rules

27-Jul-2011

Arbitrators are not employed and are therefore exempt from UK Equality Regulations, the Supreme Court has ruled today.
Are parent companies safe from the actions of their subsidiaries?

26-Oct-2011

The recent case of Chandler v Cape provides a stark warning to parent companies that they cannot expect to divorce themselves entirely from the actions of their subsidiaries.
Arnold & Pincher

8-Jan-2010

“That’s life,” sang that great legal analyst Frank Sinatra once upon a time. “You’re riding high in April, shot down in May.”
Arnold & Porter bolsters West Coast with Howard Rice tie-up

7-Dec-2011

US firm Arnold & Porter has boosted its West Coast presence through a deal with Californian firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, which is expected to go through on 1 January.
Arnold & Porter poaches London IP team from Milbank

8-Jan-2010

Arnold & Porter has bulked up its London IP practice with the capture of a four-lawyer team - led by partner David Perkins - from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Arnold & Porter posts market-leading rises in turnover and PEP

17-Feb-2012

Arnold & Porter has registered one of the largest increases in turnover and average profit per equity partner (PEP) so far in this year’s US firm reporting season.
Arnold J rules in Formula 1 intellectual property dispute

26-Mar-2012

A dispute over a Formula 1 racing team’s intellectual property has been settled in the High Court.
Arsenal hires former MTV GC as first legal chief

20-Aug-2009

Arsenal Football Club has appointed former MTV lawyer Svenja Geissmar as its first general counsel.
Arsenal turns to Slaughters for Fàbregas sale

16-Aug-2011

Slaughter and May partner Andrew Jolly has advised Arsenal Football Club on the sale of captain Cesc Fàbregas to FC Barcelona.
Arthur Cox's O Riordain becomes Dublin airport chair

21-Dec-2011

The former managing partner of Irish firm Arthur Cox has been appointed as the chairman designate of the Dublin Airports Authority (DAA).
Ashfords and Rochman Landau merge to create £30m firm

5-Mar-2012

Ashfords and Rochman Landau have gone ahead with a mooted tie-up, with the deal going live on 1 March.
Ashfords plans London expansion through Rochman merger

7-Feb-2012

Exeter firm Ashfords and Central London’s Rochman Landau have confirmed that they are in merger talks.
Ashurst acts on National Express's £350m bond issue

14-Jan-2010

Ashurst has advised longstanding client National Express on a £350m bond issue as part of the rail, bus and coach operator’s return to stability after a difficult 2009.
Ashurst adds Milan corporate team from Pavia e Ansaldo

12-Apr-2012

Ashurst has boosted its Italian presence with the appointment of partner Alessandro Giovannelli as head of corporate.
Ashurst adds to US partnership with lateral hire

31-Mar-2010

Ashurst has made its first lateral partner hire in the US since it launched in the jurisdiction last year.
Ashurst adds Vinge partner to Stockholm team

2-Nov-2011

Ashurst’s Swedish arm has netted a Vinge partner for its corporate practice.
Ashurst advises as pension schemes sue Henderson

7-Dec-2011

Ashurst has scooped the lead role advising a group of 30 of the UK’s largest pension schemes in a multi-million pound court case against investment management company Henderson Group.
Ashurst advises Nakheel creditors on Abu Dhabi bailout

14-Dec-2009

Ashurst has scored a victory for the creditors of Dubai real estate company Nakheel with the news that they will be paid off through a bailout from the Abu Dhabi government.
Ashurst advises National Express on nationalisation of East Coast line

1-Jul-2009

Ashurst is advising National Express on the planned termination of its East Coast mainline franchise.
Ashurst and Freshfields advise on National Express rights issue

11-Nov-2009

Ashurst and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have been mandated to act on National Express’ £360m cash call.
Ashurst and Herbies advise on JJB rights issue

14-Oct-2009

Ashurst and Herbert Smith have secured the top advisory roles in the proposed £100m rights issue by retail chain JJB Sports.
Ashurst and LG scoop lead roles on £756m CGNPC offer

9-Mar-2011

Ashurst and Lawrence Graham (LG) have snared the lead roles on a deal that marks one of the first incursions into the listed UK market by a state-owned Chinese company.
Ashurst and Mayer Brown win roles on Shell Centre redevelopment

11-Aug-2011

Ashurst and Mayer Brown have lined up to advise on a £300m joint venture between Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar to redevelop the Shell Centre site on London’s South Bank.
Ashurst and Weil lead as MF Global files for bankruptcy protection

1-Nov-2011

Ashurst and Weil Gotshal & Manges have won key London roles after broker MF Global filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US and went into administration in the UK.
Ashurst beefs up Italian practice with hires from Dewey and Pedersoli

18-Feb-2010

Ashurst has boosted its Italian practice by hiring two partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf and one from Pedersoli e Associati.
Ashurst bolsters disputes team with UBS hire

25-Apr-2012

Ashurst has boosted its dispute resolution practice with the hire of UBS litigation head David Capps.
Ashurst chief Bromwich to step down six months early

1-Feb-2012

Ashurst managing partner Simon Bromwich is set to stand down in May and will take over the role of head of litigation.
Ashurst confirms tie-up with Australia's Blake Dawson

26-Sep-2011

Ashurst has confirmed a tie-up with Australian independent Blake Dawson that will see the firms combine their Asian operations early next year and merge by 2014.
Ashurst corporate head joins Competition Commission

1-Apr-2009

Ashurst’s former corporate head Roger Finbow has joined the Competition Commission as a reporting panel member along with Linklaters partner Tony Morris.
Ashurst creates global corporate head role as part of practice revamp

1-Jul-2010

Ashurst has completed a major revamp of its corporate management structure with Stephen Lloyd taking up the newly created role of global corporate head.
Ashurst energy partner heads down under to AAR

11-Aug-2011

Ashurst energy partner Anthony Patten has left the firm to return to Australia, where he will join the Perth office of Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR).
Ashurst exits continue as three litigation partners quit

12-Oct-2011

Ashurst litigation trio Michael Madden, Arundel McDougall and Wilson Thorburn are set to leave the firm, with practice head Madden believed to be joining another firm in the City, McDougall retiring from the partnership and Thorburn heading off to join JPMorgan.
Ashurst goes on a diet

12-Oct-2011

For a while there it looked like Ashurst would get away with just the fallout from its war on real estate and energy.
Ashurst hands top management role to Paris banking partner

21-Mar-2012

Ashurst has appointed Paris banking partner James Collis as its new managing partner, replacing Simon Bromwich in the role.
Ashurst helps push through National Express rights issue

27-Nov-2009

Ashurst has played a major role in helping beleaguered transport operator National Express secure a disputed £360m rights issue, despite opposition from its major shareholder.
Ashurst hires Centrica GC as partner in energy practice

5-Feb-2010

Ashurst has bulked up its global energy team with the hire of Centrica Energy’s general counsel Peter Roberts.
Ashurst installs partner duo to head Milan after walk out

11-Aug-2009

Ashurst has appointed two new Milan heads in the wake of a four partner departure from the office.
Ashurst issues ultimatum to plateau partners

12-Mar-2012

Ashurst management has given partners at the top of equity a warning to keep up their game if they want to stay at that level of the lockstep.
Ashurst joins Freshfields and SNR Denton on SocGen panel

10-May-2012

Ashurst, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and SNR Denton are among the firms to win places on Société Générale’s UK panel, with Ashurst’s appointment understood to be a new client win.
Ashurst launches in Rome with hires from Dewey and NCTM

4-Mar-2011

Ashurst is to open a second Italian office after raiding Dewey & LeBoeuf and local firm NCTM for the launch of a three-partner practice in Rome.
Ashurst litigation partner joins Winston as City disputes chief

13-Oct-2011

Ashurst partner Michael Madden has joined US firm Winston & Strawn as head of its commercial litigation practice in London.
Ashurst loses another partner to Clifford Chance

25-Nov-2010

Ashurst corporate partner Steven Fox has quit the firm to take up partnership at Clifford Chance.
Ashurst loses Edge to Stephenson Harwood

3-Mar-2010

Stephenson Harwood has continued to bolster its corporate practice with the hire of Ashurst partner Andrew Edge.
Ashurst loses Melbourne partner to King & Wood Mallesons

3-May-2012

King & Wood Mallesons has poached Australian competition partner Stephen Ridgeway from Ashurst’s Melbourne office.
Ashurst loses NY finance partner to Jones Day

28-Sep-2011

Jones Day has hired Ashurst partner Alice Yurke for its New York finance practice.
Ashurst loses second energy partner in a month

2-Sep-2011

Ashurst equity partner Louise Eccleston has left the firm to return to Australia, becoming the firm’s second energy partner in less than a month to head down under.
Ashurst makes first US lateral with Alston & Bird hire

31-Mar-2010

Ashurst has made its first lateral partner hire in the US since it launched in the jurisdiction last year.
Ashurst makes up three City lawyers in 12-strong round

14-Apr-2011

Ashurst has promoted 12 lawyers to its partnership, with only three of the new partners based in London.
Ashurst moves to vote on Blake Dawson tie-up

8-Sep-2011

A proposed tie-up deal between Ashurst and Australia’s Blake Dawson, which will create a 31-partner practice across Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo and Papua New Guinea, is expected to face a vote among Ashurst’s partners before the end of September.
Ashurst names new Abu Dhabi head as incumbent returns to London

22-Sep-2011

Ashurst corporate partner Alastair Holland has taken over as the firm’s Abu Dhabi managing partner following the transfer of energy partner David Wadham to London.
Ashurst partner takes in-house role at engineering company Bechtel

22-Nov-2011

Ashurst partner Alex Cunliffe has become the latest member of the firm’s real estate and construction teams to leave the City outfit.
Ashurst picks up Herbert Smith partners to bolster financial services

4-May-2012

Herbert Smith corporate insurance duo Adam Levitt and Hammad Akhtar have quit the firm to join Ashurst.
Ashurst promotes 10 to partnership

22-Apr-2009

Ashurst has unveiled its 2009 promotions, with only 10 lawyers making the cut this year compared with 17 in 2008.
Ashurst restructuring partner quits for Kaye Scholer

1-Nov-2011

Ashurst restructuring partner David von Saucken is leaving to join US firm Kaye Scholer, splitting his time between London and Frankfurt.
Ashurst revamps management board as Sparrow vacates seat

14-Jan-2010

Ashurst has appointed corporate partner Anthony Clare as a new member of its nine-strong management board.
Ashurst revenues down by 7 per cent

27-May-2009

Ashurst has reported a seven per cent drop in global revenues for the 2008-09 financial year.
Ashurst says goodbye to the million-pound PEP club as profit drops by a third

8-Jul-2009

Ashurst has reported a 35 per cent drop in profit per equity (PEP) for the 2008-09 financial year.
Ashurst scoops lead role on M25 widening project

21-May-2009

Ashurst client Connect Plus consortium has reached financial close on the £6.2bn M25 widening project.
Ashurst scoops Linklaters' Stockholm chief

1-Apr-2010

Ashurst has raided Linklaters’ Stockholm office for the hire of the magic circle firm’s Swedish senior partner Martin Börresen.
Ashurst seals best-friends deal with India Law Partners

15-Jul-2011

Ashurst has formed a best-friends relationship with India Law Partners (ILP), a four-month old start-up established by a team that broke away from Mumbai firm DSK Legal.
Ashurst searches for perfect 'work-life fit' as 50-hour week is formalised

21-Jan-2011

Ashurst has put its flexible working strategy in the spotlight after setting up a committee to look at work-life issues across the firm.
Ashurst seeks an American friend

10-Jan-2012

You would expect that Ashurst did a fair bit of due diligence before agreeing its merger with Australian firm Blake Dawson, even if senior management was understood to have been rather jittery about the deal right up until it was finalised.
Ashurst sees turnover drop by 14 per cent

27-Nov-2009

Ashurst has posted a 14 per cent dip in first half revenue, with fee earners bringing in £136m compared with £158m in the same period last year.
Ashurst sets sights on Netherlands launch

9-Mar-2012

Ashurst is eyeing the Netherlands, with a launch in the jurisdiction an option on the horizon.
Ashurst shuts Delhi branch in wake of Lawyers Collective judgment

19-Feb-2010

Ashurst has closed its Delhi liaison office following the outcome of the Lawyers Collective case, which ruled that the practice of all law by foreign firms in India is illegal.
Ashurst structured finance head named BarCap GC

23-Sep-2010

Ashurst head of securities and structured finance (SSF) Erica Handling is leaving the firm to become general counsel (Emea) at Barclays Capital.
Ashurst to launch in Beijing with Mallesons hire

1-Mar-2012

Ashurst is one step closer to a Beijing launch after recruiting a Beijing partner from Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
Ashurst to put Asia into board meeting rotation following Blakes deal

14-May-2012

Ashurst is planning to hold management board meetings outside Europe for the first time, with the move following the election of the first Asia partner to its committee.
Ashurst to rebuild US securities practice as three partners quit firm

1-Apr-2011

Ashurst has confirmed that three of its London-based US securities partners are leaving the firm.
Ashurst to restock US securities group with two ex-Linklaters lawyers

6-May-2011

Ashurst has re-staffed its US securities team following last month’s exit of a trio of partners with the hire of two former Linklaters partners.
Ashurst top earner saw dip in profit, LLP accounts show

7-Feb-2012

Ashurst’s highest-earning partner took home £1.052m in the 2010-11 financial year, marginally down on last year’s figure, according to the firm’s latest LLP accounts.
Ashurst turns to Allen & Overy for hire of first global HR director

30-Nov-2011

Ashurst has created the role of global human resources (HR) director in a move to formalise the firm’s international HR operations.
Ashurst turns to Asia in management board shake-up

9-May-2012

Ashurst has rejigged its management board following a vote, with Singapore managing partner Matthew Bubb replacing Paris partner Laurent Mabilat to become the committee’s first Asia-based member.
Ashurst turns to Gide for energy hire

11-May-2012

Ashurst has appointed Gide Loyrette Nouel associate Nicolas Bonnefoy as a partner in its global energy team.
Ashurst turns to Norton Rose for Munich hire

28-Sep-2011

Ashurst has hired a corporate partner from Norton Rose in Munich.
Ashurst ups City promos as 16 join global partnership

28-Mar-2012

Ashurst has announced its partner promotions for this year, with the firm significantly increasing its partner count in the City.
Ashurst welcomes 11 new partners in latest promotions round

26-Apr-2010

Ashurst has promoted 11 lawyers to the partnership across its offices in London, Europe and Asia.
Ashurst, Freshfields and Hogan Lovells lead on £2.4bn sale of Northumbrian Water

2-Aug-2011

Ashurst, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Hogan Lovells were all acting on Northumbrian Water’s £2.4bn cash sale to a Hong Kong consortium controlled by billionaire Li Ka-Shing.
Ashurst, LG scoop China-UK investment deal

9-Mar-2011

Ashurst and Lawrence Graham have snared the lead roles on a deal that marks one of the first incursions into the listed UK market by a state-owned Chinese company.
Ashurst, Ropes and SullCrom advise on £1bn Ontex sale

16-Jul-2010

Ashurst, Ropes & Gray and Sullivan & Cromwell have scored major roles on one of the largest European private equity buyouts of the year - the €1.2bn (£1bn) sale of Belgian manufacturing company Ontex to Goldman Sachs PIA and TPG Capital.
Ashurst, SJ Berwin and SNR Denton advise on Tamar Energy deal

2-Mar-2012

A raft of firms won roles advising on the establishment of a UK start-up designed to produce energy from organic waste.
Ashurst's China memory lapse

8-Sep-2011

It looks like all systems are go Down Under for Ashurst.
Ashurst's pay and Herbies' US play

8-Aug-2011

As CEO salaries at blue-chip companies once again hit the news for failing adequately to correlate performance with reward, The Lawyer brings you an exclusive on how Ashurst has shaken up partner profit shareout over the past two years (see story).
Ashurst's revenues fall 3 per cent as PEP nudges up

24-Jun-2010

Ashurst has reported a turnover drop of just under 3 per cent for the 2009-10 financial year, with the total falling from £301m in 2008-09 to £293m.
Ashurst's super six

9-Nov-2009

Ashurst has made a fresh start in the US. As revealed by TheLawyer today, the silver circle firm has drawn up a network of six firms it will forge a referral relationship with to better tackle the challenging US legal market.
Ashurst's top earner pocketed £1.1m in 2009-10 financial year

4-Feb-2011

The highest-earning partner at Ashurst took home more than £1m in 2009-10 after the top payment dipped below the seven-figure barrier during the previous financial year.
Asia deals roundup: China bank deals and airline JV

30-Mar-2012

UK firms Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Ashurst, along with leading Chinese firms King & Wood Mallesons, Jun He, Commerce & Finance and Grandall were among the advisers on a raft of Chinese corporate deals in the past week.
Asia deals roundup: China M&A and corporate finance deals

23-Mar-2012

Sullivan & Cromwell has taken the lead counsel role in Chinese asset manager Cinda’s $1.6bn equity sale to four foreign investors, while Paul Weiss and Clifford Chance have assisted in Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia’s $300m investment in Tianhe Chemicals Group.
Asia deals roundup: China online video M&A and ASEAN financing deals

15-Mar-2012

Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have bagged the lead counsel roles in the merger of US-listed Chinese online video companies Youku and Tudou, while a number of other firms have reaped the benefit of a high level of financing deals in South East Asia.
Asia deals round-up: Hong Kong capital markets work keeps UK firms busy

1-Mar-2012

IPOs, delistings and dim sum bonds in Hong Kong are keeping several firms busy, including Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance, Eversheds, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May.
Asia deals round-up: M&A activity in the financial and natural resources sectors

8-Mar-2012

The past week has seen a flurry of firms working on large M&A transactions across Asia Pacific, including HSBC’s sale of its general insurance business to Axa and QBE, and China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group’s $2.4bn bid for Australian mining company Extract Resources.
Asian strength helps Ashurst post rises in turnover and PEP

7-Jul-2011

Ashurst has announced a 3.5 per cent increase in turnover for the 2010-11 financial year and a 5 per cent hike in average profit per equity partner (PEP).
Asset manager BLM partners taps Nomura for first GC

18-Jan-2010

London-based asset management firm BLM partners has appointed Jeffrey Iverson as its general counsel.
Assurant Solutions appoints legal director

11-Jul-2011

International insurance provider Assurant Solutions has appointed Christian Graville as its new European legal director.
At all costs

9-Mar-2011

When a corporate client calls in Brick Court’s Jonathan Sumption QC to lead its legal team, it is calling in the big guns to fight off a case whatever the financial cost.
Atkins Thomson leads as Big Brother winner sues over Towie claim

28-Mar-2012

Commercial television network ITV is being sued by Atkins Thomson Solicitors on behalf of a reality TV star who claims he came up with the concept for reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex (Towie).
Attorney General may 'take action' if anonymity orders are broken

7-Jun-2011

The Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC has issued a warning to Twitter followers who break anonymised court orders.
Attorney General warns newspapers over contempt

2-Dec-2011

Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC has issued new warnings on contempt of court, saying news organisations will face prosecution if they publish material which could prejudice court proceedings.
Auf wiedersehen

5-Jan-2010

No-one leaves Slaughter and May, right?
Aussie firm Blake Dawson opens in Tokyo

14-Apr-2010

Australian firm Blake Dawson has officially opened in Tokyo, becoming one of the first Australian firms to open an office in Japan.
Aussie firm Blake Dawson vows no UK merger is on the cards

13-Nov-2009

Australian firm Blake Dawson has dismissed the possibility of a merger with a UK firm, instead pledging to focus its attentions on Asia.
Aussie firm Slater & Gordon posts turnover rise after acquisitive year

19-Aug-2010

Australia’s Slater & Gordon, the first law firm to float on a stock market, has posted a 21 per cent jump in turnover to Aus$124.7m (£71.8m) for the 2009-10 financial year.
Aussie rules

16-Sep-2009

It’s all happening Down Under. First Norton Rose marched into the Australian market by signing a tie-up with Deacons.
Australia is so last week

18-Feb-2010

The international legal market never rests. The jurisdiction du jour - or more appropriately dell giorno - is Italy. Well, at least it is if you’re Ashurst or Bird & Bird.
Australia tie-up boosts Norton Rose turnover to £484m

14-Jun-2011

Norton Rose has announced a £47m increase in turnover for its entire international operations since it merged with Australian firm Deacons last year.
Australian top 30 financial results: mid-tier soar, top-tier sluggish

15-Sep-2011

Mid-tier law firms in Australia are the biggest winner in terms of revenue growth in the past two years, according to the latest Top 30 Law Firm list released by Australia’s BRWmagazine.
Australia's AAR follows Rio Tinto into Mongolia

10-Nov-2011

Australian firm Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR) has opened a representative office in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar.
Australia's AAR hires Clifford Chance partner for Singapore base

30-Jun-2010

Allens Arthur Robinson has hired Clifford Chance asset finance partner Rod Howell as the Australian firm ramps up its Singapore offering.
Australia's Atanaskovic Hartnell launches base in City

7-Oct-2011

Ten-partner Sydney Atanaskovic Hartnell has opened an office in London, reversing the trend for UK firms flocking to Australia.
Australia's Freehills signs Chinese alliance

16-Sep-2009

Australian firm Freehills has signed a strategic alliance with Chinese firm TransAsia.
Australia's Mallesons moots tie-up with China's King & Wood

21-Jul-2011

Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques has entered into tie-up talks with one of China’s largest commercial law firms, King & Wood.
Australia's Minter Ellison launches in Mongolia

1-Feb-2012

Australian firm Minter Ellison is opening an office in Mongolia in a bid to capitalise on the country’s emerging resource-based economy.
Austria's Wolf Theiss promotes four to partnership

10-May-2010

Austrian firm Wolf Theiss has made up four partners across three offices in Central and Eastern Europe.
Avanti hires legal chief from Electronic Data Systems

22-Apr-2009

Avanti Communications Group has appointed Patrick Willcocks to the newly-created role of general counsel.
Axa Real Estate fills global legal role with internal promotion

21-Nov-2011

Real estate portfolio and asset management company Axa Real Estate Investment Managers (Axa Real Estate) has appointed Sarah Leroy as global head of legal.
Axiom to open Belfast base with £1.6m public cash injection

20-Mar-2012

Axiom has launched a new delivery centre in Belfast after being offered up to £1.6m in public funding to make the move.
BA pilots to get their day in Supreme Court after key EU ruling

15-Sep-2011

Old Square Chambers’ Jane McNeill QC has won a partial victory for British Airways pilots who can now challenge in the Supreme Court how they are remunerated while on leave, the EU Court of Justice has ruled.
BA prepares to unveil slimmed down legal roster

6-Feb-2012

British Airways (BA) is close to announcing the results of its UK-wide panel review, with sources close to the tender predicting a slimmer line-up.
BAA unveils streamlined legal panel

15-Apr-2010

Seven firms including Allen & Overy (A&O) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed roles on BAA’s new legal panel.
Baach Robinson pulls plug on trial

21-Jun-2011

It’s a rare occurrence for a major commercial case to collapse because the defence has withdrawn part-way through the trial.
Back to Black

14-Oct-2009

Many sets have been ploughing investment into new management structures over the past 12 months, with some bringing in chief executives to steer them through the implementation of the Legal Services Act.
Back to reality

3-May-2011

Listen up, everyone. Yes, it was fun while it lasted and the service was nice and everything and Kate or Catherine looked lovely in her snowy muslin shawl and we did get a very long holiday too.
Backchat 7

12-Mar-2009

“This is comment 1” … “This is comment 2”
Backtrack for the future

11-Feb-2011

The last year has seen a pretty unprecedented overhaul by the Coalition of the previous Government’s legacy.
BAE and bribery: The heat is on

2-Oct-2009

In the well-known urban myth, a frog placed in a pan of water will not try to jump out, even as the heat slowly increases to boiling point. When it comes to the risks of corruption, many UK companies have been similarly complacent about the risk of prosecution.
Bahraini firm Qays Zu’bi ramps up with local merger

25-Nov-2011

Bahraini firm Qays H. Zu’bi Attorneys & Legal Consultants has announced plans to merge with local firm Hatim S. Zu’bi & Partners.
Baker & McKenzie beats 45 firms to win Colt Europe role

20-Jan-2012

Baker & McKenzie has won a bid to become FTSE 250 telecoms company Colt Group’s preferred legal advisor on commercial work across Europe, beating more than 45 firms.
Baker & McKenzie Dutch spin-off returns to firm for 10-strong team

4-May-2012

Van Campen & Partners, the Dutch private equity boutique which spun off from Baker & McKenzie’s Amsterdam office earlier this year has added its eighth partner.
Baker & McKenzie hires former A&O finance director

17-Nov-2011

Baker & McKenzie has appointed former Allen & Overy finance director Ian Dinwiddie as its new global chief financial officer (CFO).
Baker & McKenzie king of the global legal brands - but magic circle closes the gap

4-Oct-2011

Baker & McKenzie has topped a table of leading international law firm brands for the third year running, but the rest of the top ten is rapidly catching up.
Baker & McKenzie pulls plug on San Diego base

22-Mar-2012

Baker & McKenzie is to close its San Diego office at the end of the month with all fee-earners and staff losing their jobs.
Baker & McKenzie revamps management committees

22-Oct-2009

Baker & McKenzie London partner Beatriz Pessoa de Araujo has been elected to the firm’s international executive committee, freeing a space on the London management committee.
Baker & McKenzie signs up to exclusive Turkish alliance with Esin

27-Oct-2011

Baker & Mckenzie has become the latest international firm to expand into Turkey, following partnership approval for an exclusive relationship with Istanbul-based firm Esin Attorney Partnership.
Baker & McKenzie strengthens dispute resolution team in Singapore

5-Oct-2011

Baker & McKenzie’s Singapore member firm Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow has appointed former Ang & Partners partner Chan Leng Sun as a principal in its dispute resolution practice.
Baker & McKenzie wins injunction against BA strike action

17-Dec-2009

The High Court has ruled that strikes planned by British Airways cabin crew over the Christmas period are illegal.
Baker & McKenzie's drugs dispute

14-Dec-2011

When Great Britain sprinter Dwain Chambers tested positive for banned anabolic steroid THG in 2004 he effectively kissed goodbye to dreams of future Olympic glory.
Baker Botts promotes two City lawyers in 13-strong round

19-Oct-2010

Texas firm Baker Botts has made up 13 lawyers in its latest round of partner promotions, including two in London.
Baker Botts signs up four-partner Howrey team for DC office

22-Mar-2011

Texas-headquartered Baker Botts has hired another four antitrust partners from dissolved firm Howrey for its Washington DC office.
Baker Botts takes on 32 Howrey antitrust lawyers

17-Mar-2011

Baker Botts has hired 32 antitrust lawyers from Howrey, the US firm that this week voted to dissolve.
Baker Hostetler takes 17-strong Howrey team in DC and LA

29-Mar-2011

Ohio-headquartered Baker Hostetler has snapped up 17 lawyers from dissolved firm Howrey, including litigation co-chair Robert Abrams.
Bakers adds partners to US and Chinese practices

8-Jul-2011

Baker & McKenzie has bulked up its practices in Asia and North America with partner hires in Washington DC, Houston, New York and Beijing.
Bakers advises Australian mining company on London listing

9-Nov-2009

Baker & McKenzie has advised new client Centamin Egypt on its primary listing and admission to the main market of the London Stock Exchange.
Bakers advises rare Russian IPO

21-Dec-2009

Baker & McKenzie has advised on one of the first Russian IPOs in London since the beginning of the downturn.
Bakers and Blackstone lead Camelot's Gambling Commission JR bid

15-Mar-2012

Baker & McKenzie and Blackstone Chambers are leading National Lottery Operator Camelot’s judicial review application against the Gambling Commission.
Bakers and Cleary fly US flag in Stonewall's legal top 10

17-Feb-2011

Baker & McKenzie and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton are the only US firms to be recognised in LGB charity Stonewall’s legal sector top 10.
Bakers and Cravath lead on Ecolab's $8.1bn Nalco takeover

26-Jul-2011

Baker & McKenzie and Cravath Swaine & Moore have taken lead roles on the multi-billion takeover of chemicals company Nalco Holding Company by Ecolab, a leading developer of cleaning products.
Bakers and DLA lose Amsterdam lawyers to financial services start-up

1-Sep-2011

A team of lawyers drawn largely from the Amsterdam offices of Baker & McKenzie and DLA Piper has launched a new firm focusing solely on financial services law.
Bakers and Freshfields advise on Cargill's €1.5bn Provimi deal

18-Aug-2011

Baker & McKenzie and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have lined up to take top roles in Cargill’s planned €1.5bn ($2.14bn) acquisition of global animal nutrition company Provimi from private equity firm Permira.
Bakers and Latham advise as Rio Tinto divests talc business

4-Aug-2011

International firms Baker & McKenzie and Latham & Watkins have scooped lead roles on Rio Tinto’s divestment of its global talc business.
Bakers and Mayer Brown advise on sale of lottery operator to Canadian pension fund

26-Mar-2010

Baker & McKenzie and Mayer Brown have hit the jackpot after landing the advisory mandates on the agreement to sell National Lottery operator Camelot to the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan (OTPP).
Bakers boosts Paris litigation practice with Courtois Lebel team

13-May-2010

Baker & McKenzie has hired a team of litigators in Paris specialising in industrial litigation and arbitration.
Bakers boosts tax group with double hire from OECD

28-Jun-2011

Baker & McKenzie has bulked up its global tax practice with the hire of two prominent tax lawyers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Bakers bulks up transfer pricing capabilities with E&Y hire

7-Oct-2009

Baker & McKenzie has hired a former Ernst & Young (E&Y) economist in London for its transfer pricing practice.
Bakers gives Senior third term as London head

19-May-2010

Baker & McKenzie London managing partner Gary Senior has been reelected for a third term at the helm.
Bakers holds City associate pay bands at 2010 levels

3-Aug-2011

Baker & McKenzie has confirmed it is freezing pay for its London associates at last year’s levels, with trainee salaries recording the only rise in the City office.
Bakers in Brazil

2-Jul-2010

It’s all about Brazil these days, and for once that isn’t a shoehorned reference to the World Cup (which, as we all know, ended last Sunday afternoon).
Bakers' London partners bear brunt of PEP drop

14-Aug-2009

Baker & McKenzie’s London office saw turnover drop by just over 3 per cent during the last financial year, down from £119.8m to £115.7m.
Bakers loses 15 Amsterdam lawyers as local PE chief leads break away

5-Jan-2012

Baker & McKenzie’s Dutch private equity head Marc van Campen is leading a breakaway from the US firm’s Amsterdam office to set up an independent firm.
Bakers makes up seven City partners

1-Jul-2010

Baker & McKenzie has promoted seven lawyers to its London partnership.
Bakers named as global adviser to Carlsberg

2-Dec-2010

Baker & McKenzie has been appointed as global legal counsel to Danish brewer Carlsberg.
Bakers names Brazil chief as global chair

3-Jun-2010

Baker & McKenzie has elected Brazil managing partner Eduardo Leite as its next global chairman.
Bakers names new heads of Brazil and Australia

2-Jul-2010

Baker & McKenzie has appointed new managing partners in Brazil and Australia.
Bakers opens funds-focused Luxembourg office

1-Oct-2010

Baker & McKenzie today opens its 68th office, launching a base in Luxembourg as it looks to capitalise on the expected boom in investment fund activity in the country.
Bakers pays tribute to former London chief Russell Lewin

13-Oct-2009

Baker & McKenzie has paid tribute to its former London managing partner Russell Lewin, who died yesterday aged 51.
Bakers promotes two to City partnership

30-Jun-2011

Baker & McKenzie has promoted two lawyers to its London partnership with the duo taking up their new roles tomorrow (1 July).
Bakers relocates two partners to Abu Dhabi

13-Jul-2009

Baker & McKenzie has relocated two more partners to Abu Dhabi as it seeks to build its fledgling office in the jurisdiction.
Bakers reshuffles management team as Latin American partner takes chair

1-Nov-2010

Baker & McKenzie has reshuffled its global management committee as Latin America chair and Brazil managing partner Eduardo Leite takes over as chairman.
Bakers revamps City management team as Evason stands down

4-Jan-2011

Baker & McKenzie has rejigged its London office management committee with the election of IP partner Paul Rawlinson
Bakers rules, OK?

17-Aug-2011

Baker & McKenzie has snatched back its crown as the world’s largest law firm by turnover, beginning a reign that will last… well, probably until December, when Skadden’s 2011 fiscal year ends.
Bakers snares ex-Garrigues MP in arbitration push

7-Feb-2012

Baker & McKenzie has snared the former managing partner of Europe’s largest independent firm, Garrigues, as a partner in Madrid.
Bakers to cut another 124 jobs

8-Apr-2009

Baker & McKenzie has continued its job cull by making 38 associates and 86 support staff redundant in the US.
Bakers usurps Skadden as world's largest firm with $2.27bn turnover

17-Aug-2011

Baker & McKenzie has posted an 8 per cent rise in global revenue for the 2010-11 financial year, taking total income to a record $2.27bn.
Bakers, awards and some rock 'n' roll

8-Feb-2012

Human resources departments employ some of the patient and tactful people in any organisation. They have to - as the provisional wing of management they deal with the sharp end of strategic initiatives.
Bakers, Blackstone to fight BOA corner over Olympics doping ban

14-Dec-2011

Baker & McKenzie and Blackstone Chambers are acting for the British Olympic Association (BOA) as it goes to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), seeking to preserve its 19-year-old bylaw permanently excluding athletes guilty of doping offences from participating at the Olympics.
Bakers, White & Case claim victory in price-fixing cases

14-Jul-2011

Baker & McKenzie and White & Case have secured victory for Japanese technology giants Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba in a series of price-fixing cases before the EU General Court.
Baltic firm Raidla Lejins rejigs management

1-Sep-2011

Pan-Baltic firm Raidla Lejins & Norcous has announced three new senior appointments in its office in Tallinn, Estonia.
Baltic powerhouse in arbitration push

27-Apr-2011

Pan-Baltic firm Lawin has added a litigation team led by Varul partner Andrias Smaliukas to its practice.
Band of Field Fisher partners in line for property windfall

15-Feb-2012

Eight partners and former partners of Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) are set for a payment of roughly £35,000 each when the lease ends on the premises of a media boutique it took over in the 1990s.
Bank of Ireland launches legal claim against former William Fry chief

20-Jan-2011

The Bank of Ireland has launched a lawsuit against an Irish lawyer and his wife in a bid to recoup €69.5m in property loans and interest.
Bank-bashers

22-Jan-2010

So, President Obama has nipped into his nearest phone booth, ironed his blue and red pants and emerged as the Superman that his followers always wanted him to become.
Banking & Finance: Top heavies

17-Sep-2010

The biggest players enjoyed a return to form in the beleaguered banking and finance sphere, with their mid-market rivals looking on enviously. Andrew Pugh provides the lowdown
Banking boutique Exotix names general counsel

10-Jan-2011

Investment banking boutique Exotix has hired Jide Bada as its new general counsel.
Banking on work

1-Jul-2011

After spending three months scrutinising his legal panel in order to radically reduce the number of advisers on it, Barclays general counsel Mark Harding has unveiled the new-look roster.
Banksy's legacy

30-Aug-2011

Could Banksy’s street art become the next listed cultural asset? Burges Salmon solicitor John Webster thinks so.
Bar Council continues China investment with new training scheme

13-Jan-2012

The Bar Council has launched a new China training scheme that will see 10 Chinese lawyers taking on a practical placement in barristers’ chambers in London.
Bar raised high

1-Mar-2010

What a week for the bar. As our front page today reveals, One Essex Court and Herbert Smith are friends again having kissed and made up over a billing spat (see story). Bless.
Bar vision

7-Dec-2011

Earlier this week the incoming chair of the Bar Council Michael Todd QC delivered a wide ranging inaugural speech outlining his vision for the bar in 2012.
Barbara Gruber, Baker & McKenzie

26-Sep-2011

The item I carry around with me at work is a tag to open doors – being locked out in the staircase is very lonely.
Barcelona's Marimon expands to Madrid with CMS hires

22-Jul-2011

Barcelona-based firm Marimon Abogados has opened in Madrid after hiring three partners from CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo.
Barclays installs Herbies partner as deputy GC

7-Sep-2009

Barclays has hired Herbert Smith corporate partner Michael Shaw as its deputy general counsel.
Barclays introduces US roster to new-look legal panel

1-Jul-2011

International firms have emerged as the winners of Barclays’ latest panel review, the results of which are released today.
Barclays launches review of Emea legal panel

4-Aug-2011

Barclays is set to launch its next panel review this week to form a single roster covering Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Barratt turns to United Utilities to fill GC role

8-Nov-2010

Barratt has appointed a new general counsel and company secretary to take over when incumbent Laurence Dent retires at the end of the year.
Barrister who forged Baroness Hale's signature struck off by BSB

12-Mar-2012

A former Middle Temple barrister has been struck off by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) for concocting a web of “tortuous deceit” over a “phantom” £1m payout to his client.
Bates Wells hip hop lawyer wins Snoop Dogg immigration battle

9-Mar-2010

Bates Wells & Braithwaite has paved the way for US rapper Snoop Dogg to enter the UK after a long-running battle with UK immigration.
Battle for the Sky

24-Aug-2009

Rupert Murdoch, or more accurately his son James, has decided to close The London Paper, the free paper usually found carpeting the floor of the capital’s tube stations.
Battle of the bands

4-Jun-2009

Until now, Keating Chambers’ entry into Law Rocks has been playing it low key.
Battles commence

3-Jun-2009

We’re half-way through the calendar year and The Lawyer’s top ten court battles of 2009 are well under way. The House of Lords will hear two cases this month, one is awaiting judgment from the Law Lords, two and a half have recently settled, another is ongoing, a further two will be heard in October and one is not due to reach the High Court until 2010. Phew!
BBC promotes in-houser to GC role

17-Jan-2012

The BBC has named a new group general counsel to replace Nicholas Eldred, who left the organisation in 2011 to join auction house Christie’s.
BBC Scotland unveils expanded legal roster

5-Apr-2011

BBC Scotland has trebled its roster of legal advisers after finalising its panel review last week.
BBC Worldwide hands first GC role to internal legal head

10-Nov-2011

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has appointed Martyn Freeman as general counsel.
BCCC partner launches Swiss technology boutique

9-May-2012

A Swiss technology partner from mid-sized firm BCCC Avocats has split off to set up his own boutique.
BDO appointed as Halliwells liquidators

17-Jan-2012

BDO has been appointed as official liquidators of Halliwells, a precursor to dealing with outstanding creditors’ claims against the failed firm.
BDO loses in Halliwells case but judge leaves door open for fraud claim

24-Apr-2012

It was “inconceivable” that Halliwells’ staff and fixed-share partners did not know something about the equity partners’ reverse premium windfall, a judge ruled today.
Be reasonable?

20-Jan-2012

You know that sinking feeling you get, when you pick up the phone to introduce yourself to your opposite number on a new transaction?
Beachcroft adds health team to nascent Dublin office

13-Aug-2009

Beachcroft has bolstered its fledgling Dublin office with the hire of a four-strong team from local Irish firms.
Beachcroft defeats negligence claim brought by DAC client

24-Jun-2011

Beachcroft has defeated a £2m negligence claim brought against it by a former client, but failed to recover £214,000 of fees it said were outstanding from the client.
Beachcroft down 3 per cent at half year after public sector spending squeeze

24-Nov-2010

The squeeze on public spending has hit profits at Beachcroft, which reported a 3 per cent drop in fee income year to £60m at the half compared with the same period last year.
Beachcroft enters Welsh market with Kingslegal swoop

5-May-2009

Beachcroft has acquired the insurance business of Kingslegal, taking it into the Welsh legal market for the first time.
Beachcroft favours insurance in six-strong promos round

6-Jun-2011

Beachcroft has focused on its core domestic insurance practice in its latest round of partnership promotions, bringing six into the fold.
Beachcroft hires Eversheds partner on back of O2 work

18-Jul-2011

Beachcroft has picked up a partner from Eversheds following a successful pitch for work for telecoms giant O2.
Beachcroft hires health specialist to lead new unit

6-Aug-2009

Beachcroft has appointed the former chair of the Healthcare Commission to spearhead a new health advisory unit at the firm.
Beachcroft makes up seven to partnership

8-Oct-2010

Beachcroft has promoted seven associates to its partnership, with all based around the firm’s regional network.
Beachcroft meets Department of Health's deadline on 70 TCS deals

6-Apr-2011

Beachcroft has completed more than 70 major transactions in the past week under the Department of Health’s Transforming Community Services (TCS) programme.
Beachcroft promotes partner to lead integration of B2 from Beachcroft

9-Dec-2010

Beachcroft has restructured the management and product lines of its claims division as it plans to integrate it into the wider business.
Beachcroft targets litigation in promotions round

27-Apr-2009

Beachcroft has promoted nine to the partnership, with the focus heavily on dispute resolution for the second consecutive year.
Beachcroft turnover rises 6 per cent

25-Jun-2009

Beachcroft has announced a rise in turnover of 6 per cent to £121m, but a dip in profits of 2.9 per cent.
Beachcroft wins mandate to handle Jubilee Insurance's motor claims

17-Mar-2011

London insurer Jubilee Insurance has appointed Beachcroft to run off the claims for its motor insurance business.
Beatles' long and winding road to iTunes ends thanks to Eversheds

17-Nov-2010

Eversheds has helped its longstanding client Apple Corps on an agreement to make The Beatles’ music available online for the first time.
Because Camerons is worth it

5-Aug-2010

Despite the increased threat of global terrorism, the escalation of violence in Greece and the ever-present menace posed by roguish foxes in our inner cities, the world is officially becoming a nicer place.
Because Sir Nigel's worth it

3-Feb-2012

In June 2011 Sir Nigel Knowles appeared on BBC Radio 5’s morning show Wake Up To Money and was greeted by the host with the question: “So, DLA Piper is one of the largest law firms in the world. How come I’ve never heard of them?” (or words to that effect).
Because They're Perth it

18-Aug-2011

Squire Sanders & Dempsey’s global partnership has given its blessing to the firm’s union with the vast majority of Minter Ellison’s Perth office (see story).
Beginning to CC the light

7-Jul-2010

Another day, another set of magic circle financial results to interpret.
Behind the times

13-Jul-2011

In media law the complaint is that current libel regulations are out of touch with the internet age. The same problem has struck the retail sector, with big brands complaining that online auction websites are flouting trademark rights by helping their users trade in counterfeit goods.
Beiten Burkhardt welcomes 15 to partnership, three to equity

19-Nov-2009

German firm Beiten Burkhardt has made up 15 lawyers to salaried partner status while a further three have entered the equity in the firm’s latest round of promotions.
Belgium's Altius hires team from Vlaemminck & Partners

30-Jun-2011

Belgian firm Altius has taken on a regulatory and trade practice group from boutique firm Vlaemminck & Partners.
Belgium's Liedekerke installs new management team

11-Feb-2011

Belgian independent Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick has appointed Jan Vincent Lindemans as managing partner and Philippe Malherbe as senior partner.
Beloff to the ribbons crew rescue

24-Feb-2012

Blackstone Chambers’ Michael Beloff QC has agreed to help Great Britain’s rhythmic gymnasts fight their exclusion from the Olympics, after they got their ribbons in a twist and failed to score enough points to qualify for the games.
Bend it like Beckham

6-Nov-2009

For any high-earning individuals out there considering a spell in the tax haven of Spain, the country’s government has just thrown a Spaniard in the works.
Benelux firm Loyens & Loeff to open in Hong Kong

6-Jan-2012

Loyens & Loeff has become the first major Benelux firm to open a Hong Kong office, building on its existing presence in Singapore and Tokyo.
Berlin bowls them over

24-Sep-2010

Currywurst and Bitburger might not have been on the menu but there was still a decidedly local feel to The Lawyer’s second European Awards, which took place in Berlin last night.
Berrymans Lace Mawer elects new senior partner

27-Mar-2012

Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM) has elected partner Mike Brown as its new senior partner succeeding Terry Renouf, who will stand down after six years in the job.
Berrymans launches in Bristol with double partner hire

30-Mar-2010

Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM) has hired two partners from Bristol firm John A Neil Solicitors to launch its office in the city.
Berrymans posts double-digit growth for 2010-11

5-Jul-2011

Berrymans Lace Mawer has posted double-digit growth across the board for 2010-11 with turnover, average profit per equity partner (PEP) and net profits all up on the previous year.
Best Legal Departments

9-Nov-2011

The “Best Legal Departments of Russia” competition – now in its sixth year – is Russia’s most prestigious award for the corporate counsel community.
Best sellers

8-Sep-2009

This week saw the publication of two great literary masterpieces.
Bestest of the best

15-Jul-2011

By hook or by crook, Ashurst is determined that it is not going to miss the party in India.
Between a rock and a hard place

17-Jun-2009

Tensions have been simmering between Gibraltar’s suspended Chief Justice Derek Schofield and its Governor Sir Robert Fulton for almost a decade.
Bevan Brittan in second round of redundancy talks

10-Sep-2009

Bevan Brittan has launched a second redundancy consultation in a bid to stave off wider cuts at a later date.
Bevan Brittan installs local government head as senior partner

26-Apr-2012

Bevan Brittan has elected local government partner Bethan Evans to the role of senior partner after recently installing a traditional legal management structure.
Bevan Brittan out in cold as Zurich revamps UK panel

23-Sep-2009

Insurance giant Zurich has revamped its UK legal panel, with Bevan Brittan losing out while Beachcroft and Pinsent Masons have held on to their spots.
Bevan Brittan posts revenue drop as public sector cuts take hold

13-May-2011

Bevan Brittan has seen revenues slide 9 per cent from £37.7m to £34.3m as a result of mass public spending cuts.
Bevan Brittan shakes up management with CEO departure

20-Feb-2012

Bevan Brittan is to revert to a legal management structure following the exit of chief executive Andrew Manning at the end of the financial year.
Bevan Brittan stages comeback by smashing profit target

16-Jul-2009

Bristol-headquartered firm Bevan Brittan has broken through its profitability target, reporting profits at the 2008-09 year end of £8.6m.
Bevan Brittan to outsource the work of 75 staff members

28-Oct-2011

Bevan Brittan is in talks with business process outsourcing (BPO) company Intelligent Office UK in a deal that will see 75 support staff transferred out of the firm.
Bevan Brittan to shed 26 jobs as a result of public spending cuts

24-Sep-2010

Upcoming cuts in public spending have led to Bevan Brittan announcing a third round of redundancy talks, the firm has confirmed.
Bickerton triumphs as Clifford Chance London boss

9-Nov-2009

Clifford Chance capital markets head David Bickerton has been elected by the firm’s partnership to become London managing partner.
Bideford Council to appeal High Court prayer ruling

17-Feb-2012

Bideford Town Council is to appeal a High Court ruling that found that it is unlawful for prayers to be held before council meetings under the Local Government Act (1972).
'Big 4 a reason' - do accountancy firms care more about their clients than law firms?

13-Dec-2011

In 2011, the Big 4 “accountancy” firms reported revenues of $29.2 billion (PWC), $28.8 billion (Deloitte), $22.9 billion (E&Y), $22.7 billion (KPMG). The world’s largest law firm reported revenues of $2.1 billion (Baker & McKenzie).
Biggart Baillie scores role on Rangers administration

15-Feb-2012

Scottish firm Biggart Baillie has been drafted in to advise as Rangers Football Club goes into administration.
Bill for Leveson Inquiry barristers hits £625,600 in first six months

13-Mar-2012

The fees for the counsel advising the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics have topped £600,000, a quarterly expenditure report has revealed.
Bills bills bills

22-Sep-2010

Anger has swept across the bar after it emerged that Halliwells went into administration owing barristers a total of £1.28m.
Bindmans advises as 40 businesses moot action over London Olympics

11-Apr-2012

A group of around 40 businesses has turned to Bindmans in a bid to tackle the organisers of the London Olympics over compensation.
Bindmans and Blackstone win Supreme Court victory in Jewish school case

17-Dec-2009

The Supreme Court has upheld a Court of Appeal ruling that it was illegal for a Jewish school to refuse entry to a boy because his mother was not recognised as Jewish by the Office of the Chief Rabbi.
Bindmans and Doughty Street win first round of 'right to die' case

12-Mar-2012

The High Court has given permission for Bindmans to bring a ‘right to die’ matter before the courts after it threw out the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) strike out application.
Bindmans drawn into London riots row

9-Aug-2011

King’s Cross firm Bindmans has been recommended by a left-wing blog as the firm of choice for those arrested in relation to London riots.
Bindmans scoops NoW phone hacking mandate

13-Sep-2010

Bindmans has launched judicial review proceedings against the Metropolitan Police over claims it failed to adequately investigate allegations of phone hacking at Sunday tabloid News of the World (NoW).
Bindmans wins £1.3m discrimination claim against mystery City firm

7-Jul-2011

A City firm has settled a disability discrimination claim brought by a former employee for £1.3m under a confidential agreement.
Bingham expands into PRC with representative office in Beijing

9-Nov-2011

US firm Bingham McCutchen will soon add Beijing to its roster of global offices after securing a licence from China’s Ministry of Justice to open a representative office in the city.
Bingham McCutchen favours London in global promos round

5-Jan-2012

Bingham McCutchen has elected four London lawyers to its partnership as part of a nine-lawyer global round of promotions.
Bingham McCutcheon kickstarts Beijing launch with lateral hire

1-Dec-2011

US firm Bingham McCutcheon has hired Jones Day partner Xiaowei Ye to manage its newly launched Beijing office alongside corporate partner Brian Beglin, who is relocating from Tokyo.
Bingham promotes three to Tokyo partnership

20-Apr-2010

Bingham McCutchen has continued its Asian investment programme with the promotion of three new lawyers to its Tokyo partnership.
Bingham secures CoA victory in Elektrim battle

22-Oct-2010

The London office of Bingham McCutchen is celebrating after winning the latest round in its long-running battle for the bondholders in troubled Polish conglomerate Elektrim.
Bingham shuns London in 13-strong promos round

12-Jan-2011

Bingham McCutchen had added 13 lawyers to its partnership, all of whom are based in the firm’s US office, in its annual round of promotions.
Bingham snaps up McKee in US merger

6-Jul-2009

Bingham McCutchen has acquired 120-lawyer US firm McKee Nelson.
Bingham turns to regulator for New York enforcement hire

12-Apr-2010

Bingham McCutchen has brought in an enforcement chief from the Financial Industry Regulator Authority (FINRA) to head its enforcement practice in New York.
Bingham's City office posts 14 per cent revenue hike

16-Feb-2012

The London office of Bingham has posted a 13.9 per cent increase in turnover following a strong year in financial regulatory and restructuring.
Bingham's London revenues jump 32 per cent in 2009

4-Feb-2010

The London office of Bingham has posted a 31.6 per cent increase in turnover off the back of a significant rise in restructuring work.
Biotech group Vernalis replaces departing GC with internal promotion

12-Nov-2009

Biotechnology research company Vernalis has promoted in-house lawyer Alison Hood to the position of general counsel and company secretary.
Bircham cuts 15 jobs at end of second consultation

22-May-2009

Bircham Dyson Bell has completed a second redundancy consultation, which has seen 15 jobs cut at the top 80 firm.
Bircham Dyson Bell makes interim chief permanent

22-May-2012

Bircham Dyson Bell has announced that temporary managing partner Jesper Christensen will fill the role on a permanent basis.
Bircham Dyson Bell names new senior partner

1-Jun-2010

Bircham Dyson Bell residential and leasehold reform head John Stephenson has taken over as the firm’s senior partner from today.
Bircham managing partner to step down in May

19-Apr-2012

Bircham Dyson Bell’s managing partner has told the firm’s management board that he will not stand for re-election next month.
Bird & Bird adds five partners across Asian offices

23-Mar-2012

Bird & Bird has added five partners to its Asian practice with four external appointments and one internal promotion.
Bird & Bird latest to benefit from Dewey departures with hire of Paris partner

11-May-2012

Former Dewey & LeBoeuf London corporate partner Stephen Walters has joined Bird & Bird’s Paris office.
Bird & Bird makes it four in Germany with Hamburg launch

19-Apr-2011

Bird & Bird is to open in Hamburg, the expansionist firm’s fourth office in Germany.
Bird & Bird overlooks London as four gain partnership

15-Apr-2009

Bird & Bird has made up four lawyers to its partnership in its annual round of promotions.
Bird und Bird sind ein Hamburger

19-Apr-2011

Hamburg, birthplace of the Beatles, is also home to the most interesting football team in Europe. St Pauli, as Bundesliga fans will know, have an anarchist fan base and a gay former club president. Millwall it certainly ain’t.
Birds of a feather...

9-Oct-2009

Pity poor John Pheasant. Who, you ask? How quickly the stars of yester-year are consigned to the black hole of oblivion (also known as Hogan & Hartson).
Birmingham City Council to open revamped panel to 38 authorities

4-Jan-2010

Birmingham City Council (BCC) has completed the tender for its £6m legal panel, which 38 other local authorities are able to access.
Birmingham legal chief facing redundancy as part of reorganisation

22-Feb-2010

Birmingham City Council’s (BCC) corporate director of governance Mirza Ahmad is facing redundancy as the local authority considers restructuring its senior management.
Birmingham legal chief leaves in wake of restructure

1-Aug-2011

Birmingham City Council’s corporate director of governance Mirza Ahmad has left his position after more than a year of uncertainty following a restructure of senior management at the local authority.
Birmingham legal chief's post cut in restructure

21-Oct-2010

Birmingham City Council (BCC) legal chief Mirza Ahmad faces redundancy after he was unsuccessful in his bid to assume a newly created role of strategic director of resources.
Birmingham set No5 names new chambers head

28-Jul-2010

No5 Chambers has named Paul Bleasdale QC as the set’s new head following the death earlier this month of Ralph Lewis QC.
Bishopsgate Kitchen

10-Feb-2012

Cleverly crafted in glass from a literal hole in the wall between two taller buildings, like a small child swinging by the hands of its two flanking parents, Bishopsgate Kitchen’s novelty factor is in plain sight from the outset.
Bivonas discriminated against lawyer for being gay, EAT finds

3-Feb-2012

White collar crime firm Bivonas discriminated against lawyer Lee Bennett on the grounds of sexual orientation, an Employment Appeal Tribunal has found.
Blackstone acts for Spurs on Olympic Stadium judicial review

20-May-2011

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has instructed Blackstone Chambers’ Dinah Rose QC to lead its judicial review proceedings into the decision to give West Ham United use of the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 games.
Blackstone barrister convinces EAT to uphold animal rights ruling

5-Oct-2011

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has rejected a bid made by Orchard Park Garden Centre to challenge an unfair dismissal ruling brought by an ex-employee and animal rights activist.
Blackstone Chambers mourns death of Sir Ian Brownlie QC

5-Jan-2010

Human rights and civil liberties silk Sir Ian Brownlie QC has died in a car accident in Egypt.
Blackstone convinces court that Spurs can challenge Olympics decision

24-Aug-2011

Blackstone Chambers and Olswang have secured a judicial review hearing for Tottenham Hotspur against the decision to give West Ham United use of the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games.
Blackstone silk convinces court that Harry Potter author should face copyright claim

21-Oct-2010

Mr Justice Kitchin has ruled that Harry Potter author JK Rowling and her publishing house Bloomsbury should face claims for copyright infringement in the High Court.
Blackstone silk defeated in Wayne Rooney commission case

15-Jul-2010

Blackstone Chambers silk Ian Mill QC has lost a high profile case in the Manchester Mercantile Court after Mr Justice Hegarty QC ruled that his client, sport management firm Proactive, was not owed commission by footballer Wayne Rooney.
Blackstone silk knighted in birthday honours list

15-Jun-2009

Blackstone Chambers’ Ian Brownlie QC and Clifford Chance partner Michael Smyth are the only lawyers to have been honoured by the Queen in her annual Birthday Honours List.
Blackstone silk leads appeal for GB rhythmic gymnastics team

24-Feb-2012

Blackstone Chambers’ Michael Beloff QC is to represent Great Britain’s rhythmic gymnastics group in their appeal against their exclusion from the Olympic Games.
Blackstone silk loses Supreme Court asbestos case

12-Oct-2011

The Supreme Court has ruled that people in Scotland who have been affected by the asbestos related condition pleural plaques have the right to compensation.
Blackstone silk seals small victory for Tesco ahead of CAT hearing

23-Mar-2012

Blackstone Chambers’ Dinah Rose QC has helped Tesco rebut an OFT request for cheese-pricing information in the build up to a major appeal.
Blackstone silk to lead appeal over closure of Brent libraries

13-Oct-2011

Blackstone Chambers’ Dinah Rose QC has been instructed to launch an appeal after the High Court dismissed a judicial review application relating to the closure of six libraries in North London.
Blackstone silks face off in BBC freedom of expression case

11-Jan-2012

Blackstone Chambers’ David Pannick QC has won judicial review proceedings against the Secretary of State for Justiceon behalf of the BBC.
Blackstone's Dinah Rose QC strikes another blow to Government on Equitable case

15-Oct-2009

The Government must reassess how it compensated former Equitable Life pension policyholders after the High Court rejected attempts to quash a parliamentary ombudsman report into the near collapse of the insurer.
Blake Dawson's Jakarta best friend bulks up with 14-lawyer team

8-Jun-2011

The Indonesian associated firm of Australia’s Blake Dawson has expanded with the addition of one partner and 13 associates.
Blake Lapthorn launches London banking practice

13-May-2009

Blake Lapthorn has launched a London banking practice after hiring Clyde & Co head of banking Claire Wheatley.
BLG and Clydes eye UK top 10 slot with potential merger

3-Jun-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) is planning to merge with fellow insurance firm Clyde & Co, in a deal that would propel the combined entity into the UK top 10 by turnover.
BLG and Clydes get partner backing for proposed tie-up

29-Jul-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) and Clyde & Co have voted to proceed with their merger plans, the firms have announced jointly.
BLG and Clydes head to Libya to iron out property headaches

20-Oct-2011

Merger partners Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) and Clyde & Co will send a representative to Libya next week in a bid to extricate BLG from its lease on a London office building owned by the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company (Lafico).
BLG brand to disappear as part of Clydes merger

4-Aug-2011

The Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) brand will be scrapped in favour of Clyde & Co when the firms merge in November with BLG’s partners moving onto Clydes’ lockstep structure.
BLG disputes head defects to Taylor Wessing

26-Oct-2010

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert commercial disputes head Julian Randall has quit the firm to join Taylor Wessing along with litigation partner Andrew Howell.
BLG exits continue as two partners head to Camerons

18-Nov-2010

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) partner duo Mike Munro and James Parker have become the latest to quit the firm amid a string of partner exits.
BLG financial services head quits for Taylor Wessing

4-Oct-2010

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert financial services chief Tim Strong has left to join Taylor Wessing less than a year after the firm created the specialised practice area.
BLG hires Shanghai chief

16-Sep-2009

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) has hired the head of US firm Fredrikson & Byron’s China practice.
BLG latest firm to ask trainees to wait

12-May-2009

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) has offered half of its September trainee intake £2,500 to defer for six months.
BLG loses arbitration head to Wragges

15-Sep-2010

Wragge & Co has hired the London-based head of the international arbitration practice at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.
BLG makes up nine partners

6-May-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) has unveiled its partnership promotion round, bringing nine into the fold.
BLG maritime partner duo jump ship to Norton Rose

6-Oct-2011

Norton Rose has bolstered its insurance practice with the hire of two maritime partners from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG).
BLG names new chief exec as Evans prepares to leave firm

4-Jan-2010

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert chief executive Clint Evans is set to leave the firm with chief operating officer (COO) David Jabbari stepping into the role.
BLG partner quits to launch technology boutique

1-Dec-2010

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) partner Andrew Giverin is leaving the firm to set up a technology boutique in the latest in a string of departures from the top 40 firm.
BLG pays up after falling into arrears with Halliwells' administrators

15-Aug-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) has repaid more than £232,000 to failed firm Halliwells’ administrators after initially withholding the sum, which was owed as part of BLG’s 2010 purchase of Halliwells’ insurance practice.
BLG tight-lipped on fee-earner redundancies as 49 staff enter consultation

1-Jun-2009

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) has launched a redundancy consultation with 49 staff and an undisclosed number of fee earners.
BLG, Gaddafi and a spot of office bother

17-Oct-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert is having a touch of landlord trouble - the trouble being that its landlord was Colonel Gaddafi (see story).
BLG, Hill Dickinson, HBJ Gateley Wareing carve up the remains of Halliwells

21-Jul-2010

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, HBJ Gateley Wareing and Hill Dickinson have completed their acquisition of failed firm Halliwells.
BLG-Clyde & Co deal hits hurdle as merger agreement is delayed

5-Oct-2011

The imminent merger between Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) faces a snag as the firms have delayed signing the agreement.
BLG's aviation team defects to Holman Fenwick

24-Mar-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) is losing its entire eight-strong aviation team to rival insurance firm Holman Fenwick & Willan (HFW).
BLG's Hot ride to Clydes

3-Jun-2011

Revealed: the kingmaker behind today’s shock news that BLG is in merger talks with Clydes (see story).
BLG's nascent Brazil base made loss in first year after launch

12-Jan-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) made a loss on its newly opened Brazilian operation in 2009-10, when the firm posted a 22 per cent profit margin on a firmwide turnover of £81m.
BLG's pre-merger exits continue as insurance duo quit for Ince

13-Oct-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert insurance partners Simon Cooper and Kiran Soar have defected to Ince & Co ahead of the firm’s merger with Clyde & Co.
BLM admits non-lawyer to equity in LDP conversion

20-Jun-2011

Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM) has converted to a legal disciplinary partnership (LDP) and promoted non-lawyer Alistair Kinley into its equity partnership.
BLM is most female friendly firm in UK top 50

27-Jan-2010

Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM) has the highest proportion of female partners among the top 50 UK firms by turnover, with 35 per cent of its partnership made up of women.
BLM partner appointed to head CJC group on Jackson reforms

5-Aug-2011

The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has appointed Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM) head of policy development Alistair Kinley to lead its working party on Lord Justice Jackson’s civil justice reforms.
BLM welcomes eight to partnership, four in Manchester

12-Apr-2011

Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM) has promoted eight associates to its partnership with half the total being made up in Manchester.
Blog day afternoon

10-Oct-2011

It’s been one year exactly since Andrew Marr hit out at bloggers, calling them mostly “socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men sitting in their mothers’ basements and ranting”.
Blog: Offshore Technology Conference

30-Apr-2012

Today, the world’s largest annual energy conferences kicks off in Houston, Texas. With more than 70,000 delegates and 2,000 exhibiting companiesfrom over 110 counties, the Offshore Technology Conference is big on a scale that only the U.S. can manage.
Blog: Offshore Technology Conference - Day 2

1-May-2012

Scale continues to be the theme as we get into the Texan way. Great speech from Matt Fox EVP at Conoco Phillips, where he discussed the scale thatnow exists in unconventional gas and the seismic changes there.
Blog: Offshore Technology Conference - Day 3

2-May-2012

Today’s theme was innovation. Maybe not surprising at a global technology showcase, but innovation in interesting ways.
Blog: Offshore Technology Conference - Day 4

3-May-2012

John Rutherford, an energy specialist and corporate partner at Pinsent Masons, reports the latest from the Offshore Technology Conference in Euston, Texas, where delegate numbers have hit over 80,000.
Blog: Offshore Technology Conference - Day 5

4-May-2012

Martin Ewan, a Partner in the Energy and Natural Resources practice at Pinsent Masons, looks back on a thought-provoking week at the world’s largestenergy event.
Blogging and lawyers

21-May-2010

This week I was invited to the ceremony of the George Orwell Awards for “political” writing.
Blogging sense of it all

12-Aug-2011

For those of you who felt the Daily Mail’s Melanie Phillips’ delightful ramblings on England’s riots couldn’t quite provide you with all you needed to know, The Lawyer has compiled some of the best blogs to come out of the chaos (see story).
Blood on the tracks

25-Jan-2012

Disputes over procurement policies are on the rise as contractors fiercely fight to secure contracts. Nowhere is this more evident than in Alstom Transport’s legal battle with Eurostar International over the train operator’s decision to hand a fleet building contract to Siemens.
Bloomberg poaches five-partner Willkie Farr team for New York HQ

31-Oct-2011

US firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher is set to lose five partners from its New York base to its long-standing client Bloomberg.
Blow to UK collective actions as BA, Slaughters beat Hausfeld in Court of Appeal

19-Nov-2010

An attempt to bring a US-style class action through the Court of Appeal has been thrown out after Lord Justice Mummery said the case was “fatally flawed”.
BLP adds Ashurst partner to City banking team

14-Nov-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is continuing to bulk up its finance practice, hiring a partner from Ashurst for its London banking and capital markets group.
BLP adds two partners to City office

14-Apr-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has made a double lateral hire, adding partners to its corporate finance and asset finance practices.
BLP banking partner Waghorn quits firm after two decades

21-Apr-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) banking and capital markets partner Mark Waghorn has announced that he will leave the firm after 21 years.
BLP bolsters Singapore with Watson Farley hire

19-Dec-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired Watson Farley & Williams’ Asia corporate head for its Singapore office.
BLP boosts litigation practice with Clifford Chance hire

1-Jul-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has continued its recent hiring spree, taking on Clifford Chance litigation partner Nicholas Fletcher.
BLP busts lockstep to pay top earner £1.6m

11-Jan-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) top-earning partner took home £1.6m during 2009-10, a profit share 60 per cent above that paid to partners on the top rung of the firm’s modified lockstep.
BLP continues magic circle hiring spree with addition of Linklaters partner

26-Apr-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has announced the hire of Linklaters real estate finance partner Claire Watson, making her the firm’s ninth lateral hire since the beginning of the year.
BLP continues to build banking with hire from Clifford Chance

11-Jan-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) banking push shows no sign of abating as the firm picks up a structured finance partner from Clifford Chance.
BLP cuts 85 jobs at the end of consultation

22-Jun-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has cut 85 jobs at the end of a redundancy consultation that got underway in May.
BLP elects new chairman as senior partner remains in post

19-Apr-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has elected a new chairman to replace incumbent Peter Robinson as Harold Paisner gets another term as senior partner.
BLP favours London in 13-strong promotions round

5-Apr-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has made up 13 partners in its annual round of promotions, up from eight in 2010.
BLP favours real estate as seven gain partnership

21-Apr-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner has made up seven to its partnership this year, with the real estate practice the biggest beneficiary.
BLP gunned down

21-Oct-2011

We’d like to say that Greenberg Traurig Maher has 45 lawyers working on the Colt Technology Services account that it has just won from Berwin Leighton Paisner (see story) - then we could call them “the Colt 45”.
BLP hands fifth term to managing partner Eisenberg

23-Feb-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has re-elected Neville Eisenberg as managing partner for a fifth term.
BLP hires advertising guru for marketing push

23-Feb-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired a PR and marketing guru to drive its marketing strategy.
BLP hires Allen & Overy partner for London energy practice

13-Dec-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has given its London projects team a boost, hiring an equity partner from Allen & Overy (A&O).
BLP hires Linklaters lawyer for Hong Kong launch

17-Jun-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is set to launch an office in Hong Kong with a counsel from Linklaters, as the firm eyes mainland China next.
BLP hires retiring Allen & Overy corporate partner Paul

24-Apr-2012

One of Allen & Overy’s (A&O) most senior corporate partners who announced his retirement from the firm late last year has resurfaced at Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP).
BLP hires Teacher Stern sports litigator Shear

6-Aug-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired Teacher Stern sports and media litigator Graham Shear.
BLP launches in Berlin and Frankfurt with Linklaters raid

19-Sep-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is launching offices in Berlin and Frankfurt after poaching a team of lawyers from Linklaters.
BLP launches Tel Aviv representative base

23-Apr-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has opened a representative office in Israel’s financial centre.
BLP NQ is charged with wife's murder

14-Dec-2010

A Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) newly qualified (NQ) solicitor has been charged with murdering his wife.
BLP on course for modest turnover rise at end of expansionist year

18-May-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) looks set to post a single-digit increase in turnover for the 2011-12 financial year.
BLP partner launches phone-hacking claim against NoW

26-Jul-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) litigation partner Graham Shear has become embroiled in the News of the World (NoW) phone-hacking scandal, lodging a breach of privacy claim against the defunct paper’s publishers.
BLP partner secures £25,000 phone-hacking payout

20-Jan-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner partner Graham Shear has secured a £25,000 settlement payout from News Group Newspapers over allegations that the News of the World hacked his phone.
BLP partners increased capital payments by £3.5m in 2008-09

6-Jan-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner partners increased the total amount of capital in the firm last year by £3.5m.
BLP picks up BLG environment head

28-Oct-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) planning and environment team is set to receive a boost as the firm scoops a Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) department head.
BLP ponders future of Lawyers on Demand business

17-Feb-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is discussing whether to spin off its Lawyers on Demand (LoD) service as the business goes through ‘its adolescence’.
BLP prepares to take over Thames Water's legal function

25-Mar-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is finalising a major deal with Thames Water that will see the utility company transfer its legal function over to the City firm.
BLP promotes 11 partners across City, Abu Dhabi and Singapore

18-Apr-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has made up 11 lawyers to its partnership, a small drop on last year’s 13-strong promotions round.
BLP promotions see eight make partner

20-Apr-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has promoted eight lawyers to its partnership, with all but one based in London.
BLP results: net profit jumps 22 per cent as turnover reaches £191m

14-Jun-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner saw both turnover and profit grow over the last financial year, as income rises above £190m for the first time.
BLP sees PEP rocket 56 per cent to £712,000

27-May-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner has seen average profit per equity partner (PEP) rise 56 per cent in the past financial year on the back of a turnover rise of 20 per cent.
BLP to spin off Lawyers on Demand business

24-May-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) partners last night voted to spin off the firm’s interim lawyer service, Lawyers on Demand (LoD).
BLP triumphs at Law Rocks event

30-Apr-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s BLP rock supergroup Real State romped home as the standout winner of Law Rocks 2010 at a packed 100 Club last night.
BLP turns to Mayer Brown for latest financial services hire

12-May-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired Mayer Brown partner Nick Kynoch in a bid to boost its financial services practice.
BLP unveils London layoff programme for 85

5-May-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner has launched a redundancy consultation today affecting 85 people in its London office.
BLP ups performance element in partner remuneration

24-Aug-2011

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) equity partners will have to work harder for their pay following the firm’s decision to put more emphasis on performance when distributing profits.
BLP, White & Case and Wragges advise on Boris's bike hire scheme

30-Jul-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), White & Case and Wragge & Co have acted on the London cycle hire scheme that launched today.
BLP: Firm yet soft

24-Aug-2011

Mention the words ’bonus’ and ’banker’ to the average man or woman on the street and you can expect to see their face twist with rage at the injustice of it all.
BLP's former finance head relocates to Moscow

6-Dec-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) former head of finance is relocating to Moscow as the firm’s Russia tie-up reports a 60 per cent rise in revenue.
BLP's massive wedge

18-Nov-2010

If there’s one thing that this recession has taught us it’s that, despite what we’ve always been told, everyone loves a good news story.
BLP's PEP slides to £414,000 as revenue remains steady

16-Jul-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure fell 33 per cent on last year’s total of £620,000, down to £414,000.
BLP's revenues fall five per cent at half-year stage

11-Nov-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner has reported a drop in revenues of five per cent for the first six months of the 2009-10 financial year.
BLP's top-earner got £1.65m profit share in 2010-11

1-Feb-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) highest paid partner got £1.65m in 2010-11, according to the firm’s LLP accounts, up from £1.6m the year before.
BLP's turnover rockets 30 per cent in first half

18-Nov-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has posted a 30 per cent increase in fee income at the half year level.
Blue moot

18-May-2011

Oxford? Cambridge? Hull? Finally, the centuries-old debate about which of Britain’s great universities really is the best can be settled amicably and without all that mucking about in the Thames.
Blue sky thinking

8-Feb-2010

Australia. Beloved at this time of year by the British backpacker for its blue skies, its barbies and Bondi Beach.
Blue Sky thinking

26-Oct-2009

A lot can happen in a year. Just look at the last 12 months: we lost the King of Pop, a new president was sworn into the White House and, of course, Katie and Peter split up…
BNP Paribas to expand legal panel in latest review

14-Jul-2011

BNP Paribas has launched a review of its global panel with more than 20 firms invited to pitch for places on an expanded roster.
Body overseeing pensions personal accounts names GC

8-Sep-2009

Pensions body the personal accounts delivery authority (PADA) has named a former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner as its general counsel.
Boekel opens Dutch law office in London

30-Sep-2010

Dutch firm Boekel de Nerée has opened an office in London - its first venture outside the Netherlands.
Bond Pearce and Maclays ditch merger plans

14-Mar-2012

Bond Pearce and Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens have called off merger talks that would have created a £95m turnover firm.
Bond Pearce and RPC swell partner ranks with latest promos

2-May-2012

Bond Pearce and RPC are the latest firms to unveil partnership promotions, with RPC adding two lawyers to its all-equity partnership while Bond Pearce has promoted five.
Bond Pearce hires from Clydes

10-Apr-2012

Bond Pearce has hired a Clyde & Co partner, boosting its insurance professional risks team in London.
Bonelli appoints founding partner as London head

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Italian firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo is set to appoint senior and founding partner Andrea Carta Mantiglia as head of its London office.
Bonelli appoints founding partner as London head

13-Mar-2012

Italian firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo is set to appoint senior and founding partner Andrea Carta Mantiglia as head of its London office.
Bonelli Erede partner found guilty in Parmalat case

10-Dec-2010

Sergio Erede, one of the founding partners of Italian heavyweight Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, has been given a 20-month suspended sentence for his role in the collapse of dairy company Parmalat.
Bonelli partner lands key role at ICC International Court of Arbitration

16-May-2012

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has picked Bonelli Erede Pappalardo partner Andrea Carlevaris as the new secretary general of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.
Bonelli, Chiomenti and Wolf Theiss announce partner promos

19-May-2011

A trio of European firms have announced their annual partner promotions, with a focus in all three on corporate and litigation practices.
Bonus balls

18-May-2010

If George Osborne and David Laws want any tips on which sofas to look behind to find that pesky £163bn they need to plug the budget deficit they could do a lot worse than give Nick Thomas a quick bell.
Books for all

13-Oct-2011

Public libraries are in danger of going the way of the public phone box, Blockbuster stores and fax machines.
Bordering on the problematic

16-Aug-2010

All of those City lawyers celebrating the end of the Gordon Brown government back in May might be choking on their champagne (or more likely austerity-era prosecco) this week after the coalition’s new immigration laws began to pinch.
Bott & Co launches iPhone accident app

4-Dec-2009

Law firm Bott & Co has launched a personal injury (PI) iPhone application that allows claimants to get instant access to a PI solicitor if they have been involved in an accident.
Bouncing back

4-Aug-2009

Good news for vilified banking lawyers: the loan market is on the rebound. Today the FT is reporting that prices for leveraged loans have just reached a year high, at 85 per cent of face value.
Boundary

8-Nov-2011

They didn’t bat an eyelid at the tattoos, but, after all, it is Shoreditch. It must scare a few pinstripes; I mean, they know it exists, and only a minute’s cab ride from Liverpool Street, but it’s actually in ANOTHER WORLD. I mean, it’s in Tower Hamlets, for God’s sake.
Boutique firm Starr advises on acquisition of Connaught's assets

10-Sep-2010

Niche City firm Starr & Partners has won a role on the administration of property group Connaught, advising building company Morgan Sindall on its acquisition of the group’s assets.
BPE closes in Birmingham after Irwin Mitchell raid

15-Jun-2009

BPE Solicitors has closed its Birmingham office following the departure of its Midlands team to Irwin Mitchell.
BPE ditches flexi-working for full-time hours

11-Jun-2009

Gloucester-based BPE Solicitors has moved the 13 members of staff who were put on a four-day week in January back up to full-time working.
BPP becomes UK's first private university college in three decades

26-Jul-2010

BPP College of Professional Studies has been named as the UK’s first new private sector university college for more than 30 years.
BPP expansion plans trigger JLD crisis talks

27-Oct-2010

The Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) is to hold an emergency meeting to discuss BPP Law School’s plans to expand into Cambridge, Liverpool and Newcastle.
BPP lays off three BVC lecturers after consultation

25-Mar-2009

BPP Law School has made three full-time Bar Vocational Course (BVC) lecturers redundant following a slump in the number of students enrolling.The law school, one of the biggest BVC providers in the country, confirmed that it was in consultation with 11 of its BVC tutors in December last year.The provider, which is owned by BPP Holdings, saw a 17 per cent drop in the number of students enrolling on the BVC, with just 247 students taking up a spot this year compared ...
BPP readies the mortar boards

28-Jul-2010

Fancy setting up a university?
BPP students made to wait for exam results

17-Jul-2009

BPP Law school has denied claims that an outbreak of swine flu caused it to delay releasing exam results to its Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) students for two days earlier this week.
BPP to trump CoL with launch of three regional branches

22-Oct-2010

BPP Law School is on course to overtake arch-rival the College of Law (CoL) as the biggest Legal Practice Course (LPC) provider as it gears up to launch three new branches.
BP's slick footwork

26-May-2011

Well, that was a bit of a let-down. The revelation (see story) that BP has picked both Freshfields and Linklaters - or, if you like, Linklaters and Freshfields - is the equivalent of a nil-nil draw at Wembley this Saturda
Brabners and MAB win spots on Clydesdale and Yorkshire panels

24-Nov-2011

Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank have rolled out a reviewed set of regional legal panels following a revamp of their national rosters earlier this year.
Brabners corners football transfer market

1-Sep-2011

Sports lawyers were waiting up for the UK football transfer window to close last night as the final touches were made to last-minute deals.
Brabners cuts 15 jobs at end of consultation

3-Apr-2009

Brabners Chaffe Street has completed a second redundancy consultation which has seen 15 members of staff lose their jobs.
Brabners dominates top football deals as transfer season ends

4-Sep-2009

North west firm Brabners Chaffe Street has scored a role in some of the summer’s biggest football transfers, including the world record £80m sale of Christiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid.
Brand of God

11-Oct-2010

As Gerald Ratner would be all too happy to explain, in the modern world there’s a lot more to branding than just sticking a red-hot poker near a cow’s derriere.
Brave new world

19-May-2010

If the brave new world of British politics is anything to go by traditionalists and modernists can coexist in harmony.
Breaking bonds

24-Mar-2010

A personnel-poaching case that has rocked the City has cleared its first hurdle, with Mr Justice Jack ruling that broker Tullett Prebon was the victim of a conspiracy when arch rival BGC Brokers poached 10 of its brokers.
Bredin Prat and Vinson advise on China's investment in GDF Suez

17-Aug-2011

Bredin Prat and Vinson & Elkins lined up alongside Linklaters on the proposed €2.3bn acquisition of a stake in GDF Suez by China Investment Corporation (CIC).
Bredin Prat mourns death of founder

4-Apr-2011

French independent Bredin Prat has announced the sudden death of founding partner Jean-François Prat.
Bribe talkin'

30-Mar-2011

It’s hard to know exactly why and when the concept of bribery got itself such a bad name.
Brick Court barristers defeat set mates in TfL's spat with Addison Lee

26-Apr-2012

Barristers at Brick Court Chambers were pitted against each other as Transport for London (TfL) secured an injunction against taxi firm Addison Lee to stop its drivers using bus lanes.
Brick Court names chambers head as Sumption prepares for Supreme Court

12-May-2011

Brick Court Chambers has appointed Nicholas Green QC as joint head of chambers, succeeding Jonathan Sumption QC.
Brick Court scoops Lord Hoffmann as door tenant

16-Apr-2009

Retiring law lord Lord Hoffmann is to join Brick Court Chambers as a door tenant.
Brick Court silk defects to Serle Court

7-Oct-2010

Brick Court Chambers silk Conor Quigley QC has left the set to join Lincoln’s Inn chambers Serle Court.
Brick Court silk proves causation of loss is vital in damages claims

20-Jan-2011

Claimants must prove causation of loss if follow-on damages claims are to be successful, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled.
Brick Court silk wins victory for EC in Fifa pay-TV dispute

17-Feb-2011

Brick Court’s James Flynn QC has won a major case for the European Commission (EC) after the European General Court (EGC) ruled that it is legal for European countries to ban the exclusive airing of World Cup and European football championship games on pay-TV.
Brick Court takes lead roles on BP Rosneft battle

31-Jan-2011

Brick Court heavyweights Mark Howard QC and Mark Hapgood QC will go head to head in the High Court tomorrow (1 February) as Russian shareholders attempt to block BP’s planned alliance with Rosneft.
Brick Court win spells no compensation for Northern Rock shareholders

7-Oct-2011

Mayer Brown and Brick Court Chambers have won a victory that supports the Government’s actions over the collapse of Northern Rock in 2008.
Bristol's Brunel bash

3-Apr-2012

It’s Isambard Kingdom Brunel who’s credited with linking the West Country and London, but it seems law firms are trying to outdo the old engineer.
Bristol's Guildhall Chambers raids Queen Square for employment launch

1-Feb-2012

Bristol set Guildhall Chambers is to launch an employment group after adding five new members from Queen Square Chambers.
Bristol's TLT expands into Scotland and Northern Ireland

9-May-2012

TLT is set to expand into Scotland and launch in Northern Ireland, with the Bristol-based firm announcing plans to merge with Scottish firm Anderson Fyfe.
Bristol's Veale Wasbrough to cut 26 jobs

27-Mar-2009

Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough has launched a redundancy consultation affecting up to 26 members of staff.
Bristows in renewed push on IT with TwoBirds hire

28-Sep-2009

Bird & Bird has lost one of the rising stars of its IT practice to rival Bristows.
Bristows partner wins iPad2 after completing partnership survey

3-Oct-2011

A Bristows IP specialist has won an iPad2 after taking part in The Lawyer’s first-ever online partnership survey.
British Chiropractic Association drops Singh libel case

15-Apr-2010

The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) has discontinued its libel case against science writer Simon Singh.
Brittan's got talent

17-Aug-2009

Q: What have Kerry Katona and Bevan Brittan got in common? A: They both get their bills paid by Iceland.
Brodies bolsters IP team with double partner hire from Maclays

19-Mar-2012

Brodies has bulked up its IP practice with the hire of two partners from Maclay Murray & Spens.
Brodies makes first foray outside Scotland with Brussels launch

3-Oct-2011

Scottish firm Brodies has opened its first office on foreign soil with the establishment of a base in Brussels.
Brodies promotes three and reelects managing partner and chair

13-May-2010

Scottish firm Brodies has boosted its partnership with the promotion of three lawyers, while also reelecting its managing partner and chairman for further terms.
Brodies sees turnover drop while PEP dips to £323,000

9-Jul-2010

Scottish firm Brodies has posted marginal drops in turnover and average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009-10 year while maintaining its profit margin at around 25 per cent.
Brodies targets Aberdeen as part of six-partner recruitment drive

21-Jan-2011

Scottish firm Brodies has marked the first phase of its new three-year strategy with the addition of six partners and the launch of an office in Aberdeen.
Brodies, Burness join Bakers, Freshfields on £740m Barclays deal

30-Jun-2011

Baker & McKenzie, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Scottish firms Brodies and Burness have advised on AXA Private Equity’s acquisition of a £740m portfolio of funds interests from Barclays.
Bromwich gets three more years as Ashurst chief

3-Dec-2009

Simon Bromwich has secured a third term as managing partner at Ashurst following a management board decision earlier this week.
Brown Rudnick beefs up London insolvency with Chadbourne hire

13-Jul-2011

Brown Rudnick has hired insolvency partner Adrian Harris from Chadbourne & Parke for its City office.
Brown Rudnick raids Gide for London disputes team

13-Feb-2012

US firm Brown Rudnick has poached a disputes partner and his team from Gide Loyrette Nouel in London.
Browned off at A&O

12-Jul-2011

Allen & Overy, Farrer & Co, Harbottle & Lewis, Olswang. The roll call of law firms being dragged into the News International saga grows by the day.
Brussels lobby firm hires former Monsanto chair as partner

7-Jan-2010

Brussels-based EU lobbying firm Alber & Geiger has hired the former chairman of agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto chairman Bernard Auxenfans.
Brussels outs

27-Aug-2009

Shearman & Sterling’s Brussels office must be a lonely place right now.
Bryan Cave expands Europe practice with Frankfurt launch

2-Nov-2011

US firm Bryan Cave is expanding its European presence with the launch of an office in Frankfurt and the recruitment of two Haarmann partners to lead the venture.
Bryan Cave promotes 14 to partnership

18-Nov-2010

Bryan Cave has made up 14 partners with all but one based in the firm’s US offices.
Bryan Cave reports 12 per cent revenue rise in 2009

1-Feb-2010

US firm Bryan Cave has reported a rise in income of 12 per cent over the 2009 calendar year, up to $563m (£350.6m) from $502.5m.
Bryan Cave withdraws from Milan as local partners defect to Grande Stevens

2-Feb-2011

US firm Bryan Cave has lost its Milan office with all three partners moving to Italian independent Grande Stevens.
BSB puts ABS at centre of latest code of conduct review

28-Oct-2011

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) is to launch another consultation on a future code of conduct for barristers with consideration being given to the introduction of business structures to the bar.
BSB puts aptitude test on ice for a year

18-Mar-2011

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has delayed the introduction of its Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) aptitude test by a year.
BSB to review professional development system

20-May-2011

The Bar Standards Board is considering a major shake-up of how barristers continue their professional development after qualifying.
BT & TalkTalk v Business Secretary

6-Mar-2012

Head of Legal’s Carl Gardner on why today’s filesharing decision makes sense
BT extends panel term for Bird & Bird, CMS and Freshfields

10-Feb-2012

BT has given Bird & Bird, CMS Cameron McKenna and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer an extra year on its commercial panel before it carries out a review originally due for next month.
BT names next legal chief as Fletcher steps down

22-Mar-2010

BT group general counsel Anne Fletcher has stepped down, with former Misys general counsel Daniel Fitz poised to take over her role.
BT panel firms tender for places via e-auction

31-Mar-2009

BT has piloted an e-auction as part of the process of reviewing the firms on the real estate part of its external legal panel.
BT to offer legal services via claims business

16-Feb-2012

A wholly owned subsidiary of the BT Group, BT Claims, has unveiled plans to convert to an alternative business structure (ABS).
Building blocks

16-Mar-2011

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) suffered a major setback last week when the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) reduced the fines it had imposed on six construction companies that had taken part in a price-fixing racket.
Bullying in confidence

25-Feb-2010

Amid the political fuss over allegations of bullying levelled at Gordon Brown, the National Bullying Helpline has also been roundly criticised after its chief executive, Christine Pratt, stated publicly that workers in the Prime Minister’s Office had contacted the charity.
Buncefield proves trial fees can be cut

29-Apr-2009

Davies Arnold Cooper’s client, Total, actually got off lightly when costs were awarded in the Buncefield litigation. A series of claimants applied for indemnity costs on grounds that Total failed to cooperate and misrepresented its case. In the end Mr Justice David Steel ordered the oil company to pay out £16m indemnity to claimants on just a single issue- that of negligence. It could well have been four times that.
Burges Salmon adds former Clifford Chance partner to litigation team

14-Jul-2011

Burges Salmon has hired former Clifford Chance partner Kari McCormick for its litigation practice.
Burges Salmon and Halliwells - a tale of two cultures

2-Aug-2010

It’s not often that we get to praise the philanthropy of the legal profession.
Burges Salmon and Pinsents advise on Sellafield land sell-off

30-Oct-2009

Burges Salmon and Pinsent Masons have advised on the sell-off of land next to the Sellafield nuclear plant.
Burges Salmon boosts insolvency team with Taylor Wessing hire

28-Jun-2010

Burges Salmon has hired Taylor Wessing’s head of restructuring and corporate recovery Patrick Cook as a partner in its corporate turnaround and insolvency team.
Burges Salmon chief steps down after less than year at helm

15-Dec-2009

Burges Salmon managing partner Chris Jackson has stood down from the role just under a year after taking the top job at the Bristol firm.
Burges Salmon emphasises agriculture strength after Wilsons faux pas

5-Apr-2011

Burges Salmon has moved to clarify that its agriculture, food and farming practice is still in place after Salisbury-based Wilsons claimed to have hired a 10-strong team from the firm.
Burges Salmon names senior partner after uncontested election

17-Mar-2011

Burges Salmon has named corporate partner Alan Barr as its new senior partner, taking over from Stephen McNulty who will stand down after four years on 1 May.
Burges Salmon promotes four after 2010 hiatus

7-Mar-2011

Burges Salmon has made up four new partners in this year’s promotion round, marking the first internal promotions at the firm for two years.
Burges Salmon promotes seven to partner in biggest-ever round

2-Apr-2012

Burges Salmon has announced the largest round of partner promotions in its history, with seven associates joining the ranks on 1 May.
Burges Salmon spent an extra £10m on new home in 2010-11

6-Jan-2012

Burges Salmon spent £9.7m on its new offices in the 2010-11 financial year, hiking the total cost of its move to Bristol’s Temple Quay to £20.7m.
Burges Salmon steals Osborne Clarke's PEP crown in southern battlefield

17-Aug-2009

The battle for supremacy in the South of England legal market saw Bristol heavyweight Burges Salmon overtake arch rival Osborne Clake in average profit per equity (PEP) stakes during the last financial year.
Burges Salmon to cut 31 jobs in second redundancy round

24-Aug-2009

Burges Salmon is set to make up to 27 business services staff and four property lawyers redundant as part of the second phase of its internal restructuring.
Burges Salmon turns to Clarke Willmott for agriculture hire

24-Aug-2011

Burges Salmon has beefed up its agriculture offering by netting farming litigator Kevin Kennedy from Clarke Willmott.
Burges Salmon's PEP beats Osborne Clarke's despite 23 per cent fall

17-Jul-2009

Bristol headquartered Burges Salmon has overtaken local rival Osborne Clarke in terms of average profit per equity partner (PEP).
Burness Bonus

20-Aug-2010

There’s a lot to be said for the Scottish sense of fair play.
Burness chair helps snooker's Higgins quash match-fixing claims

8-Sep-2010

Burness partner Philip Rodney has successfully defended the former snooker world champion John Higgins of allegations of match fixing, originally made by the News of the World (NoW).
Burness elicits apology from fashion retailer Zara in Harris Tweed IP dispute

20-Mar-2012

Scottish firm Burness has forced retail giant Zara to apologise for misusing the Harris Tweed trademark.
Burness pays bonus to all staff after strong financial year

20-Aug-2010

Scottish firm Burness has awarded a 5 per cent discretionary bonus to all employees following its improved financial performance in 2009-10.
Burness pays staff bonus after strong set of financials

10-Aug-2011

Scottish firm Burness is awarding all staff members a 10 per cent bonus after posting rises in turnover and profits for the 2010-11 financial year.
Buss Murton completes pre-packed administration

22-Jun-2009

Tunbridge Wells firm Buss Murton, which has been trading under a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) since November, has completed a pre-packed administration.
Bust-up at Luxembourg's Bonn Schmitt Steichen gives birth to two firms

5-Jan-2012

Luxembourg independent Bonn Schmitt Steichen has split in two after a disagreement over the firm’s management and strategy.
Buying rights

15-Apr-2009

Each new day sees retailers large and small going to the wall. This article addresses the plight of customers who have ordered and paid for expensive goods – such as furniture or computer equipment – but not yet taken delivery when the shop goes into administration. Can they insist on the goods being delivered or get their money back? Or are they just unsecured creditors who will probably get nothing?
BVC students favour self-employment over partnerships

25-Mar-2009

More than 70 per cent of students considering a career at the bar have said they would prefer to be self-employed, according to a new survey.The survey was conducted by the Young Barristers’ Committee last month (February) in response to the Legal Services Act (LSA), which could see barristers lose their self-employed status in favour of a partnership structure.Chairman of the YBC Alexander Learmonth, who instigated the survey, said he wanted to see what affect ...
By royal invitation

23-Mar-2012

Hogan Lovells co-CEO David Harris on how being involved with youth development scheme Mosaic led the firm to play host to royalty
Bye Bye Beijing

13-Apr-2012

Western firms are still in the early stages of figuring out how to succeed in China and anecdotal mutterings from lawyers seem to suggest that, at present, the country is a money pit, with few tapping the nation’s vast potential to any great profits success.
Bye bye bonus, bonus bye bye

25-Jan-2010

Last November, when we published a bunch of the leading UK firms’ half-year results, Simmons & Simmons popped up as one of the worst performers.
Cadwalader downsizes as it opts for new Bank home

21-Jul-2009

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is moving to new premises in Bank which will see the firm almost halve its office space in the capital.
Cadwalader launches in Houston with transatlantic team snared from McDermott

20-Jan-2011

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has scooped a nine-partner transatlantic team from rival McDermott Will & Emery, including one partner for the firm’s London office.
Cadwalader posts stagnant profits after year of investment

2-Feb-2012

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has posted flat average profits for 2011 after a year of investment that saw three office launches and a series of hires.
Cadwalader targets London growth as new City chief takes reins

19-Dec-2011

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is to kick off the New Year with a fresh recruitment drive in the London market spearheaded by a new City managing partner.
Cadwalader trades on Microsoft connections to scoop Linklaters competition star

28-Apr-2011

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is launching a competition law outpost in Brussels with a prominent hire from Linklaters.
Cadwalader's Block quits for Greenberg

9-Sep-2011

One of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s best-known partners Dennis Block is leaving the firm to join Greenberg Traurig.
Cadwalader's Link retires months after ending City stint

22-Sep-2010

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s former firmwide chairman Bob Link has retired seven months after returning to the US from the UK, where he had been London head.
Cahill to bulk up London base ahead of expected high-yield revival

3-Nov-2009

Cahill Gordon & Reindel is preparing to relocate a team of associates from its New York office to London to take advantage of the anticipated resurgence of the European high-yield market.
Call for order

8-Apr-2009

On 1 April, the Court of Appeal rejected a claim that the economic downturn and subsequent asset depreciation were grounds to reopen a financial order on divorce.
Calunius backs case over Elvis's German royalties

30-Aug-2011

Third-party litigation funder Calunius Litigation Risk Fund is supporting a lawsuit filed in Germany on behalf of the estate of Elvis Presley.
Cambridgeshire councils team up to share legal services

27-Apr-2010

Seven councils in Cambridgeshire have signed a concordat with a view to sharing expertise and forming a consortium of external advisers as part of an initiative called Cambridgeshire Legal Services Partnership.
Cameras in court – Open Justice or “LEX” Factor?

10-Oct-2011

No sooner had the detritus of the riots been swept from our chartered streets than the media whipped itself into veritable frenzy about the quantity of custodial sentences handed down to offenders[1].
Camerons adds strength to Warsaw TMT practice

26-Jan-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has bolstered its eastern European offering with the capture of the head of strategy from one of Poland’s leading telecoms operators.
Camerons and Freshfields lead on £8bn pharma deal

20-May-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer secured prize mandates on the €9.6bn (£8.4bn) sale of Swiss drug company Nycomed to the Japanese Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.
Camerons announces 16 promotions, with UK focus

3-May-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna has appointed 16 new partners, with 14 of the promotions coming in the UK offices.
Camerons' big society

23-Nov-2010

Let’s face it, ’outsourcing’ is not one of those words that sends a tingle down the spine. At least not in the same way as, say, ’stiletto’, ’Ferrari’ or ’bonus’ might do.
Camerons borrowed £4.5m to fund 2009-10 de-equitisations

6-Jan-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna borrowed a total of £4.5m to fund one-off payments to partners it de-equitised at the end of the last financial year, LLP accounts filed with Companies House have revealed.
Camerons' Bristol insurance team depleted by RPC raid

19-Sep-2011

Four insurance and reinsurance partners are set to leave the Bristol office of CMS Cameron McKenna in a mass defection to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC).
Camerons cuts three from London real estate

9-Dec-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna has cut three real estate partners from its City office.
Camerons defeats professional negligence claim from Edenwest

17-May-2012

The High Court has thrown out a professional negligence claim against CMS Cameron McKenna, ruling that the challenge by perfume distributor Edenwest had no real prospect of success.
Camerons does U-turn on new City office

16-Jan-2012

CMS Cameron McKenna has pulled the plug on its agreed relocation to new office premises in the City.
Camerons duo quit firm to launch tax boutique

7-Dec-2011

Two CMS Cameron McKenna partners have left the firm to launch a West End tax boutique.
Camerons hands Weston second term as managing partner

28-Nov-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna partners have re-elected Duncan Weston as managing partner following a vote on Friday (25 November).
Camerons hires UniCredit lawyer for CEE banking team

25-Nov-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has taken a lawyer from UniCredit for its Central and Eastern Europe banking and finance team.
Camerons invites clients to pay what they want for legal work

5-Aug-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has launched a marketing campaign to promote its alternative billing structures, which include a ‘pay what you think its worth’ option, to clients.
Camerons joins flexi-bandwagon as 80 jobs at risk

5-May-2009

CMS Cameron McKenna has launched a flexible working scheme and its first full redundancy consultation as part of a package of measures to slash its wage bill.
Camerons loses pensions partner to Osborne Clarke

7-Nov-2011

Osborne Clarke has hired CMS Cameron McKenna pensions partner Keith Webster for its Bristol practice.
Camerons outsources all support services in £600m deal

14-May-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has become the first firm to outsource its entire business support function after agreeing a £600m deal with Integreon.
Camerons parachutes in private equity 'flying squad'

14-Apr-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has emphasised its commitment to growing its emerging markets presence with the recruitment of a seven-strong private equity team that was once part of Linklaters CEE ‘flying squad’.
Camerons partners give green light to outsourcing move

23-Nov-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has taken a major step towards finalising its outsourcing arrangement with Integreon after partners voted in favour of the move last night.
Camerons PEP dives below £500,000 as turnover dips 11 per cent

28-May-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has seen its profits suffer a double-digit drop for the second year running after announcing its results to partners.
Camerons plumps for Tyler as senior partner race concludes

28-Mar-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna’s partnership has elected Dick Tyler as its next senior partner.
Camerons promotes 17 to newly-created office partner role

6-Apr-2009

CMS Cameron McKenna has made up 17 new partners, all of whom join the new office partner salaried rung introduced last month as part of a shake-up of the partnership.
Camerons promotes eight as part of 34-strong CMS promos round

4-Apr-2012

CMS Cameron McKenna has announced its partner promotions with eight UK lawyers being made up in global round of 34 appointments across the CMS network.
Camerons puts 20 partners on notice as close of restructure draws near

10-Feb-2011

Up to 20 partners at CMS Cameron McKenna are thought to be under threat as the firm steps up its consultation process ahead of a partnership restructure.
Camerons revenue falls 13 per cent at half-year stage

27-Nov-2009

CMS Cameron McKenna has become the latest top 20 firm to post a drop in fee revenue for the first half of the financial year.
Camerons sees turnover rise five per cent at half-year stage

7-Dec-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has posted a 5 per cent increase in revenue after the first six months of the 2009-10 financial year.
Camerons to cut 9 per cent of support staff as part of Integreon deal

25-Jan-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna is to lay off 9 per cent of its support staff, with a further 21 per cent facing relocation, as part of the transfer of its business services functions to outsourcer Integreon.
Camerons to join forces with CMS partners for Shanghai launch

6-Jan-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna Moscow real estate partner Steven Shone will relocate to Shanghai as a precursor to the CMS network’s launch of a new office.
Camerons to raise £5m through partner cash call

2-Jun-2011

Partners at CMS Cameron McKenna have been asked to contribute an extra £1,000 per equity point as part of a capital increase approved at last month’s partner meeting.
Camerons to use Bristol to target lower cost work

26-Feb-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna is looking to treble its Bristol headcount in a bid to compete with national firms for lower cost work.
Camerons wins place on revamped Nestle panel

10-Sep-2009

CMS Cameron McKenna has been appointed by confectionary giant Nestle as advisors on its panel this year.
Camerons withholds staff bonus for second year

10-Jun-2010

CMS Cameron McKenna has withheld the firmwide bonus payable to all staff for the second year running after the firm missed its turnover target.
Can the Accutrainee model have any impact on diversity?

24-Nov-2011

Deemed by some a cut price training scheme, the new Accutrainee model claims to offer law firms a way of reducing recruitment costs, whilst not sacrificing headcount.
Canada's Gowlings boosts London with former British Energy GC

1-Oct-2010

Canadian firm Gowlings has embarked on an expansion of its London energy practice with the hire of former British Energy Group general counsel Robert Armour.
Canada's Gowlings continues London expansion with Simmons hire

10-Nov-2010

Canadian firm Gowlings has hired a Simmons & Simmons partner as it continues to expand in London.
Canada's Gowlings continues to build in City with Cobbetts team

3-Feb-2012

Canadian firm Gowlings has hired a four-partner team from Cobbetts’ equity capital markets team for its London office.
Canada's Heenan Blaikie bulks up in Paris

2-Sep-2011

Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie has continued the establishment of its Paris office with the hire of a partner and senior associate from French independent Brandford-Griffith & Associés.
Candover GC takes on wider COO role

4-Feb-2010

Candover Partners general counsel Philip Price’s role has been expanded to include the remit of chief operating officer.
Candover turns to SRM for first GC

22-Apr-2009

Candover Investments, the listed-arm of the UK private equity group, has appointed its first general counsel, hiring Philip Price from hedge fund SRM Global.
Capello's contractual rights in spotlight after resignation

9-Feb-2012

Former England manager Fabio Capello’s employment contract probably entitled him to select the team captain, according to a London sports lawyer.
CapQuest turns to GE Capital to fill general counsel role

17-Apr-2012

Debt manager CapQuest Group has hired GE Capital’s chief compliance office to fill the newly created role of group general counsel.
Capsticks mourns death of estates and construction head

25-Nov-2010

Public sector firm Capsticks is mourning the death of partner Suzanne Durey, who was head of the firm’s estates and construction team.
Carbon mission

28-Oct-2009

As the market for carbon emissions trading takes off, it is essential companies have the right tools in place to protect their legal rights. Nathan Searle reports
Cardiff's M&A Solicitors refers two partners to SFO

18-Mar-2011

Cardiff-based M&A Solicitors has suspended two partners after they were arrested as part of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation.
Caring, but not sharing

6-Jul-2009

Good news. Shoosmiths cares about its people. How do we know this? Because the firm’s chairman Andrew Tubbs told us.
Carolyn Rees: Howard Kennedy

16-Sep-2011

I spend about 5 minutes on Facebook each week; just long enough to remind myself that I have something better to do with my time.
Carter-Ruck wins £25k libel settlement for Trafigura

17-Dec-2009

Trafigura, advised by Carter-Ruck, has won a £25,000 compensation payout and an apology from the BBC over its reporting of the oil company’s legal battle with claimants based in the Ivory Coast.
CAT gets its claws out

14-Dec-2011

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will be licking its wounds after a bruising experience in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) over its decision to fine tobacco manufacturers and retailers more than £200m for price fixing (12 December 2011).
CAT on the mat?

15-Feb-2011

The Competition Appeal Tribunal’s professionalism could see it become a victim of its own success. Brian Kennelly and Tom Cleaver look at some of the solutions to prevent it becoming overwhelmed by the hike in its workload
CAT sets aside competition fines in blow to OFT

12-Dec-2011

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has set aside fines totalling more than £200m levied by the Office of Fair Trading against tobacco manufacturers and retailers for alleged antitrust activity.
Catherine Fletcher: Burges Salmon

5-Aug-2011

What time do you start work each day? Between 7am and 8am. I like a good coffee and time to organise the day before it starts.
Catholic Church responsible for child abuse, High Court rules

9-Nov-2011

The High Court has ruled that the Catholic Church is responsible for child abuse by members of the clergy.
Cayman boutique bulks up with Walkers, Appleby hires

6-Oct-2011

Boutique Cayman firm Thorp Alberga has enticed three partners from offshore giants Walkers and Appleby to boost its partnership.
CC and DLA advise on sale of stake in A&O's London office

5-Jun-2009

DLA Piper and Clifford Chance have advised on Hammerson’s sale of a 75 per cent interest in Allen & Overy’s global headquarters at London’s One Bishops Square in a deal valuing the building at £445m.
CC and Latham act on Intesa Sanpaolo's £10bn bond offer

17-Aug-2010

Clifford Chance and Latham & Watkins have bagged roles on Intesa Sanpaolo’s $15bn (£9.6bn) medium-term note programme bond offer.
CC and Milbank fly high with RBS aviation sale

17-Jan-2012

Clifford Chance is advising the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) on the sale of its Dublin-based aviation unit RBS Aviation Capital to Japan’s largest bank for $7.3 billion (£4.7 billion).
CC and Sullivan take lead roles on Brit Insurance buy-out

26-Oct-2010

Clifford Chance and Sullivan & Cromwell head a bevy of leading firms with roles on Brit Insurance’s £888m sale to private equity houses Apollo and CVC.
CC appoints new Tokyo corporate head

26-Aug-2011

Clifford Chance has shipped Hong Kong partner Andrew Whan into the firm’s Tokyo office as local head of corporate/M&A to replace Alan Kitchin, who has left the magic circle firm.
CC begins US litigation rebuild with Milbank hire

19-Jan-2010

Clifford Chance has hired a senior litigation partner in an attempt to rebuild its US disputes practice following a series of exits last year.
CC boosts Asia private equity team with City partner transfer

14-Apr-2009

Clifford Chance London private equity partner Simon Cooke is relocating to the firm’s Hong Kong office to work alongside Hong Kong private equity head Andrew Whan.
CC fights race claim

30-Nov-2010

While in Europe Clifford Chance is all excited about partner hires and office openings, stateside the firm has got other things on its mind.
CC finally didgeridoo it

16-Feb-2011

If at first you don’t succeed… So, three years after it last set out on the long path to an Australian merger, Clifford Chance has finally got its Men at Work in the Land Down Under (see story).
CC focuses on white-collar crime with NY litigation hires

13-Oct-2011

Clifford Chance has moved to plug the gap left by the departures of several high-profile US litigators with a trio of partner hires.
CC global litigation head to combine role with London remit

15-Jun-2010

Clifford Chance has elected global litigation chief Jeremy Sandelson to head its London litigation practice.
CC goes back to the future

17-Jan-2011

We don’t really want to dwell on the fact that this is the most depressing day of the year, chiefly because it’s a load of made-up nonsense sold to the world by some evil genius of a PR numpty.
CC hands control of global real estate group to Spain property head

24-Aug-2010

Clifford Chance has elected Spain real estate head Alfonso Benavides as head of its global real estate practice.
CC London litigation chief relocates to Moscow, finance co-head to Saudi

15-Apr-2010

Clifford Chance has moved to strengthen two of its key jurisdictions with the relocation of senior partners to offices in the Middle East and Russia.
CC names head of City-based tax, pensions and employment group

14-Feb-2011

Clifford Chance has named Chris Davies as head of its City tax, pensions and employment (TPE).
CC New York litigators take partnership at Gibson Dunn

10-Jun-2009

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has hired a trio of litigators who have left the New York office of magic circle firm Clifford Chance.
CC outsources 300 deals to Indian service centre

1-Oct-2009

Clifford Chance passed 12,000 hours of work to its Indian service centre in the last financial year, the equivalent level that would be done by seven London associates at 100 per cent utilisation.
CC partner charged with assaulting girlfriend in Gleneagles Hotel

9-Aug-2010

Clifford Chance Japan corporate head Alan Kitchin has been charged with assaulting his partner at Scotland’s Gleneagles Hotel.
CC partners have a Pop at top job

29-Jul-2010

There are few bigger shoes to fill in the City than those of Stuart Popham, but that’s the challenge facing the (un)lucky person who ultimately emerges as Clifford Chance’s new senior partner (see story).
CC partner's Hong Kong bother

16-Mar-2012

As news comes in that the Archbishop of Canterbury is to stand down in December, one Clifford Chance partner will be feeling the need for an intercessor.
CC poll fails to pick senior partner, second round of voting begins

26-Oct-2010

The first round of voting in the Clifford Chance senior partner election has closed with not one of the three candidates polling the 50 per cent of votes required to be declared victorious.
CC restructure given green light by partners

23-Mar-2009

Clifford Chance partners have voted in favour of amending their partnership agreement to allow management to forge ahead with a partnership cull.
CC shuns London in delayed promotions round

27-Jul-2009

Clifford Chance has made up 17 lawyers in its delayed promotions round, with its London headquarters gaining just three of the new partners.
CC snubbed as KKR turns to Simpson Thacher on Pets at Home deal

27-Jan-2010

Clifford Chance has lost out to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett on Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’ (KKR) £955m buyout of retailer Pets at Home, with partner Adam Signy giving M&A advice to the US private equity house.
CC you again next week

26-Oct-2010

Very much like the apparently magical mechanism that boffins use to insert jam into doughnuts, the process by which Clifford Chance elects its senior partner is shrouded in mystery.
CC, Dewey and Freshfields lead cast list on EMI pre-pack

1-Feb-2011

Clifford Chance, Dewey & LeBoeuf and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have all taken high-profile roles on the sale of troubled music group EMI to Citibank.
CC, DLA and Simmons lose out as Jumeirah revamps legal panel

1-Sep-2010

Clifford Chance, DLA Piper and Simmons & Simmons have missed out on spots on Jumeirah Group’s revamped legal panel after the hospitality company’s legal chief slashed the roster from 12 firms to five.
CC, Links join Skadden and Sullivan on £8.2bn Barclays sell-off

12-Jun-2009

Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Sullivan & Cromwell have led the legal advisers on the $13.5bn (£8.2bn) sale of Barclays Global Investors (BGI) to BlackRock.
CC, Slaughters win lead roles on Arsenal bid

13-Apr-2011

Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May have secured the leading roles on the latest international takeover of a Premier League football club following US businessman Stan Kroenke’s £731m offer for Arsenal.
CC's Childs a shoo-in for second term as global chief

20-Nov-2009

Clifford Chance global managing partner David Childs is to stand unopposed for a second term in the role.
CC's funds formation

23-Sep-2011

At first glance, Clifford Chance’s hire of Debevoise & Plimpton international counsel Gerard Saviola seems an underwhelming bodge-it job.
CC's Indian ally merges with Bangalore firm

27-Jul-2009

Clifford Chance’s Indian ally AZB & Partners has extended its presence in India via a merger with the Bangalore firm of Anup Shah.
CC's Indian summer

27-Jul-2010

Lawyers are nothing if not adaptable.
CC's London chief wins global litigation crown

7-Oct-2009

Clifford Chance has elected London managing partner Jeremy Sandelson as its new global head of litigation.
CC's new Spain-maker

24-Aug-2010

Spain’s once-booming construction industry has not, it’s fair to say, enjoyed the best of recessions.
CC's Paris head joins management committee

12-Mar-2010

Clifford Chance’s Paris managing partner Yves Wehrli has been elected onto the firm’s management committee.
CC's Popham joins Citigroup as vice-chair of EMEA banking

29-Mar-2011

Clifford Chance’s former senior partner Stuart Popham is joining Citigroup as vice-chairman of EMEA banking at the end of April.
CC's Popham joins David Cameron on India business tour

27-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance senior partner Stuart Popham is the law firm representative on Prime Minister David Cameron’s India delegation, representing the UK legal and financial professional services community as head of new trade body TheCityUK.
CC's Popham predicts UK firms will enter India within two years

30-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance senior partner Stuart Popham has said he expects UK law firms to have a presence in India within two years, as long as a free trade agreement with the EU is signed.
CC's Popham to champion UK financial services as chair of new City body

17-Nov-2009

Clifford Chance senior partner Stuart Popham is to chair a new organisation that will represent the interests of the UK’s financial services industry.
CC's Turkey shoot

25-Nov-2010

Celebrations have broken out all over Turkey today as the land of dreaming turrets and scented nargile smoke can now also boast its very own magic circle law firm.
Centre for Justice appoints panel of silks

11-Aug-2011

Centre for Justice, an adjudication service for business, government and the public, has established a barristers panel for its insurer service users.
CFAs breach human rights laws, ECHR rules in Naomi Campbell costs case

18-Jan-2011

The conditional fee agreement (CFA) regime, in which the loser is liable for an uplift on their opponent’s legal fees, breaches European rules on human rights, the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) ruled today.
CFA's dealt blow by ECHR

19-Jan-2011

Media lawyers have long been under attack for apparently building up massive legal bills. The high cost of litigation in defamation proceedings, campaigners says, is having a chilling effect on freedom of expression.
Chadbourne adds litigation partner to London team

14-Jul-2011

US firm Chadbourne & Parke has continued its London hiring spree with the appointment of Michael Bos as international partner, marking the London office’s sixth hire in two months.
Chadbourne and 2Birds benefit as pair of Dundas partners quits firm

30-Apr-2012

Scottish firm Dundas & Wilson has lost two partners, with insolvency specialist John Verrill quitting for US firm Chadbourne & Parke and competition head Peter Willis defecting to Bird & Bird.
Chadbourne anoints one City partner in three-strong promotions round

20-Sep-2011

US firm Chadbourne & Parke has promoted London-based international partner Konstantin Osipov to its partnership amid a modest round of three promotions.
Chadbourne fights for Moscow office as Dechert pounces

8-May-2009

Dechert and Chadbourne & Parke are currently locked in a battle over the future of a five-partner team in the latter’s Moscow office.
Chadbourne Moscow partners renege on Dechert move

14-May-2009

Two of the five partners who were set to leave Chadbourne & Parke to launch a Moscow office for Dechert have decided to stay with the New York firm, The Lawyer can reveal.
Chadbourne names new managing partner as O'Neill steps down

1-Dec-2010

Chadbourne & Parke’s veteran managing partner Charles O’Neill has stood down from the role after 13 years.
Chadbourne raid leaves Howrey with one City disputes partner

8-Mar-2010

Chadbourne & Parke has hired a team of four disputes lawyers from Howrey’sLondon office including formerinternational arbitration group head Melanie Willems.
Chadbourne rehires partner who defected to Dechert

16-Sep-2009

A former Chadbourne & Parke partner has rejoined the firm after defecting to Dechert’s Moscow office earlier this year.
Chadbourne wants blood to help New Yorkers

26-Mar-2009

Chadbourne & Parke will transform the main conference room in its Manhattan office into a hospital ward today as it holds a blood drive in support of the New York Blood Center.
Chair of King & Wood Mallesons elected president of China Bar Association

4-Jan-2012

King & Wood’s principal founder and chairman Wang Junfeng has been elected to the role of president of All China Lawyers Association (ACLA), the nation’s bar association in charge of the professional administration of lawyers.
Changes ahead?

27-Jan-2010

The next 12 months could be defining for libel laws, says Rob Hunt and Anna Bateman, in a round up of the major events so far
Changing channels

11-Jan-2010

News that Appleby has opened in Guernsey was the culmination of plan first mooted 18 months ago.
Channel Four libel case to be heard without jury

10-Jun-2010

The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision that said the libel case Fiddes v Channel Four and ors should be heard without a jury.
Channel Islands firm Collas Crill opens in Singapore

26-May-2011

Newly merged offshore firm Collas Crill is opening in Singapore later this year.
Channel Islands imports must carry VAT, court rules

26-Mar-2012

High Street retailers will not escape VAT on imports into the UK from the Channel Islands, the High Court has ruled.
Charles J named as president of the Administrative Appeals Chamber

2-Mar-2012

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed the appointment of Mr Justice Charles as a president of the Upper Tribunal.
Charles Russell ditches managing partner role in leadership revamp

25-Mar-2011

Top 50 firm Charles Russell has scrapped the role of managing partner in a radical overhaul of its management structure.
Charles Russell loses clin neg head as Irwin Mitchell swoops

16-Jul-2010

Charles Russell personal injury and clinical negligence head Amanda Stevens has defected to Irwin Mitchell just months after Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) raided the firm for its London-based medical negligence team.
Charles Russell, Blackstone score winning goal for Rooney

9-Dec-2011

Charles Russell and Blackstone Chambers are celebrating after advising football star Wayne Rooney in his successful appeal against a Euro 2012 three-match suspension.
Charles Russell's former corporate tax chief joins Monckton Chambers

15-Apr-2011

The former head of Charles Russell’s corporate tax group Tarlochan Lall has taken up a seat at Monckton Chambers.
Charles Russell's new dawn

25-Mar-2011

The capacity for law firms to rip up the rulebook at a moment’s notice never ceases to amaze. And so it is to Charles Russell we head this sunny springtime afternoon.
Charon QC ‘Without Prejudice’ podcast #15

23-Nov-2011

This week’s Without Prejudice features a one on one with David Allen Green and Charon QC who have a spirited discussion about a range of issues – Hackgate – Freemen ‘Cod’ Law – Politicisation of judges – Legal Aid – Privacy Law.
Chartbrook v. Persimmon Homes – All that Glisters is not Gold

7-Jul-2009

Last week’s House of Lords judgment in Chartbrook v. Persimmon Homes marked a significant point in the debate concerning the construction of contracts,and, in particular, the admissibility of evidence from outside the four corners of the contract. The unanimous conclusion of the House of Lords will no doubtset the tone for many years to come.
Cheer up

18-Jan-2010

Today, apparently, is the most depressing day of the year. The combination of no money, rubbish weather, decades until your holidays and an avalanche of bills (did we mention no money?) is making the world a gloomy place.
Cherie Booth launches legal action against NoW phone-hacker

22-Feb-2012

Matrix Chambers founder Cherie Booth QC is suing private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and News Group Newspapers.
Cherie Booth's "religious man" sentencing did not constitute misconduct

10-Jun-2010

The Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC) has found that Matrix Chambers’ Cherie Booth QC did not commit judicial misconduct when she said that a man found guilty of assault should be spared jail because he was “a religious man”.
Cheryl Cole's record label revamps legal team

3-Feb-2010

Universal Music UK, the record label for names such as Cheryl Cole and Lady Gaga, has promoted two of its legal team to the roles of director, legal and business.
Chicago's Vedder Price opens two-partner London arm

11-Oct-2011

US firm Vedder Price has launched a London office, its first overseas outpost, with lawyers from Clyde & Co and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Childs reelected for second term at helm of Clifford Chance

3-Dec-2009

Clifford Chance global managing partner David Childs has been reelected for a second term after standing unopposed for the position.
China in your brand

21-Jul-2011

If you had the impression that your average Australian law firm was just waiting around like a lovesick teen for a call from a cool Brit kid, then news from Mallesons Stephen Jaques should set you straight.
China Watch – A Foreign Lawyer’s View from the Inside

25-Oct-2011

In my last blog entry I wrote about the recent drumbeat of bad news for VIE (Variable Interest Entity) structures in China. Now I am going to tell you whether you need to be worried. OK, you can start worrying – if for no other reason than because in China a good dose of caution generally produces better deal structures.
China Watch – A foreign lawyer’s view from the inside

23-Feb-2012

In my last blog entry I talked about the relatively recent and quite modest origins of the modern Chinese legal profession. The leading group of Chinese law firms has certainly come a long way in a short time, and even more remarkably, for a country and market the size and scale of China, the market appears to be shaking out more along the lines of the UK legal market rather than the US legal market in many key respects in that there is a small break-away group of top Chinese law firms ...
China Watch – A foreign lawyer’s view from the inside

14-Feb-2012

We have now officially launched the Year of the Dragon in China, which should prove to be an interesting, if not auspicious, year for the China legal market given the announced merger of King & Wood (K&W) and Mallesons and the opening of the new Zhong Lun (ZL) office in London.
China Watch – A foreign lawyer’s view from the inside

6-Mar-2012

It is no longer provocative to acknowledge that the domestic Chinese law firms are in ascendancy in the China market. The foreign firms undeniably had a stranglehold on the market in the early days, but over the last decade plus it became apparent that it was not realistic to think that a market as big and unique as China could (or should) be dominated by foreign law firms.
China Watch – A foreign lawyer’s view from the inside

21-Mar-2012

As the leading foreign firms race up the value chain of the legal services market in China, they leave an expanding vacuum in their wake that the local firms have been more than willing (and capable) to fill.
China Watch – A foreign lawyer’s view from the inside

15-May-2012

I can now take a deep breath after the successful launch event for our new ZL London office on the 2 May. We were overwhelmed with, and deeply gratified by, the extraordinary market response to our seminar. It is more than apparent that China is a hot topic in the UK at the moment.
China Watch: A Foreign Lawyer’s View from the Inside

10-Oct-2011

A couple weekends back I attended my firm’s semi-annual partners’ meeting in the outskirts of Beijing.
China Watch: A Foreign Lawyer’s View from the Inside

19-Oct-2011

“Cloud computing” is a hot topic here in China now, as it is everywhere. It sounds very sexy but in reality cloud computing in China is just another form of e-commerce where foreign parties have to try to fit the proverbial square peg of the practical e-commerce business model in the round hole of China’s telecoms regulatory scheme.
China whirl

27-Jan-2012

Not content with having its own version of Twitter (Weibo) and Facebook (Renren) China has decided that it needs its own version of Baker & McKenzie.
China’s CleanTech sues Nasdaq for alleged racism

19-Jan-2012

CleanTech Innovations has filed a New York law suit against Nasdaq for alleged discriminatory acts against Chinese companies after it was forced to delist last year.
China’s Jun He builds arbitration team with Jones Day hire

9-Dec-2011

Beijing-based Jun He has hired yet another lawyer from an international firm with the arrival of Jones Day lawyer Christine Kang to become a litigation partner at the Chinese firm.
China's Broad & Bright joins MSI Global Alliance

26-Mar-2012

Chinese firm Broad & Bright has signed up to MSI Global Alliance, an international association of 250 independent accounting and law firms.
China's Fangda hires Freshfields partner to spearhead Hong Kong office

23-Apr-2012

Leading Chinese law firm Fangda Partners has appointed Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer litigation partner Peter Yuen to launch its planned Hong Kong office.
China's GLO signs deal with Germany's Heuking and opens in Shenzhen

10-Oct-2011

Beijing-headquartered Global Law Office (GLO) has established a German desk and expanded its domestic reach to Shenzhen, its third Chinese base.
China's Jun He continues expansion with hire of Weil Gotshal partner

12-Oct-2011

Beijing-headquartered Jun He has hired its fourth new partner from international firms since August this year with the addition of Weil Gotshal & Manges partner Jasson Han.
China's Yingke continues expansion with launches in Poland and Turkey

27-Jan-2012

Yingke, China’s second-largest firm by lawyer headcount, is continuing its aggressive growth plans with the launch of offices in Poland and Turkey.
China's Yingke opens New York, Hong Kong and São Paulo offices

19-Mar-2012

Chinese firm Yingke has continued its global expansion with the addition of offices in New York, Hong Kong and São Paulo.
China's Zhong Lun picks up ex-Freshfields partner

19-Apr-2012

Beijing-headquartered Zhong Lun has secured the services of former Freshfields partner Carl Cheng as a partner in Shanghai.
China's Zhong Lun swoops on rival for City launch

13-Feb-2012

The first Chinese law firm to open in London, Zhonglun W&D, will go through a major restructuring after the departure of its entire London team to help a rival Chinese firm - Zhong Lun - launch an office in the City.
China's Zhong Lun W&D signs strategic alliance with City firm DKLM

22-Feb-2012

Zhong Lun W&D has inked a strategic alliance with 30-lawyer City firm DKLM as it endeavours to maintain its London presence following the recent departure of its nine-member City team.
Chinese firms continue international push as Grandall opens in Paris

2-Feb-2012

One of China’s largest law firms, Grandall, has planted its first flag in Europe by opening an office in Paris.
Chinese firms land roles on basketball star's IP dispute

23-Feb-2012

Retired NBA superstar Michael Jordan has instructed Chinese law firms Fangda and Jun He to advise on and act in a lawsuit in China against Qiaodan Sports Company for the unauthorised use of his name.
Chinese lawyers required to swear allegiance to the Communist Party

22-Mar-2012

Chinese lawyers have to take an oath of allegiance to the Communist Party under a new measure introduced by the country’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
Chiswell Street Dining Rooms

4-Oct-2011

I hadn’t slept for two nights before walking from Liverpool St Station in the warm late September night to eat at the Chiswell Street Dining Rooms.
Chris Hinze: Hogan Lovells

26-Nov-2010

What is the most unusual Christmas present that you have received from a colleague? I couldn’t say. I actually go red thinking about it.
Christie's installs BBC legal chief as general counsel

31-Aug-2011

Art auction house Christie’s has appointed BBC legal head Nicholas Eldred as group general counsel.
Christmas costs showdown

8-Dec-2010

One of the most controversial cases of the last decade is being heard by the senior costs judge Master Hirst and Mr Justice MacDuff in the Senior Courts Costs office this week as Leigh Day & Co tries to justify its £105m legal bill for its part in the Trafigura case.
Chrisy Ruler: Wragge & Co

14-Jan-2011

What time do you start work each day? Around 8.45 – the train service is usually answerable for anything much later than that.
Cigalon

19-Oct-2011

What is Cigalon? Cigalon is a Provençal refuge in the heart of legal London - next to the Law Society and opposite the Temple. It’s also the Occitan nickname for cicadas - backing vocals to Mediterranean nights.
Citizen Shame

15-May-2012

Shanghai may be poised to challenge Hong Kong as the region’s leading financial and legal centre, but the misfortune of a King & Wood Mallesons Shanghai partner highlights a problem that may need ironing out if the city truly wants to be a global deals magnet.
City and Wall Street elite seal end to Almatis restructuring dispute

22-Sep-2010

The long-running dispute over the restructuring of Dutch almunia company Almatis, which saw mandates for a string of top US and City firms, appears to be settled after a bankruptcy judge give the go-ahead for the company to emerge from Chapter 11 protection.
City firms line up for latest bout of Lehman litigation

21-Jun-2010

Leading City firms appeared in the Court of Appeal today to try to recover funds for their clients in a long-running dispute relating to the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers.
City firms meet 'Gifted and Talented' youngsters at Lawyer 2B event

7-Mar-2012

The Lawyer’s sister magazine Lawyer 2B is today holding a careers event for promising A-Level students at state sixth-form colleges who are interested in training as solicitors or barristers.
City firms prepare staff for G20 riots

27-Mar-2009

Law firms across the City have been beefing up security and asking staff to leave their suits at home ahead of expected violent demonstrations during the G20 summit next week.
City lateral hiring rate returns to pre-crash levels

14-May-2012

The number of lateral partner hires in the City is back up to pre-recession levels, according to new research from Motive Legal.
City lawyers launch pro bono service for World Aids Day

1-Dec-2009

Law firm LGBT network InterLaw is to launch today a pro bono and community service initiative named Helping Hands (H2) to coincide with World Aids Day.
City LPC consortium cuts maintenance grants

2-Sep-2009

Would-be lawyers who have enrolled on the new fast-track Legal Practice Course (LPC) are facing lighter bank balances as some of the firms participating in the new programme slash their maintenance grants.
City of London prepares for Occupy LSX court showdown

19-Dec-2011

The City of London’s attempt to evict protestors from their camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral reaches the High Court today after weeks of stand-offs.
City of London wins court bid to evict Occupy LSX protestors

18-Jan-2012

The City of London Corporation (COLC) has won its High Court bid to evict protestors from their camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral after Mr Justice Lindblom granted orders for possession and injunctions against protestors in December.
City of Westminster wins illegal subletting case against tenant

15-Mar-2012

An in-house local authority legal team has won a breakthrough case against unlawful council tenant subletting.
City revenues up at Mayer Brown while firmwide figures remain flat

1-Feb-2011

Mayer Brown’s London office has posted a 10 per cent increase in total revenue for the 2010 financial year.
Civil service pay: The public sector lawyers who earn more than PM

1-Jun-2010

A number of high-profile lawyers on the public payroll are among the 172 civil servants who earn more than the Prime Minister, David Cameron.
CJC lays out advice for litigants in person as legal aid cuts beckon

11-Nov-2011

The Civil Justice Council’s (CJC) long-awaited report into litigants in person has been broadly welcomed by the legal profession, although doubts remain over whether it will have any lasting impact.
CJC publishes third-party funding code of conduct

24-Nov-2011

The Civil Justice Council’s (CJC) working group on litigation funding has ended its review of the Jackson reforms with the publication of a voluntary code of conduct for third-party funders.
Claim Canada

7-Mar-2011

Canada. It’s very big and it’s right next door to the USA. Some people there speak French, lots more play ice hockey and their policemen ride around on horses.
Claim it on the boogie

9-Apr-2010

Fresh from her famous victory for Simon Singh over the British Chiropractic Association, the media’s favourite silk Adrienne Page QC has immediately got back in the saddle to once more fight the good fight in the name of free speech.
Clarke makes his mark

27-Oct-2010

The Government has given its strongest indication yet that it will endorse a US-style contingency fee system as the alternative to conditional fee agreements.
Clarke Willmott and Davenport Lyons advise on Stig court case

2-Sep-2010

Clarke Willmott and Davenport Lyons advised on the high-profile dispute between the BBC and Top Gear driver the Stig.
Clarke Willmott chair succeeds CEO, who becomes senior partner

28-May-2010

Clarke Willmott has appointed chairman Stephen Rosser as its chief executive following the 11-year tenure of David Sedgwick.
Clarke Willmott latest firm to embrace outsourcing

6-Oct-2009

Clarke Willmott is to pilot an outsourcing programme in its Birmingham office with the aim of rolling it out across all its UK offices.
Clarke Willmott made £2m cash call in 2009-10, LLPs reveal

8-Feb-2011

Clarke Willmott partners injected £1.89m into the firm at the beginning of the 2009-10 financial year, during which time operating profit fell 78 per cent from £13.3m to £2.9m.
Clarke Willmott offloads investment arm for £6m

5-Aug-2011

Clarke Willmott has sold its investment management arm to wealth management group Brooks Macdonald.
Clarke Willmott scraps 2012 training programme

29-Jul-2010

Clarke Willmott has put its trainee recruitment on hold, informing law students that it is not taking applications for its September 2012 intake.
Clash of the tartans

20-Sep-2011

Still reeling after McGrigors beat it to the biggest-Scottish-firm-by-turnover spot for the second year running, Dundas & Wilson at last has taken some decisive action.
Class dismissed

24-Nov-2010

Hausfeld will seek leave to appeal the Court of Appeal decision to dismiss a bid to bring a representative class action through the High Court.
Class inaction

3-Aug-2009

The government’s response to collective redress has left reformers frustrated, says John Meltzer and Dan Armstrong
Clayton Utz hires Freshfields partner following A&O raid

30-Jun-2010

Clayton Utz has continued its rebuilding process following the departure of 14 partners to form Allen & Overy’s nascent Australian practice with the recruitment of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer project finance partner Bruce Cooper.
Clayton Utz takes legal action against A&O defector

16-Apr-2010

Clayton Utz is to pursue legal action against a former partner who defected to set up Allen & Overy’s (A&O) Australian practice earlier this year.
Cleary adds to City competition team with OFT hire

14-Dec-2010

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has boosted its London office with the hire of the deputy director of competition policy at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
Cleary and CC seal antitrust victory with Microsoft climb-down

17-Dec-2009

The European Commission has ended its antitrust case against Microsoft after the software developer agreed to market other web browsers, signalling victory for the complainants and advisers Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Clifford Chance.
Cleary and DLA act on Sichuan Hongda's $3bn African energy deal

23-Sep-2011

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and DLA Piper took lead roles on Chinese company Sichuan Hongda Group’s $3bn (£1.95bn) investment in Tanzania.
Cleary and Freshfields scoop Deutsche deal

17-Sep-2010

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed lead roles in Deutsche Bank’s proposed takeover of Deutsche Postbank.
Cleary and Gleiss Lutz advise on £4bn EDF sell-off

7-Dec-2010

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Herbert Smith’s German alliance firm Gleiss Lutz have acted on EDF’s €4.7bn (£3.98bn) sale of its 45 per cent stake in German energy company Energie Baden-Württember (EnBW) to the State of Baden-Württemberg.
Cleary and Linklaters lead on $7bn Russian eurobond deal

5-Apr-2012

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Linklaters have landed roles on a $7bn (£4.4bn) eurobond issue from the Russian Federation that is set to be one of the largest eurobond deals to hit the emerging markets since 2000.
Cleary and Paul Hastings jostle to be first US firm in South Korea

28-Nov-2011

US firms Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Paul Hastings have both confirmed plans to open a Seoul office following the recent ratification of the Korea-US Free Trade agreement by both countries.
Cleary and Shearman lead on $7bn Petrobras bond deal

3-Feb-2012

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Shearman & Sterling have both scooped roles advising on Brazilian oil giant Petrobras’s up to $7bn bond issue.
Cleary and Stibbe lead advice as Dexia is broken up

10-Oct-2011

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick and Stibbe have secured lead roles on the break-up of struggling Franco-Belgian bank Dexia.
Cleary and Wachtell lead on Google's $12.5bn Motorola Mobility acquisition

15-Aug-2011

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Dewey & LeBoeuf snatched lead advisory roles in Google’s $12.5bn (£7.7bn) acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
Cleary anoints DC litigator as new managing partner

20-Dec-2010

US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has elected Mark Leddy as its new managing partner following an uncontested election.
Cleary expands Latin American reach with São Paulo launch

22-Aug-2011

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has officially opened an office in São Paulo after receiving the necessary approval from Brazilian authorities.
Cleary hires ex-Competition Commission chief for London push

18-Oct-2011

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has hired the former chairman of the UK’s Competition Commission as a senior consultant in its London office.
Cleary hit by double partner departure in London

2-Feb-2010

US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has lost two London-based partners with capital markets partner Ashar Qureshi and competition partner Shaun Goodman both leaving the firm.
Cleary launches Hong Kong law practice with Norton Rose hire

2-Dec-2010

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is set to launch a Hong Kong law practice after poaching Norton Rose’s China corporate finance head.
Cleary promotes one to City partnership in four-strong global round

1-Nov-2010

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has made up one London-based associate in its latest round of partner promotions.
Cleary sets up shop in Brazil

19-Nov-2010

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is to open an office in Brazil next year, subject to approval of Brazilian authorities.
Cleary turns to Simmons for first UK-qualified litigator

10-Feb-2010

Simmons & Simmons finance litigation head Jonathan Kelly is to the leave the firm to take up partnership at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
Cleary wins European clearance for NewsCorp BSkyB bid

21-Dec-2010

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has successfully secured clearance from the European Commission (EC) for client News Corporation in its bid to buy the remaining shares in BSkyB.
ClientEarth takes Government to court over air pollution levels

13-Dec-2011

Environmental lawyers ClientEarth are taking the Government to court today for not tackling high levels of air pollution in the UK.
Clifford Chance acts on sale of O2 Arena to Cambridge University

15-Oct-2009

Clifford Chance has advised on the sale of the O2 entertainment site at Greenwich to Trinity College Cambridge for £24m.
Clifford Chance adds ICC arbitrator to Paris team

27-Oct-2011

Clifford Chance is bolstering its Paris arbitration team with the hire of ICC International Court of Arbitration deputy secretary general Simon Greenberg.
Clifford Chance adds Latham associate to high yield partnership

13-Oct-2011

Clifford Chance has turned to Latham & Watkins for the latest addition to its high yield practice.
Clifford Chance advises as defence company sues Government for £500m

25-Aug-2011

Clifford Chance has scooped an instruction from US defence company Raytheon, which has lodged claims worth £500m against the Government for axing a computer systems contract.
Clifford Chance advises bookrunners on OHL's high yield issue

19-May-2010

Clifford Chance has advised the bookrunners in a €700m (£601.09) high yield issue by Obrascon Huarte Lain (OHL), one of Spain’s leading construction groups.
Clifford Chance and Farrers help England stage Rugby World Cup

30-Jul-2009

Clifford Chance and Farrer & Co have advised on the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) successful bid to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.
Clifford Chance and Freshfields act on PartyGaming-bwin merger

30-Jul-2010

Magic circle duo Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have bagged the leading mandates advising on the €2bn (£1.7bn) merger of online gaming sites PartyGaming and bwin.
Clifford Chance and Freshfields advise on MBO of Barclays private equity arm

15-Nov-2011

Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer won advisory roles on the management buyout of Barclays Bank’s private equity arm.
Clifford Chance and Freshfields lead on Spanish debt restructuring

25-Feb-2010

Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed roles on the €5bn (£4.39bn) restructuring of Spanish real estate group Inmobilaria Colonial’s debt.
Clifford Chance and India's AZB ditch 'best friends' tie-up

21-Jan-2011

Clifford Chance has broken off its ’best friends’ relationship with India’s AZB & Partners after both firms saw fewer referrals than expected and Indian liberalisation failed to materialise.
Clifford Chance and LG lead on Shell's £992m bid for Cove Energy

23-Feb-2012

Clifford Chance and Lawrence Graham (LG) have won roles advising on Royal Dutch Shell’s £992m bid for Africa-focused oil and gas group Cove Energy.
Clifford Chance and Linklaters advise on $12bn Glencore IPO

12-Apr-2011

Clifford Chance and Linklaters snared the prized mandates on the long-awaited IPO of commodities trader Glencore.
Clifford Chance and Linklaters lead as Game Group eyes administration

21-Mar-2012

Clifford Chance and Linklaters are advising on talks between Game Group and its lenders, with the company today announcing its intention to file for administration.
Clifford Chance and Slaughters lead as Aviva sells RAC to Carlyle

23-Jun-2011

Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May snatched lead advisory roles in The Carlyle Group’s £1bn acquisition of RAC from insurance giant Aviva, which was announced today.
Clifford Chance and Slaughters lead as Carlyle offloads UK ATM business

14-Feb-2012

Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May have been called in to assist in US private equity group Carlyle’s £650m sale of UK cash management business Talaris to Tokyo-listed Glory.
Clifford Chance and Slaughters lead on New Look IPO

2-Feb-2010

Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May have been handed the mandates to advise on New Look’s IPO in a deal that is expected to raise £650m for the company.
Clifford Chance appoints Kiev managing partner

19-Aug-2009

Clifford Chance has named Kiev partner Jared Grubb as managing partner of the office.
Clifford Chance back in £1m PEP club as revenues nudge up

5-Jul-2011

Clifford Chance has posted a 2 per cent increase in global revenue for the 2010-11 financial year, with the figure rising from £1,197m in 2009-10 to £1,219m.
Clifford Chance bags sweet role for Kraft

7-Sep-2009

Clifford Chance has bagged a lead role advising Kraft on its $16.7bn bid for Cadbury.
Clifford Chance bolsters London regulatory team with Morgan Stanley hire

26-Jul-2011

Clifford Chance has bolstered its London regulatory team with the hire of a senior lawyer from Morgan Stanley.
Clifford Chance boosts Kiev office with Moscow partner transfer

15-May-2009

Clifford Chance has relocated Moscow-based banking and finance partner Jared Grubb to its Kiev office.
Clifford Chance boosts Middle East coverage with Qatar opening

24-Jan-2011

Clifford Chance is set to open an office in Qatar as the magic circle firm continues to expand its Middle East capabilities.
Clifford Chance boosts NQ retention rate to 91 per cent

28-Jan-2011

Clifford Chance’s has achieved a dramatic turnaround in the retention of newly qualified (NQ) solicitors, with the firm posting a spring qualifier retention rate of 91 per cent.
Clifford Chance brings in OFT enforcement head

5-May-2011

Clifford Chance has boosted its City antitrust practice with the hire of Office of Fair Trading (OFT) competition enforcement head Alastair Mordaunt as a partner.
Clifford Chance builds on Turkish association with Istanbul launch

25-Nov-2010

Clifford Chance is to launch in Turkey, 18 months after The Lawyer revealed that the magic circle firm had built a presence in the jurisdiction.
Clifford Chance cashier jailed for stealing £63,000 from firm

15-Apr-2011

A second former Clifford Chance employee has been jailed for fraud this year after former chief cashier Emma Rowsell admitted stealing £63,000 from the firm.
Clifford Chance clears antitrust hurdle on Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems

18-Dec-2009

Clifford Chance competition partner Thomas Vinje has claimed victory for client Oracle at the European Competition Commission after clearing the way for its purchase of Sun Microsystems.
Clifford Chance client Kraft wins backing for Cadbury deal

19-Jan-2010

A clutch of UK and US firms are celebrating after the board of Cadbury gave the green light to Kraft’s approved offer for the British chocolate maker.
Clifford Chance confirms plans for South Korea launch

16-Feb-2012

Clifford Chance has become the first foreign law firm to submit a preliminary application to launch an office in South Korea, with the magic circle firm potentially opening in the country this year.
Clifford Chance cut 12 per cent of employees during 2009-10, LLPs confirm

24-Jan-2011

Clifford Chance’s LLP accounts have shown the extent of the staff cuts the firm made during 2009-10, with the total number of employees falling by 12 per cent.
Clifford Chance cuts associate pay bands

31-Mar-2009

Clifford Chance has reversed salary bands for its junior lawyers, with all associate pay frozen at current levels until the end of the 2009-10 financial year.
Clifford Chance denies discrimination claim over axed US associates

30-Nov-2010

Clifford Chance has denied allegations that it discriminated against six associates who were laid off from its New York office in 2007.
Clifford Chance elects London property head as McAuley announces retirement

30-Jun-2010

Clifford Chance has elected Jonathan Solomon as head of its London real estate practice following the announcement that outgoing chief Cliff McAuley is to retire.
Clifford Chance eyes £1m of savings with trial of open-plan working

14-May-2012

Clifford Chance is shifting all its mainstream London corporate team to the same floor of its Canary Wharf building to raise cash in a move that also sees the firm trial an open-plan setting.
Clifford Chance faces Amarchand and Minter Ellison on GVK's Aussie mining deal

22-Sep-2011

Australian firm Minter Ellison teamed up with Indian independent Amarchand Mangaldas to advise opposite Clifford Chance on GVK Group’s $1.26bn (£807m) acquisition of a majority stake in Australian coal mines owned by Hancock Group.
Clifford Chance faces law suit from redundant German partners

21-Aug-2009

Two former Clifford Chance Germany partners have accused the firm of unfair dismissal in the wake of its global partnership restructuring.
Clifford Chance follows A&O with Casablanca launch

25-Jul-2011

Clifford Chance has announced its intention to open an office in Casablanca, just a few days after magic circle rival Allen & Overy (A&O) also launched in Morocco.
Clifford Chance funds chief in shock resignation for Simpson Thacher

20-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance London head of private funds Jason Glover has left the firm to establish a UK funds practice at white shoe firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Clifford Chance gears up for senior partner election, part two

3-Nov-2010

All three candidates in the senior partner election at Clifford Chance will stand in a second round of voting, due to get underway imminently, after the first round failed to identify a clear winner.
Clifford Chance Germany posts 8 per cent revenue hike

23-Jun-2011

Clifford Chance has seen an 8 per cent turnover hike for its German offices for the financial year 2010-11.
Clifford Chance global litigation chief quits firm

29-May-2009

Clifford Chance’s global head of litigation Mark Kirsch has left the magic circle firm in the midst of the global partnership restructuring.
Clifford Chance hands Amsterdam management to capital markets partner

16-Oct-2009

Clifford Chance has elected partner Bas Boris Visser as its new Amsterdam managing partner.
Clifford Chance heads for Indian High Court showdown

11-Nov-2009

The Supreme Court of India has requested Clifford Chance to provide details of its India-billings of more than a decade ago in its long-running dispute against the Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax (DCIT).
Clifford Chance hires Ashurst partner as Tokyo corporate chief

17-Feb-2010

Clifford Chance has hired the founder of Ashurst’s Tokyo office Alan Kitchin to head its corporate and projects practice in the Japanese capital.
Clifford Chance hit by more departures as four top NY litigators walk

6-May-2009

A four-partner New York litigation team has defected from Clifford Chance to launch a Manhattan-based arbitration boutique.
Clifford Chance honours CR champions in inaugural awards

17-Dec-2009

Clifford Chance hosted its first-ever awards ceremony last week aimed at showcasing staff who make exceptional contributions to corporate responsibility (CR).
Clifford Chance increases associate pay bands by 3 per cent

6-Apr-2010

Clifford Chance is the latest magic firm to unfreeze associate salaries, with the firm raising rates for assistants as well as allowing them to progress through the lockstep.
Clifford Chance India chief Wyman retires after 16-month stint with AZB

25-Nov-2010

Clifford Chance India head Chris Wyman has retired from the firm after spending 16 months on secondment at the offices of Indian best friend firm AZB & Partners.
Clifford Chance installs ICC Court secretary general as arbitration co-head

30-Jan-2012

The secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration is to return to his former firm Clifford Chance to co-head its arbitration group.
Clifford Chance joins roster of US firms on Securitas financing

23-Aug-2011

A raft of US firms lined up alongside Clifford Chance to advise on a €393.5m mezzanine loan issued by Swedish alarm maker Securitas Direct to fund its buyout by two private equity houses.
Clifford Chance kicks off funds rebuild with Debevoise hire

22-Sep-2011

Clifford Chance has moved to rebuild its depleted funds practice with a senior hire from Debevoise & Plimpton.
Clifford Chance launches in Australia via double merger

16-Feb-2011

Clifford Chance has become the latest firm to launch in Australia after the partnership voted through a dual merger with boutique firms in Sydney and Perth.
Clifford Chance loses another partner as Brock defects to Mallesons

27-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance’s former Asian litigation chief Denis Brock has left the magic circle firm to join Mallesons Stephen Jaques’ Hong Kong office.
Clifford Chance loses another US litigation chief as Cleary swoops

9-May-2011

Clifford Chance US litigation chief Juan Morillo has defected to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton after spending two years in the role.
Clifford Chance loses eight fee-earners through redundancy

6-Nov-2009

Clifford Chance has shed eight fee-earners from its capital markets practice via redundancy.
Clifford Chance names joint competition heads

21-Oct-2010

Clifford Chance has shaken up its global competition group following this summer’s departure of practice head Simon Baxter by creating dual leadership positions.
Clifford Chance names Tinkler as London corporate head

6-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance has elected Simon Tinkler as its new London corporate chief after David Pearson completed two terms in the role.
Clifford Chance offers training courses to Indian best friend AZB

12-Oct-2009

Clifford Chance’s Indian best friend AZB & Partners is sending four associates for training at the magic circle firm’s European training centre.
Clifford Chance offloads Milan office space after turbulent year in Italy

3-Feb-2010

Clifford Chance is looking to sublet the fourth floor of its Milan office with Goldman Sachs thought to be the prospective tenant.
Clifford Chance partner duo to run London banking practice

26-Mar-2010

Clifford Chance is set to elect two partners to replace London banking head Mark Stewart.
Clifford Chance partner quits for Reed Smith

17-Apr-2012

Clifford Chance capital markets partner Peter Zaman is to quit the firm for US rival Reed Smith.
Clifford Chance picks up Garrigues' project finance head

6-Sep-2011

Clifford Chance has recruited a Garrigues partner regarded as one of Spain’s leading banking lawyers to its Madrid office.
Clifford Chance Poland real estate head quits for Salans

13-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance’s head of real estate in Poland has left for Salans’ Warsaw office, and is rumoured to be taking with him at least two partners.
Clifford Chance posts 25 per cent PEP uplift

7-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance has boosted its average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure by 25 per cent in the past financial year, posting what managing partner David Childs described as a “strong set of results in difficult market conditions”.
Clifford Chance ramps up Saudi relationship as six more lawyers seconded

16-May-2011

Clifford Chance has seconded two senior lawyers to its Saudi partner firm Al Jadaan & Partners, in an attempt to strengthen its relationship with the Riyadh outfit.
Clifford Chance real estate head wins further term in office

16-Oct-2009

Clifford Chance global real estate head Cliff McAuley has been re-elected to a further four-year term in the role.
Clifford Chance reelects Middle East head

15-Jun-2010

Clifford Chance has elected Graham Lovett as its Middle East managing partner for a second term following a partner vote in the region.
Clifford Chance rents out space to US rival Kilpatrick

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Clifford Chance has sub-let space in its New York office to US firm Kilpatrick Stockton.
Clifford Chance revamps partnership council

29-Feb-2012

Clifford Chance has reshuffled its partnership council, with Dubai banking partner Robin Abraham and Italian banking partner Giuseppe De Palma winning new places.
Clifford Chance reviews underperforming partner arrangements

7-May-2012

Clifford Chance is planning to abolish an arrangement that allows underperforming partners up to a year’s grace before they are forced to leave, in a move aimed at allaying the negative cultural impact of axing partners.
Clifford Chance scoops lead role on nuclear power deal

18-Nov-2009

Clifford Chance has scored a major role advising a joint venture (JV) developer of new nuclear plants.
Clifford Chance seeks successor to senior partner Popham

29-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance has kicked off the election process to find the replacement for current senior partner Stuart Popham.
Clifford Chance sends NY high yield partner to City

12-Aug-2011

Clifford Chance has beefed up its London high yield practice with the relocation of a partner from its New York office.
Clifford Chance sheds 10 associates in Amsterdam

6-Apr-2009

Clifford Chance has blamed the global recession for cutting 10 associate jobs in its Amsterdam office.
Clifford Chance snubbed on GDF Suez's first-ever legal panel

30-Jan-2012

GDF Suez has not appointed Clifford Chance to its inaugural legal panel, despite the magic circle firm’s relationship with the energy giant’s £17bn tie-up partner International Power.
Clifford Chance spins off Hungarian office

30-Jun-2009

Clifford Chance is to pull out of Hungary, with the lawyers in its office there set to form a standalone firm.
Clifford Chance splits CEE management role

16-Sep-2009

Clifford Chance has divided its Central and Eastern Europe and Russia managing partner role in two after incumbent Michael Cuthbert announced that he will retire from the firm at the end of the year.
Clifford Chance star associate resigns in wake of funds team exit to Weil Gotshal

4-Jul-2011

Clifford Chance funds associates Stephen Fox and David Irvine have quit the firm to join Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
Clifford Chance star Signy quits for Simpson Thacher

5-May-2009

Clifford Chance (CC) corporate partner Adam Signy has defected to the London office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Clifford Chance takes magic circle lead with 27 promos

27-Apr-2012

Clifford Chance has made up 27 lawyers to its partnership, up from 23 last year and four ahead of its nearest magic circle rival.
Clifford Chance taps Macfarlanes for rare corporate partner hire

29-Apr-2010

Veteran Macfarlanes partner Tim Lewis has left the firm to join Clifford Chance’s global corporate practice.
Clifford Chance taps Sydney firm for Asia restructuring partner

19-Oct-2011

Clifford Chance has bolstered its Hong Kong office with the hire of a partner from Sydney firm Henry Davis York.
Clifford Chance targets Asia with bumper partner promotion round

4-May-2011

Clifford Chance has put Asian expansion to the core of its strategy in this year’s round of partnership promotions, with more than half of its 23 new partners coming from the continent.
Clifford Chance to cut City associates in response to 'low NQ attrition'

23-Mar-2012

Clifford Chance is set to axe a string of associates in London, in the latest sign that top-level firms are feeling the pinch from the economic downturn.
Clifford Chance to nurture female partners' management potential

3-Mar-2010

Clifford Chance is working on a strategy to encourage more females to take management roles at the firm after putting the issue top of the agenda at its annual partnership retreat.
Clifford Chance to slash partnership council as part of management overhaul

21-Jan-2010

Clifford Chance is planning to cut the membership of its partnership council by 40 per cent as part of a radical shake-up of its management structure.
Clifford Chance unveils new Brussels head

7-Oct-2010

Clifford Chance competition lawyer Tony Reeves has been elected as the firm’s new Brussels managing partner.
Clifford Chance unveils new-look partnership council

23-Mar-2010

Clifford Chance has unveiled its slimmed down partnership council, with four new members taking their place alongside senior partner Stuart Popham and re-elected members Joeroen Koster and Thomas Schulte.
Clifford Chance US litigation partner scores monitor role at Xe Services

11-Nov-2010

Clifford Chance is celebrating what it considers to be a significant breakthrough in the profile of its US litigation practice, with the appointment of partner Wendy Wysong as special compliance officer (SCO) for military contractor Xe Services.
Clifford Chance wins role on first Swiss CoCo

5-Mar-2012

Clifford Chance won a role alongside Carey Olsen and Swiss firm Homburger advising UBS on the issue of a $2bn (£1.25bn) low-trigger contingent convertible (CoCo) bond, the first such product to come out of Switzerland.
Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy bag top roles on Dubai World restructuring

26-Nov-2009

Dubai World has turned to a number of its long-standing advisers on its restructuring and debt standstill.
Clifford Chance, Freshfields and SJ Berwin advise on EMI sell-off

15-Nov-2011

A raft of law firms including Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and SJ Berwin landed roles on music company EMI’s break up and sale.
Clifford Chance, Freshfields win key roles on Porsche's VW merger

28-Jul-2009

Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Hengeler Mueller have picked up lead roles advising on the merger of German car companies Volkswagen (VW) and Porsche.
Clifford Chance's arm on Qatar

24-Jan-2011

It seems like only yesterday that Dubai was crumbling around its bejewelled feet and law firms were eyeing the exit signs at their air-conditioned Middle East bunkers.
Clifford Chance's Canary cashback

14-May-2012

It’s an historic time for Canary Wharf. The financial centre is set to overtake the City as the biggest employer of bankers in Europe in the coming months, according to the Financial Times.
Clifford Chance's Charlton arrested over Hong Kong car crash

16-Mar-2012

Clifford Chance Asia managing partner Peter Charlton was arrested last Thursday following a road accident in Hong Kong.
Clifford Chance's Charlton charged over drink driving

17-May-2012

Clifford Chance’s Asia managing partner Peter Charlton has been charged with drink driving offences and will appear in court in June.
Clifford Chance's pension deficit hit £16.4m in last financial year

11-Feb-2010

Clifford Chance saw the deficit on its defined benefit pension scheme grow by nearly 50 per cent in 2008-09, according to recently filed Companies House accounts.
Clifford Chance's PEP slides to £733,000 at end of turbulent year

1-Jul-2009

Clifford Chance’s average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure plummeted by 37 per cent in the last financial year, down to levels last seen at the firm eight years ago.
Clifford Chance's Popham becomes honorary QC as 120 take silk

1-Mar-2011

Clifford Chance’s former senior partner Stuart Popham has been made an honorary QC in this year’s silks appointments round.
Clifford Chance's Sea of Love

4-Jul-2011

Clifford Chance’s annual partnership meeting has left members buzzing and been described as “the best conference in decades” by one enthusiastic attendee (see story) who later admitted he so happy because he saw Alan Sugar at a taxi rank.
Clifford Suffrage

3-Mar-2010

Nearly 100 years after Emily Davison threw herself in front of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby, another blow for women’s rights has been struck by those liberal 20th century dwellers at Clifford Chance.
Closer to home

8-Sep-2010

Considering the amount of time and energy UK firms have spent trying to get India to open its legal market to foreigners (for more of which see this week’s special report) it seems a little counter productive when our own country’s administrative bodies appear hell-bent on keeping out lawyers from abroad.
Closing the gap

22-Jul-2009

Norton Rose’s global litigation chief Antony Dutton has some big ambitions. He is on a mission to fill gaps in the firm’s litigation practices.
Clyde & Co deploys London shipping partner to head Singapore office

15-Feb-2012

Clyde & Co has named senior shipping and dispute resolution partner Brian Nash as its new managing partner for Singapore, with Nash relocating from London to the city state for the new post.
Clyde & Co ends India best friends relationship as ALMT splits

27-Apr-2011

ALMT Legal has ended its best friendship with Clyde & Co as it is parting ways with five partners across Mumbai, London and Delhi who will create new start-up firm Clasis Law with a partner joining from the international firm.
Clyde & Co ex-best friend ALMT relaunches in London

8-Aug-2011

Indian firm ALMT Legal has reaffirmed its commitment to the London market following its split from former best friend Clyde & Co earlier this year with a brace of lateral hires and a City relaunch.
Clydes adds nine to partnership plus seven to senior status

5-May-2011

Clyde & Co has promoted nine to its partnership with a further seven partners elevated to senior equity status.
Clydes and 3VB act as Liverpool FC's former owners take further action against RBS

8-Mar-2012

Clyde & Co and 3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) have won a role on the ongoing battle between Liverpool FC’s former owners and RBS.
Clydes finalises merger with Canada's Nicholl Paskell-Mede

27-Jun-2011

Clyde & Co has completed its merger with Canadian insurance firm Nicholl Paskell-Mede (NPM).
Clydes homes in on China growth with local promotion

24-Nov-2011

Newly merged Clyde & Co is continuing its China expansion plans with the promotion of Matthew Durham to partner.
Clydes in merger talks with Shadbolt

19-Nov-2009

Clyde & Co is in preliminary talks to tie up with construction firm Shadbolt, The Lawyer can reveal.
Clydes launches New Jersey insurance practice

3-Feb-2010

Clyde & Co has extended its US footprint with the launch of an office in New Jersey.
Clydes makes up 14 new partners in first post-merger round

1-May-2012

Clyde & Co has unveiled its first promotions round since its takeover of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) at the end of 2011, with the bulk of its 14 new partners coming from the legacy Clydes side of the tie-up.
Clydes scoops Trowers' ex-Saudi head for Middle East push

11-Jan-2012

Clyde & Co has scooped heavyweight Trowers & Hamlins partner Adrian Creed in a boost for its Middle East project finance practice.
Clydes senior partner awarded honorary silk

29-Feb-2012

Clyde & Co senior partner Michael Payton is one of five lawyers to be awarded honorary Queen’s Counsel this year.
Clydes set to appeal as EAT whistleblowing case goes in ex-partner's favour

14-May-2012

Clyde & Co plans to appeal an Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) decision that found the firm should face a claim from a former partner.
Clydes signs alliance with Mongolia's Khan Lex Advocates

12-Mar-2012

Clyde & Co is set to formally enter the Mongolian market via an association with local firm Khan Lex Advocates.
Clydes strengthens Asia construction practice prior to BLG merger

20-Sep-2011

Clyde & Co has hired a construction partner from Stephenson Harwood’s Hong Kong office ahead of its November merger with Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG).
Clydes takes over the world

24-Oct-2011

If you thought Clyde & Co was going to rest on its laurels after its merger with Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) then you were sorely mistaken.
Clydes targets Indian market with local firm alliance

4-Jun-2009

Clyde & Co has broken into the Indian legal market after forming an alliance with Indian firm ALMT Legal.
Clydes to face Employment Tribunal claim from former partner

23-Mar-2011

An attempt by Clyde & Co to have Employment Tribunal proceedings against it stayed through the High Court has been rejected.
Clydes welcomes record 10 to partnership

17-Apr-2009

Clyde & Co has promoted a record number of associates to its partnership with ten making the grade this year.
Clydes, bribes and multi-appeals

16-May-2012

A Clyde & Co partner who was asked to leave after blowing the whistle on alleged corrupt practices in the firm’s Tanzania relationship firm has hired Richard Hermer QC of Matrix Chambers to lead her fight against her old firm (see story).
Clydesdale Bank names 14 firms on latest legal roster

19-May-2011

Clydesdale Bank has revamped its national panel, with 14 firms appointed.
CMS Cameron McKenna and the collapsing firm

17-May-2012

As Dewey & LeBoeuf’s extinction from the face of the legal map looms, the UK LLP has turned to CMS Cameron McKenna for advice on its imminent wind-down (see story).
CMS Cameron McKenna clinches key place on BT global panel

30-Sep-2009

Freshfields, Bird & Bird retain places; Linklaters and Addleshaws lose out
CMS Cameron McKenna plumps for Principal Place

15-Jun-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna expects to move into a new skyscraper in Principal Place in early 2015, the firm announced today.
CMS Cameron McKenna sees steady half-year growth

2-Dec-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna has posted a half-year revenue of £106m – 5 per cent up on the same period in the 2010-11 financial year.
CMS Camerons divests immigration to group to Fragomen

9-Aug-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna is set to offload its UK immigration practice to Fragomen, an international firm specialising in immigration law.
CMS Camerons sees revenue and PEP rise in 2010-11

27-May-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna has announced a five per cent increase in turnover, representing a rise from £214m in 2009-10 to £225m in 2010-11.
CMS DeBacker to launch in Luxembourg

14-Dec-2010

CMS DeBacker, the Belgian arm of the CMS network, has announced that it will open a Luxembourg office on 1 January 2011.
CMS Hasche Sigle names joint banking heads

11-Aug-2010

German firm CMS Hasche Sigle has elected two partners to replace Marc Riede as head of banking and finance.
CMS network revamps management team as Tyler returns to Camerons in City

14-Feb-2011

The CMS network has shaken up its management structure ahead of executive partner Dick Tyler’s return to the UK.
CMS Russia chops 29 fee-earners a year after integration of firm

4-Dec-2009

CMS Russia has slashed 61 jobs, including 29 fee-earning roles, almost exactly a year since three CMS firms merged their Moscow operations.
CoA agrees that Leigh Day must reduce Trafigura success fee

12-Oct-2011

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has handed down judgment in the latest bout between Leigh Day & Co and Trafigura, upholding an earlier ruling that Leigh Day must cut the 100 per cent success fee it charged for bringing a group action against the oil company to 58 per cent.
CoA clarifies position on recovering overpaid legal aid fees

1-Dec-2011

The Legal Services Commission did not abuse process when it sought to recover overpaid legal aid fees to lawyers and it can recover overpaid sums from the point of the costs assessment, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
CoA pilots mediation scheme in bid to cut litigation costs

4-Apr-2012

The Court of Appeal (CoA) is to pilot a mediation scheme for all personal injury and contract claims up to the value of £100,000 for which permission to appeal is given.
CoA rejects Abramovich's bid to have oligarch case thrown out

23-Feb-2011

The Court of Appeal has refused to strike out a multibillion pound claim brought by self-exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky against Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich.
CoA rejects Times journalist's FOI bid into George Galloway fund

21-Mar-2012

Barristers from 5 Essex Court and 11KBW have defeated opponents from 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square in the latest round of a Freedom of Information Act (FOI) row relating to former MP George Galloway’s Mariam Appeal.
CoA ruling on Mulcaire privilege case imminent

26-Jan-2012

The Court of Appeal will next Wednesday (1 February) decide whether the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World (NoW) phone hacking scandal must disclose who instructed him to intercept voicemails.
CoA to rule on status of fixed share partners

30-Jan-2012

The Court of Appeal will tomorrow decide whether fixed share partners should be classed as employees of a firm.
Cobbetts and DWF abandon merger talks in uncertain market

31-Jan-2012

DWF and Cobbetts have called off merger discussions, blaming “uncertain market conditions”.
Cobbetts and DWF confirm merger talks

18-Jan-2012

Management at Manchester’s Cobbetts and North West firm DWF have officially confirmed that they are in merger discussions, although they stopped short of giving any further details.
Cobbetts and DWF prepare ground for May merger

9-Jan-2012

North West firm DWF and Manchester firm Cobbetts are understood to be close to finalising a merger that could go ahead as early as May, adding around £44m to DWF’s growing turnover.
Cobbetts and Wragges win spots on Circle Anglia panel

3-Feb-2010

Circle Anglia, the social housing provider for London and the South East, has completed a panel review with Cobbetts and Wragge & Co winning places for the first time.
Cobbetts' fee income falls by 16 per cent

17-Jun-2009

Cobbetts has posted a drop in fee income of 16 per cent for the 2008-09 financial year but has yet to finalise its turnover figure.
Cobbetts' LLP filing reveals £9m profit for 2008-09

10-Feb-2010

Cobbetts posted a net profit of £9.38m in the 2008-09 financial year alongside a 20.6 per cent drop in revenues.
Cobbetts managing partner to step down from top job

26-Mar-2012

Cobbetts managing partner Michael Shaw has announced that he is stepping down after 16 years in the role.
Cobbetts picks litigation head as new managing partner

21-May-2012

Cobbetts has elected a new managing partner to replace Michael Shaw, who spent 16 years in the post.
Cobbetts starts flexi-working in bid to save jobs

28-Aug-2009

Cobbetts has introduced a four-day week across its transactional practice groups in a bid to avoid making and further job cuts.
Cobbetts swoops for Dawsons corporate partner

14-Mar-2011

Dawsons has lost a partner and two lawyers to the London office of North-West firm Cobbetts, it was announced today.
Cobbetts unveils marginal turnover rise

18-May-2012

Manchester firm Cobbetts has posted a marginal increase in turnover for the 2011-12 financial year, up 1.6 per cent from £44.5m to £45.2m.
Coffin Mew boosts corporate with Penningtons former group head

11-May-2010

Hampshire-based Coffin Mew has bolstered its corporate and insolvency teams with two new partner hires.
Coffin Mew names non-lawyer as first chief exec

16-Jun-2009

Fareham-headquartered firm Coffin Mew has scrapped the managing partner position in favour of a chief executive role.
Cohabitation and Coalition

10-Nov-2011

One of the few eye-catching pieces of news during the political party conference season was the proposal that the law of marriage be extended to gay and lesbian couples.
Cohabitation Law: "Time for change", say leading divorce lawyers

3-Nov-2011

The Supreme Court will shortly hand down its long awaited, and highly anticipated, judgment in the case of Mr Kernott and Ms Jones. Mr Kernott and Ms Jones lived together for 10 years, had two children together, but very importantly never married.
Cohen in control

6-Oct-2009

Last month The Lawyer popped down to Manhattan’s financial district to see Sullivan & Cromwell’s Rodge Cohen, the man who saved the US banking system.
CoL gives £300k to flagship charity in same year CEO earns £440k

27-May-2011

College of Law’s chief executive Nigel Savage earned a greater sum in its last financial year than the course provider donated to its flagship diversity scheme, The Lawyer can reveal.
CoL left with £450,000 Halliwells bad debt

20-Sep-2010

The College of Law (CoL) is owed almost half a million pounds by Halliwells relating to unpaid LPC fees for the 2009-10 financial year.
CoL to introduce New York Bar programme

15-Mar-2010

The College of Law (CoL) has announced plans to offer the New York Bar Exam to UK students, allowing them to qualify as American lawyers without having to complete a training contract.
Collas Crill adds to Jersey team with Maples hire

26-Oct-2011

Channel Islands firm Collas Crill is continuing its post-merger expansion with the hire of a Cayman-qualified partner.
College of Law defeats discrimination claim in appeal court

3-Feb-2012

The Court of Appeal has thrown out a disability discrimination claim brought against the College of Law (CoL) over its examination provision.
College of Poor

21-Sep-2010

Students of collateral damage from major business collapses need look no further than Halliwells and the College of Law (CoL).
Coller Capital distances itself from MJ Hudson funding claim

22-Jul-2010

Private equity firm Coller Capital has denied that it has agreed to take an equity stake in Matthew Hudson’s newly created funds boutique.
Collins J refuses judicial review into BAE plea bargain settlement

26-Mar-2010

Mr Justice Collins has rejected a High Court bid to bring a judicial review of the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) decision to agree a plea bargain settlement with BAE Systems.
Collyer Bristow defends Boris against Bob Crow claim

11-May-2012

Newly re-elected London Mayor Boris Johnson has instructed Collyer Bristow to defend a libel claim relating to his election campaign.
Collyer Bristow faces £25m claim from Rangers FC administrators

17-Apr-2012

Collyer Bristow is facing damages claims of at least £25m over the firm’s role in the Rangers FC administration, The Lawyer can reveal.
Collyer Bristow facing negligence claim over Rangers FC advice

30-Mar-2012

Collyer Bristow is understood to be facing claims of alleged professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duty in the fallout over the administration of Rangers FC.
Collyer Bristow plans Innovator One costs claim

23-May-2012

Collyer Bristow is preparing to launch an indemnity costs claim against the 555 claimants which failed in their attempt to sue the firm on Friday.
Collyer Bristow seals victory for cricketer in Twitter libel case

26-Mar-2012

A cricketer has won the first-ever Twitter libel payout in a case brought on his behalf by Collyer Bristow.
Collyer Bristow takes Mosley privacy case to ECHR Grand Chamber

2-Jun-2011

Former International Automobile Federation (FIA) president Max Mosley has instructed Collyer Bristow to take his fight against the domestic press to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.
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As any military strategist will tell you, it’s never easy fighting a battle on two fronts. Collyer Bristow will ruefully agree.
Collyer Bristow's future looks secure as it defeats Innovator One claim

18-May-2012

Collyer Bristow has defeated a £50m professional negligence claim that threatened the financial stability of the firm.
Combined efforts

19-Nov-2009

Mergers are all the rage. First it’s Hogan and Lovells (see story). And now, on a slightly less grand scale, EC3 giant Clyde & Co is in talks with construction and infrastructure firm Shadbolt Law, as revealed on TheLawyer.com today.
Come on, Voge

18-Apr-2011

US firms have been spotted around the City oiling their shopping trolleys for this year’s legal market Supermarket Sweep.
Compare the law firm.com

16-Aug-2011

Don’t be fooled by the irritating adverts featuring opera singers with boundary issues or meerkats that long outstay their welcome - the insurance sector means business and that is having a profound effect on the legal services market.
Competition class actions suffer setback as EU shuns directive

6-Oct-2009

An EU draft directive on competition law that could have brought an influx of US-style class actions to the UK has been withdrawn.
Confidence slumps among City partners as euro crisis continues to worry

29-Nov-2011

A total of 70 per cent of partners working in City firms are less confident in the market in 2011 than they were in the two previous years according to a survey carried out by recruiters Nicholas Scott.
Conflict forces Hogan Lovells partner off Megaupload case

23-Jan-2012

A prominent US-based Hogan Lovells lawyer acting for content-sharing website Megaupload.com has been forced to withdraw over conflicts of interest involving another client, it has emerged.
Conflict gifts Eversheds construction team from pre-merger McGrigors

12-Mar-2012

Eversheds has raided merger-ready McGrigors for its contentious construction law team two months before the Scotland-headquartered firm finalises its tie-up with Pinsent Masons.
Consumer body predicts that ABSs will plug legal aid gap

16-Apr-2012

Alternative business structures will provide access to justice for consumers affected by legal aid cuts, a Legal Services Consumer Panel report states.
Conyers insurance partner relocates from Bermuda to lead City team

3-Nov-2011

Offshore firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has installed Charles Collis as the new head of its London office.
Cooking with gas

22-Feb-2011

To ape one of those many Americanisms that will no doubt continue their slow insidious encroachments into our once great language, there’s a lot of energy in the City right now.
Cooley makes first move overseas with Shanghai launch

16-Dec-2011

Silicon Valley-based Cooley has opened an office in Shanghai, marking the firm’s first move into an international jurisdiction.
Cooley reports turnover and profit rise

8-Feb-2012

California-headquartered Cooley has posted positive financial results for turnover, average profit and revenue per lawyer for the 2011 year.
Cooley, Gunderson and Hogan advise on Zynga's Draw Something purchase

5-Apr-2012

Two specialist technology firms lined up alongside Hogan Lovells on the acquisition by Zynga of the maker of Draw Something, an app that allows users to play a Pictionary-style game on their smartphones.
Co-op ABS plans to create thousands of legal jobs

24-May-2012

The Co-operative Group has unveiled plans to create 3,000 jobs in the legal sector as it aims to revolutionise how legal services are delivered on the high street.
Co-op buys in family law capability ahead of ABS conversion

2-Nov-2011

The Co-operative is set to enter the family law market with the hire of a partner duo from London firm TV Edwards, including the firm’s managing partner Jenny Beck.
Co-op Legal Services first to launch as an ABS

28-Mar-2012

Co-operative Legal Services (CLS), Oxford-based John Welch and Stammers and Kent-based Lawbridge Solicitors have become the first alternative business structures (ABS) to be approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
Co-op Legal Services ramps up recruitment ahead of ABS conversion

12-Jan-2012

Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) today (12 January) launched the largest recruitment drive in its history ahead of its intended conversion to an alternative business structure.
Co-op set to become ABS pioneer

7-Dec-2011

Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) has announced that it intends to apply to become an alternative business structure (ABS) on 3 January, the day on which the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) finally begins accepting applications.
Copy. Right?

29-Jun-2011

The Digital Economy Act has proved to be one of the most controversial pieces of legislation to have been passed in recent years.
Coral Knight: Travers Smith

15-Apr-2011

What time do you start work each day? 8am.
Coronation treat at Simmons

28-Apr-2011

The mothballs are coming off the bunting and the country is engaged in some feverish polishing of its best silver as the biggest street party for a generation is set to get underway.
Corporate: Reasons to be cheerful?

17-Sep-2010

Although the corporate practices of the top 20 firms suffered an average fall in revenue, by the end of the year things were pretty much the same as before.
Corrigan's Mayfair

19-Jan-2012

I am meeting Irvine Sellar, the extrovert and flamboyant Chairman of Sellar Property and creator of the Shard, for lunch at Corrigan’s of Mayfair.
Cost of LSA sees practising certificate fee rocket

24-Jul-2009

The Law Society has hiked the cost of a practising certificate by nearly 20 per cent to £1,180 a year.
Coulson's payoff - the questions that still need to be answered

24-Aug-2011

With Andy Coulson and News International remaining tight-lipped about his severance package, Anya Palmer says now is the time to waive any confidentiality agreement
Council clash

9-Feb-2011

Litigation can be a scary business for clients, particularly when a co-appellant decides to throw in the towel and settle.
Court changes lead to "chaos" fears as staff sidelined

13-Feb-2012

Civil court users will be forced to deliver legal papers to a ‘drop box’ after plans to redeploy court officials away from front line services were unveiled by the HM Courts and Tribunals Service.
Court favourites

9-Nov-2011

Banks may be getting stick about how much tax they (don’t) pay, but perhaps a little sympathy is in order: it sounds like their legal bills are extortionate.
Court in action

18-May-2011

As revolutions go this one was fairly quiet. With a brief press release on Monday (16 May) the Supreme Court announced that it has introduced live-streaming of court proceedings on the Internet.
Court justice

26-Jan-2011

This month’s decision to remove Mr Justice Peter Smith from the bench presiding over a professional negligence claim brought against Mills & Reeve is a considerable show of strength from the Court of Appeal (CoA).
Court of Appeal dismisses West Tankers dispute

27-Jan-2012

The court can enforce an arbitration award if it is for a negative declaration, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled in the much-anticipated West Tankers case.
Court of Appeal dismisses William Hill's 32Red appeal

25-Jan-2012

Bookmaker William Hill has lost an appeal against a High Court ruling that found the gambling giant’s online casino brand 32Vegas infringed a rival company’s trademarks.
Court of Appeal overturns Eady J libel decision

1-Apr-2010

The Court of Appeal has ruled that science writer Simon Singh can rely on the fair comment defence in a libel action being brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA).
Court of Appeal rules in York care home case

27-Oct-2010

Middlesbrough diocese must be held solely liable for the running of a York children’s home where 150 former residents are suing for sexual and physical abuse, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Court orders liquidation of London firm Atlantic Law

26-Mar-2012

A West End law firm fined £400,000 two years ago for its involvement in a boiler room share scam is being liquidated following a winding-up petition brought by a former employee.
Court rejects Google libel case over lack of jurisdiction

5-Mar-2012

The High Court has thrown out a libel action being brought against Google over comments posted on a blog on the grounds that there was no jurisdiction to try the claim.
Court rejects injunction bid by environment secretary's son

24-Feb-2012

The High Court has rejected a bid to extend an injunction granted to environment secretary Caroline Spelman’s son Jonathan.
Court unanimously rejects Occupy LSX appeal

22-Feb-2012

The Court of Appeal has refused protestors camped outside London’s St Paul’s Cathedral permission to appeal Mr Justice Lindblom’s ruling that they could be removed from the site.
Courting blues

9-Nov-2011

Not getting married to your Significant Other has become commonplace in today’s world - and as a result, so has buying a house with that person.
Courting clarification

19-Oct-2011

When Lehman Brothers went into meltdown back in September 2008, insolvency lawyers knew that unwinding the bank would take years. And so it has proved, not just for Lehman but all the other financial institutions that failed at the height of the crisis.
Courting the press

26-Aug-2009

Allowing hacks into the melting pot of the family courts could have as yet unforeseen consequences, says Raymond Tooth and Jeffrey Nedas
Courts should ditch 'absurd' paper-based systems, say Neuberger and Vos

20-Oct-2011

Britain’s leading judges are calling for an electronic revolution in the courts, arguing that enhanced use of technology would solidify London’s High Court as one of the best in the world.
Coutts in-houser joins Lloyds private equity arm

10-Jun-2009

Lloyds TSB Development Capital (LDC), the private arm of the Lloyds Banking Group, has hired a former legal counsel from Coutts & Co, the Queen’s bank.
Covanta Energy turns to Carillion for in-house legal hire

4-Mar-2011

Waste to Energy specialist Covanta Energy has appointed Kim Humphreys as legal counsel.
Covanta Energy turns to rival for hire of legal chief

6-Jan-2010

Covanta Energy has raided waste management rival Waste Recycling Group (WRG) to appoint Fiona Penhallurick as its new director of legal services.
Cover up

30-Jun-2010

Over the past year, an increasing number of litigation insurers have extended their coverage to include own-costs cover. James Delaney looks at what this means for the industry
Covington & Burling posts positive 2011 financials

22-Feb-2012

Covington & Burling is the latest US firm to show recovery from the slump, revealing an increase in revenue and average profits for 2011.
Covington & Burling swoops for MoFo City quartet

16-May-2011

US firm Covington & Burling has added a life sciences corporate team to its London office, after taking a team of four partners from Morrison & Foerster (MoFo).
Covington gains one City partner in latest promotions round

2-Oct-2009

Covington & Burling’s London office has gained one new partner in the firm’s annual promotions round.
Covington hires Korean partner for Seoul launch

12-Mar-2012

Covington & Burling has become the latest US firm to file a preliminary application for a Seoul office, and has hired corporate lawyer William Park from local Korean firm Apex to oversee the expansion.
Covington hires partner from BAE Systems

19-Aug-2010

Covington & Burling has added to its partnership with a lawyer from the world’s largest defence contractor, BAE Systems.
Covington makes fifth MoFo City partner hire in a year

8-Dec-2011

US firm Covington & Burling has bolstered its London corporate practice with the appointment of Kristian Wiggert from Morrison & Foerster as a partner in its European corporate group.
Covington targets Shanghai with Wilson Sonsini team

9-Feb-2012

US firm Covington & Burling has applied to open an office in Shanghai in a move to expand its Chinese offering.
Covington turns to Paul Hastings for London employment team

6-Oct-2010

US firm Covington & Burling has boosted its employment team in London with a team of lawyers from Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker.
Covington's Middle East alliance firm launches two Saudi offices

27-Jan-2011

Covington & Burling’s Middle East alliance partner Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy (IQ) is set to launch offices in Riyadh and King Abdullah Economic City.
CPA Global appoints LSO head following departure of ex-Rio Tinto attorney

6-Feb-2012

CPA Global has appointed a new head of legal service outsourcing (LSO) to fill the gap left by Leah Cooper, who departed the business late last year.
CPS cancels graduate recruitment programme

1-Oct-2009

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been forced to pull the plug on its recruitment programme this year because of a crack down on public spending.
Crash of the Icebergs

2-Nov-2011

The sudden demise of the Icelandic banking system in the autumn of 2008 left 145 local authorities in the UK exposed to huge financial losses. The authorities had ploughed money into Icelandic banks such as Landsbanki, Glitnir, Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander (KSF) and Heritable because of the attractive deposit rates they had on offer.
Cravath elects new litigation chief

4-Oct-2010

One of Cravath Swaine & Moore’s longest-serving members of management stood down at the end of last month as part of a wider-ranging shake-up of senior roles at the US firm.
Crazy in law

27-Jun-2011

As Beyonce would say of The Lawyer’s Transatlantic Elite, it’s history in the making.
Credit Suisse turns to Linklaters on $8bn CoCo deal

18-Feb-2011

Linklaters has claimed a key mandate acting for Credit Suisse on the bank’s issuance of $8bn (£4.98bn) worth of contingent convertible bonds, the Basel III compliant capital instrument known as CoCos.
Cripps re-elects senior partner for second term

4-Jan-2011

Tunbridge Wells-based Cripps Harries Hall has re-elected Michael Stevens as senior partner for a second term following an uncontested election.
Cripps sees 10 per cent profit rise as turnover remains static

28-May-2010

A strong showing from property and private client has seen South East firm Cripps Harries Hall post a 10.8 per cent rise in net profit for the 2009-10 financial year.
Crone: Clear evidence phone-hacking went beyond Goodman

6-Sep-2011

Former News International legal chief Tom Crone has told a Parliamentary committee that he was “certain” that News International’s (NI) James Murdoch was aware that the phone-hacking scandal went beyond one rogue reporter.
Crowd funding: pushing the FMSA boundaries?

14-Sep-2011

Business Secretary Vince Cable announced recently what we have known for a while: “There is a serious problem with lending to good, small companies”. It is a catch 22: the Government sees entrepreneurship as essential to longer-term economic recovery, but the funding is not available to facilitate this.
Crowell & Moring ramps up presence in Middle East and North Africa

22-Apr-2010

US firm Crowell & Moring is stepping up its presence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with tie-ups in Cairo and Saudi Arabia.
Crowell brings Sidley's Brussels office founder on board

9-Mar-2011

US firm Crowell & Moring has hired the founder of Sidley Austin’s Brussels office, Laurent Ruessmann.
Crowell hires 29-lawyer team for San Francisco launch

28-Oct-2009

US firm Crowell & Moring is to launch an office in San Francisco after hiring a 29-lawyer team from US litigation firm Folger Levin & Kahn.
Cuatrecasas advises bank syndicate on Ferrovial's debt restructuring

10-Dec-2009

Spanish firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has advised a syndicate of 40 banks, led by BBVA, on the restructuring of construction company Ferrovial’s €3.3bn (£2.99m) debt.
Cuatrecasas advises FC Barcelona on unlawful accounting claim

25-Nov-2010

Spanish firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira is advising FC Barcelona’s board of directors on its unlawful accounting claim against the club’s former president.
Cuatrecasas advises on part privatisation of Spanish airport operator

12-Apr-2011

Spanish firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has picked up a prized instruction from the country’s airports operator on its partial privatisation.
Cuatrecasas and Garrigues advise on Spanish banking mega-merger

21-May-2010

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira and Garrigues have advised on €4.2bn (£3.63bn), three-way merger between Spain’s savings banks.
Cuatrecasas installs Lisbon management duo as incumbent quits firm

14-Jan-2011

The managing partner of Iberian firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira’s Lisbon office has quit the firm to pursue personal projects.
Cuatrecasas launches in Malaga with local merger

6-Jul-2010

Iberian firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has bolted-on an office in Malaga following a merger with local player Romero y Robles.
Cuatrecasas lawyer mourns end of 'Beckham Law'

6-Nov-2009

A partner at Cuatrecasas has criticised the Spanish government for announcing that it will abandon the so-called ‘Beckham Law’, which allows star footballers and other wealthy workers coming into the country to pay almost half the going tax rate.
Cuatrecasas mobilises taskforce to aid country's savings banks

14-Oct-2009

Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has launched a multidisciplinary team to specifically advise the country’s troubled savings banks.
Cuatrecasas posts small rise in turnover for 2010

27-Jan-2011

Iberian firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira’s turnover increased by 3 per cent in 2010, rising to €241.7m.
Cuatrecasas reports slight revenue increase in 2011

7-Feb-2012

Iberia’s Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has seen a minimal increase in turnover for the 2011 financial year, with revenue rising by just under €1m.
Cuatrecasas turns to Garrigues for Barcelona tax hire

19-Apr-2010

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has bulked up its Barcelona tax practice with the hire of a partner from rival Garrigues.
Cuatrecasas unveils new office heads for London and New York

7-Sep-2010

Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has named new heads for its offices in London and New York.
Cuatrecasas welcomes 10 to partnership in latest promos round

28-Mar-2011

Spain’s second-largest firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has promoted 10 lawyers to partner across its Spanish and Portuguese offices.
Cuatrecasas welcomes all partners into equity

26-Mar-2012

Iberian firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira is ditching its salaried partner rank and bringing all its partners into the equity.
Cuatrecasas wins Spanish financing mandate amid economic turmoil

18-May-2012

Iberian firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has won a mandate to advise a consortium of banks and the Spanish government on the country’s largest ever financing transaction.
Cuatrecasas, Uria and Clifford Chance win Spanish lottery roles

6-Jul-2011

A trio of firms have won lead roles on Spain’s largest-ever IPO as the country privatises state lottery and betting organisation, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado.
Cumberland Ellis and Wedlake Bell prepare for April merger

1-Feb-2012

London firms Cumberland Ellis and Wedlake Bell are set to merge, creating a top 100 firm by revenue.
Curtis Mallet-Prevost bulks up London with two partner moves

21-Apr-2011

US firm Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has bulked up its London office by relocating two partners and a senior associate from around its network.
Curtis Mallet-Prevost launches in Kuwait

6-Mar-2012

New York firm Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has announced plans to extend its Middle Eastern footprint with the opening of an office in Kuwait.
Curtis Mallet-Prevost launches in Turkmenistan

3-Jun-2011

US firm Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has become the first international law firm to open an office in Turkmenistan.
Cutback Camerons

10-Feb-2011

Chancellor George Osborne has been singing and dancing all over the place in the last 48 hours, simultaneously trying to convince his banker mates that he still loves them while telling the rest of the world that they are, in fact, overpaid parasites.
Cutting it fine

18-Nov-2009

In the current economic climate all companies are scrutinising expenditure. Departmental budgets are being monitored and cut as the demand to demonstrate greater value for money increases. This presents a challenge but also an opportunity to improve efficiencies and day to day operations between internal departments.
Cynthia Seeley: SJ Berwin

21-Apr-2011

What time do you start work each day? I aim to get in by 9.30am depending on whether my trains decide to give a good service.
DAC and Beachcroft moot £175m merger

22-Jun-2011

Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) and Beachcroft are in merger talks to create a £175m insurance giant, The Lawyer can reveal.
DAC Beachcroft continues expansion with trio of laterals

9-May-2012

DAC Beachcroft is continuing on the acquisition trail with the appointment of three partners, including Eversheds’ local government practice head Judith Barnes.
DAC Beachcroft ramps up volume arm with Zurich hire

2-Apr-2012

DAC Beachcroft is to boost its claims solutions group with the hire of Zurich Financial Services’ European claims director Bill Paton.
DAC Beachcroft seals association with Canada's McCague Borlack

18-May-2012

DAC Beachcroft has entered into a formal association with Canadian firm McCague Borlack with a view to fully integrating with the firm.
DAC Beachcroft secures post-merger laterals in Singapore and Madrid

11-Jan-2012

DAC Beachcroft has made its first international lateral hires since the completion of the Davies Arnold Cooper-Beachcroft merger in October 2011, bolstering its Singapore and Madrid offices.
DAC Beachcroft to go live in November

22-Jul-2011

The partners at Beachcroft and Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) have voted in favour of the proposed merger between the two firms.
DAC Beachcroft welcomes five to partnership ranks

26-Apr-2012

DAC Beachcroft has added five lawyers to its partnership, three of whom join its commoditised claims solutions group.
DAC Beachcroft wins prayer fight for atheist councillor

10-Feb-2012

DAC Beachcroft has convinced the High Court that to hold prayers before council meetings is unlawful under the Local Government Act (1972).
Daily Mail legal chief quits after 17 years at the helm

22-Nov-2011

Associated Newspapers’ long-standing legal chief Harvey Kass is to leave the newspaper group after more than two decades.
Daily Mail publisher splits legal function following departure of legal director

28-Mar-2012

The internal legal team at Associated Newspapers have been split into two groups, focusing on commercial and editorial respectively.
Daily Telegraph apologises to Sedley LJ over defamatory allegations

9-Mar-2011

The Daily Telegraph is to issue a formal apology to Lord Justice Sedley over a series of “professionally damaging” allegations which appeared in the paper last year.
Daimler revamps legal function with formal panel and new GC

27-Oct-2011

German car manufacturer Daimler has appointed its debut legal panel with long-standing advisers making the cut.
Darling, you mustn't...

9-Dec-2009

The Lord giveth and, if you work in the City at least, the Treasury taketh away.
Davenport Lyons lawyers suspended by SDT for causing "intimidation"

2-Aug-2011

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has suspended two Davenport Lyons lawyers from practising and fined them £20,000 each for sending “intimidating letters” to individuals they accused of illegal file-sharing.
Davenport Lyons says SDT action on file-sharing is 'totally unjustified'

2-Aug-2011

Davenport Lyons has hit back at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal’s (SDT) decision to fine and ban from practice two partners that sent “intimidating letters” saying the action was “totally unjustified”.
David Cameron's secret passion for patents

13-Dec-2011

We all know why David Cameron flew to Brussels last week. To make political history by vetoing the EU’s financial recovery plans in the face of Continental pressure?
David Fitch : Simmons & Simmons

20-Sep-2010

I’m a recovering litigation lawyer.Maybe one day I’ll return to practice - Byron Bay, Australia, has always been on my radar.
David Price victory sees Supreme Court redefine 'fair comment' as 'honest comment'

1-Dec-2010

The fair comment defence has been widened by the country’s most senior judges in the first defamation case to be heard by the Supreme Court.
David Wallace: DLA Piper

19-Nov-2010

How much time do you spend on Facebook each week? What is Facebook?
Davis Polk and Links win lead roles on Rio Tinto bond issue

24-May-2011

Davis Polk & Wardwell has advised a group of major securities companies on an SEC-registered offering of $2bn of notes by Rio Tinto Finance (USA).
Davis Polk builds English law practice with second Freshfields hire

13-Apr-2012

Davis Polk & Wardwell has further bolstered its English law capability in London with the hire of another Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner.
Davis Polk continues Hong Kong hiring spree with Linklaters head

22-Nov-2010

Davis Polk & Wardwell has continued to build its Hong Kong office with the hire of Linklaters’ Beijing head.
Davis Polk eyes Brazil for seventh overseas opening

18-Feb-2011

Davis Polk & Wardwell is to open an office in Brazil later this year, the firm announced today.
Davis Polk hires Shearman partner for Paris corporate team

17-May-2011

US firm Davis Polk & Wardwell has turned to Shearman & Sterling to bulk up its French corporate team.
Davis Polk launches HK law practice with hires from Freshfields and HKSE

16-Aug-2010

US firm Davis Polk & Wardwell has launched a domestic law practice in Hong Kong with two new partners.
Davis Polk names Scotsman as firmwide managing partner

7-Apr-2011

Davis Polk & Wardwell has elected British lawyer Tom Reid as its new managing partner, replacing incumbent John Ettinger.
Davis Polk scoops Mayer Brown duo for Brazilian launch

12-Jul-2011

US firm Davis Polk has raided Mayer Brown for two of its three Sao Paulo-based partners as it prepares to launch its own office in the Brazilian city.
Davis Polk, Jenner & Block advise on General Motors IPO

20-Aug-2010

US firms Davis Polk & Wardwell and Jenner & Block have landed the top roles on General Motors’ initial public offering (IPO).
Davis Polk, Shearman advise on £5bn Brazilian IPO

7-Oct-2009

Shearman & Sterling has advised the underwriters on Brazil’s biggest IPO to date - the $8bn (£5bn) listing of Banco Santander’s Brazilian subsidiary.
Davis re-elected as Dewey & LeBoeuf chairman

16-Sep-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf chairman Steven Davis has been re-elected to serve a second five-year team, the US firm has announced.
Dawsons' creaking door

14-Mar-2011

Everyone loves a good old-fashioned ’merger of equals’ - that mythical beast whose existence lies somewhere between the unicorn and the satyr in the make-believe stakes.
Dawsons loses partner to Payne Hicks as Penningtons talks continue

15-Mar-2011

Lincoln’s Inn firm Payne Hicks Beach has hit Dawsons for employment partner Sarah Rushton.
Dawsons rebuilds employment team with BLP hire

4-Mar-2010

Dawsons has hired Berwin Leighton Paisner partner Paul Mander to head its employment practice following the departure of Jo Keddie earlier this year.
Dawsons shell goes into voluntary liquidation

23-Jun-2011

The shell business of former Lincoln’s Inn firm Dawsons has gone into voluntary liquidation after failing to pay creditors including Barclays Bank, which is owed just under £1m.
Dawsons wins record payout from News of the World on bullying claim

26-Nov-2009

Dawsons has won a major payout for a former News of the World sports reporter after it was found that former editor Andy Coulson had subjected him to a campaign of newsroom bullying.
Day One: The road to India

16-Aug-2010

I recently found myself in India as part of a business delegation with British Prime Minister David Cameron and five of his cabinet colleagues as part of the largest trade mission to set out from the UK for, well, a long time.
Day-break at SJB

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And so the least surprising election result since Kim Jong-Il secured an unprecedented 27th term is now in. And, as expected, Rob Day is the new man at the helm of the good ship SJ Berwin (see story).
De Brauw moves in with Slaughters and Uria for Beijing launch

11-Mar-2010

Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek is launching an office in Beijing, taking on space in the same building as that occupied by best friends Slaughter and May and Uría Menéndez.
Death and Texas

18-Mar-2011

Anyone who has been watching Professor Brian Cox’s excellent series about space and planets and stuff will be familiar with the notion that the dying embers of stars will be visible for countless millennia after the star itself has perished.
Death by a Thousand Cuts

7-Jul-2009

At the new Durham Unitary Authority, council leaders are serious about saving money.
Death of class actions?

15-Dec-2010

Will there ever be a framework for class actions in the UK?
Debate mates

22-Apr-2010

Now that Iceland’s most unpronounceable volcano has stopped spewing its flight-grounding misery into our Great British skies we can all get back to some good old fashioned politician-bashing.
Debevoise 2011 results show increase in turnover to $675.5m

17-Feb-2012

Debevoise & Plimpton has posted a 2.8 per cent increase in revenue for 2011, taking total fee income to $675.5m.
Debevoise and Slaughters lead on Pru's $35bn AIG Asia deal

1-Mar-2010

Debevoise & Plimpton and Slaughter and May have landed prize roles on Prudential’s proposed $35.5bn (£23.9bn) purchase of American International Group’s (AIG) Asian insurance business.
Debevoise beefs up London practice with Travers hire

20-Sep-2010

US firm Debevoise & Plimpton has expanded its London private equity practice with the hire of Travers Smith partner David Innes.
Debevoise loses two as Latham strengthens Paris with corporate hires

16-Jan-2012

Latham & Watkins has raided rival Debevoise & Plimpton’s Paris office, picking up the firm’s local co-managing partner Patrick Laporte.
Debevoise names new presiding partner as incumbent retires

29-Jun-2011

US firm Debevoise & Plimpton has appointed corporate chair Michael Blair as its presiding partner, succeeding Martin Frederic ‘Rick’ Evans, who has held the post since 1998.
Debevoise ups focus on Asia with launch of Hong Kong disputes group

19-Sep-2011

US firm Debevoise & Plimpton is to expand its Asian disputes and investigations capabilities by relocating three lawyers to Hong Kong and upping the time spent in Asia by two key litigation partners from London and New York.
Debevoise's Goldsmith among latest appointees to Hong Kong arbitration centre

1-Nov-2011

Former UK Attorney General Peter Goldsmith has been appointed to the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) along with a partner each from Fasken Martineau, Herbert Smith and Hogan Lovells.
Debtor the devil you know

15-Feb-2011

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. If the top brass at Halliwells LLP (Late Lamented Partnership) could look back at the last few years and have their time again, they may well have considered saving the odd penny here and there.
Dechert and Sumption win Supreme Court vulture fund case

6-Jul-2011

Sovereign states will no longer be able to claim immunity from suit in the UK in commercial cases after a landmark Supreme Court judgment this morning.
Dechert boosts City litigation team with pair of DLA partners

1-Apr-2011

Dechert is set to boost its London litigation practice with the addition of DLA Piper’s joint global head of litigation Neil Gerrard and EMEA head of corporate crime and investigations Jonathan Pickworth.
Dechert bulks up in Frankfurt with Fried Frank hire

19-Mar-2012

Dechert has raided rival US firm Fried Frank to bolster its newly-opened Frankfurt office, picking up partner Sven Schulte-Hillen.
Dechert continues City push with hire of high-profile Norton Rose litigator

5-Jan-2012

Dechert has hired Norton Rose litigation partner Antony Dutton as the latest in a string of partner laterals that has significantly boosted the US firm’s UK disputes capabilities.
Dechert eyes Shanghai launch as part of China expansion

18-May-2012

Dechert is ramping up its China presence with the hire of a private equity partner in Beijing office and plans to open in Shanghai in the near future.
Dechert hires SJ Berwin's German financial markets head

1-Sep-2010

Dechert has continued its European investment funds expansion with the capture of SJ Berwin’s head of German financial markets.
Dechert makes fresh assault on Chadbourne with hire of 11-lawyer Almaty team

5-Apr-2012

The cold war between Dechert and Chadbourne & Parke has broken out again with almost an entire office switching sides.
Dechert moves into Frankfurt with double hire

17-Jan-2012

Dechert has opened an office in Frankfurt with the hire of a former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner and the head of Mayer Brown’s German private investment funds group.
Dechert names new London head as Fogel steps down

2-Mar-2012

Dechert has announced a new managing partner for its London office, with employment partner Jason Butwick replacing longstanding London managing partner Steven Fogel.
Dechert opens Chicago office as expansion continues

24-May-2012

US firm Dechert has opened its fourth office this year, launching in Chicago with the hire of three litigation lawyers from local firm Katten Muchin Rosenman.
Dechert opens LA office with four-partner Orrick team

7-Apr-2011

Dechert has launched an office in Los Angeles after hiring four partners from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, including former US litigation head Edwin Woodsome.
Dechert picks up Linklaters team for Paris IP push

23-Jan-2012

Dechert has launched an IP team in France through the hire of Linklaters partner Marianne Schaffner and a team of associates.
Dechert posts positive financial results for 2011

9-Feb-2012

Dechert has posted a 3.5 per cent increase in revenue for the 2011 financial year, with total turnover growing to $671m.
Dechert raids DLA again, taking trade head Gonzalez

25-Oct-2011

US firm Dechert has hired another partner from DLA Piper, bringing on board the firm’s head of trade and government relations Miriam Gonzalez.
Dechert returns to DLA for another partner hire

7-Oct-2011

Dechert has hired another partner from DLA Piper as the phoney war between the two firms this week warmed up.
Dechert set to take 25-strong Dewey team in London and UAE

17-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is set to lose up to 11 further lawyers in Dubai as a team of fee-earners follows a four-partner capital markets exodus to US rival Dechert.
Dechert snares Dewey capital markets pair as losses escalate

16-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is set to lose four partners in London and the Middle East including City capital markets rainmaker Camille Abousleiman, in the latest string of departures from the embattled US firm.
Dechert targeted by protesters over representation of vulture funds

25-Feb-2010

Protesters angry at Dechert’s representation of so-called vulture funds held a demonstration outside the firm’s City office yesterday.
Dechert to split leadership role as Winokur prepares to step down

4-Jun-2010

US firm Dechert will restructure its leadership after announcing that long-term chair and chief executive Bart Winokur will stand down next year.
Defame academy

25-May-2011

Screeching headlines about judicial interference in press matters have been all too prominent in recent weeks.
Defense mechanism

17-Mar-2010

For big name defendants employment discrimination can be a PR catastrophe. Look at 4 New Square.
Delegates from The Lawyer Summit 2008

24-Apr-2009

Job titleCompanyGeneral CounselAgustaWestlandRegional Claims Counsel for UK & IrelandAIG UKIn-house Solicitor (UK & Ireland)B&Q
Demystifying India’s legal market

5-Dec-2011

The legal profession and industry in India is a mysterious market that even its regulator doesn’t seem to have good grip on.
Denmark's Danders seals merger with corporate boutique

31-Aug-2010

Danish firm Danders & More has merged with Copenhagen transaction boutique NSR Advokatfirma.
Dennison Greer chief should be struck off for role in TAG scandal, CoA rules

3-Apr-2012

Solicitor Anthony Dennison should be struck off for his part in The Accident Group (TAG) scandal, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled.
Dentons and TLT advise on Branson's bid to enter banking sector

8-Jan-2010

Denton Wilde Sapte and TLT Solicitors have secured lead roles on Virgin Money’s first venture into the banking sector through its offer to buy private bank Church House Trust.
Dentons faces $3.5m professional negligence claim in DIFC courts

27-Oct-2011

SNR Denton legacy firm Denton Wilde Sapte is being sued by a former client for around $3.5m in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) courts.
Dentons finalises second round of redundancies

4-Jan-2010

Denton Wilde Sapte has completed a second redundancy consultation, with 27 members of staff leaving the firm. Dentons launched a review of 29 jobs in October last year, with both London and Milton Keynes offices targeted.
Dentons India: how the fixer crossed the line

17-Apr-2012

SNR Denton has finally got to close the book on a long-running bribery saga, after its former India head was ordered to pay costs to the firm and its insurers (see story) for her involvement in wheeler-dealing.
Dentons makes second wave of redundancies

13-Oct-2009

Denton Wilde Sapte has begun a second redundancy consultation with 29 members of staff likely to be affected.
Dentons makes up two in annual promotions

27-Apr-2010

Denton Wilde Sapte has promoted two lawyers to its partnership, down from six last year.
Dentons' NQ retention rate plunges to 14 per cent

10-Feb-2010

Denton Wilde Sapte is shedding 86 per cent of its spring 2010 qualifiers giving it the lowest newly qualified (NQ) retention rate in the UK 200 so far.
Dentons posts 22 per cent PEP increase as turnover nudges down

19-May-2010

Denton Wilde Sapte has posted average profit per equity partner (PEP) growth of 22 per cent for the 2009-10 financial year, despite total revenues dropping slightly on the previous year.
Dentons posts massive drop in PEP to £300,000

4-Jun-2009

Denton Wilde Sapte has recorded a 36 per cent drop in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2008-09 financial year.
Dentons posts modest rise in six-month revenues

6-Nov-2009

Denton Wilde Sapte has posted a 3.5 per cent rise on year-to-date revenue, with fee income rising from £84.7m in October 2008 to £87.7m at the half-year stage.
Dentons prepares to seal transatlantic merger with Sonnenschein

26-May-2010

Denton Wilde Sapte is to merge with US firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in a deal that will create a £500m firm with 1,400 lawyers.
Dentons to merge with Sonnenschein

26-May-2010

The management of Denton Wilde Sapte and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal want their firms to merge.
Departing GKN legal chief joins Competition Commission

18-Aug-2009

The former head of legal at technology and engineering company GKN has been appointed to the Competition Commission’s strategic management board.
Deutsche Bank expands City legal roster

24-Mar-2011

Deutsche Bank has extended its list of preferred City legal advisers with at least five firms being added to the enlarged roster.
Deutsche Bank prepares to welcome general counsel to board

12-Mar-2012

Deutsche Bank is set to promote general counsel Richard Walker to its management board as part of a top-level reshuffle.
Deutsche Telekom turns to Ashurst for hire of legal chief

4-Aug-2010

Deutsche Telekom has taken its new head of legal from Ashurst’s Frankfurt office.
Devereux Chambers fills chief exec role with Bakers hire

21-May-2009

Devereux Chambers is to install a chief executive after hiring Baker & McKenzie director of marketing and business development Beverly Landais.
Devereux defeats 4 New Square in Cape asbestos appeal

30-Apr-2012

Parent companies can be held liable for the health and safety of their subsidiaries’ employees, the Court of Appeal has ruled in a case that will impact asbestos sufferers.
Devereux names new chambers head as 10-year veteran steps down

10-Jan-2012

Middle Temple set Devereux has appointed Ingrid Simler QC as head of chambers succeeding Colin Edelman QC, who has spent 10 years at the helm.
Devereux silk seals victory for BA in cost-cutting dispute

3-Nov-2010

Devereux Chambers’ Bruce Carr QC has won a victory for British Airways in the Court of Appeal after it upheld the airline’s right to determine staff levels on its flights.
Devereux silks prepare for Trigger litigation appeal court showdown

11-Nov-2009

Devereux Chambers silks Colin Edelman QC and Colin Wynter QC are set to go head-to-head in the Court of Appeal as one of The Lawyer’s top trials of 2008 prepares for a three-week appeal hearing.
Devil's advocate

22-Jul-2011

The founder of website Solicitors from Hell, Rick Kordowski, may be getting the feeling that his creation is more trouble than its worth.
Devonshires partner defeats professional negligence claim

7-Dec-2011

The High Court has rejected a professional negligence claim against City firm Devonshires clearing it of any wrongdoing to a former client.
Devonshires wins employment case against former secretary

9-Dec-2010

City firm Devonshires has successfully fought off a victimisation claim brought by a former secretary in the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT).
Dewey & LeBoeuf launches in Brazil

4-Oct-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf is preparing to launch an office in São Paulo four months after it hired the former head of Milbank’s Latin America practice Mike Fitzgerald.
Dewey & LeBoeuf posts 3 per cent turnover rise for 2011

8-Mar-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has reported a 2.8 per cent increase in overall revenue for the 2011 financial year.
Dewey & LeBoeuf raids Taylor Wessing for UK private equity launch

19-May-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf has moved into the London private equity market with a double swoop on Taylor Wessing.
Dewey & LeBoeuf to cut 5 per cent of lawyers across global network

5-Mar-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has confirmed that it is cutting 5 per cent of its lawyers and 6 per cent of its support staff globally, as the firm takes steps to make itself more competitive.
Dewey & LeBoeuf urges in-housers to go for diverse firms

25-Aug-2010

Dewey & LeBoeuf has written to general counsel at major clients encouraging them to instruct firms with diverse partnerships.
Dewey adds eight-partner Werksmans team to South Africa base

4-Jan-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has significantly expanded its presence in South Africa with the hire of eight partners from local rival Werksmans.
Dewey and DLA advise on eBay's Turkish acquisition

13-Apr-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf has advised online auction site eBay on its acquisition of its Turkish counterpart Gitti Gidiyor Bilgi Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi.
Dewey appoints first London managing partner

16-Mar-2010

Dewey & LeBoeuf has appointed its first London managing partner since the 2007 merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae.
Dewey attempts to rehouse trainees in face of uncertain future

10-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is attempting to find new jobs for its trainee solicitors as the London office faces collapse.
Dewey bankruptcy rainmaker Bienenstock defects to Proskauer Rose

14-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf bankruptcy star and board member Martin Bienenstock has jumped ship with a team of five partners to Proskauer Rose.
Dewey chair relocates to City as part of top-level revamp

27-Mar-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is relocating its chairman to London as part of a management overhaul following a string of partner exits at the US firm.
Dewey exits continue as New York partner heads to Mayer Brown

11-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is understood to have lost another partner to Mayer Brown with the departure of corporate finance partner Richard Spitzer.
Dewey exodus spreads to Germany as partners prepare to quit

2-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is set to lose members of its German base for the first time since this year’s global partner exodus started, with the entire Frankfurt team close to agreeing a deal to join rival firms.
Dewey faces Euro crisis as Moscow team defects to Morgan Lewis

4-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is bracing itself for further European losses as it emerges that City finance partner Bruce Johnston has decided against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in favour of joining Morgan Lewis & Bockius alongside the struggling US firm’s entire Moscow team.
Dewey Frankfurt tax team spins out as standalone practice

4-Jun-2010

Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost two of its biggest hitting German partners with its Frankfurt managing partner leaving to launch a tax boutique.
Dewey guides Caster Semenya through IAAF gender testing

21-Sep-2009

Dewey & LeBoeuf is advising South African athlete Caster Semenya to ensure her human rights are upheld during gender testing by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
Dewey hires gift trophy client eBay to Weil

14-May-2012

Ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf partners Keith Flaum and Richard Climan have taken one of their key clients, online auction site eBay, to new employer Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Dewey hires Paris Hilton's PR man to fight negative press

23-Mar-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has turned to one of the biggest names in crisis management to help it deal with bad publicity surrounding its financial health.
Dewey instructs New York bankruptcy specialist

20-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has instructed a leading bankruptcy lawyer as the firm moots restructuring in the wake of high debt and mass partner defections.
Dewey latest: no guarantee of London associate pay after 31 May

8-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf today told its remaining London associates that it cannot ensure it will pay their salaries beyond the end of this month.
Dewey London to shut down this Friday

22-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s London operation is set to go close this Friday as the firm’s UK LLP edges closer to administration.
Dewey London trainees in the lurch

10-May-2012

One thing you didn’t hear in the Queen’s Speech yesterday: “My Government will work to secure jobs for all trainee solicitors at the London office of Dewey & LeBoeuf.”
Dewey looks to cash in on property to help pay lenders

10-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is negotiating the future of its European property as it looks to pay off creditors in the face of the imminent dissolution of the London office.
Dewey makes up four, one in London

31-Dec-2010

Dewey & LeBoeuf has made up four lawyers in this year’s round of promotions, one of whom is based in London.
Dewey management team partners quit for Winston & Strawn and O'Melveny

10-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is set to lose members of its top management team for the first time since the new group was introduced, with litigation head Jeffrey Kessler quitting for Winston & Strawn as part of a 22-partner defection and Richard Shutran joining O’Melveny & Myers.
Dewey moots further management overhaul as current reshuffle gets underway

28-Mar-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is set to vote on further changes to its management structure early next year, as the US firm unveils an overhaul of the way it is run.
Dewey moots restructuring to prepare for possible takeover

19-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s senior management is working on a major restructuring of the embattled US firm that could see it prepare the business for a takeover or shut down its international network.
Dewey Moscow latest office to mull defection

26-Apr-2012

Lawyers at Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Moscow office are weighing their options after offers from US, UK and even Chinese firms.
Dewey moves in on Orrick's City restructuring team

21-Sep-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf has continued its raid on Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe’s London restructuring team following the recent hire of two partners from its US rival.
Dewey Paris head quits for King & Spalding

27-Apr-2009

Atlanta-based King & Spalding has hired Dewey & LeBoeuf Paris-based arbitration head Eric Schwartz to launch in France.
Dewey partner losses hit 54 as private equity duo quits

16-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost a further two City partners, with recently-recruited private equity duo Mark Davis and Russell Van Praagh quitting to join McDermott Will & Emery.
Dewey pays bonuses of up to 19.5 per cent to City associates

14-Dec-2010

The City office of US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced its year-end bonuses for London associates, with awards ranging from five per cent to 19.5 per cent of salary.
Dewey predicts further law firm bond offerings after its own $125m issue

20-Apr-2010

The full extent of bond offerings issued by law firms is likely to be higher than expected, according to Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Richard Shutran.
Dewey pulls shutters down on 'ghost town' New York office

16-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has effectively shut its New York base, with the US firm’s head office now practically devoid of lawyers.
Dewey raids Bryan Cave to rebuild depleted employment group

10-Mar-2010

Dewey & LeBoeuf has started rebuilding its employment team a week after Morgan Lewis hired practically the entire department.
Dewey raids Milbank for key Latin American team

15-Jun-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf has strengthened its Latin American practice after hiring a corporate and securities team from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Dewey ramps up Moscow with dual partner hire

10-Jun-2010

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Moscow office has poached two partners from international rivals in Moscow, giving the firm a boost in banking and real estate.
Dewey shuns London in scaled back promotions round

14-Dec-2009

Dewey & LeBoeuf is the latest US firm to cut its partner promotions round, with six making the grade this year compared to 20 in 2008.
Dewey snares Stephenson Harwood energy partner

30-Sep-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf has continued its recent London growth spurt with the hire of Stephenson Harwood energy partner Marc Hammerson.
Dewey suffers another eight partner losses as NY team quits for Hunton

17-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has been hit by another eight partner losses, with a New York energy and infrastructure team set to join Hunton & Williams.
Dewey suffers more departures as Houston chief quits

27-Mar-2012

Houston managing partner Sean Gorman is the latest lawyer to walk out of New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, taking three of the firm’s litigation associates with him.
Dewey turns to Camerons for advice on UK wind-down

16-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s London office has hired CMS Cameron McKenna to advise on its wind-down as it emerges that the UK LLP has delayed filing for administration following discussions with advisers and creditors.
Dewey unveils incentive scheme to stem partner exits

5-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf is planning to roll out an incentive plan to keep partners that would see the embattled US firm distribute profits over the course of several years.
Dewey vice-chair leads four-partner defection to Proskauer

22-May-2012

Proskauer Rose has added four litigation partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf including vice chair Ralph Ferrara in the firm’s latest raid on its US rival.
Dewey warns staff of termination of employment as losses continue

8-May-2012

Stricken US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has warned US employees that their jobs are under threat, admitting that the current difficulties could result in the firm shutting its doors.
Dewey, Latham scoop lead roles on $6.6bn Polkomtel buyout bonanza

4-Jul-2011

Eleven law firms have advised on the $6.6bn sale of Polkomtel, Poland’s second largest mobile phone network operator, in Europe’s largest leveraged buyout for three years.
Dewey's City employment group jumps ship to Morgan Lewis

4-Mar-2010

Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost its entire London employment department to Morgan Lewis.
Dewey's Hong Kong team to join DLA Piper

17-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Hong Kong team is set to join DLA Piper as the firm’s office in the city prepares to wind down.
Dewey's Italian arm exits US LLP in bid to safeguard position

19-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Italian partners are attempting to leave the firm’s US LLP as a way of strengthening their position if the troubled firm goes under.
Dewey's Milan IP chief jumps ship for Orsingher

5-Jul-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Milan IP head Marco Consonni has left the firm with three lawyers to join Italian IP boutique Orsingher.
Dickie Dees family team to launch standalone firm

18-Jun-2010

Dickinson Dees’ family law team will leave the firm later this year to set up a new firm called Silk Family Law.
Dickie Dees launches redundancy consultation in banking team

16-Dec-2010

Dickinson Dees managing partner Jonathan Blair has confirmed that the firm has entered into redundancy talks with its banking team.
Dickie Dees senior partner leaves for GC role at Middlesbrough FC's owner

19-Oct-2009

Dickinson Dees senior partner Robin Bloom is leaving the firm to become general counsel at Middlesbrough Football Club’s owner Gibson O’Neill Limited.
Dickie Dees to launch in Leeds with transfer of entire York office

29-Jun-2011

Newcastle-headquartered firm Dickinson Dees is to launch an office in Leeds, transferring everyone in its York base in the process.
Dickie Dees welcomes two to partnership in promos round

10-May-2011

Dickinson Dees has promoted two lawyers to partner and eight to director in its annual round of promotions.
Dickinson Dees adds to new Leeds base with Pinsents hire

30-Mar-2012

Dickinson Dees has boosted its nascent Leeds office with the hire of Pinsent Masons’ local office head.
Dickinson redun-dees

16-Dec-2010

What would you like for Christmas? Some people are happy with a pair of socks, knitted by their nan. Others might be more demanding and throw a hissy fit if Santa doesn’t bring them a PS3.
Diet, get a new job, or run a law firm

4-Jan-2010

It’s a couple of days late, but it’s New Year’s resolutions time.
Diffi-cull time at Herbies

5-Sep-2011

It’s a risky time to be a Herbies corporate partner.
Digital Archives

1-Dec-2009

30 November 2009Digital Edition
Dinah Rose QC apologises to court for handing Sumption letter to press

11-Feb-2010

Blackstone Chambers’ Dinah Rose QC was forced to apologise to the country’s most senior judiciary after it emerged that she passed a vital letter relating to the Binyam Mohamed torture case to the press.
Dinah Rose QC asks court to enforce Equitable compensation

15-Apr-2009

Blackstone Chambers’ Dinah Rose QC is looking to launch a High Court action in a bid to force the Treasury to pay compensation to Equitable Life policyholders.
Dinah Rose QC wins Jewish schoolboy appeal

25-Jun-2009

A Jewish school that refused entry to a boy on the grounds that his mother was not recognised as Jewish by the Office of the Chief Rabbi has been told to reverse its stance by the Court of Appeal.
Dinah Rose QC wins landmark retirement case for Government

25-Sep-2009

Blackstone Chambers’ Dinah Rose QC has won a major victory for the Government that will make it legal for employers to retire employees at the age of 65.
Discrimination blames

3-Feb-2010

Eversheds has come in for some serious stick this week, with readers of TheLawyer.com venting their collective spleen after we reported that the firm cleared one of its partners following an investigation into potential discrimination
Discrimination cases

23-Jun-2010

What constitutes mental health discrimination? How can clinical depression be defined from everyday anxiety? These are just some of the issues that have been troubling the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) in recent weeks.
Disney turns to Dewey in billion-dollar comic deal

2-Sep-2009

Three US firms have won lead roles on Walt Disney’s $4bn acquisition of US comic company Marvel Entertainment.
Dispatches from Africa

23-Apr-2009

A personal account of South Africa’s 4th Democratic Election Johannesburg
Dis-united nations at CC?

3-Sep-2010

The summer might be over but things are beginning to heat up at the Wharf as the CC senior partner race kicks off in earnest (see story).
D-I-V-O-R-CC

21-Jan-2011

“I hope we can still be friends. I just think we should be able to see other people.”
Divorcing couples to undertake mandatory mediation before heading to courts

23-Feb-2011

Divorcing couples will be forced to attend a compulsory mediation awareness session before they are allowed to use the courts, the Ministry of Justice has formally announced today.
DLA and Herbies win spots on UBS's latest panel

24-Sep-2009

UBS has chosen eight firms for its new-look global panel, with Herbert Smith and DLA Piper new appointments to the list.
DLA and Hogan Lovells advise on SABMiller's tie-up with Turkey's Efes

19-Oct-2011

DLA Piper and Hogan Lovells have taken lead roles in a $1.9bn asset swap deal between SABMiller and Turkey’s Anadolu Efes that will create an Eastern European business with combined sales o $3.bn.
DLA and Maclays lead on Jane Norman pre-pack

29-Jun-2011

DLA Piper and Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens have taken lead roles advising on the sale and restructuring of fashion retailer Jane Norman, which entered administration on Monday (27 June).
DLA and Mallesons pick up a partner each from Blake Dawson

8-Nov-2011

Ashurst’s Australian merger partner Blake Dawson has lost two partners, with DLA Piper and Mallesons Stephen Jaques benefiting from the departures.
DLA and Reed Smith gain partners from Dewey departures

10-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost another partner to DLA Piper and a second to Reed Smith, taking the number of firmwide partner exits to more than 50.
DLA and Travers lead as CPA Global sells stake to private equity house

1-Feb-2010

Clifford Chance, DLA Piper, Ogier and Travers Smith led the way on a £440m investment by private equity house Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) in legal process outsourcer CPA Global.
DLA and White & Case hit by Moscow crime raid

16-Jun-2009

The Moscow office of White & Case was raided today by Russian authorities conducting a criminal investigation.
DLA boosts Madrid with Roca Junyent hires

16-May-2011

DLA Piper Madrid has hired a restructuring team from independent Spanish firm Roca Junyent.
DLA boosts NY restructuring group with Skadden hire

17-May-2011

DLA Piper has given its New York restructuring group a boost with the hire of a partner from Skadden Arps Slate Meager & Flom.
DLA builds real estate with Ashurst's Cookson

9-Sep-2011

DLA Piper has hired a partner from Ashurst to head its London real estate group.
DLA bulks up Dubai arbitration group with Norton Rose hire

3-Oct-2011

DLA Piper has hired a Norton Rose arbitration of counsel into its Dubai partnership
DLA bulks up in financial litigation with triple hire from LG

28-Sep-2011

DLA Piper has hired a team of three financial litigation partners in London from LG.
DLA Dubai chief takes charge of Australian alliance

30-Oct-2009

DLA Piper’s Dubai head has been named as CEO of the firm’s exclusive Australian alliance firm, DLA Phillips Fox.
DLA finds its guardian Angel

26-Oct-2011

DLA Piper has often suffered from slings that, for all its growth, it still lacks the pedigree of its closest rivals.
DLA hires seven-strong Hogan Lovells Munich team

1-Jul-2011

Hogan Lovells has seen further losses in Germany with the departure of seven Munich lawyers to DLA Piper.
DLA hires six-strong Hogan Lovells IP team in LA

26-Aug-2010

A team of six IP lawyers, including five partners, are leaving Hogan Lovells’ Los Angeles office for DLA Piper because of client conflicts.
DLA London partner follows Dubai chief to Australia

2-Nov-2009

DLA Piper projects partner Alex Guy is to join the firm’s Australian alliance partner DLA Phillips Fox alongside Dubai head Tony Holland.
DLA loses bulk of Canberra partners in wake of Aussie merger

10-May-2011

Six of DLA Piper’s eight Canberra partners have left the firm just weeks after the firm’s Australian arm merged with the international LLP.
DLA misses out as Virgin revamps advisory panel

12-Jan-2010

DLA Piper has lost its spot on Virgin Group’s roster of UK legal advisers as part of the conglomerate’s panel review.
DLA Phillips Fox in divorce from New Zealand arm

3-May-2011

DLA Phillips Fox in New Zealand is separating from its Australian counterpart, which fully merged with DLA Piper on 1 May.
DLA Piper acts as Coulson launches claim against News International

26-Sep-2011

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has hired DLA Piper partner Jo Rickards to launch a High Court claim against the defunct newspaper’s publisher, News Group.
DLA Piper adds five Reed Smith partners to Silicon Valley team

13-Jan-2012

DLA Piper has hired a five-partner corporate and IP team from Reed Smith for its Silicon Valley office.
DLA Piper adds Goldman director to London partnership

10-Apr-2012

DLA Piper has hired an executive director from Goldman Sachs to join its restructuring practice in London.
DLA Piper advises as UBS tries to evict protestors from 'Bank of Ideas'

23-Nov-2011

DLA Piper has been instructed by UBS to try to evict protestors who have taken up residence in a City office building owned by the Swiss bank.
DLA Piper advises on administration of Southampton FC

2-Apr-2009

The company behind Southampton Football Club has fallen into administration, leading to instructions for DLA Piper, Clarke Willmott and Dundas & Wilson.
DLA Piper advises on creation of low-cost Japanese airline

30-Jun-2011

DLA Piper has been appointed to advise joint venture partnership Peach Aviation on the creation of a low-cost airline to be based at Kansai International Airport in Japan.
DLA Piper advises on privatisation of Kuwait Stock Exchange

2-Feb-2012

DLA Piper has been appointed by the Kuwait Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to help privatise the country’s stock exchange.
DLA Piper among slew of firms to post first-half revenue increase

10-Nov-2010

DLA Piper has exceeded its revenue budget for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year as UK firms continue to report growth.
DLA Piper and Racine advise on the Huffington Post's French launch

30-Jan-2012

DLA Piper and French independent Racine took the headline roles as the Huffington Post launched its first foreign-language edition.
DLA Piper beefs up City finance team with Deutsche hire

5-Oct-2011

DLA Piper has bolstered its London finance group with a hire from Deutsche Bank.
DLA Piper bolsters China practice with double hire from Mallesons

29-Nov-2011

DLA Piper has hired two partners for its Greater China practice from Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques.
DLA Piper Brazil ally adds 14 from rival

7-Jun-2010

DLA Piper’s Brazilian alliance firm Campos Mello Advogados (CMA) has continued its hiring spree, with the addition of a 14-strong team including two partners from a rival firm.
DLA Piper builds Sydney with AAR hire

13-Sep-2011

DLA Piper has appointed veteran corporate lawyer Warwick Painter as a partner in its Sydney office.
DLA Piper bulks up Prague office with Wolf Theiss team

21-Mar-2011

DLA Piper has taken a team of lawyers from Austrian firm Wolf Theiss in a bid to strengthen its presence in the Czech Republic.
DLA Piper buys stake in ABS-in-waiting LawVest

28-Oct-2011

DLA Piper has become a minority stakeholder in LawVest, a holding company that aims to launch into the alternative business structure (ABS) market next year.
DLA Piper chief Knowles faces no challengers in reelection bid

24-Nov-2011

DLA Piper joint chief executive Nigel Knowles looks set to stand unopposed for reelection.
DLA Piper confirms move to all-equity model

20-Oct-2011

DLA Piper has unveiled its plans to move to an all-equity partnership model in the non-US side of its business.
DLA Piper cuts 124 jobs at end of consultation

13-May-2009

DLA Piper has concluded its redundancy consultation, leading to the loss of 124 jobs.
DLA Piper expands management team with two new chairmen

10-Aug-2010

DLA Piper has expanded its US management team with the appointment of two new chairmen - global corporate and finance head Roger Meltzer and practice co-head Jay Rains.
DLA Piper faces regional revolt over LawVest investments

1-Mar-2012

The growing row over private investments made by partners at DLA Piper, exclusively revealed by The Lawyer, shows no sign of dying down, with angry questions asked during a conference call held yesterday with regional partners to discuss the matter.
DLA Piper finalises exclusive tie-up with Portugal's ABBC

6-Jan-2011

DLA Piper has signed an exclusive relationship agreement with Portuguese firm Azevedo Neves Benjamin Mendes Carvalho & Associados (ABBC) after several months of negotiation.
DLA Piper focus of Ethiopian hate campaign in US

23-Apr-2009

DLA Piper has been the focus of protests in Washington DC over its role advising the Ethiopian government.
DLA Piper global revenue hits $2.25bn in record year

9-Feb-2012

DLA Piper’s revenue reached an all-time last year, with its year-end financials for 2011 revealing a global gross revenue of $2.25bn (£1.42bn).
DLA Piper grows life science offering with key hire

5-Sep-2011

DLA Piper has boosted its IP and technology group with the hire of Jacqueline Bore as partner.
DLA Piper grows Singapore with Norton Rose hire

6-Oct-2011

DLA Piper has hired a special counsel from Norton Rose to lead its restructuring and distressed investment team in Asia.
DLA Piper hires Shearman lawyer to head Liverpool banking team

24-Nov-2011

DLA Piper has hired a senior associate from Shearman & Sterling’s London office to head its Liverpool banking and finance team.
DLA Piper launches in Mexico City with Thompson & Knight team

14-Feb-2012

DLA Piper has kickstarted its launch in Latin America’s second largest economic hub by swiping the entire legal team from Thompson & Knight’s Mexico City office.
DLA Piper Leeds head to call it a Day

10-Dec-2010

DLA Piper Leeds office managing partner Neil McLean is to retire after 17 years at the firm.
DLA Piper loses four partners to rival Reed Smith

2-Aug-2011

Reed Smith has raided DLA Piper for four partners in a move to bulk up its capital markets, M&A and corporate and securities practices.
DLA Piper mourns death of partner

22-Oct-2010

DLA Piper Moscow-based partner Andrew Muriel has died suddenly while on a business trip in London.
DLA Piper names new Asia-Pacific managing director

3-Apr-2012

DLA Piper’s incumbent Asia-Pacific managing director Alastair da Costa will relocate back to the UK after more than four years at the helm in Hong Kong.
DLA Piper names Tim Clement-Jones as London chief

8-Nov-2010

DLA Piper has appointed Tim Clement-Jones as London managing partner, taking over from real estate partner Catherine Usher.
DLA Piper Paris hire three from Jeantet, Morgan Lewis

6-May-2011

The lateral hiring spree in Paris continued today with the announcement by DLA Piper of the arrival of three partners from Jeantet Associés and Morgan Lewis.
DLA Piper partners approve move to all-equity model outside US

14-Mar-2012

DLA Piper’s partnership has voted in favour of an all-equity model across the non-US side of its business, with management announcing the result today.
DLA Piper partners give backing to firm's Aussie merger

28-Feb-2011

Partners at DLA Piper and DLA Phillips Fox have voted in favour of plans to fully integrate the two firms.
DLA Piper posts 1 per cent rise for global revenue

13-Jun-2011

DLA Piper posted a 1 per cent increase in global turnover for the 2010 calendar year, with revenue at $1.96bn (£1.27bn). Total profit was up 5.9 per cent at $777.8m £503m).
DLA Piper promotes 58 across global network

3-May-2012

DLA Piper has made up 58 lawyers to partner in its annual round of promotions, slightly up on 2011’s 53.
DLA Piper seeks 'fresh perspective' with management revamp

12-Apr-2012

DLA Piper has made a number of management changes including naming Andrew Darwin as UK managing partner and shaking up its year-old executive management team.
DLA Piper sheds 8 per cent of Dubai lawyers

3-Apr-2009

DLA Piper has laid off eight per cent of its Dubai fee-earners as its expansion plans in the Middle East are hit by the global economic crisis.
DLA Piper slams the door on Bulgaria

24-Dec-2010

DLA Piper is to close its Bulgarian office in the new year, citing problems associated with the economic downturn.
DLA Piper starts to rebuild Brisbane with Dibbs Barker hires

19-Jul-2011

DLA Piper has begun rebuilding its Brisbane office, taking two partners and their legal support teams from Australian firm Dibbs Barker.
DLA Piper strengthens Italian energy team with Grimaldi hires

8-May-2012

DLA Piper’s Italian office has scooped a team of 20 lawyers for its Milan and Rome offices from defunct Italian domestic practice Grimaldi e Associati.
DLA Piper swoops for Sacramento litigation boutique

4-May-2011

DLA Piper has almost doubled the size of its Sacramento office after absorbing litigation boutique Stevens O’Connnell & Jacobs.
DLA Piper taps Hogan Lovells for five-partner US energy team

10-Jan-2012

DLA Piper has hired a five-partner energy team from Hogan Lovells in the US.
DLA Piper targets Mongolian market via local tie-up

24-Mar-2011

DLA Piper has entered Mongolia through a non-exclusive tie-up with local firm C&G Partners.
DLA Piper to recognise pro bono in billing targets

30-Apr-2012

DLA Piper has rolled out an initiative across its international LLP that will see pro-bono work recorded in exactly the same way as fee-earning hours.
DLA Piper trims partnership as reshaping continues

9-Jun-2009

Five DLA Piper partners left the partnership last month as the firm continues to reshape its practice in the UK.
DLA Piper unveils succession plan for US business

19-Jan-2012

DLA Piper has announced the duo of partners who will succeed Frank Burch and Lee Miller as the firm’s US co-chairs.
DLA Piper US associate bonus scheme sparks discontent

5-May-2011

DLA Piper’s US associate bonus scheme has been criticised following an internal memo that claimed top performers were getting more than at competitor firms.
DLA Piper's Aussie merger firm suffers nine-partner defection

14-Mar-2011

Nine DLA Phillips Fox partners are leaving to join mid-tier Australian firm Thomsons Lawyers ahead of the firm’s imminent merger with DLA Piper.
DLA Piper's broken Dubai dreams

13-Jul-2010

For many years it seemed that it was impossible not to make bucket loads of money in the Middle East.
DLA Piper's funds head quits for Simmons & Simmons

23-Apr-2012

Simmons & Simmons has hired DLA Piper’s head of investment funds in the UK as a partner in its financial services team.
DLA private equity chief departs for Kaye Scholer

24-Jun-2010

DLA Piper’s private equity chief has left to become managing partner of Kaye Scholer’s London office.
DLA promotes 12 to UK partnership in 53-strong global round

18-Apr-2011

DLA Piper has made up 53 lawyers across 18 countries in its annual round of partner promotions.
DLA promotes three in London, 41 across the globe

20-Jan-2010

DLA Piper has made three lawyers to its London partnership as part of a 41-strong round, the smallest total number in two years.
DLA ramps up in Brazil as two partners gain local licences

21-May-2010

DLA Piper is stepping up its operations in Brazil, shortly after entering into a cooperation agreement with local firm Campos Mello Advogados (CMA).
DLA restructuring to dramatically scale back Gulf presence

7-Dec-2009

DLA Piper is to cut a further nine per cent of its Middle East-based staff as part of a restructuring that will see its total regional headcount drop by 39 per cent.
DLA revamps regional management as Scotland, Manchester heads retire

26-Oct-2009

DLA Piper has carried out a management overhaul in its Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester offices.
DLA slashes Middle East headcount by nine per cent

18-Jun-2009

DLA Piper has cut nine per cent of its Middle East workforce in a second round of job cuts in the region.
DLA targets Asia Pacific growth via merger with Aussie best friend

27-Jan-2011

DLA Piper is set to merge with its Australian best friend DLA Phillips Fox as it prepares to beef up its Asia Pacific practice with the ultimate aim of becoming the world’s largest law firm.
DLA team breaks away to form Italian employment boutique

28-Oct-2011

A team of lawyers from Italian employment specialists Toffoletto e Socio and DLA Piper have split off to form a niche labour boutique.
DLA to launch in Turkey via alliance with local firm

23-Feb-2010

DLA Piper is to establish a presence in Turkey through a relationship with Istanbul law firm Yüksel Karkin Küçük (YKK).
DLA to re-defend mental health case following EAT decision

16-Jun-2010

DLA Piper has failed to quash an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case from a former lawyer and will now have to re-defend a mental health discrimination claim in the Employment Tribunal.
DLA, Eversheds and Links win corporate responsibility plaudits

10-Jun-2009

DLA Piper, Eversheds and Linklaters have won a place in an index ranking organisations by their commitment to corporate responsibility (CR).
DLA, Eversheds and Shoosmiths win spots on Iron Mountain's European panel

29-Sep-2011

DLA Piper, Eversheds and Shoosmiths are among a roster of firms appointed to information management company Iron Mountain’s European advisory panel.
DLA, Freshfields and Jones Day score roles on sale of West Ham

19-Jan-2010

DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Jones Day have all netted roles on the sale of West Ham United FC sale to former Birmingham City FC owners David Gold and David Sullivan.
DLA, Freshfields and Travers advise on Cinven's CPA Global buyout

20-Jan-2012

DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Travers Smith have all won roles on the proposed sale of legal process outsourcer CPA Global (CPA) to London-based private equity house Cinven.
DLABS

28-Oct-2011

DLA Piper has been on a bit of a rollercoaster of late.
DLA's African best friends form East African alliance

28-Oct-2010

African members of the DLA Piper alliance network, together with two other African firms, today launched regional alliance Juris East Africa.
DLA's Knowles got £1.7m profit share in 2010-11

2-Feb-2012

DLA Piper’s highest earning partner, understood to be joint chief executive officer and managing partner Nigel Knowles, earned £1.711m in 2010-11, up from £1.627m the year before, according to the firm’s LLPs.
DLA's Mallesons raid

29-Nov-2011

DLA Piper is one firm that, at the moment, is strutting around with more confidence than Robin van Persie. And in DLA’s case there’s even more factual basis for the poise.
DLA's Middle East head steps down, Kuwait chief named as successor

14-Oct-2009

DLA Piper’s Middle East regional managing partner David Church is to step down next year and will be replaced by the head of the firm’s Kuwait office, Abdul Aziz Al-Yaqout.
DLA's Oz woes

10-May-2011

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success,” said US journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, “but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
DLA's US partners face 11.5 per cent pay cut

23-Mar-2009

DLA Piper is to cut pay by 11.5 per cent for most of its US partners amid gloomy predictions about the firm’s performance in 2009.
Do we need more pupillages?

24-Oct-2011

The number of students who want to become barristers shows little sign of diminishing with 3,100 applicants to the Bar Professional Training Course (BTPC) in 2010/2011 and 3,016 in 2011/2012. In 2010/2011 1,618 students successfully enrolled on the BTPC
Does it count (erfeit)?

20-May-2009

If counterfeit goods have been sold via an online auction house who should take responsibility for cracking down on the couterfeiters - the manufacturer whose goods have been cloned or the online auction house which provides the sales outlet?
Domestic court to decide if M&S infringed Interflora's trademark rights after ECJ ruling

22-Sep-2011

The European Court of Justice has ruled that high street retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) can use Interflora’s trademark as part of its keyword advertising on major search engines, but a domestic court will have to determine whether it breached the florist’s trademark rights.
Don’t be too quick to junk your corporate partners

10-Oct-2011

I read with interest the news story on the front page of The Lawyer of 5 September about the rumoured thinning of Herbert Smith’s corporate department.
Don't call me Dave

27-Sep-2010

The thwarted Miliband brother might disagree, but new research suggests that if you want a fighting chance of running the show in the legal profession it helps to be called David.
Don't tell him, Pike

8-Nov-2011

Wouldn’t lawyers like to know exactly what’s going on behind the scenes at their competitors?
Dorsey & Whitney posts flat revenues for 2010-11

14-Feb-2012

US firm Dorsey & Whitney has posted a marginal rise in turnover for the 2011 financial year, with the figure nudging up by 0.3 per cent.
Dorsey parts company with partner facing FSA charges

22-May-2009

The Dorsey & Whitney partner at the heart of an FSA insider trading case has been sacked by the firm.
Dorsey turns to Brown Rudnick for corporate hire

17-Aug-2010

Dorsey & Whitney has bolstered its London office with the hire of Brown Rudnick corporate partner Roger Gregory as partner.
Double the fun

8-Jun-2011

One of the most eagerly awaited High Court trials of this year takes another step towards its hearing date today with a case management conference.
Doughty silk defeats Matrix's Tomlinson in Ferdinand privacy case

30-Sep-2011

Matrix Chambers’ Hugh Tomlinson QC has failed in his bid to convince the High Court that the Sunday Mirror misused private information about footballer Rio Ferdinand.
Doughty Street fails to overturn Woolas election court decision

3-Dec-2010

The High Court has thrown out an attempt by former Labour MP Phil Woolas to overturn an election court’s decision that stripped him of his seat in the House of Commons.
Doughty Street fails to win extradition appeal for computer hacker

9-Oct-2009

Doughty Street Chambers’ Ed Fitzgerald QC has not been given permission to appeal a High Court decision to extradite computer hacker Gary McKinnon to the US.
Doughty Street goes national with Bristol launch

2-Sep-2009

Civil liberties set Doughty Street Chambers will open in Bristol after Old Square Chambers’ barrister Daniel Bennett defected to the set.
Doughty Street launches in Manchester

27-Aug-2009

Doughty Street Chambers is to set up shop in Manchester after four barristers defected from Garden Court North Chambers to join the civil liberties set.
Doughty Street silk seeks to appeal libel payment to Baby P's father

5-Mar-2012

The publishers of The People are looking to appeal a substantial libel payout after the High Court today ruled that the paper mistakenly labelled Baby P’s father a convicted rapist.
Doughty Street silk to defend Peter Hain against 'arcane' contempt claim

27-Mar-2012

Doughty Street Chambers silk Gavin Millar QC is to defend Labour MP Peter Hain against contempt of court claims after the former Cabinet minister criticised a judge in his memoirs.
Doughty Street win means Mau Mau Kenyans can sue UK Government

21-Jul-2011

The High Court has ruled that four Kenyans can pursue claims against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) over allegations that they were victims of British atrocities committed during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s.
Dozen Howrey partners break away to establish IP boutique

11-Oct-2010

Howrey’s European IP head and Europe managing partner are both set to leave along with at least 10 other partners to set up their own IP firm.
Dozen silks sign up for launch of ABS LawVest

20-Feb-2012

LawVest has signed up 12 silks for its legal services offering Riverview Law, which launches today.
Draining training

19-Sep-2011

Law firms are cutting back on the number of trainees they take, but the throng of wannabe lawyers out there shows no signs of abating.
Druces seals merger with City-based property firm

17-Jun-2010

Druces has acquired three-partner Clerkenwell property-based firm Clegg Manuel, the latest in a series of moves to add critical mass to the City firm.
Dubai debt group looks to Ashurst

2-Dec-2009

Ashurst has picked up a key role advising a group of bondholders in relation to Dubai’s debt standstill.
Dublin firm Dillon Eustace opens Cayman Islands base

23-Apr-2012

Irish firm Dillon Eustace has become the first onshore firm to open an office in the Cayman Islands.
Dublin's Beauchamps takes over PwC's Irish legal arm

31-Jan-2012

Irish firm Beauchamps has acquired Landwell Solicitors, the Irish branch of the network of firms connected to accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Dublin's Byrne Wallace in New York launch

6-May-2010

Irish law firm Byrne Wallace, formerly BCM Hanby Wallace, has launched an office in New York.
Dundas & Wilson chief steps down mid-way through term

8-Mar-2012

Dundas & Wilson managing partner Donald Shaw has stood down from the role with immediate effect.
Dundas & Wilson concludes redundancy talks with up to 30 jobs axed

2-Apr-2012

Almost 30 jobs are being cut at Scotland-headquartered firm Dundas & Wilson following a consultation process.
Dundas & Wilson focuses on Scottish heritage with Aberdeen launch

2-Feb-2012

Scottish firm Dundas & Wilson is set to launch a corporate-focused office in Aberdeen.
Dundas & Wilson takes two-partner banking team from Stephenson Harwood

18-Jan-2012

Scottish firm Dundas & Wilson has hired a five-strong banking team, including two partners, from Stephenson Harwood.
Dundas and Bircham abandon merger talks after failing to win partner backing

10-Oct-2011

Merger talks between Edinburgh-headquartered Dundas & Wilson and London firm Bircham Dyson Bell have collapsed after partners at the respective firms gave a lukewarm reaction to the proposed deal.
Dundas and Bircham unveil proposed merger

20-Sep-2011

Edinburgh-headquartered Dundas & Wilson looks set to attain its goal of bulking up in London after launching official merger talks with London firm Bircham Dyson Bell.
Dundas marks return to form as revenues and profits stabilise

4-Jul-2011

Scotland’s second largest firm by turnover, Dundas & Wilson, has grown by just 2 per cent over the past financial year, with revenue at £62m.
Dundas mourns loss of restructuring head

29-Oct-2009

Dundas & Wilson managing partner Donald Shaw has paid tribute to the firm’s UK corporate recovery head Ian Cuthbertson, who died suddenly yesterday aged 58.
Dundas partners give Shaw second term at helm

4-Jan-2010

Partners at Scotland-headquartered firm Dundas & Wilson have elected Donald Shaw as the firm’s sole managing partner after his co-chief Alan Campbell stood down from management.
Dundas parts company with infrastructure co-head

5-Oct-2011

Dundas & Wilson’s co-head of infrastructure Andrew Renton has left the firm.
Dundas to cut partners and staff to 'reflect business needs'

24-Feb-2012

Dundas & Wilson is preparing for a round of staff job cuts and is also expected to slash partner numbers after assessing what a spokesperson termed “the nature and level of demand for its services”.
Duo of partners leave Field Fisher Hamburg to set up standalone practice

2-Mar-2010

Two Field Fisher Waterhouse partners have left the firm’s Hamburg office to set up their own practice.
Duo of Wragges employment partners jump ship for RPC

24-May-2010

Two employment partners are leaving Wragge & Co for Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC).
Dutch firm Houthoff Buruma names new co-managing partner

3-Jan-2012

Netherlands firm Houthoff Buruma has elected corporate partner Walter van Overbeek to the role of co-managing partner.
Dutch firm Palthe Oberman joins L&E Global network

13-Apr-2011

Dutch firm Palthe Oberman has become the seventh firm to join employment network L&E Global.
DWF aims to conquer Newcastle as it hires Dickinson Dees' Flynn

6-May-2011

DWF is set to launch a full-service practice in Newcastle, following the hire of partner John Flynn from Dickinson Dees.
DWF and Shoosmiths act on caste discrimination claim against Coventry firm

23-Mar-2012

A barrister from DWF is defending a Coventry-based firm in a caste discrimination claim being heard at Birmingham Employment Tribunal.
DWF bolsters insurance practice with six new hires

26-Sep-2011

North West firm DWF has made six new appointments to its London insurance and retail teams with hires from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), K&L Gates, Plexus Law, Vizyard Wyeth and Zurich - the insurance provider.
DWF bolsters nascent Newcastle practice with Dickie Dees hire

4-Jan-2012

DWF has bulked up its burgeoning Newcastle practice with banking partner from Dickinson Dees.
DWF bulks up in Birmingham with insurance litigation bolt-on

2-Apr-2012

DWF has announced a tie-up with Midlands insurance firm Buller Jeffries two months after its talks with Cobbetts broke down.
DWF confirms takeover of Newcastle firm Crutes

25-Nov-2011

North West firm DWF is set to merge with Newcastle firm Crutes, with the latter being incorporate into DWF in 1 January 2012.
DWF enters Brum market with Shoosmiths hire

28-Jul-2011

DWF is launching an office in Birmingham with Shoosmiths’ head of asset finance.
DWF hands third term to managing partner

7-Mar-2012

DWF has reappointed Andrew Leaitherland as managing partner for a third three-year term after he ran unopposed for the post.
DWF picks College of Law as exclusive LPC provider

16-Sep-2011

North-west firm DWF has picked the College of Law to be the firm’s exclusive provider of the Legal Practice Course (LPC) from September 2011. DWF’s trainees will be given the flexibility to choose to study stage one of the LPC at any of its eight centres nationwide, whilst for stage two, they will gather together to study Commercial Law and Insurance Law at COL’s Manchester centre in a firm-specific group. David Blaquiere, partner and training principal at ...
DWF posts increases in turnover and PEP

30-Jun-2011

North West firm DWF has announced a 17 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP) and a 15 per cent rise in turnover for the last financial year.
DWF sees half-year turnover rise to £45m

10-Nov-2011

North West firm DWF has revealed a 14 per cent increase in half-year turnover, posting a revenue figure of £45m.
DWF signs divorce-funding deal with Co-operative bank

6-Jan-2011

The Co-operative Bank has unveiled plans to launch funding deals for individual firms to provide clients with loans to fund divorce cases.
DWF staff costs rose 12 per cent in 2009-10, LLPs reveal

15-Nov-2010

The increase in DWF’s staff costs in 2009-10 was disproportionate to the increase in the firm’s total headcount, LLP accounts filed with Companies House have revealed.
DWF turnover hits £60.1m in 2008-09

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DWF generated turnover of £60.1m in the past financial year, a rise of nine per cent on the £55.3m it made in 2007-08.
DWF-I-V-O-R-C-E

6-Jan-2011

“When I fall in love, it will be forever,” sang 60-menthol-a-day crooner Nat King Cole.
Dyson LJ named as final Supreme Court justice

23-Mar-2010

Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Dyson has been named as the final justice of the Supreme Court, ending months of speculation over who would fill the role.
East is East

2-Sep-2009

If you’re a Herbies litigator looking for a bump up to partnership level, our advice is to book a plane ticket and head for Asia or the Middle East.
EAT allows barrister to appeal claims against 4 New Square

27-Jun-2011

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has given permission for barrister Aisha Bijlani to pursue a racial and disability discrimination claim against four named individuals at her chambers, 4 New Square (4NS).
EAT rules in favour of stripper in Stringfellows dispute

27-Apr-2012

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that £200,000-a-year stripper Nadine Quashie was an employee of Stringfellows club, paving the way for her unfair dismissal claim against the club.
EC does it

6-Oct-2009

When law and politics combine it can be a combustible mix. Behind closed doors in Brussels, a new law is being mooted that would make it easier to pursue US-style class actions against companies convicted of price-fixing.
Ecclestone returns to Withers for QPR stake sale

19-Aug-2011

Queens Park Rangers shareholder Bernie Ecclestone has turned to Withers for advice on the sale of his stake in the Premier League football club to Tony Fernandes.
ECJ deals blow for in-house professional legal privilege in Akzo Nobel ruling

14-Sep-2010

In-house counsel have no right to professional legal privilege in cartel investigations carried out by the European Commission, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held today.
ECJ rules that gender-based insurance pricing is unlawful

1-Mar-2011

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has outlawed the practice of pricing insurance premiums based on gender.
Editor's Weekly: Gold rush

19-Mar-2009

“Scramble for legal jobs intensifies as graduates flee banking sector” was the headline we ran on the front page of the Autumn 2008 issue of Lawyer 2B magazine.
Editor's Weekly: Money's too tight to mention

24-Jun-2010

George Osborne’s emergency budget will inevitably touch all corners of the community. In addition to increasing VAT and Capital Gains Tax the Chancellor also announced a three-year pay freeze for public sector workers.
Edwards Angell adds 12 lawyers in DC with Fleischman acquisition

2-Feb-2011

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has boosted the Washington DC office it opened in 2007 with the acquisition of communications boutique Fleischman & Harding.
Edwards Angell merges with Chicago's Wildman Harrold

15-Aug-2011

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge is continuing its recent growth spurt by merging with 150-lawyer Chicago firm Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon.
Egorov and Magisters merge to create CIS giant

19-Jul-2011

One of Russia’s largest law firms, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, is set to merge with Ukraine outlier Magisters.
Egorov growth continues with litigation bolt-on

12-Sep-2011

Russian heavyweight Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is bulking up its contentious practice by bolting on local 17-lawyer litigation boutique Principium.
Egorov turns to Bakers for rare St Petersburg partner hire

21-Apr-2011

Russian firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has made a rare lateral hire into its partnership, adding Baker & McKenzie’s St Petersburg head of dispute resolution and tax.
Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev & Partners - Video

31-Jan-2011

Video:Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev and Partners
Elaine Delmonte: Macfarlanes

3-Jun-2011

What time do you start work each day? 8.30am.
Elliott triumphs in Linklaters senior partner race

3-May-2011

Linklaters has elected Robert Elliott as its new senior partner, replacing David Cheyne after a three-way fight for the role.
Ely Place silk wins libel case over Telegraph book review

26-Jul-2011

Ely Place’s Ronald Thwaites QC has won a High Court libel victory for art journalist and author Sarah Thornton, after Mr Justice Tugendhat denied The Telegraph Media Group application for summary judgment.
Employment alliance L&E Global expands with addition of Kiwi firm

23-Aug-2011

Employment law alliance L&E Global has expanded into Asia Pacific with the addition of New Zealand firm Swarbrick Beck Mackinnon to its group.
Employment claims hit all-time high during 2009-10

25-Feb-2011

The number of claims lodged at the Employment Tribunal (ET) rocketed to 236,100 during 2009-10, representing an all-time high.
Employment dispute

6-Oct-2010

The legal battle between Tullett Prebon and arch rival BGC brokers captivated the City with its hostility and shone a spotlight on the highly competitive labour market that exists for financial institutions.
Employment law: has it really gone too far?

6-Jan-2011

Some women cry rape, knowing the allegation to be untrue, but nobody would suggest abolishing rape laws. Likewise, some employees bring specious claims, knowing them to be untrue. That is not a reason to throw out employment rights for everybody.
Employment tribunal reforms will 'impede access to justice'

27-Jan-2011

Government proposals to reform the employment tribunal system will have the greatest impact on the poor and will impede access to justice, employment lawyers have warned.
EMW makes trio of London partner hires

23-Jan-2012

EMW has given its London office a boost, adding three partners - all of whom join as department heads - and a consultant.
End game

24-Nov-2009

As the battle surrounding the default retirement age rumbles on, Kate Miles and Charles Pallott outline the latest developments
Energy giant EDF installs Thales legal chief as general counsel

13-Mar-2012

French energy giant EDF has appointed Eric Thomas as its new group general counsel.
ENRC legal chief resigns following boardroom turmoil

16-Jun-2011

Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) general counsel Randal Barker has resigned from his position as boardroom turmoil rages over the mining company’s corporate governance.
Enron: 10 years on

2-Dec-2011

It’s been 10 years since Enron collapsed. The energy company’s spectacular fall wiped $60bn off the market and led to more than 21,000 staff losing their jobs.
Enter the Macfarlanes dragon

23-Jan-2012

Today is Chinese New Year: the year of the dragon - the water dragon, to be exact - is upon us.
Enyo Law bolsters partnership with Bond Pearce hire

20-Mar-2012

Litigation boutique Enyo Law has hired a partner from Bond Pearce, taking the total number of members at the niche firm to 10.
Enyo Law raids Reed Smith for credit-crunch litigator

5-Oct-2011

Litigation boutique Enyo Law has hired a commercial litigation partner from Reed Smith.
Equality rules

15-Nov-2011

Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger whipped up a maelstrom this week with his comments about the number of women and ethnic minorities at the top of the judiciary. Neuberger MR said he had no difficulty with using section 159 of the Equality Act to favour women and ethnic minorities over white males where two judicial candidates were otherwise equal.
Equitable life?

13-Sep-2010

A pig called Napoleon once observed that, although all animals are equal, some are more equal than others.
Equity not guaranteed for McGrigors partners post-merger

13-Feb-2012

Close to a third of McGrigors’ equity partners will be forced to prove themselves to regain their equity status when the firm merges with Pinsent Masons.
Ernst & Young faces Lehman litigation following examiner's report

27-Apr-2010

Ernst & Young has been named as a defendant in an amended class action in the Lehman Brothers securities fraud case, but Linklaters appears to have avoided the threat of litigation.
Erskine Chambers seals victory for RBS in Liverpool FC dispute

13-Oct-2010

Mr Justice Floyd has granted the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) mandatory injunctive relief against Liverpool Football Club, paving the way for the sale of the club.
Essex and Southend authorities begin roll-out of shared legal managers

30-Apr-2012

Essex County Council’s (ECC) and Southend Council have hired their first-ever joint manager as part of a scheme that will see four authorities work as one practice.
Essex Court barrister seals victory for JPMorgan in mistaken salary claim

28-Mar-2012

Essex Court Chambers’ Charles Ciumei has scored a High Court victory for JPMorgan & Chase after the bank escaped being forced to pay £580,000 to a trader after it inflated his salary by missing a decimal point in his contract.
Establishing liability

29-Sep-2010

It’s showdown time at Devereux Chambers, with two of the set’s leading silks about to find out which of them has been successful in the employers liability (EL) trigger litigation.
EU-Korea FTA drives Korean firm to Germany

9-Sep-2011

Against the backdrop of the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement, South Korean firm Shin & Kim has announced a plan to open an office in Munich in October.
Euro so good

10-Jul-2009

The majority of holidaymakers looking to head out to the Med for some guaranteed sunshine this summer may be feeling squeezed by the strong Euro. But Allen & Overy partners are the latest magic circle lawyers to be gratified by the currency’s robust standing.
Euro vision

5-Nov-2009

What do you get if you cross an Englishman, an Irishman, a Frenchman, an Albanian, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Dutchman, a German, a Russian…okay that’s enough.
European bar associations remain mandatory after eleventh hour intervention

17-Jan-2011

A last-minute intervention by European Commission vice-president Viviane Reding has prevented bar associations across the EU becoming optional rather than mandatory.
European Court delivers its verdict on Premier League broadcasting cases

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Field Fisher associate Daniel Geey says the Premier League will look to extract maximum value from the UK market following a European ruling on broadcast rights
European Court delivers its verdict on Premier League broadcasting cases

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Field Fisher associate Daniel Geey says the Premier League will look to extract maximum value from the UK following a European braodcast rights ruling
European Court delivers its verdict on Premier League broadcasting cases

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Field Fisher associate Daniel Geey says the Premier League will look to extract maximum value from the UK market following European broadcast rights ruling
European Court delivers its verdict on Premier League broadcasting cases

12-Oct-2011

Field Fisher associate Daniel Geey says the Premier League will look to extract maximum value from the UK market following European broadcast rights ruling
European Court delivers its verdict on Premier League broadcasting cases

12-Oct-2011

Field Fisher associate Daniel Geey says the Premier League will look to extract maximum value from the UK market following European broadcast rights ruling
European moves round-up

9-Feb-2012

All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
European moves round-up

23-Feb-2012

All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
European moves round-up: 10 May

10-May-2012

All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
European moves round-up: 12 April

12-Apr-2012

All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
European moves round-up: 22 March

22-Mar-2012

All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
European moves round-up: 26 April

26-Apr-2012

All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
European moves round-up: 8 March

8-Mar-2012

All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices.
Eurostar to Siemens

20-Jul-2011

Procurement disputes have become a feature of the economic downturn with major corporates bringing out the big guns to help them secure contracts.
Eversheds adds Africa

23-Feb-2011

Eversheds’ bid for building a global brand has just had a big leg-up.
Eversheds adds FSA lawyer to London disputes team

3-Oct-2011

Eversheds has hired a lawyer from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to join its financial services dispute resolution team in London.
Eversheds adds Minters lawyer in Hong Kong as litigator joins US firm

14-Oct-2011

Eversheds’ Hong Kong office has hired veteran China employment lawyer Winnie Ng from Minter Ellison.
Eversheds adds real estate partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner

20-Apr-2012

Eversheds has hired a real estate partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), the latest in a spate of hires in the sector for the firm in London.
Eversheds adds to depleted Copenhagen with hires from Accura

31-Mar-2011

Eversheds is continuing to re-build its Copenhagen office after it suffered a wave of departures by hiring a team from Danish firm Accura.
Eversheds adds two lawyers to Copenhagen base

1-Nov-2011

Eversheds has increased its presence in Copenhagen with the addition of two lawyers.
Eversheds advises BGT finalists Only Boys Aloud

16-May-2012

Eversheds is helping Britain’s Got Talent finalists Only Boys Aloud register as a charity and is also helping the group with brand protection following its TV appearances.
Eversheds advises McCartney and Ringo on video game deal

3-Jun-2009

Eversheds underlined its longstanding relationship with The Beatles this week when it advised on a deal to put 45 of the group’s songs on to the video game Rock Band.
Eversheds advises on Beatles anniversary deals

9-Sep-2009

Eversheds has advised Apple Corps, one of its longest-standing clients, on two headline-grabbing deals relating to legendary pop group The Beatles.
Eversheds and Irwin Mitchell rank in corporate responsibility index

15-Mar-2012

Eversheds and Irwin Mitchell are the only two law firms to scoop a ranking in Business in the Community’s (BITC) 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index, which manages and measures the effectiveness of businesses’ social responsibility activities.
Eversheds and Norton Rose lead on £100bn wind farm project

14-Jan-2010

Eversheds and Norton Rose have headed a clutch of firms advising on a £100bn UK government investment in offshore wind farms.
Eversheds appoints Norton Rose partner as Paris-based China head

28-Nov-2011

Eversheds has hired a Beijing-based Norton Rose partner to lead its China practice from Paris.
Eversheds asks trainees to defer and lays off 10 in real estate

16-Apr-2009

Eversheds has announced that it is asking its forthcoming trainees to defer their start dates at the same time as making cuts in its real estate practice group.
Eversheds beefs up employment team with Bircham hire

15-Jul-2011

Eversheds has hired a strike injunction specialist from Bircham Dyson Bell to head its industrial relations practice.
Eversheds' City projects chief defects to Stephenson Harwood

11-Mar-2011

The head of Eversheds’ London projects team Jonathan Cripps is set to defect to Stephenson Harwood along with partner Rebecca Carter.
Eversheds continues Europe expansion with Hamburg launch

9-Jun-2011

Eversheds is expanding into Hamburg with a base in the city set to open in the autumn.
Eversheds Copenhagen chief quits the firm

15-Oct-2010

Eversheds’ Copenhagen managing partner Troels Askerud has announced that he will quit the firm.
Eversheds Copenhagen exodus continues as office co-head departs

14-Dec-2010

Eversheds’ Copenhagen office has been hit by further senior partner departures after the hire of Sam Jalaei by Danish firm Lett.
Eversheds covets commoditised market with South Africa pilot

14-Jan-2010

Eversheds has begun sending low-level legal work to its South African office as it plans to step up its involvement in the commoditised market.
Eversheds cuts 75 jobs as Accenture deal goes live

26-May-2011

Eversheds has confirmed that 75 support staff jobs will be cut as a result of its outsourcing deal with Accenture.
Eversheds drops O'Donnell Sweeney tag from Irish arm

10-Nov-2011

Eversheds’ Dublin branch, Eversheds O’Donnell Sweeney, is re-branding to move in line with the rest of the firm.
Eversheds eschews BlackBerry in favour of iPad

30-Jun-2010

Eversheds has become the latest firm to embrace the Apple brand after it signed a deal to provide its lawyers with the company’s iPad.
Eversheds' ex-Nordic chief joins Denmark's Danders & More

22-Dec-2011

The former head of Eversheds’ Nordic practice has joined Danish transactional firm Danders & More as a partner and head of banking and finance.
Eversheds explores client delivery revamp

9-Dec-2011

Eversheds is reviewing its client delivery model after talks with Accenture over legal process outsourcing (LPO) fell through.
Eversheds extends exclusive Tyco deal for further two years

6-Jan-2012

Eversheds has renewed its deal with Tyco International to service all the manufacturer’s legal needs across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Eversheds fails to overturn sex discrimination ruling

6-Apr-2011

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has rejected Eversheds’ appeal against a decision that found the firm’s redundancy programme discriminated on grounds of sex by giving too much protection to pregnant employees.
Eversheds favours UK in 22-strong promotions round

12-Apr-2011

Eversheds has welcomed 22 lawyers to its partnership in this year’s promotions round, an increase of three on last year’s number.
Eversheds guides Carlisle PFI project to financial close

5-Aug-2009

Eversheds has advised its long-standing client Balfour Beatty on the £176m Carlisle Northern Development Route (CNDR) PFI project.
Eversheds' hasty due diligence exposed in MG Rover report

11-Sep-2009

Eversheds has been mildly rebuked in an otherwise damning report into the collapse of MG Rover.
Eversheds holds promotions steady with 22 made up, half in UK

3-Apr-2012

Eversheds has made up 22 lawyers to its partnership, the same number as made the grade last year.
Eversheds in court over Newcastle Airport negligence claims

30-Apr-2012

Eversheds has begun its High Court battle with former client Newcastle International Airport, which accuses the firm of negligence.
Eversheds' Italy chief cleared of fraud charges

5-Jul-2011

Eversheds’ Italian managing partner Riccardo Bianchini Riccardi was yesterday (4 July) acquitted of all charges over the bankruptcy of Italian agricultural company Cirio.
Eversheds' Italy chief faces jail over Cirio directorship

7-Mar-2011

Eversheds’ Italian managing partner Riccardo Bianchini Riccardi could face eight years in prison in connection with the bankruptcy of Italian agricultural company Cirio, of which he was a director.
Eversheds launches fourth round of job cuts with further 22 to go

10-Sep-2009

Eversheds has launched its fourth redundancy consultation with 22 real estate lawyers at risk.
Eversheds launches on-demand service dubbed Eversheds Agile

14-Oct-2011

Eversheds is piloting a service similar to Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) Lawyers on Demand, creating a pool of lawyers that the firm will second to clients for temporary assignments.
Eversheds litigation chief wins chairman race

24-Feb-2010

Eversheds litigation chief John Heaps has been elected the new chairman of the firm and will take over from incumbent Alan Jenkins on 1 May.
Eversheds makes strides towards eliminating pension deficit

6-Jan-2012

Eversheds cut it pension deficit in half during the 2010-11 financial year as part of a strategic plan to clear the liability altogether.
Eversheds' media head defects to Michael Simkins

20-Jan-2011

Media firm Michael Simkins has hired an adviser to Elton John and U2 from Eversheds to run its disputes team.
Eversheds Nottingham chief retires after three decades at firm

25-Sep-2009

The head of Eversheds’ Nottingham office is to step down from the role of senior office partner after 31 years at the firm.
Eversheds offers alternative to partner with director role

6-Oct-2011

Eversheds is introducing the role of legal director at the firm, as an alternative career path to partnership.
Eversheds partner awarded silk in 129-strong round

26-Feb-2010

The Queen’s Counsel selection panel has handed silk to 129 of the 275 barristers who applied for the coveted title, Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced today.
Eversheds partner cleared of potential discrimination

29-Jan-2010

Eversheds was forced to carry out an internal investigation after litigation partner Stuart Dutson sent an email questioning the commitment of a female interviewee who had recently had a child.
Eversheds pensions head becomes London senior partner

27-Aug-2009

Eversheds pensions head Anthony Arter has been named as the firm’s next London senior partner.
Eversheds PEP falls by 27 per cent as revenue drops to £366m

27-May-2009

The financial cost of funding three rounds of redundancies has seen Eversheds’ average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure drop by 26.8 per cent over the last year while revenues have fallen by six per cent.
Eversheds rebuilds Copenhagen after senior partner walkout

25-Oct-2010

Eversheds has appointed two partners in Copenhagen to replace former senior partner Troels Askerud.
Eversheds reports 28 per cent PEP rise

28-May-2010

Eversheds’ average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure increased 28 per cent in the 2009-10 financial year to hit £517,000.
Eversheds shows some PEP

28-May-2010

Some basic mathematics today, courtesy of Eversheds: how do you get yourself a juicy 28 per cent rise in profit while simultaneously registering a drop in revenue?
Eversheds snares Dundas property partner

8-Feb-2012

Eversheds is set to boost its real estate team in London with a partner from Dundas & Wilson.
Eversheds' Spanish alliance partner breaks from network

15-Feb-2011

Eversheds is set to part company with Spanish alliance partner Eversheds Lupicinio, citing strategic differences.
Eversheds strengthens Hong Kong finance team with Mayer Brown hire

1-Jan-2011

Eversheds has added a partner to its Hong Kong office with the hire of Mayer Brown consultant Kingsley Ong.
Eversheds tells staff to stay at home

1-Apr-2009

Eversheds has asked lawyers to work from home today as anti-capitalist protesters threaten to overthrow the City of London.
Eversheds to offshore more support work, 100 jobs at risk

12-Aug-2010

Eversheds is to offshore HR, administration and finance roles, with 100 jobs at risk of redundancy as a result.
Eversheds to outsource UK-wide secretarial jobs

10-Sep-2009

Eversheds will shed up to 95 secretarial staff as the firm prepares to outsource its documentation processes with outsourcing company Exigent.
Eversheds to pay staff for top BD ideas

26-May-2010

Staff at Eversheds are being given the chance to win a £20,000 cash prize for coming up with a pioneering business idea.
Eversheds' turnover nudges down at half-year point

16-Nov-2010

Eversheds has posted a three per cent drop in turnover for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year.
Eversheds turnover stalls as profit inches up

13-Jun-2011

Profit is up but turnover is static at Eversheds, with revenue stuck at £355m for the 2010/11 financial year.
Eversheds ups Middle East focus with KSLG merger

25-May-2011

Eversheds has merged with Middle East law consortium KSLG, trebling its size in the region.
Eversheds welcomes 19 new partners in latest promotions round

19-Apr-2010

Eversheds has promoted 19 lawyers to partner across its UK, European and South African offices.
Eversheds wins battle to trade under own name in South Africa

23-Feb-2011

Eversheds’ South Africa office has won a longstanding dispute to trade under the global law firm’s name.
Eversheds wins role on Leveson's phone-hacking inquiry

26-Jan-2012

Eversheds is advising the Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime (MOPC), the body responsible for supervising the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), as part of the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics.
Every lawyer's favourite airline

6-Feb-2012

British Airways (BA) is a hell of a client: a prestigious brand that is always up to some kind of expansion or another, operating in an industry beset by legal issues - and compounded by active unions.
E-war and peace

29-Sep-2010

Digital books are finally making their mark, and a happy ending to the long IP tussle between authors and traditional publishers may just be in sight
Ex Charles Russell chief joins Global BPO as chairman

23-Nov-2011

Legal process outsourcer Global BPO has hired former Charles Russell managing partner James Holder as chairman of the company.
Ex Dundas & Wilson energy head joins Bird & Bird

7-Dec-2011

Former Dundas & Wilson infrastructure head Andrew Renton has resurfaced at Bird & Bird after leaving the Scottish-headquartered firm in October.
Ex Hogan Lovells partner Grierson admits £1.27m expenses fraud

27-Mar-2012

Former Hogan Lovells partner Chris Grierson pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud totalling £1.27m at a plea hearing at Southwark Crown Court this morning.
Ex Hogan Lovells partner Grierson faces four charges of false accounting

5-Dec-2011

Former Hogan Lovells litigation partner Christopher Grierson has been charged with four counts of false accounting by the City of London police, several months after being dismissed from the firm’s partnership.
Ex SJ Berwin management candidate to launch PE practice for Reed Smith

14-Dec-2011

Former SJ Berwin managing partner candidate Perry Yam has quit the firm to join Reed Smith in one of the longest-awaited moves in the City legal market.
Ex-Allen & Overy partner joins Houthoff Buruma for New York launch

11-Apr-2012

Dutch firm Houthoff Buruma has recruited a former Allen & Overy (A&O) partner to launch a New York office, capitalising on the use of the Netherlands as a venue for class action settlements.
Ex-Ashurst partner Kendall becomes CEO at investment house

15-Jun-2011

Former Ashurst finance partner Richard Kendall has been appointed CEO of Glendevon King Asset Management (GKAM).
Ex-Ashurst real estate chief set to retire from firm

11-Nov-2011

One of Ashurst’s most senior real estate lawyers, Adrian Dear, is set to retire at the end of the 2011-12 financial year.
Ex-Bakers partner faces jail over money laundering

22-May-2012

A former Baker & McKenzie partner is facing up to 15 years in jail after pleading guilty in New York to money laundering and conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
Ex-BLG partner launches wannabe ABS

15-Sep-2010

A former Barlow Lyde & Gilbert partner has set up his own practice with support from a financial services player, paving the way for it to become one of the first alternative business structures (ABS).
Ex-Bradford & Bingley legal chief takes on new role at Leeds Building Society

14-Nov-2011

Leeds Building Society has installed Bradford & Bingley’s former legal chief as head of legal services.
Ex-Christie’s GC poised for Transocean legal role

17-Jan-2011

Former Christie’s general counsel Nick Deeming is set to join offshore drilling contractor Transocean in one of the highest-profile recent in-house moves, The Lawyer understands.
Exclusive: Dewey rainmaker Mort Pierce set to quit for White & Case

3-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf corporate star Mort Pierce is leaving the firm to join White & Case with a team of up to 10 partners.
Ex-Clydes partner turns to Matrix silk for employment dispute

16-May-2012

Leading public law silk Richard Hermer QC of Matrix Chambers will lead the fight against Clyde & Co over whistleblowing claims launched by former partner Krista Bates van Winkelhof.
Ex-Dewey chair faces prosecution over 'misconduct', Greenberg deal shelved

30-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s former chairman Steve Davis has become the subject of a criminal investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, with the news coming amid reports that the US firm has called off talks about a possible merger with Greenberg Traurig.
Ex-Dewey partners contemplate legal action to recover unpaid profits

7-May-2012

A number of former Dewey & LeBoeuf partners are grouping together in London and the US with a view to taking action to recover unpaid profit shares.
Exeter's Michelmores bolsters City arm with double hire

15-Mar-2012

Exeter-headquartered Michelmores has beefed up its London presence with the hire of a partner and senior associate.
Ex-Freshfields partners launch Berlin boutique

3-Feb-2012

A duo of former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partners have teamed up to launch a Berlin-based boutique law firm.
Ex-Fulbright partner admits stealing £100k from firm

12-Jan-2012

Former Fulbright & Jaworski partner Richard Simkin and his office manager wife Zakia Sharif have pleaded guilty to stealing £100,000 from the firm.
Ex-Halliwells fixed share partners mull legal action against equity partners

17-Oct-2011

A group of former fixed share partners in failed firm Halliwells are investigating decisions made by equity partners in the run up to the collapse of the firm with a view to taking legal action against them.
Ex-Halliwells lawyer gets job offer after settling Gateley claim

23-Sep-2011

Former Halliwells legal services director Emma Nutbeen has settled an unfair dismissal claim against Gateley, resulting in the firm offering her a job.
Ex-Halliwells partners face legal challenge from firm's administrators

1-Nov-2010

The joint administrators of Halliwells are considering taking legal action against the failed firm’s former equity partners.
Ex-Halliwells partners head for mediation with BDO

1-Sep-2011

A group of former Halliwells partners facing a £21m claim from the failed firm’s administrators has agreed to mediate the dispute.
Ex-Halliwells partners prepare for mediation with liquidators over £20m windfall

12-Apr-2012

The former Halliwells partners facing a £20m High Court claim from the firm’s liquidators are set to enter mediation later this month, with Michel Kallipetis QC leading the proceedings.
Ex-Halliwells Sheffield staff celebrate new start with musical video

23-Jul-2010

Kennedys has marked its launch in Sheffield through the acquisition of a 65-person team from Halliwells with the production of a musical video miming to Queen’s hit song Don’t Stop Me Now.
Ex-head of DLA Piper Amsterdam sets up white collar crime firm

11-Jan-2012

The former managing partner of DLA Piper’s Amsterdam office has teamed up with a Houthoff Buruma corporate crime specialist to establish a boutique firm specialising in white collar crime.
Ex-Linklaters chief Angel to join DLA Piper as senior partner

26-Oct-2011

Former Linklaters managing partner Tony Angel is set to join DLA Piper as senior partner in one of the most sensational lateral hires in the legal market.
Ex-Links partner takes on advisory role at Spring Law

30-Dec-2010

Former Linklaters emerging markets head Nick Eastwell has added another string to his bow with an appointment to West End firm Spring Law.
Ex-Macfarlanes partner freed one month into drink-driving sentence

22-Feb-2012

A former Macfarlanes partner has been freed from jail a month into his one-year sentence for drink-driving.
Ex-Macfarlanes partner jailed for a year over drink-driving offences

20-Jan-2012

A former MacFarlanes partner who resigned from the firm last year has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and ordered to pay £4,200 after being found guilty of drink-driving, perverting the course of justice and two further charges.
Ex-miners take firms to court over 'inadequate compensation'

18-Aug-2010

At least eight firms are today facing legal action from around 25 former coalminers who claim they received inadequate compensation under a Government scheme.
Ex-Mishcon partner jailed for five years over fraud

27-Jan-2012

A former Mishcon de Reya property partner has been jailed for five and a half years for his part in a €22m (£18.4m) loan scam.
Ex-Norton Rose team launches Paris base for Canada's Heenan Blaikie

7-Jan-2011

Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie has launched its first European office with the four-partner team who quit Norton Rose last year.
Expedia's European GC leaves company amid spate of in-house moves

31-Jan-2012

Expedia is currently without a legal head after European general counsel Keith Krasny left the online travel booking operator.
Explosive allegations surface in Halliwells court case

18-Apr-2012

Halliwells’ equity partners altered the minutes of a meeting about the £25m Spinningfields reverse premium before passing them on to the rest of the firm, it was alleged in court today (18 April).
Export Strength

14-Sep-2011

Pop music and tailoring aside, the UK doesn’t have many exports worth shouting about (and we still have to make amends for inflicting Piers Morgan on the world) so it’s good to see Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke bigging up British law.
Ex-Salans partner joins Camerons after Locke Lord dalliance

13-Feb-2012

Salans consumer finance partner Bill McCaffrey is set to surface at CMS Cameron McKenna after originally resigning to join US firm Locke Lord.
Ex-Simmons head Dawkins defects to Bingham

27-Jun-2011

Bingham McCutcheon has scooped former Simmons & Simmons managing partner Mark Dawkins for its London financial institutions litigation group.
Ex-Slaughters partner joins Amarchand management team

20-Feb-2012

India’s biggest law firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co has announced the appointment of ex-Slaughter and May partner George Goulding as one of two outside consultants on its management committee.
Extradition centre stage at Supreme Court

2-Dec-2009
Extradition expedition

26-Oct-2011

Media law has been dominated by the News International phone-hacking scandal, but its worth remembering that newspapers will also use the courts for investigatory purposes.
Extradition mission

27-Nov-2009

It’s highly unusual for a lawyer to claim the potential suicide of their client as a defence.
Extradition treaty

24-Feb-2010

The Supreme Court ruling that the extradition of Ian Norris, a man wanted in the US on charges relating to price-fixing, can go ahead (see story) will come as a blow to the legal team behind Gary McKinnon’s case.
FA Premier League 0 Pub Landlord 2

8-Feb-2012

The last ditch attempt by the FA Premier League to have the domestic court declare foreign decoders illegal has failed (see blog).
FA unveils new-look legal panel following move to Wembley

22-Feb-2010

Bird & Bird and Charles Russell have emerged as the biggest winners following the Football Association’s (FA) announcement of a revamped legal panel.
Facebook filings

22-Feb-2012

Receiving important documents by email is commonplace these days; picking them up on social media sites is less common.
Facebook sued over alleged IPO losses

24-May-2012

A US litigation firm has been instructed to sue Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg over the social network site’s public flotation.
Faegre seals victory for Raymond James in Towry employment case

15-Feb-2012

The High Court has handed victory to Faegre Baker Daniels by throwing out a claim brought by wealth manager Towry against seven of its former financial advisers for allegedly breaching covenants and soliciting its clients.
Fake barrister receives 18-month jail term

26-Mar-2012

A convicted criminal who pretended to be a qualified barrister to represent a friend he met in prison has been jailed for 18 months.
Fame, threat and match

28-Apr-2010

Say it loud and say it proud: Robert Dee is the “worst professional tennis player” in the world.
Familiar waters

25-Mar-2010

Having spent the last two years impressing Thames Water, BLP has struck a deal to take on the client’s legal function.
Family court transparency - how it will be achieved

24-Apr-2009

As part of my determination to ensure that the justice system is as open and transparent as possible - and therefore accountable to the people it serves - media organisations will for the first time be able to attend proceedings of all the family courts as of Monday (27 April).
Family separation and counselling

24-Nov-2011

It is well recognised that counselling in its many forms can give families invaluable support during separation or divorce.
Fancy dinner at Le Manoir?

7-Oct-2011

Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons is pretty fancy we hear.
Fancy, huh? That’s you, that is!

23-Jan-2012

When PM David Cameron earlier this month decided to have a go at Big Business legitimately – technically, if not necessarily morally – avoiding paying Corporation Tax, it is interesting to note that the throwaway soundbite picked up by the news services was “fancy corporate lawyers”. Not, you’ll note, “fancy tax accountants”.
FAnks for the memories

4-Aug-2010

By any stretch of the imagination, the FA has not enjoyed a vintage year.
Farrers appoints joint senior partners as Furber steps down

3-May-2011

Farrer & Co has appointed Jim Edmondson and Richard Parry as joint senior partners to succeed James Furber from 1 May.
Farrers defends News of the World against George Galloway claim

2-Sep-2010

Farrer & Co is defending News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers (NGN) in an action brought by former MP George Galloway, who claims his phone was hacked by the paper.
Farrers misses out as News International hands Olswang first mandate

5-Jul-2011

Farrer & Co has been snubbed by News of the World (NotW) publisher News International, which has turned to Olswang for advice on drawing up a code of practice in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
Farrers partner 'ordered surveillance' of phone-hacking lawyers

8-Nov-2011

The News of the World (NoW) phone-hacking scandal has come under fresh scrutiny after the defunct paper’s Farrer & Co lawyer allegedly asked that two solicitors acting on behalf of phone-hacking victims be put under surveillance.
Farrers partner stands by decision to put hacking lawyers under surveillance

22-May-2012

Farrer & Co partner Julian Pike, who suggested that client News Group put two phone-hacking lawyers under surveillance, has told a Home Affairs Committee that he would make the same recommendation again in similar circumstances.
Fasken adds DMH Stallard's City corporate head to London team

26-Oct-2011

Canada-headquartered Fasken Martineau has hired DMH Stallard’s London corporate head.
Fasken adds partners from King & Spalding and Gibson Dunn

23-Jun-2011

International law firm Fasken Martineau has boosted its banking and corporate practices with the hire of a partner each from King & Spalding and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Fasken hires eight-strong team from Howard Kennedy

9-Sep-2009

Fasken Martineau has boosted its London office after completing the hire of an eight-strong projects team from Howard Kennedy.
Fasken Martineau opens in France via local tie-up and Dewey hires

22-Sep-2009

Canadian firm Fasken Martineau has launched in Paris after acquiring local firm Gravel Leclerc & Partners and a hiring a four-lawyer team from Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Fed up of the free training farrago...

2-Dec-2011

I may seem a bit ranty on this, but frankly this is a subject long overdue for a good kicking.
Fees for expertise

3-Aug-2009

News that the Law Society has hiked the cost of practising certificates by 18.6 per cent will have incensed many in the public sector (see story).
Females make up just 20 per cent of honorary silk nominations

20-Mar-2012

Just 20 per cent of the people nominated for the honorary QC title in the past three years were women, The Lawyer can reveal.
Fenwick & West and Simpson Thacher lead as Facebook takes US listing

2-Feb-2012

US firms Fenwick & West and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have won the key roles advising on Facebook’s long-awaited IPO.
Fenwick makes friends with Facebook

2-Feb-2012

Like, OMG. Lawyers at US tech firm Fenwick & West are expecting a flood of friend requests after scooping the lead role on social networking giant Facebook’s mega IPO.
FFW embraces crowdsourcing with launch of legal wiki

31-Mar-2011

City firm Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has launched its own legal wiki to allow all lawyers within the firm to access and share legal know-how.
FFW holds steady with four promotions to partnership

27-Apr-2009

Field Fisher Waterhouse will promote four new partners this year, the same number as were promoted internally in 2008.
FFW loses another partner as corporate lawyer defects to Baker Botts

23-Sep-2011

Corporate partner Neil Foster is leaving Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) to joins Baker Botts, becoming the latest in a string of partners to leave the UK firm this year.
FFW snares Howrey team for launches in Munich and Düsseldorf

11-Jan-2011

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) plans to open in Munich and Düsseldorf after hiring a four-partner team from Howrey.
Field (trip) of dreams?

12-Sep-2011

Now that the royals are not only commoners but even do their own shopping (granted, it’s at Waitrose), the socially privileged have just a little less cachet to play with.
Field Fisher adds Olswang lawyer to corporate team

1-Nov-2011

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has strengthened its corporate offering with the hire of corporate and commercial partner Michael Harte.
Field Fisher advises on purchase of Fergie's IP assets

17-Nov-2009

Field Fisher Waterhouse has landed a role advising film entertainment company Handmade on a fundraising to allow it to buy intellectual property assets from the Duchess of York.
Field Fisher advises on Thomas Pink's India entry

26-Mar-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has won a role advising on a franchising deal for Thomas Pink with a subsidiary of India’s largest company that will result in the luxury shirt brand opening offices stores across India.
Field Fisher and LG moot £150m merger

18-May-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) and Lawrence Graham (LG) are in the early stages of merger talks to create a £150m business that would bring the combined entity on the brink of the top 20 UK firms by revenue.
Field Fisher Brussels welcomes partner from A&O while losing team to Stibbe

29-Oct-2009

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) is bolstering its Brussels office with the addition of an Allen & Overy (A&O) counsel as a five-lawyer team prepares to defect to Herbert Smith best friend Stibbe.
Field Fisher hires Wedlake Bell corporate chief

21-Feb-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has hired Wedlake Bell corporate partner and practice head Tim Bird.
Field Fisher lays off another seven fee-earners

19-Mar-2009

Field Fisher Waterhouse has laid off seven fee-earners at the end of its third redundancy consultation.
Field Fisher lays off two lawyers at end of consultation

6-Feb-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has made two London lawyers redundant in the firm’s public and regulatory group following a consultation period.
Field Fisher moots external investment for personal injury arm

10-Apr-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) is considering taking outside investment to fund its high-cost personal injury and medical negligence business in a move to reduce the amount of partner capital spent on the practice.
Field Fisher moots options for ABS valuation

16-Mar-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse is considering bringing in an outside company to value the business as it considers options for a conversion to an alternative business structure (ABS).
Field Fisher mourns death of former managing partner

15-Feb-2012

Staff at Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) are mourning the death of former managing partner Moira Gilmour, who died on Saturday evening (11 February).
Field Fisher outsources European facilities in £18.5m deal

6-Jun-2011

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has signed an £18.5m deal to outsource the facilities management of all seven of its European offices, including its London headquarters.
Field Fisher predicts profit slump despite rise in turnover

18-Jun-2009

Fisher Fisher Waterhouse has seen its turnover increase by 8 per cent during the 2008-09 financial year, but has warned that it is expecting profits to fall.
Field Fisher promotes record number of partners - all in London

28-Apr-2010

Field Fisher Waterhouse has promoted nine new partners, more than double the number that made the grade last year.
Field Fisher public law fee-earners face redundancy programme

25-Nov-2011

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) is bracing itself for a string of redundancies as it emerges that the firm is in consultation with four lawyers in the public and regulatory group and has terminated the contracts of several fee-earners in the team.
Field Fisher scraps senior partner role in wide-ranging review

19-Jan-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) is set to scrap its senior partner position and introduce an elected supervisory board to keep management in check as part of a wholesale overhaul of the way the firm is run.
Field Fisher unveils new-look supervisory board

23-Apr-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse has appointed a corporate partner as chairman of its new supervisory board, the group aimed at keeping the firm’s senior management in check.
Field Fisher Waterhouse hires ex-ICO man for data protection push

4-May-2011

City firm Field Fisher Waterhouse has boosted its data protection practice with the appointment of Mick Gorrill, former head of enforcement at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Field Fisher Waterhouse promotes six to partnership

25-Apr-2012

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has made up six partners in its annual round of promotions, with five of the new partners based in London.
Field Fisher's turnover and profit dip during 2009-10

16-Jul-2010

Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) managing partner Moira Gilmour has defended her firm’s strategy after it posted falling turnover, net profit and average profit per equity partner (PEP) figures for the 2009-10 financial year.
Fifty ways to lose your Glover

20-Jul-2010

Finally, some good news for SJ Berwin: its main competitor for funds work, Clifford Chance, is this morning working out how to deal with the departure of star partner Jason Glover (see story)
File sharing – the UK courts discover their power

5-Oct-2011

2011 may prove to be a key year for progress in the UK by the media companies in their ongoing battles against file sharing.
Final decision in Lords strikes a blow to litigation funding sector

31-Jul-2009

The House of Lords marked its last day of existence yesterday by handing Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) a victory when it struck out a multi-million pound claim against its client Moore Stephens.
Finance duo Allen and Goetz quit Freshfields

3-Aug-2009

High-profile banking partners Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz have left Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer just over a year after joining the magic circle firm.
Finers partner represents WikiLeaks boss as bail refused

7-Dec-2010

Finers Stephens Innocent (FSI) media partner Mark Stephens was in City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court this afternoon at the side of his client Julian Assange, who was denied bail in a hearing related to possible extradition to Sweden.
Finers partner slams SRA's new rules on defending solicitors

2-Apr-2012

Finers Stephens Innocent (FSI) partner Ian Ryan has quit his role on the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) panel in protest at new rules that he claims restrict his practice.
Finers' profits surged 43 per cent in 2009-10, LLPs reveal

5-Jan-2011

London firm Finers Stephens Innocent saw profits rocket 43 per cent in the 2009-10 financial year, its latest LLP accounts reveal.
Finers promotes three to partnership

1-May-2012

West End firm Finers Stephens Innocent (FSI) has promoted three associates to its partnership.
Finers turns to Addleshaws for fifth lateral this year

12-May-2009

A former Addleshaw Goddard partner has moved over to Finers Stephen Innocent to work in the firm’s employment team.
Finland's Castrén promotes two as partner joins client as GC

2-Sep-2011

Finnish firm Castrén & Snellman has elected two new partners after losing one to a general counsel position at a listed real estate company.
Finland's Dittmar & Indrenius adds former Hannes Snellman partner

29-Jun-2011

Finland’s Dittmar & Indrenius has appointed a new partner in the form of Hannes Snellman’s former head of finance and capital markets.
Finland's Hannes Snellman boost Denmark with double partner hire

15-Dec-2010

Finnish firm Hannes Snellman has boosted its recently established Copenhagen office by hiring two partners from local rivals.
Finland's Hannes Snellman expands into Denmark

1-Sep-2010

Finnish firm Hannes Snellman has launched an office in Copenhagen, widening its coverage of the Nordic market.
Finland's Peltonen merges with LMR after losses

21-Sep-2011

Finnish firms Peltonen Ruokonen & Itäinen and LMR have merged, creating an almost 50-lawyer strong firm.
Finnish firms Merilampi and Veikko Palotie merge

3-Sep-2010

Helsinki firms Merilampi Attorneys and Veikko Palotie & Co Attorneys at Law have merged to become Finland’s seventh largest firm.
Fiona Dodds: Ropes & Gray

4-Feb-2011

What is the most irritating habit of any partner you’ve worked for? Not agreeing with me.
Fiona Shackleton and David Gold to become Tory peers

19-Nov-2010

Payne Hicks Beach partner Fiona Shackleton and Herbert Smith’s former senior partner David Gold are to join the House of Lords as Conservative peers.
Firebrands

24-Feb-2010

Hands up who knows what links Adobe, Eddie Stobart and JCB with the Law Society?
Firm economics for the magic circle

5-Jul-2010

Economics can be a confusing subject at the best of times, but on a Monday morning it can easily leave the brain throbbing and begging for mercy.
Firm endurance

5-Aug-2009

A raft of changes are hitting the insurance market, but what do they all mean for law firms? Dan Cutts explains.
Firms are cautiously optimistic about year ahead survey reveals

16-Nov-2009

Law firms are growing increasingly confident about the year ahead, but any optimism is still guarded.
Firms line up for roles on GM bankruptcy

2-Jun-2009

A raft of firms have won roles advising on the restructuring of the European arm of car manufacturer GM, which filed for bankruptcy in the US yesterday (1 June).
Firms must inform clients of referral fees, says LSB

27-May-2011

Firms should be forced to disclose to clients when referral fees have been paid for cases, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has concluded.
Firms not obliged to work for non-paying clients, CoA rules

2-May-2012

Lawyers are not under any obligation to continue acting for clients who refuse to settle their legal bills, the Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled.
Firms react to Japan quake

16-Mar-2011

There are occasions when law firms, and those who follow the waxing and waning of their fortunes, can become a little inward looking.
Firms relocate Tokyo staff in wake of earthquake

16-Mar-2011

A number of firms with bases in Tokyo are offering their staff help to leave Japan following last week’s earthquake and tsunami.
First ABSs set to go live in February as SRA approved as regulator

1-Dec-2011

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has received approval to regulate alternative business structures (ABS) and will begin accepting applications in January.
First bar census reveals little improvement in diversity statistics

22-Mar-2011

Diversity at the bar has increased only marginally over the past five years, the results of the Bar Standard Board’s first-ever census of the profession has revealed.
First victim of the spending review?

21-Oct-2010

The ink on George Osborne’s Comprehensive Spending Review is barely dry.
First White & Case partner relocates to Africa under new plan

28-Oct-2009

A White & Case London structured products and capital markets partner is relocating to Johannesburg as part of the firm’s new focus on Africa.
First-half turnover up at post-merger DAC Beachcroft

5-Dec-2011

Recently merged DAC Beachcroft has posted a 10 per cent increase in half-year revenue, with turnover standing at £88.2m for the first six months of 2011-12.
Fishburns and 4 New Square act for Shackleton in negligence case

16-Apr-2012

Lawyers acting for celebrity divorce solicitor Fiona Shackleton’s firm have served a defence to a claim of negligence brought by a former client.
Fisher Meredith turns to BCL Burton Copeland for hire of regulatory head

20-Mar-2012

City firm Fisher Meredith has hired BCL Burton Copeland solicitor Diane Calnan to head its criminal law and regulatory team.
Five SCJs line up for Transocean's Scottish employment dispute

5-Oct-2011

The Supreme Court has convened five justices to hear a dispute over holiday entitlement for offshore workers, a case that could have implications for holiday allowance for all employees.
Five-partner Dewey team prepares City base for administration

1-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s London office is preparing for a potential administration amid a top-level reshuffle that has seen the City managing partner role split up into a five-person steering committee.
Fixed legal fees- can they change the face of the legal profession?

4-Oct-2011

The system of hourly billing by lawyers has come under scrutiny for some time, and whilst this might not be a new phenomenon, the increased move towards fixed fees and what this might mean for the sector, certainly is.
Fixed share partners are not employees, CoA rules

1-Feb-2012

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has given a seminal ruling on the status of fixed share partners in an unfair dismissal claim being pursued against Lester Aldridge.
Fixed share partners are not employees, EAT rules

26-Nov-2010

An attempt to have fixed share partners legally defined as employees has failed at the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Fixed-share fix-up

26-Nov-2010

All partners are created equal, George Orwell once didn’t write, but some partners are certainly more equal than others. And, if you believe former Lester Aldridge fixed-share partner Martin Tiffin, some partners aren’t partners at all.
Fladgate adds Olswang partner as turnover rises 8 per cent

6-Jul-2011

Fladgate has boosted its corporate practice with the hire of partner Amy Collins from Olswang, as it announces an 8 per cent rise in turnover in its latest financial results.
Fladgate advises on construction of tallest building in Wales

26-May-2010

Fladgate is advising the Cardiff Marine Group in its £60m Bayscape marina development, where construction is set to begin on Wales’s tallest building.
Fladgate breaks £25m barrier with revenue and profit rise

8-May-2012

Fladgate has posted a 10 per cent rise in total revenue for the 2011-12 financial year, with turnover rising to £25.9m.
Fladgate hires co-head of Finers' real estate team

30-Nov-2011

Fladgate has boosted its property team with the hire of Finers Stephens Innocent’s joint head of real estate.
Fladgate hires former Halliwells real estate finance chief

10-Sep-2010

The former head of Halliwells’ London real estate finance practice has joined Fladgate.
Fladgate LLPs reveal £1m loan funded Covent Garden move

6-Jan-2011

London firm Fladgate took out a £1m loan to fund its move to a new office near Covent Garden, its 2009-10 LLP accounts have revealed.
Flexible friends

31-Mar-2011

Flexible working: one of those fabulous phrases that really can mean something unique for every person.
Flexible Work – more than just an issue of being family friendly

19-Oct-2011

This being Parenting Week, David Cameron and Nick Clegg have refreshed their calls to make workplace legislation more family friendly. But law firms need to think beyond working mums and dads in crafting flexible working policies.
Flower power

28-Sep-2011

The High Court has been left to decide whether Marks & Spencer (M&S) infringed Interflora’s trademark after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the retailer could use the florist’s trademark as part of its keyword advertising on major search engines.
Flying the nest

29-Sep-2009

Bird & Bird has rightly won plaudits for its phenomenal year. But is there a bigger story lurking that risks ruffling its feathers?
Follow which leader?

9-Feb-2010

What is going on with Allen & Overy and Norton Rose?
Food and drink on the menu as SH gears up for office move

22-Oct-2010

Moving can be a stressful experience, but any Stephenson Harwood employees nervous about their impending relocation to new offices at One Finsbury Square can at least rest assured that they will know where to find a decent fry-up on their first morning.
Food fight at Herbies

2-Nov-2010

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food,” said that renowned epicurean quote machine George Bernard Shaw.
Foot Anstey to expand South West coverage with Bristol base

2-Aug-2011

South West firm Foot Anstey is set to open an office in the heart of Bristol’s business district in October.
Football fun?

3-May-2012

The Lawyer deeply fears the Football Association (FA) so will make no attempt at letter replacement when announcing the name of the law firm that advised Roy Hodgson on his England manager appointment, Russell Jones & Walker (RJW).
Football, the mafia and other thrillers

19-Mar-2012

Manchester City’s land battle with a Red Devil-supporting stubborn landowner has all the hallmarks of David and Goliath.
For whom the Belfast doles

5-May-2011

“So, A&O minion, do you want the good news first, or the bad? The good news is that you can keep your job. Why don’t we go and have a drink to celebrate?
Foreign investors in China using the Variable Interest Entity structure

11-Nov-2011

As noted in my earlier blog postings, foreign investors in China using the Variable Interest Entity (VIE) structure have experienced some anxiety in recent months, perhaps unnecessarily (still TBD), over a string of potentially bad news for VIE deals on the regulatory front. But the bigger risk in a VIE structure is and always has been partner risk – i.e. can you trust your nominee shareholder?
Foreign investors in China using the VIE structure (part II )

18-Nov-2011

n this installment of our continuing series on managing the risks inherent in the Variable Interest Entity (VIE) structure, which is a common work around structure used in a variety of industry sectors in China, we will look at how to fix a VIE deal that has gone pear shaped, including a discussion of some case studies – one a successful example of an effectively managed swapping out of a defaulting nominee shareholder and a second where the foreign party had to go the long way around ...
Foreign lawyers in Kurdistan warned of action against "illegal" practice

23-May-2012

A spokesperson purportedly connected to the Kurdistan Bar Association Council has confirmed that it will be pursuing international lawyers it believes are practising without a licence in the region.
Former 3i GC takes on role at City of London Group

24-Oct-2011

City of London Group (COLG) has appointed former 3i Group general counsel Tony Brierley as a non-executive director.
Former Ablyazov lawyer wins Stephenson Harwood senior partner race

23-Mar-2012

Stephenson Harwood (SH) has elected a new senior partner after a contested vote, with litigator Roland Foord taking over for a five-year term on 1 May.
Former AG Baroness Scotland joins 4 Paper Buildings

10-Mar-2011

The shadow attorney general Baroness Scotland has joined family chambers 4 Paper Buildings as a member.
Former BA legal chief joins Brick Court as door tenant

2-Jun-2009

British Airways (BA) former general counsel Robert Webb QC has joined Brick Court Chambers as a door tenant two months after standing down from his in-house role.
Former Beresfords lawyers lose appeal on miners ruling

2-Dec-2009

The High Court has rejected attempts to overturn a strike-out ruling slapped on two lawyers by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).
Former BLG chief exec takes on RPC brand director role

18-May-2011

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert’s (BLG) former CEO Clint Evans has joined Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC), taking on the role of director of brand and talent.
Former BLP chair seconded to Tesco China ahead of Beijing launch

18-May-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), which has applied for a licence to open in Beijing later this year, will see its former chair Peter Robinson first take up a temporary secondment posting with Tesco in Shanghai.
Former BLP partner Veneik "sullied" profession, tribunal finds

9-Apr-2010

Former Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partner Vinay Veneik sullied the reputation of the legal profession through misuse of client monies, according to recent findings by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).
Former Brobeck chairman Snow settles on Cooley

14-Jun-2011

Cooley has hired Tower Snow, the US securities specialist and former Brobeck chairman who spearheaded Clifford Chance’s ill-fated West Coast expansion.
Former Burges Salmon chief takes top job at Kennedys

17-Jul-2009

Burges Salmon’s former managing partner Guy Stobart is leaving the firm to take up the chief executive role at insurance firm Kennedys.
Former CC boss Cornell steps down from Terra Firma role

14-Mar-2011

Former Clifford Chance managing partner Peter Cornell is to stand down from his position as chair of Terra Firma’s advisory committee.
Former CC secretary jailed for stealing £23,000 from firm

1-Feb-2011

A former Clifford Chance secretary who stole more than £23,000 from the firm has been jailed for fraud.
Former Cleary managing partner joins Lazard in Paris

6-Jun-2011

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton New York partner Mark Walker has moved in-house to Lazard, taking up a role in the investment bank’s Paris office.
Former Clifford Chance associate rejoins firm as partner in Italy

14-Sep-2009

Clifford Chance is looking to rebuild its Italian practice after rehiring as a partner a Milan associate who left the firm in April.
Former Clifford Chance partner rejoins after year as Future Group legal chief

9-Sep-2010

Former Clifford Chance partner Michael Dakin is returning to the firm after a one-year stint as chief legal officer at Dubai-based investment company Future Group.
Former Cobbetts clerk jailed for stealing £20,000 from firm

3-Aug-2011

An accounts clerk working at Cobbetts’ Manchester office has been jailed for 15 months after admitting stealing £20,000 from client accounts.
Former Coudert partner quits DLA's Belgian practice for De Wolf

1-Mar-2011

Osborne Clarke’s Belgian alliance firm De Wolf & Partners has hired DLA Piper corporate partner Yves Tavernier and three lawyers.
Former Daily Mail legal chief joins Finers as consultant

23-Mar-2012

Associated Newspapers’ former legal head Harvey Kass has taken on a consultancy role with Finers Stephens Innocent.
Former De Brauw managing partner returns to firm

22-Sep-2011

De Brauw Blackstone & Westbroek’s former managing partner Jaap de Keijzer is returning to the firm after spending two years on the management board of the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa).
Former Dewey Ballantine chief quits Dewey for KPMG

24-Apr-2012

One of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s most senior London partners, Fred Gander, has become the latest to leave the embattled firm.
Former DLA partner turns to Herbies on gardening leave dispute

30-Sep-2011

Herbert Smith is acting for DLA Piper’s former global co-head of litigation and regulatory Neil Gerrard in a dispute with his former firm over the terms of his departure.
Former Eversheds partner hits out at firm's handling of discrimination issue

12-Feb-2010

The former Eversheds partner at the centre of a row over questioning a female interviewee’s commitment to full-time work has claimed that the firm made advance inquiries about the candidate at her place of work without her consent.
Former 'flying squad' member quits Camerons for Edwards Wildman

22-Mar-2012

CMS Cameron McKenna’s international head of private equity Ted Cominos is to leave the firm to become a partner in the Chicago office of newly merged Edwards Wildman.
Former Freshfields finance chief surfaces at DMH

2-Sep-2009

Former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer head of finance Perry Noble has joined DMH Stallard as a consultant.
Former FSA conduct chief joins PwC as general counsel

20-Mar-2012

The former managing director of the FSA’s conduct business unit Margaret Cole has been appointed general counsel of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) UK.
Former FSA lawyer heads back to the bar at Serjeants’

25-Nov-2011

Financial Services Authority (FSA) lawyer Sarah Clarke is returning to the bar to join 3 Serjeants’ Inn.
Former Fulbright lawyer jailed for 16 months over expenses fraud

9-Mar-2012

A former Fulbright & Jaworski partner and his office manager wife have been handed 16 month jail terms after pleading guilty to false accounting and fraud.
Former Gide and CC lawyers set up Paris independent

21-May-2010

Former lawyers from Gide Loyrette Nouel and Clifford Chance have banded together to launch a boutique finance practice in Paris.
Former GTM restructuring head Norley takes non-legal role at Jefferies

21-May-2012

Former Greenberg Traurig Maher restructuring head Lyndon Norley has joined Jefferies Group, one of the US’s largest independent banks.
Former Halliwells fixed-share partners query BDO's impartiality

30-Apr-2012

A group of former Halliwells fixed-share partners have questioned the impartiality of the failed firm’s administrators, claiming they previously benefited “from the most lucrative referral opportunities which Halliwells had”.
Former Halliwells partners to repay £20.4m Spinningfields windfall

17-Jun-2011

Halliwells’ administrator BDO is calling on former partners to repay the cash they pocketed in a reverse premium deal with the failed firm’s Manchester landlord.
Former Halliwells partners turn to Irwin Mitchell to fight BDO claims

15-Aug-2011

A group of 14 ex-Halliwells partners have joined forces to instruct Irwin Mitchell partner Chris Jones to fight claims made against them by the failed firm’s administrators at BDO.
Former Harbottle chief joins Fladgate media practice

15-Jun-2010

Former Harbottle & Lewis managing partner Lawrence Abramson has joined Fladgate’s media and entertainment practice.
Former HBJ partners cleared of involvement in Da Vinci theft

21-Apr-2010

Two former HBJ Gateley Wareing partners have been found not guilty of trying to extort money for the safe return of a stolen Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece.
Former head of Lovells' Beijing base quits AllBright for rival firm

24-Feb-2011

The former head of Lovells’ Beijing office Robert Lewis has given up his role at Shanghai firm AllBright Law Offices less than a year after joining.
Former Hengeler partner joins Poellath after 10-day Milbank stint

17-Feb-2010

The German Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy partner who left the firm after just 10 days has joined independent firm P+P Poellath + Partners.
Former Herbert Smith chief Gold leads cash-for-dinners inquiry

27-Mar-2012

Former Herbert Smith senior partner David Gold has been appointed to lead an inquiry into the Conservative funding row, after the party’s co-treasurer was filmed offering private dinners with the Prime Minister in return for cash.
Former Howrey associate hits firm with race discrimination claim

27-Jan-2010

US firm Howrey is being sued by a former Brussels-based associate for racial discrimination.
Former ILEX student successfully quashes cheating claims

20-Oct-2011

The Court of Appeal has reversed the decision of an Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) disciplinary hearing, ruling that the body’s disciplinary process was not independent enough to serve its purpose.
Former judge Sedley slams Sumption's views on judicial interference

17-Feb-2012

Retired appellate judge Stephen Sedley has hit out at arguments made by Supreme Court Justice Jonathan Sumption about judicial interference in political life, stating that the contention “harms the standing of the judiciary and confidence in the law”.
Former Linklaters partner takes advisory role at Obelisk Legal

29-Mar-2012

Linklaters’ former emerging Europe, Middle East and North Africa managing partner Nick Eastwell has joined Obelisk Legal Support as an advisory board member.
Former Linklaters senior partner lands EMEA role at Moelis bank

3-Oct-2011

US-headquartered bank Moelis & Company has hired former Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne in a high-level business development and advisory role.
Former Lovells Dubai chief to target energy work at Baker Botts

29-May-2009

Lovells former Dubai head Shibeer Ahmed is looking to target energy work in his new role as a partner at Baker Botts although he will not, as had been suggested, be running an office.
Former Macfarlanes partner guilty of drink-driving charges

19-Dec-2011

A former Macfarlanes partner who recently resigned from the firm’s LLP has been found guilty on two counts of drink-driving and two further charges and has been taken to hospital before being sentenced in January.
Former Mayer Brown partner gets seven years for Refco fraud

15-Jan-2010

The former Mayer Brown partner charged with conspiracy relating to a $2.4bn (£1.5bn) fraud at Refco, the collapsed commodities brokerage, was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday.
Former McDermott partner joins Davenport Lyons

11-Jul-2011

West End firm Davenport Lyons has hired financial regulatory partner Abesh Choudhury, who was formerly at McDermott Will and Emery.
Former NI lawyer Crone blasts Murdoch's 'demeaning lies'

26-Apr-2012

Former News International lawyer Tom Crone has issued a furious response to allegations made by Rupert Murdoch that he was complicit in a cover up of the phone-hacking scandal at the Newsof the World.
Former NoW lawyer advised on hacking as early as 2004

14-Dec-2011

Former News International legal head Tom Crone has told the Leveson Inquiry that he gave the newspaper group legal advice over phone-hacking as far back as 2004.
Former Portolano Colella Cavallo partner launches Orsingher's Rome base

18-Apr-2012

Italian IP boutique Orsingher is opening a Rome office with the hire of Domenico Colella, formerly name partner at Portolano Colella Cavallo.
Former Richards Butler partners launch Paris shipping boutique

17-May-2010

Two partners from Thomas Cooper’s Paris office have split to launch a five-lawyer shipping boutique.
Former Rio Tinto legal chief joins investigations business GPW

25-Aug-2010

Former Rio Tinto general counsel Charles Lawton has joined private intelligence company GPW as a special advisor.
Former Rowlands Field Cunningham partner sues for capital

17-Jan-2012

A former partner at Manchester firm Rowlands Field Cunningham (RFC), which was taken over by Linder Myers in a pre-pack deal in December, is suing his old firm for missing capital repayments.
Former SJ Berwin chief joins CPA Global as chairman

9-Feb-2011

Outsourcer CPA Global has named former SJ Berwin senior partner David Harrel as its new chairman.
Former TTP GC guilty of insider dealing

27-Mar-2009

The former general counsel of technology company TTP Communications has been found guilty of insider trading in the first insider dealing criminal prosecution brought by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Forryan to replace Bickerton as Clifford Chance London capital markets head

24-Nov-2009

Andrew Forryan has been elected the new head of Clifford Chance’s London capital markets practice from next January.
Forsters' former corporate chief defects to Fladgate

7-Jul-2010

Forsters former corporate head Jeremy Whiteson has left the firm to join West End rival Fladgate.
Forsters sees turnover rise despite 'uncertain market'

3-May-2012

Mayfair firm Forsters has posted a 13 per cent rise in turnover for the 2011-12 financial year.
Forsters swells partner ranks with four promotions

4-Apr-2012

Mayfair firm Forsters has made up four partners across its property practices, bringing its partnership headcount to 41.
Foskett J rejects Shoesmith's Baby P sacking claim

23-Apr-2010

The former head of children’s services at Haringey Council Sharon Shoesmith has failed in the judicial review of her sacking following the death of Baby P.
Fountain Court clerk becomes head of clerking at Devereux

7-Sep-2010

Fountain Court deputy senior clerk Vince Plant is to join rival set Devereux Chambers as head of clerking services.
Four City firms advise Government on banks sell-off

20-Nov-2009

Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith, Simmons & Simmons and Slaughter and May have won roles on a new Government panel to handle the sale of its stake in banks bailed out during the financial crisis.
Four partners to battle it out to become Camerons' senior partner role

24-Feb-2011

Former managing partner Dick Tyler is one of four candidates in the upcoming senior partner election at CMS Cameron McKenna.
Four-partner SJ Berwin real estate team quits for Irwin Mitchell

27-Sep-2010

SJ Berwin head of real estate Jon Vivian has quit the firm to join Irwin Mitchell, taking a team of three partners with him.
Fourteen firms win places on Homes Communities Agency panel

1-Feb-2010

National housing and regeneration body the Homes Communities Agency (HCA) has appointed 14 firms to its first major panel.
FoxMandal pays Delhi salaries after two-month hiatus

18-Aug-2009

Indian firm FoxMandal Little has paid the salaries owed to Delhi fee-earners after cashflow difficulties led to a two-month delay.
FoxMandal suspends Delhi salaries, blames cashflow

21-Jul-2009

Indian firm FoxMandal Little (FML) has not paid a number of its lawyers for at least a month due to cashflow problems, reports legallyindia.com.
France's Cotty Vivant boosts partnership with double promotion

4-Jan-2011

French firm Cotty Vivant Marchisio & Lauzeral has promoted two associates to partner, bringing its partner headcount to 14.
France's De Pardieu and China's Allbright enter into cooperation

19-Mar-2012

Chinese firm Allbright Law Offices has signed its first formal cooperation agreement with a firm from another jurisdiction following the move of Allbright lawyer Ghislain de Mareuil to France’s De Pardieu Brocas Maffei.
France's Flichy Grangé acquires Plichon

31-Jan-2012

French firm Flichy Grangé Avocats has bolted on health and safety boutique Plichon in a boost for its industrial risks practice.
France's Foucaud launches tax practice with Ginestié hire

27-Sep-2011

French business law firm Foucaud Tchekhoff Pochet et Associés (FTPA)has launched a tax department following the arrival of a former Sullivan & Cromwell partner.
France's Gide and Portugal's Morais Leitão bolster partnerships with promotions

8-Nov-2011

Gide Loyrette Nouel and Morais Leitão Galvão Teles Soares da Silva have kicked off the annual promotions round in Europe, announcing a number of new partners.
France's Jeantet adds three partners from PwC's associated firm

12-Apr-2011

French independent Jeantet Associés has swooped on PricewaterhouseCoopers’ associated legal firm Landwell & Associés for three partners.
France's Jeantet taps Gide for energy hire

8-Mar-2011

French firm Jeantet Associés is continuing the growth of its energy team with the recruitment of a partner from Gide Loyrette Nouel.
France's Lefèvre adds Landwell partner to banking team

19-Dec-2011

French independent Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés has bolstered its banking and finance team with the hire of a partner from Landwell & Associés.
France's Lefèvre Pelletier launches in Frankfurt

14-Mar-2011

French independent Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés is expanding into Germany with the hire of a partner from Marccus Partners, the legal arm of consultancy business Mazars.
France's MBL Avocats turns to Watson Farley for Paris hire

10-Mar-2011

French independent MBL Avocats has hired a partner and two associates from the Paris office of Watson Farley & Williams.
France's Veil Jourde expands partnership with double hire

30-Mar-2011

French independent Veil Jourde has strengthened its public and constitutional law capability with the appointment of two partners.
France's WSA and LSK merge to form Marvell Associés

30-Sep-2011

French boutiques WSA and LSK have merged to create a new, nine-partner full-service firm known as Marvell Associés.
Fraud barrister faces prison after chambers theft

17-Jan-2012

A barrister specialising in fraud and money laundering is facing a imprisonment after admitting stealing £81,500 from his chambers.
Freebie no more

12-Oct-2009

The university law fair season is upon us once again.
Freeth Cartwright hires IP head from Martineau

26-Mar-2010

Midlands firm Freeth Cartwright has brought in Simon Barker from Birmingham rival Martineau to head its intellectual property team.
Freeth Cartwright to merge with Kimbells

16-Sep-2011

Midlands firm Freeth Cartwright is set to take over seven-partner Milton Keynes firm Kimbells on 1 November.
Freeth Cartwright unveils plans for post-LSA Birmingham growth

12-Oct-2011

Freeth Cartwright’s Birmingham practice is set to move into a space three times larger than its current office as the firm continues to expand in response to the Legal Services Act.
French firm Racine ramps up in Paris with five-lawyer hire

4-Jan-2012

French independent Racine has recruited a five-lawyer team to bulk up its social law department in Paris.
French firms lead way with 2010 financial results

12-Jan-2011

French firms UGGC & Associés and Fidal have become the first European outfits to announce 2010 financial results, with respective year-on-year turnover rises of 5 per cent and 2 per cent.
French infrastructure boutique launches to 'manage the earth'

8-Feb-2011

A French boutique firm devoted to public infrastructure work has launched with four partners.
Fresh faces at Freshfields

30-Sep-2010

In possibly the least angst-ridden law firm election of recent times, droll corporate star Will Lawes has been crowned the new senior partner of Freshfields (see story).
Freshfields adds Asia partners from Allens Arthur Robinson and Milbank

12-Apr-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has boosted its energy and infrastructure practices in Asia with partner hires from Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR) and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Freshfields adds to US litigation team with Kramer Levin hire

18-May-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has continued to expand its US litigation presence with the hire of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel partner Timothy Harkness.
Freshfields advises as Tesco fights OFT's £10m price-fixing fine

12-Aug-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been instructed to advise Tesco as the retailer fights a fine of £10m imposed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) over alleged price-fixing.
Freshfields advises BP on Gulf of Mexico oil spill

7-Jul-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has snared a leading role acting for BP in its defence of any potential takeovers in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
Freshfields advises Hays on appeal of £30m OFT fine

1-Oct-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer competition partners Jon Lawrence and Jenny Connolly are advising recruitment agency Hays on a possible appeal of a £30m fine imposed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
Freshfields' Akhtar named Mena head a year after defecting from A&O

5-Oct-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed Pervez Akhtar as regional managing partner for the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), less than a year after hiring him from Allen & Overy (A&O).
Freshfields and Blackstone fight Tesco's OFT price-fixing fine

1-May-2012

A Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) hearing is underway to decide whether Tesco must pay a £10m OFT fine for fixing the price of cheese.
Freshfields and Hammonds advise on Pearson's Melorio bid

25-May-2010

Hammonds has been instructed by vocational training provider Melorio to advise on its £99.3m takeover approach from Pearson.
Freshfields and Herbert Smith advise on £1bn Land Securities joint venture

15-Feb-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Herbert Smith have helped Land Securities and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) establish a joint venture for a £1bn property project in London Victoria.
Freshfields and Hogan lead on Ford's £1bn Volvo exit

29-Mar-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Hogan & Hartson have bagged lead roles in Ford’s sale of its Volvo business to China’s Zheijang Geely Holding Group for $1.8bn (£1.21bn).
Freshfields and Linklaters lead on Glencore's $82bn Xstrata merger

2-Feb-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have won lead roles on the potential $82bn (£51.8bn) merger of mining giants Glencore and Xstrata, a groundbreaking transaction in the resources industry.
Freshfields and Links win coveted places on BP's UK panel

26-May-2011

Magic circle rivals Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have maintained top spots on BP’s new UK legal panel, which was announced today after a six-month review.
Freshfields and Lovells lead on €1bn French PPP

4-Mar-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Paris office has advised project company Synérail on a €1bn (£910m) PPP contract with rail network Réseau Ferré de France (RFF).
Freshfields and Salans advise on Barclays' Russian sell-off

4-Nov-2011

An Anglo-Russian team from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Barclays on the disposal of its retail and commercial banking arms in Russia.
Freshfields and Simmons go head-to-head in Apple-Samsung dispute

16-Apr-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is preparing for battle with Simmons & Simmons in a showdown between its client Apple and Simmons’ client Samsung.
Freshfields and SJ Berwin lead on sale of Pantheon

19-Feb-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and SJ Berwin have taken key roles on the $775m (£489m) sale of private equity house Pantheon to Affiliated Managers Group (AMG).
Freshfields and Skadden lead on Rosneft-ExxonMobil Arctic deal

31-Aug-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken top roles advising on an Arctic exploration deal between Russian state oil company Rosneft and ExxonMobil.
Freshfields and Slaughters advise on $3.1bn China Pacific IPO

4-Jan-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have taken lead advisory roles on China Pacific Insurance’s $3.1bn (£1.9bn) IPO.
Freshfields and Slaughters advise on Henderson's Gartmore acquisition

12-Jan-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have landed the lead mandates advising on Henderson’s purchase of fellow fund manager Gartmore.
Freshfields and Slaughters set the Standard on Barclays deal

27-Oct-2009

Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have snared lead roles on Barclays’ £226m acquisition of Standard Life Bank.
Freshfields and Wachtell help Alibaba buy back shares from Yahoo!

21-May-2012

Six law firms have won roles as China’s largest e-commerce company Alibaba Group has reached agreement with Yahoo! on a $7.1bn (£4.5bn) deal that will see Alibaba buy back half of Yahoo!’s 40 per cent stake in the group.
Freshfields anoints Asia chief as Marchant returns to City

10-Jan-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named Robert Ashworth as the successor to Asia regional managing partner Simon Marchant, who is returning to the firm’s London office.
Freshfields appoints first-ever US COO

23-Jan-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed its first chief operating officer for its US practice, with the hire of Andrea Locklear.
Freshfields banking star set to join Sullivan & Cromwell

2-Feb-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost its second big-name finance partner in the last three months with Presley Warner defecting to US firm Sullivan & Cromwell.
Freshfields beats Shearman to advise Daimler on three-way car deal

7-Apr-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has landed a lead roll ahead of go-to adviser Shearman & Sterling on Daimler’s tie-up with Renault and Nissan.
Freshfields becomes first UK firm to lift associate salary freeze

25-Feb-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lifted its associate salary freeze for the next financial year, becoming the first UK firm to do so.
Freshfields beefs up US litigation team with triple partner hire

11-Mar-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has expanded its US litigation team with the capture of three new partners.
Freshfields boosts Paris office with Paul Hastings team

23-Mar-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has swooped on the Paris office of Paul Hastings to the hire a three-strong public law team headed by partner Pascal Cuche.
Freshfields bulks up on debt finance with raids on CC, Linklaters

13-Dec-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made a double swoop on its magic circle rivals to bolster its debt capital markets practice.
Freshfields caters to investors with bespoke group

23-Jan-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched a bespoke financial investors group comprised of around 100 partners and over 200 associates worldwide.
Freshfields consolidates CVC Capital relationship with F1 share sale

23-May-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised regular client CVC Capital Partners on the sale of $1.6bn (£1bn) in Formula One shares to three investors ahead of the company’s planned IPO.
Freshfields corporate partner lands at White & Case

16-Dec-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner David Crook has resurfaced at US firm White & Case following a year-long break from fee-earning.
Freshfields creates China chair role as City duo relocates to PRC

21-Apr-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has moved to strengthen its Chinese offering in the face of growing client demand, with two of the firm’s London partners moving to the jurisdiction.
Freshfields creates role of London M&A head

1-Mar-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has introduced the role of London M&A head, appointing former Asia managing partner Simon Marchant and TMT co-head Ben Spiers.
Freshfields cut 10 per cent of support staff during 2009-10, LLPs confirm

21-Jan-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer slashed its support staff headcount by more than 10 per cent across its global practice during the 2009-10 financial year.
Freshfields duo breaks away to form Munich start-up

30-Sep-2011

Two Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer lawyers have teamed up with a former colleague to launch a corporate M&A boutique in Munich.
Freshfields expands US litigation practice with BoA hire

13-Jul-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has strengthened its nascent US litigation and arbitration group with the hire of the former deputy general counsel and director of litigation at Bank of America, David Onorato.
Freshfields gets ready to fill in the blanks

16-Sep-2010

As Les Dawson graciously explained week in, week out on Blankety Blank, no one goes away empty handed.
Freshfields Grid-blocked

28-Jan-2011

In case you haven’t read the papers recently, these here are hard times we’re living in.
Freshfields halves City promotions in 20-strong global round

28-Mar-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has added 20 lawyers to its partnership, with the number of City associates promoted nearly halved since last year’s round.
Freshfields Hamburg lawyers set up real estate boutique

12-Aug-2010

A team of real estate lawyers from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Hamburg office is to spin off and launch a boutique.
Freshfields hire sees Dewey launch Frankfurt disputes group

17-Nov-2011

Dewey & LeBoeuf is to launch a dispute resolution practice in its Frankfurt office after hiring a counsel from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Freshfields hires A&O partner for finance practice

30-Apr-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed a senior energy partner from Allen & Overy into its finance practice.
Freshfields installs City partner as co-head of consumer and healthcare

27-Feb-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed London dispute resolution partner Jonathan Isted as joint head of its consumer and healthcare sector group.
Freshfields installs new US chief

30-Jul-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed New York-based corporate partner Julian Pritchard to the role of US regional managing partner.
Freshfields launches probe into business support team

12-Jul-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched an internal investigation into one of its business support functions.
Freshfields launches transatlantic fraud group

4-Feb-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched a global investigations practice in an effort to respond to the increasing risk to clients from cross-border regulatory investigations.
Freshfields leads as Cattles restructuring completes

4-Mar-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst, Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have all advised on sub-prime lender Cattles’ £2.3bn restructuring.
Freshfields leads magic circle promotions round with 18 getting the nod

29-Mar-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made up 18 new partners in this year’s promotions round, an increase of four on last year’s figures.
Freshfields leads promos with 14 new partners

23-Mar-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted a total of 14 to its partnership, a significant drop from the 25 who were made up in last year’s round.
Freshfields looks to Hamburg partner to maintain real estate 'leading edge'

5-Apr-2012

Magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced Johannes Conradi as its new global practice group leader for real estate.
Freshfields loses Frankfurt employment team to boutique start-up

3-Apr-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s entire Frankfurt employment team has exited to launch a boutique, with the magic circle firm sending in a two-lawyer team from Cologne to plug the gap.
Freshfields loses Hong Kong leader as Sullivan sets up shop

16-Jun-2011

Sullivan & Cromwell has raided Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to become the latest Wall St elite firm in recent months to launch a Hong Kong local law practice.
Freshfields makes finishing touches to associate pay deal

26-Sep-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has unveiled a new merit-based remuneration system for its associates after completing an overhaul of its pay structure for junior lawyers.
Freshfields mourns death of German co-founder Arved Deringer

26-Oct-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer German co-founder and name partner Arved Deringer has died, aged 98.
Freshfields named as victim of alleged fraud as IT dispute heads for court

2-Apr-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has become caught up in a High Court case between an IT provider and its former shareholders over claims that the magic circle firm was defrauded by the company.
Freshfields names Amsterdam partner as people head

14-Apr-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named Amsterdam corporate partner Richard Norbruis as its new global people partner, replacing Caroline Stroud who will return to fee-earning after a three-year stint in the role.
Freshfields names Asia finance head as partner trio heads to Hong Kong

16-Dec-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London banking head David Winfield will take on the new role of Asian head of finance in January as one of three new partners at the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Freshfields names City corporate chief as Rawlinson takes management role

18-Jul-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named corporate partner Julian Long as head of its London corporate practice, succeeding Mark Rawlinson, who was recently elected as the firm’s London managing partner.
Freshfields names co-heads of global competition practice

7-Sep-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has unveiled the new co-heads of its global antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice.
Freshfields names Kleiman as new Paris chief

18-Oct-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed a new Paris managing partner, replacing Antoine Colonna d’Istria who steps down after four years in the role.
Freshfields names London partner as global corporate chief

31-Jul-2009

London corporate partner Ed Braham has been appointed as global head of corporate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Freshfields names new global tax head

29-Nov-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named London-based partner Colin Hargreaves as head of its global tax group.
Freshfields names new Middle East corporate chief

16-Mar-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed a new Middle East and North Africa (MENA) corporate head, shortly after announcing its exclusive association with Saudi firm The Law Firm of Salah Al-Hejailan (LFSH).
Freshfields names replacement for Lawes as FIG co-head

5-Nov-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named disputes partner Andrew Hart as joint leader of its global financial institutions group (FIG), replacing senior partner-elect Will Lawes.
Freshfields names social mobility 'sponsor' as part of diversity push

5-Apr-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed real estate lawyer Annette Byron as its partner in charge of social mobility.
Freshfields of Dreams

2-Mar-2010

Freshfields corporate chief Mark Rawlinson and some of his Man Utd supporting chums obviously never listened to Gordon Gekko’s advice not to get emotional about business.
Freshfields of dreams

17-May-2010

The start of a new financial year is upon us.
Freshfields offers 10 free care sessions to London staff

1-Nov-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has introduced free care sessions for every London employee as part of a beefed-up benefits package.
Freshfields on top

2-Jul-2009

Oh dear. If you happen to be out in the City this evening look out for the odd Clifford Chance partner weeping into their McEwan’s Export.
Freshfields overtakes CC with turnover of £1.29bn

2-Jul-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has trumped Clifford Chance in turnover terms, posting revenue of £1.29bn for the 2008-09 financial year.
Freshfields' PPI judicial review rejected by court

20-Apr-2011

The High Court has dismissed a judicial review launched by the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) against the FSA and Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) over the handling of payment protection insurance (PPI) claims.
Freshfields promotes 20 to partnership, nine in City

4-Mar-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has kicked off this year’s partner promotions season with a bumper crop of 20 lawyers set to join the partnership.
Freshfields raids A&O for Middle East star

17-Dec-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has scooped Pervez Akhtar from magic circle rival Allen & Overy, making him its new Middle East corporate head .
Freshfields raises associate salaries and allows band progression

19-May-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced a marginal increase in its associate salaries, with pay rising between 2 and 3 per cent for lawyers in their first three years following qualification.
Freshfields' Rawlinson enters Man U fray with Red Knights

3-Mar-2010

Magic circle partner emerges as key player in anti-Glazer bid
Freshfields revamps Asia management team

9-Jun-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has shaken up its Asia management team as the firm’s former US managing partner relocates to Hong Kong to add firepower to the capital markets practice.
Freshfields revamps corporate management as Braham takes the reins

7-Oct-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has re-shuffled its corporate leadership following the appointment of Ed Braham as global head of corporate in July.
Freshfields revamps management of Paris finance team

3-Nov-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Dougall Molson has been appointed as the firm’s head of finance for Paris.
Freshfields rockets up the charts

4-Oct-2011

Baker & McKenzie’s reign as the most recognisable international law firm brand could soon be coming to an end.
Freshfields scores new client with £250m Gartmore IPO

24-Nov-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has bagged the key role acting for new client The Gartmore Group on its £250m IPO.
Freshfields secures Guardian gag for Barclays

18-Mar-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has secured a gagging order against The Guardian on behalf of Barclays Bank, forcing the newspaper to remove some of the bank’s internal documents from its website.
Freshfields sees turnover and profit fall in 2009-10

8-Jul-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has unveiled an 11 per cent drop in revenue for 2009-10, posting a global figure of £1.14bn.
Freshfields sends heavyweight litigators to Asia in practice push

21-Feb-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has moved to strengthen its Asian disputes practice by sending two of its most senior litigation and arbitration partners to Hong Kong.
Freshfields senior partner race begins as Morton and Mettenheimer step down

7-Apr-2010

Konstantin Mettenheimer and Guy Morton have decided not to seek third terms as joint senior partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, opening the way for an election campaign in the autumn.
Freshfields signs deal with Saudi sponsor's father

8-Mar-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has altered its Saudi Arabian sponsorship arrangement, swapping its associate lawyer for his father.
Freshfields steers Betfred to victory in battle for the Tote

3-Jun-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer client Betfred has won the bid to acquire the state-owned Horserace Totalisator Board (the Tote), after fighting off a rival tender from former Liverpool FC chairman Sir Martin Broughton.
Freshfields targets UK students for China traineeships

31-Oct-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is shaking up its China trainee solicitor recruitment campaign by targeting aspiring lawyers from UK universities.
Freshfields to give non-retained qualifiers a golden goodbye

22-May-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to give a goodwill cash payment to trainees who are not retained after qualifying in September.
Freshfields to go live with new associate pay model

12-Nov-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will implement its revamped associate career development model in London from spring 2010 with the system to be rolled out globally from 2011.
Freshfields to name sole senior partner when Mettenheimer and Morton stand down

23-Apr-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has opted to ditch the dual senior partner role with a single partner filling the position following an autumn election.
Freshfields trials flexi-working in corporate team

15-Jul-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has begun a pilot scheme to allow associates to take advantage of a suite of alternative working arrangements, including job-sharing, as part of its ongoing employee engagement programme.
Freshfields turn to Darrois Villey for new Paris corporate head

13-Dec-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made a rare hire from one of France’s top independent firms, taking corporate star Hervé Pisani from Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier.
Freshfields turns to A&O for first Islamic finance head

28-Oct-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired an Allen & Overy lawyer as its first-ever global head of Islamic finance.
Freshfields turns to former lawyers to fill fee-earning gaps

18-May-2012

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.
Freshfields unveils £10k bursaries for UCL law students

20-Feb-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has pledged to kick-start the careers of two aspiring lawyers each year by offering scholarships, work experience and guaranteed training contract interviews.
Freshfields unveils CEO candidates on eve of senior partner vote

15-Sep-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer chief executive Ted Burke will continue in his role if he loses the upcoming senior partner election to Will Lawes, The Lawyer can reveal.
Freshfields usurps Linklaters in FTSE100 client rankings

31-May-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has broken into the top two firms ranked by number of FTSE 100 clients, overtaking rival Linklaters.
Freshfields wins court victory for RBS against Liverpool FC's former owners

18-Feb-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has successfully defended RBS in its latest legal spat with the former owners of Liverpool Football Club, Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
Freshfields wins role on ongoing Liverpool FC saga

12-Oct-2010

The High Court battle between Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Liverpool Football Club’s US owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett got underway this morning with the aim of resolving a power struggle on the club’s board.
Freshfields, Hogan Lovells and SJ Berwin act on Westfield shopping mall deal

22-Feb-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and SJ Berwin won mandates on Westfield’s sale of its share of three non-core shopping centres to Hermes Real Estate, in which the property fund manager acquired Westfield’s half share in the £400m portfolio covering complexes in Belfast, Guildford and Tunbridge Wells.
Freshfields, Linklaters land top roles on BP-Rosneft deal

17-Jan-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have been handed the prize mandates on BP’s £10bn share swap with Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft.
Freshfields, Linklaters, A&O land Lloyds' record-breaking rights issue

24-Nov-2009

Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters and Slaughter and May have secured lead roles on Lloyds Banking Group’s mammoth £22.5bn capital raising.
Freshfields, Norton Rose join host of firms in Misys battle

6-Mar-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Norton Rose have become the latest firms to win roles on a potential deal with banking software company Misys, joining Allen & Overy (A&O), Herbert Smith, Kirkland & Ellis and Swiss firm Homburger in the bidding war.
Freshfields, Travers Smith bag mandates on historic LSE acquisition

21-Dec-2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Travers Smith have netted key roles on a groundbreaking deal that will see the London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) purchase online trading platform Turquoise.
Fried Frank and Simpson Thacher advise on Virgin Media's £1.5b bond

14-Jan-2010

US duo Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have bagged leading roles on Virgin Media’s £1.5bn bond issue.
Fried Frank beefs up London partnership with Olswang hire

30-Apr-2010

Fried Frank has boosted its antitrust practice with the arrival of a new partner from Olswang.
Fried Frank bolsters City finance practice with A&O hire

11-Nov-2009

Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has hired former Allen & Overy leveraged finance partner Mark Wesseldine to bulk up its practice in the City.
Fried Frank makes 99 redundant

30-Mar-2009

Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has confirmed it is laying off lawyers and staff as a result of the economic downturn.
Fried Frank profits plummet at end of rocky year

18-Mar-2009

Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has posted year-end results that reveal one of the largest drops in average profits of any US firm.
Friends reunited

11-Aug-2009

Resolution’s deal to take over Friends Provident is a whopper. Resolution has offered nearly £2bn in cash and shares for the insurer, leading to a bumper payday for legal advisers Linklaters and Slaughter and May (see | story).
From Addleshaws to the members' bar

11-May-2010

In case you haven’t heard, the UK doesn’t have a leader at the moment.
From deep negotiations to Deep Purple

10-Jun-2011

Everyone loves a good spat, and there’s a major one brewing across the Irish Sea.
From fair to honest

1-Dec-2010

The country’s most senior judiciary today took a step towards modernising media law for the internet age with the Supreme Court redefining ’fair comment’ as ’honest comment’.
FSA conduct chief to leave regulator ahead of break-up

15-Feb-2012

The FSA has announced that managing director and board member Margaret Cole will leave the organisation later this year.
FSA drops charges against Kirkland client Semperian

19-Feb-2010

The FSA has withdrawn charges against PPP investor Semperian, which was advised by Kirkland & Ellis, as well as the company’s former chief executive.
FSA hits two US firm partners with insider dealing charges

20-May-2009

A partner at the London office of Dorsey & Whitney and a former partner of McDermott Will & Emery have been charged with insider trading by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), it emerged today.
Full extent of Rangers FC claims against Collyer Bristow laid bare

24-Apr-2012

The full allegations against Collyer Bristow and former partner Gary Withey relating to the firm’s advice on the takeover of Rangers FC were revealed at the High Court today (24 April).
Fund manager Martin Currie installs first-ever GC

11-Oct-2011

Edinburgh-headquartered asset manager Martin Currie has appointed Jeremy Hill to the newly created role of general counsel.
Funds lawyers brace themselves for shake-up of investment industry

25-Nov-2010

Fund lawyers from the in-house and private practice spheres are turning their attention to regulation as the investment industry undergoes a shift in focus.
Future of Dewey's London trainees depends on outcome of bank loan talks

25-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s trainee solicitors are facing an uncertain future pending the conclusion of the firm’s latest renegotiation of bank loans, with an outcome due at the end of this month (30 April).
Fuzi logic

16-Apr-2010

So it seems that the good folk down under at Clayton Utz are not taking the defection of some of their top lawyers lying down.
Gagging order

13-Apr-2010

Have you heard the one about the lawyer who was also a comedian?
Galliford Try unveils five-firm legal panel

16-Dec-2010

Leading construction group Galliford Try has appointed five UK firms to a new legal panel set up to advise on its homebuilding operations.
Game on for Kirkland

10-Aug-2011

The news that Ashley Young has moved again confused the hell out of some of us at The Lawyer, until it was gently pointed out that this was not Manchester United’s new Aston Villa recruit but a Hong Kong-based corporate partner at Allen & Overy.
Garrigues Barcelona partner takes reins of City office

17-Feb-2011

Spanish firm Garrigues has appointed a new London head as incumbent Guillermo Muñoz-Alonso returns to Madrid.
Garrigues gains replacement Brazilian member for Affinitas Alliance

9-Jun-2010

Spanish firm Garrigues has sealed an association with a local firm in Brazil, plugging the gap in its South American alliance left by the departure of Barbosa Muessnich & Arago last year.
Garrigues moves towards all-equity structure after posting marginal revenue rise

31-Oct-2011

Spanish firm Garrigues has revamped its management and partnership structure at the same time as announcing a slight increase in revenue figures for financial year 2010-11.
Garrigues partner appointed as Portuguese tax minister

4-Jul-2011

A tax partner from Spanish giant Garrigues has been appointed as a minister within the new Portuguese coalition government.
Garrigues posts 13 per cent revenue hike

29-Oct-2009

Spain’s largest law firm Garrigues has seen revenues rise 12.6 per cent over the past financial year to hit €334.3m (£303.8m).
Garrigues promotes 19 as turnover rises to €352.8m

26-Oct-2010

Spanish firm Garrigues has reported turnover of €352.8m (£314.27m), a 5.5 per cent increase on 2009.
Garrigues revamps New York management team

23-Dec-2010

Garrigues has appointed corporate partner Ferran Escayola to head its New York office.
Garrigues tops Spanish revenue league

8-Jul-2009

Garrigues continues to be the largest Spanish law firm both in terms of income and total number of lawyers, but revenue per lawyer (RPL) is still substantially lower than at its major competitors.
Garrigues triumphs at The Lawyer European Awards

5-Nov-2009

Iberian firm Garrigues was named European Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer’s inaugural European awards, held last night in Barcelona.
Garrigues ups focus on Poland after shutting Romania office

29-Nov-2010

Spanish firm Garrigues is pulling out of Romania and will make Poland the centre of its Central and Eastern European practice.
Gateley expands London team with banking and media hires

10-Aug-2011

National firm Gateley has boosted its banking and media teams with hires from Shoosmiths and Lincoln’s Inn firm Candey.
Gateley raids Cobbetts for Leeds launch

9-Jan-2012

Regional firm Gateley has raided the Leeds office of Cobbetts to launch in the Yorkshire city, hiring two partners, one in restructuring and one in disputes.
Gates and Partners launches in Dubai with Clydes hires

7-Apr-2011

Aviation and commercial law firm Gates and Partners is set to launch in Dubai after hiring two lawyers from Clyde & Co.
GCHQ legal chief leaves for partnership at BCL Burton Copeland

8-Oct-2010

Lincoln’s Inn firm BCL Burton Copeland has hired GCHQ’s director of legal affairs Michael Drury.
GDF Suez delays launch of inaugural legal roster

5-Mar-2012

GDF Suez has delayed finalising its first-ever external legal panel, with the energy company still working on agreements with potential panel firms.
GE Capital hires Links partner for new GC role

10-Aug-2009

GE Capital, the finance arm of General Electric, has hired former Linklaters banking partner Neil Harnby for the newly created role of general counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
GE fills European GC role with internal promotion

13-Oct-2011

Infrastructure and finance company GE has promoted Marianna Nitsch to the role of European general counsel for its Global Growth & Operations (GG&O) division.
General counsel salaries continue to lag inflation

16-Jan-2012

In-house heads of legal are facing real-terms pay cuts for the second year running as salary increases lag behind inflation.
Generation lex

25-Oct-2011

A 5.2 per cent drop in the number of students applying to read law at university might usually point to a modest snub of the profession by the next generation’s potential City big-hitters (see story).
German corporate partner to stand for CC senior partner job

3-Sep-2010

The race to replace Stuart Popham as senior partner at Clifford Chance has stepped up a notch with German corporate partner Daniela Weber-Rey telling partners she is planning to stand.
German lawyers urged to claim for 'overtime'

1-Jul-2011

Associates across Germany have been sent a letter from a niche employment firm urging them to claim hundreds of thousands of euros from their employers for overworking them.
German leader Hengeler Mueller embraces flexi-working for all partners

24-Nov-2011

Slaughter and May’s German best friend Hengeler Mueller is set to roll out a more flexible part-time working scheme that will allow both male and female equity partners to reduce their working hours.
German shipping boutique hires Watson Farley partner for City launch

10-Nov-2011

German shipping boutique Ehlermann Rindfleisch Gadow (ERG) has launched in London with the hire of a partner from Watson Farley & Williams.
Germany's CMS Hasche Sigle promotes 11 to partnership

6-Jan-2011

CMS Hasche Sigle has appointed 11 new partners in a bumper promotions round for the German firm.
Germany's CMS Hasche Sigle revamps management team

16-Nov-2010

German firm CMS Hasche Sigle has elected a new managing partner to replace Cornelius Brandi, who will step down to become senior partner next year.
Germany's Graf appoints new management team

12-Nov-2009

German firm Graf von Westphalen has appointed a new dual management team to succeed Freiburg partner Barbara Mayer and Hamburg partner Carsten Bittner.
Germany's Graf opens Istanbul office

23-Aug-2011

German firm Graf von Westphalen is to open an Istanbul office in cooperation with local Turkish outfit GSI Meridian.
Germany's Heuking posts 10 per cent turnover rise

15-Feb-2011

German independent Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has announced the strongest 2010 revenue rise of any European firm to date, posting an increase of 10 per cent.
Germany's Heuking seals alliance with Brazilian firm

11-Feb-2011

German firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has formed an alliance with Brazilian firm Veirano Advogados.
Germany's Heuking turns to Beiten Burkhardt for partner hire

19-Jul-2011

German firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has appointed a Beiten Burkhardt partner of 12 years to its Frankfurt office.
Germany's Heussen takes over Stuttgart firm Wahlert

1-Feb-2012

German firm Heussen is strengthening its Stuttgart office with the addition of local firm Wahlert.
Germany's Luther launches City office

17-Jan-2012

German independent Luther is launching a representative office in London, joining a number of other German firms present in the UK
Germany's Luther names managing partner duo

21-May-2010

German firm Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft has elected two managing partners to lead the firm from July.
Germany's Luther posts modest turnover rise for 2010-11

30-Aug-2011

German firm Luther has announced an annual revenue of €88m for its 12 local and 6 international offices, an increase of 3.3 per cent on 2009-10.
Germany's Noerr to open London base after converting to English LLP

11-Mar-2010

German firm Noerr is to open an office in London months after registering as an English LLP.
Germany's Schultze launches Hamburg restructuring office

13-Jan-2011

German firm Schultze & Braun has expanded its footprint in its home country with the launch of a Hamburg office that will deal with restructuring and turnaround work.
Get Real Estate

3-Feb-2010

It’s like the last two years never happened.
Get used to it

23-Nov-2011

There has been much grumbling since the Ministry of Justice unveiled plans to reform the civil litigation funding regime, but that has not stopped progress being made towards their implementation.
Get your Law Rocks off

30-Apr-2010

Last night at London’s iconic 100 Club, six bands from six UK law firms battled it out for the right to be crowned Law Rocks 2010 champion (see story).
Getting around

2-Sep-2009

Time was when civil liberties sets would hunker down in London with little more than principles and joss sticks for warmth.
Getting the ball rolling

20-Aug-2009

The August lull is grinding on and, while the hallowed halls of the UK’s leading law firms are all but deserted, not everyone has taken a holiday.
Gianni appoints five new partners

20-Apr-2010

Italian firm Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners has announced the appointment of five new partners.
Gianni turns to Camerons to defend Linklaters claim

6-May-2011

Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners has instructed CMS Cameron McKenna as it battles a professional negligence claim brought against it by former alliance partner Linklaters.
Gibraltar firms face tougher action in aftermath of Marrache investigation

18-Mar-2010

Law firms in Gibraltar could face draconian action if they are suspected of acting improperly, as the jurisdiction’s government plans to fill gaps revealed by the fraud investigation at Marrache & Co.
Gibraltar's chief justice should go after "disreputable" behaviour

17-Nov-2009

The behaviour of Gibraltar’s top legal chief has brought his office into disrepute and he should be removed from the post, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has ruled.
Gibson Dunn launches Hong Kong office with GE hire

2-Aug-2010

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has launched an office in Hong Kong after hiring a lawyer from General Electric International.
Gibson Dunn posts impressive 2011 financial results

20-Feb-2012

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has posted record financial results for the 2011 year, with revenue up 9.7 per cent to $1.17bn (£738m), average profit per equity partner (PEP) up 7.2 per cent to $2.47m (£1.56m) and revenue per lawyer (RPL) up 8.2 per cent to $1.2m (£706,000).
Gibson Dunn prepares ground for Sao Paulo launch

16-Jun-2009

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is gearing up to launch an office in Sao Paulo and will relocate one New York partner to Brazil.
Gibson Dunn to launch HK law practice with Reed Smith hire

3-Nov-2011

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has poached two high-profile Hong Kong partners as part of a plan to localise in Hong Kong.
Gibson Dunn turns to Mayer Brown for Brussels hire

12-Mar-2010

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s Brussels office has beefed up its antitrust practice with the hire of a Mayer Brown partner.
Gide and Cleary act as Google faces court challenge from Twenga

26-Jan-2012

Gide Loyrette Nouel has been instructed by French shopping search engine Twenga on an abuse of dominant position case against internet giant Google.
Gide launches London funds group with UBS hire

18-Nov-2010

Gide Loyrette Nouel has launched an investment funds practice in its London office with the hire of UBS in-house counsel Lucy Frew.
Gide loses partner to Winston & Strawn

7-Sep-2011

French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has lost its second partner in a week as employment specialist Philippe Desprès moves to Winston & Strawn.
Gide makes up six to partnership across international network

4-May-2011

Gide Loyrette Nouel has announced six promotions to the role of local partner, a position equivalent to salaried partner, across four of its international offices.
Gide makes up two in depleted promotions round

5-Jan-2011

French giant Gide Loyrette Nouel has made up two associates to partner in this year’s promotion round.
Gide names new managing and senior partners as part of top-level revamp

6-Dec-2011

Gide Loyrette Nouel has stuck to its roots in electing a new executive committee consisting of five French partners.
Gide posts 5 per cent turnover drop for 2010

1-Jul-2011

Gide Loyrette Nouel has confirmed a revenue drop of 5 per cent for the 2010 financial year, from €220m in 2009 to €210m (£190m).
Gide replenishes employment team with Jones Day hire

2-Feb-2012

Gide Loyrette Nouel has made its first lateral partner hire in over a year, appointing Jones Day employment specialist Anne Boileau.
Gide review closes five Gulf and European offices

27-Oct-2010

Gide Loyrette Nouel has announced that it will shut five offices across Eastern Europe and the Gulf as part of its global strategic review.
Gilbert & Tobin helps Google beat 'misleading ads' claims

22-Sep-2011

Sydney-based Gilbert & Tobin has successfully defended Google against claims brought by Australia’s competition and consumer regulator the ACCC alleging that it ran misleading advertisements .
Gleiss Lutz adds three partners to equity

23-Dec-2010

Herbert Smith alliance firm Gleiss Lutz has promoted three associated partners in Germany into the equity.
Globetrotting

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There’s been a particularly international flavour to the news this week.
Globetrotting

18-Feb-2011

There’s been a particularly international flavour to the news this week.
Go east, Herbies

24-Nov-2011

As all students of Asian philosophy know, every yin must have its yang.
Go Gowlings

10-Nov-2010

Three partner hires in a month is a lot of activity for a six-lawyer office.
Going Underground

25-Jul-2011

There are plenty of reasons not to love the London Underground: it’s hot, cramped, you rarely get a seat, and sometimes it sues you for over £140m. Oh, that last one only applies to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Goldman instructs Steptoe in relation to sub-prime woes

23-Aug-2011

Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein has instructed Steptoe & Johnson’s white-collar defence team as pressure mounts over allegations that the bank misled clients before the financial crisis hit.
Goldsmith in the spotlight

27-Jan-2010

Debevoise & Plimpton will be short of a European head of litigation today.
Goltsblat BLP taps Salans to fill Russian tax head role

27-Jul-2011

Goltsblat BLP has hired a Salans partner to lead its Russian tax practice.
Gómez boosts partnership with nine promos as 2010 turnover nudges up

2-Feb-2011

Spanish firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has posted a two per cent rise in turnover at the same time as promoting nine to its partnership and completing the transition from pure to managed lockstep.
Gómez promos bring partner headcount to 65

29-Dec-2010

Spanish firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has appointed nine new partners, increasing the total number at the firm to 65.
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo founder Fernando Pombo dies

4-Nov-2011

Spanish firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has announced the death of co-founder Fernando Pombo.
Gomez-Acebo adds to Lisbon with Abreu hire

9-Sep-2011

Spanish firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has appointed a new partner to its Portuguese arm.
Gómez-Acebo launches Lisbon office

18-Nov-2009

Gómez-Acebo & Pombo is to open an office in Lisbon, following approval from its partnership today.
Good Kop, bad Kop

12-Oct-2010

Soon there will be no lawyers left in the City who are not embroiled in the interminable struggle for control of a once-successful football team.
'Good outcome' for Burges Salmon in Sellafield body parts inquiry

19-Nov-2010

Burges Salmon has acted for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) on the long-running Redfern Inquiry into human tissue analysis in the UK’s nuclear facilities.
Goodbye House of Lords

30-Jul-2009

Today, for the very last time, the law lords are sitting to hear appeals and give final judgments.
Goodwin hires Ashurst partner duo for City push

11-Oct-2011

Goodwin Procter has hired two partners from Ashurst in London, one of whom will join the US firm as London office chair.
Goodwin Procter snares Linklaters partner in property push

14-May-2012

Linklaters real estate partner Joe Conder is leaving the firm to join Goodwin Procter’s London office.
Google's deputy GC takes private practice role at Perkins Coie

27-Jul-2011

Google’s deputy general counsel and head of litigation Timothy Alger has joined US firm Perkins Coie as a litigation partner in its Palo Alto office.
Gordons launches legal apprenticeship for school leavers

20-Jun-2011

Leeds firm Gordons has launched an apprenticeship scheme for school leavers that will enable them to become legal practitioners without going to university.
'Go-to' technology partner defects from Herbert Smith to Taylor Wessing

3-May-2012

Taylor Wessing has hired Herbert Smith technology partner Christopher Rees.
Government efficiency group appoints ex-Slaughters partner as GC

6-Feb-2012

Lucy Wylde, the current general counsel at the HM Treasury’s Asset Protection Agency (APA) has been appointed as general counsel for commercial law of the Government’s Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG) – a cross-government role based in the Cabinet Office.
Government infrastructure plan could provide boost for regional firms

30-Nov-2011

The Government’s National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) could be a boon for smaller regional firms, though concerns remain among lawyers whether the plan will follow reality.
Government loses appeal over cuts to solar subsidies

25-Jan-2012

The Government has lost an appeal against a High Court ruling that found that its plans to cut solar subsidy payments were unlawful.
Government moots US-style opt-out system for collective claims

24-Apr-2012

The Government has launched a consultation on collective redress in competition cases, giving businesses three months to react to proposals that could introduce the UK’s first opt-out system.
Government to pay pensions to 8,000 part-time judges

2-Mar-2012

The UK Government will be liable for the pensions of 8,000 part-time judges following a ruling in the Court of Justice in Luxembourg (CJEU) yesterday (1 March).
Government wasting its time on discrimination changes

23-May-2012

The current assault on long-established discrimination laws isn’t good for business and is probably unlawful.
Government's court interpreting agency hit with wasted costs orders

9-Mar-2012

The agency appointed by the Government as the sole provider of court interpreters has been issued with a number of wasted costs orders after issues with its service led to some cases being adjourned.
Gowlings adds Unilever IP lawyer to London team

8-Apr-2011

Canadian firm Gowlings has hired Unilever’s former vice-president legal and global anti-counterfeiting counsel for its London office.
Gowlings becomes third Canadian firm to launch in China

30-Sep-2011

Canada’s Gowlings has opened a representative office in Beijing, becoming the third Canadian firm to land in China.
Gowlings continues City push with hire of Pinsents' project finance head

5-Jan-2011

Gowlings has given its London energy, infrastructure and mining group a boost by hiring Pinsent Masons’ UK head of project finance.
Gowlings continues to grow London with hire from Norton Rose

6-Oct-2010

Canadian firm Gowlings has continued its energy-focused hiring spree in London with the addition of a former Norton Rose partner.
Grabiner's £3k-an-hour fee adds to £53m News Corp bill

16-May-2012

One Essex Court silk Tony Grabiner QC’s £3,000 hourly rate has helped push the cost of the phone-hacking investigation by News Corporation’s Management and Standards Committee (MSC) to £53m.
Graf boosts Munich presence with Nachmann merger

25-Nov-2011

German firm Graf von Westphalen is merging its Munich office with that of fellow local firm Nachmann.
Graf von Westphalen hires Cleary lawyer for Düsseldorf launch

26-Jan-2012

German independent Graf von Westphalen has finally secured an office in Düsseldorf, over a year after it first announced plans for the opening.
Grainger turns to Cushman & Wakefield for in-house counsel

3-Nov-2010

UK residential landlord Grainger has appointed Adam McGhin as its first-ever group legal counsel.
Grand designs

16-Sep-2009

This week, we’ve had a sneak peek at the Supreme Court. Middlesex Chambers in Parliament Square is building up a profile of its own before the court has even opened for business.
Great Scott?

18-Dec-2009

The speculation at Herbert Smith is over. Jonathan Scott has been elected as the firm’s new senior partner (see story).
Greed is good?

12-Jul-2010

The news reported exclusively today by The Lawyer that the top 30 largest UK law firms saw their total revenue fall by half a billion pounds last year has unleashed a storm of protest on our website.
Green machines

1-Apr-2010

Many law firms pay lip service to their green agenda but few actually put their money where their mouths are.
Greenberg adds to hiring spree with W&C partners

17-Aug-2009

Rapidly growing Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has snared a brace of capital markets partners from White & Case.
Greenberg bulks up London office with lateral hire

6-Aug-2009

Greenberg Traurig Maher has hired former White & Case capital markets partner Tim Jeveons as it begins to build its nascent London office.
Greenberg continues to add to London with double partner hire

10-Sep-2009

Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has continued its hiring drive after adding one partner apiece from Mayer Brown and Watson Farley & Williams.
Greenberg takes Dewey Poland team as Italy spins off with Grimaldi

15-May-2012

Greenberg Traurig has taken a team of more than 50 lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf to launch in Poland including key partners Jaroslaw Grzesiak and Lejb Fogelman as well as London partner duo Frank Adams and Federico Salinas.
Greenberg Traurig lawyer takes in-house role at Anesco

30-Apr-2012

Energy outfit Anesco has announced the hire of former Greenberg Traurig Maher solicitor Jeremy Cross as its new legal chief.
Greenberg Traurig Maher employment dispute with former partner settles

8-Sep-2011

The dispute between Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) and former equity capital markets partner Andrew Croxford has settled just two weeks before it was due to be heard at the London Central Employment Tribunal.
Greenberg Traurig Maher makes loss in first full year in City

9-Jan-2012

Greenberg Traurig’s London office, Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM), raked in £8.7m in its first full financial year, according to the firm’s LLP accounts.
Greenberg Traurig Maher raids Kirkland for two more restructuring partners

25-Mar-2010

Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has continued its hiring spree with the capture of two more restructuring partners from the London office of Kirkland & Ellis.
Greenberg Traurig to target Israeli clients with launch of Tel Aviv base

6-Dec-2011

US firm Greenberg Traurig is set to become the first foreign law firm to open an office in Israel staffed by full-time lawyers after announcing a launch in Tel Aviv.
Greenberg turns to Dundas for latest London hire

13-Oct-2009

Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has hired Dundas & Wilson partner Ewan Robertson to bulk up its corporate capabilities.
Grey areas remain after revision of Bribery Act guidance

30-Mar-2011

Revised guidance on the Bribery Act, which will come into force on 1 July after being delayed due to widespread business concerns, has met with a mixed response from the legal sector.
Grieve brings grief to the tweeters

7-Jun-2011

Attempts by the Attorney General Dominic Grieve to get a grip of the great Twitter debate have so far been largely ignored by the Twitterati.
Grim up North?

12-Jan-2012

More shenanigans in the regions: it’s emerged that Pannone is closing two Cheshire offices and making 12 fee-earners redundant in Manchester.
Grimaldi co-founder defects to Italian rival Gianni

8-Nov-2011

Grimaldi e Associati co-founder Roberto Cappelli has quit the firm to join Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners with a team of 10 associates.
Group of breakaway Hengeler lawyers launch corporate boutique

14-Feb-2011

A group of senior associates from Slaughter and May’s German best friend Hengeler Mueller have left the firm to launch their own corporate boutique.
Group of chambers convince law lords that control orders breach human rights

10-Jun-2009

A group of bar heavyweights have won a major victory in the House of Lords, which today unanimously ruled that the use of control orders breaches the fundamental right to a fair hearing.
Growing up fast

22-Sep-2011

News that Ashurst has appointed Alistair Holland as Abu Dhabi managing partner might have been only a small eye-turner were it not that the corporate partner was just a mere senior associate less than five months ago.
GTM advises Bristol Water on Ofwat pricing battle

29-Jan-2010

Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has been instructed by Bristol Water on its pricing battle with water regulator Ofwat.
GTM hires White & Case counsel as partner

26-May-2010

Greenberg Traurig Maher’s (GTM) recruitment drive has continued with the hire of finance specialist Emma Menzies from White & Case.
GTM to provide all Colt's employment advice after BLP deal falters

21-Oct-2011

Colt Technology Services has signed up Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) as its sole employment-law advisor a year after a similar deal with Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) Managed Legal Service arm collapsed.
GTM turns to DLA Piper for City energy hire

2-Feb-2010

Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has hired DLA Piper partner Neil Upton to run its UK energy practice.
GTM turns to SJ Berwin for latest hire

10-Dec-2009

Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has bulked up its corporate and securities capabilities with the hire of SJ Berwin corporate partner Laura O’Neill.
Guildhall Chambers silk tackles Lions legal role

2-Jul-2009

The lawyer for the British & Irish Lions rugby team is looking forward to Saturday’s final test with cautious optimism, pointing out that the fact the team has been hampered by injuries makes the result difficult to call.
Gunning for Svenja

21-Aug-2009

Arsenal FC’s manager Arsene Wenger may have disappointed the club’s fans by barely signing any new talent this season, but the Gunners’ management has brought in a new starlet hoping to score points off the pitch.
Hack attack

1-Sep-2011

Phone hacking of Bulger killer raises further questions about the police and the News of the World
Hadef boosts Dubai partnership with four internal promotions

30-Dec-2010

UAE law firm Hadef & Partners has promoted four lawyers to its partnership, all in its Dubai office.
Half of FTSE100 High Court action involves leading banks

9-Nov-2011

The UK’s top four banks accounted for almost half of all litigation against FTSE100 companies in the High Court over the past year.
Half-way to paradise

11-Nov-2010

The word ’recovery’ can mean many things.
Half-year revenues up 12 per cent at Ashurst

10-Nov-2011

Ashurst’s half-year financial results have shown a 12 per cent firmwide increase in turnover on the same period last year and a 2 per cent increase in average partner count.
Half-year revenues up 4 per cent at Stephenson Harwood

24-Nov-2011

Stephenson Harwood has posted a turnover rise of 3.6 per cent to £51.4m for the first half of 2011-12.
Half-year turnover and profit up at Manchester firm JMW

22-Nov-2011

Manchester firm JMW has seen revenue rise 16 per cent and profit increase by 23 per cent during the first half of 2011-12.
Half-year turnover up 11 per cent at Watson Farley

15-Nov-2010

Watson Farley & Williams has posted double-digit revenue growth for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year.
Half-year turnover up 12 per cent at DWF

10-Nov-2010

DWF has recorded a 12 per cent increase in fee income for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year.
Half-year turnover up 5 per cent at Wragges

21-Nov-2011

Wragge & Co has posted a 5 per cent rise in turnover for the first half of the 2011-12 financial year.
Hallett LJ to chair Judicial Studies Board

9-Jun-2010

Lady Justice Hallett has been appointed as chair of the Judicial Studies Board (JSB) for a three-year term.
Halliwells acquisition boosts Hill Dicks' first-half turnover by 10 per cent

18-Nov-2010

Hill Dickinson has posted a 10 per cent increase in turnover for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year on the back of its acquisition of a team from Halliwells.
Halliwells' administrators seek funds to cover £200m of debts

15-Feb-2011

Failed firm Halliwells owes creditors a total of around £200m, a letter from its joint administrators has revealed.
Halliwells buyout helps Gateley post 19 per cent turnover rise

25-May-2011

Gateley has posted an 18.7 per cent increase in turnover for the 2010-11 financial year and made up two new partners in its annual round of promotions.
Halliwells first to reveal 09 financials as revenues dip

6-May-2009

Halliwells has revealed revenues of £83m in turnover for the 2008-09 financial year, a drop of 4.6 per cent on last year’s total of £87m.
Halliwells former managing partner Austin snares new job

12-Jul-2010

Halliwells executive chairman Ian Austin is to leave the troubled firm to run the commercial litigation department at Manchester firm Heatons.
Halliwells knocked back by Manches

17-Sep-2009

The pursuit of a merger partner is fraught with difficulties - even if you’re a serial acquirer of law firms.
Halliwells left with one healthcare partner after Beachcroft raid

10-Feb-2010

Beachcroft is hiring a 10-strong team of lawyers from Halliwells’ healthcare practice, leaving the latter with just one partner in that group.
Halliwells managing partner steps into exec chairman role

18-Sep-2009

Halliwells managing partner Ian Austin has stepped down from the role as part of a management rejig that sees him take up the newly-created position of executive chairman.
Halliwells' suspicious minds

1-May-2012

Former Halliwells equity partners sat down with the failed firm’s liquidators last week to mediate, hoping to resolve their differences in a friendly manner.
Halliwells to appoint administrator; BLG and Hill Dicks vie for assets

25-Jun-2010

Halliwells has filed a notice of its intention to appoint an administrator, with Hill Dickinson and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) understood to be circling to take the firm’s assets.
Halliwells trainees face uncertain future as firm files to go into administration

25-Jun-2010

The future of dozens of Halliwells’ trainees is hanging in the balance after the Manchester-based firm files its intention to appoint an administrator.
Halliwells: future Manchester and London trainees left jobless

22-Jul-2010

No room for future trainees at HBJ Gateley Wareing or BLG; Hill Dickinson offers lifeline
Halliwells: Litigation looms as former partners prepare for action

1-Oct-2010

Former Halliwells fixed share partners are seeking legal advice with a view to suing the firm’s ex-equity partners.
Halliwells: The end

26-Jul-2010

The Halliwells employees who made it out of the firm’s final weeks with a job must be pleased that it’s all over.
Hammonds advises on Leicester City FC sell-off

13-Aug-2010

Hammonds has advised Leicester City FC on its acquisition by consortium Asia Football Investments.
Hammonds and Eversheds spin-outs merge to create £15m firm

17-Feb-2012

Two debt recovery boutiques that spun out from legacy Hammonds and Eversheds, respectively, are to merge to create a £15m practice.
Hammonds brand to be dropped in US and Eastern Europe as part of Squire Sanders merger

4-Nov-2010

Hammonds has confirmed its name will not feature in the US and Eastern Europe if its merger with US firm Squire Sanders & Dempsey goes ahead.
Hammonds debt collection spin-off Drydens bought by ex-DLA partner

15-Jun-2009

The partners of Hammonds’ debt collection spin-off Drydens have sold the business months after another Hammonds spin-off, Hammonds Direct, went into administration.
Hammonds' Europe profit halved in 2009-10, LLP results reveal

2-Dec-2010

The profit generated by Hammonds’ mainland Europe offices almost halved in the 2009-10 financial year, the firm’s last set of LLP accounts as an unmerged entity have revealed.
Hammonds' former London chief joins Howard Kennedy

29-Jul-2010

West End firm Howard Kennedy has hired the former head of Hammonds’ London office Paul Groobey.
Hammonds hires former Halliwells partner for hotels practice launch

20-Sep-2010

Hammonds has launched a hotels and leisure practice with the arrival of former Halliwells partner Chris Eddlestone.
Hammonds Hong Kong to break away ahead of Squire Sanders merger

29-Nov-2010

Hammonds’ Hong Kong office will split from the firm ahead of its merger with Squire Sanders & Dempsey.
Hammonds names new Manchester chief

14-Apr-2010

Hammonds has elected a new head for its Manchester office, with Jane Haxby taking over from Jonathan Edwards.
Hammonds offers secondments to deferring trainees

20-Mar-2009

Hammonds has become the latest major law firm to offer its trainee solicitors a cash incentive to push back their start dates, topping that of the prevailing market average.
Hammonds PEP falls by 25 per cent

9-Jul-2009

Hammonds has reported a 25 per cent drop in profits for the last financial year, from £367,000 to £276,000.
Hammonds posts turnover dip at 2009-10 year-end

6-Jul-2010

Turnover at Hammonds continued to decline in the 2009-10 financial year, falling by 6 per cent to £117.8m.
Hammonds promotes eight new partners

21-Apr-2010

Hammonds has made up eight new partners in its latest round of promotions, five of whom are based in the UK.
Hammonds says goodbye to two partners at the end of six-month lock in

2-Oct-2009

Two partners have resigned from Hammonds at the end of the firm’s latest six month lock-in period.
Hammonds scores another West Ham FC deal

20-Aug-2010

Hammonds corporate partner David Hull has acted on a second major football deal in a week after advising on a £4m investment in West Ham United.
Hammonds seeks German patents tie-up following double defection in Munich

20-Oct-2009

Hammonds is in talks with German firm Gulde Hengelhaupt Ziebig & Schneider about setting up a patent prosecution referral relationship following the departure of two partners from the UK firm’s Munich office.
Hammonds sees four defections at end of lock in

1-Apr-2009

Four partners resigned from Hammonds yesterday after the firm’s lock-in period for the last six months came to an end.
Hammonds shelves Munich base following Eversheds raid

23-Feb-2010

Hammonds is to shut its Munich office months after losing five lawyers to Eversheds.
Hammonds to seal transatlantic merger with Squire Sanders

25-Aug-2010

Hammonds is the latest UK firm to eye a US merger, after announcing it is in talks over a potential tie-up with Cleveland-headquartered Squire Sanders & Dempsey.
Hammonds, Squire Sanders win 90 per cent backing for merger

8-Nov-2010

The partnerships of Hammonds and Squire Sanders & Dempsey have voted overwhelmingly in favour of its proposed merger, which will go live on 1 January 2011.
Hand it over

1-Apr-2009

Star family barrister Nicholas Mostyn QC was at the Court of Appeal this morning trying to prevent a precedent setting case, which would give hard-done-by spouses the opportunity to renegotiate divorce settlements.
Hannes Snellman raids Cederquist for real estate team

7-Sep-2011

Nordic firm Hannes Snellman has recruited a former Cederquist real estate transactions team for its Stockholm office.
Happy bye day, Lehman

15-Sep-2010

“I can’t help but think this is a sign of really bad news.”
Happy days, back again?

21-Apr-2011

It would seem that 2011 is a good time to be an associate. Well, that might be over-egging the soufflé somewhat, but with more than half of the top 30 firms already having revealed their latest partner recruits, the numbers are pretty positive.
Happy families

16-Feb-2011

Family lawyers often talk about London being the divorce capital of the world. On Monday the Court of Appeal (CoA) handed down a judgment in an international case that reaffirmed that position - for international divorces at least.
Happy Hunton?

12-May-2011

Spontaneous celebrations broke out across the country this week as the coalition Government celebrated the first anniversary of what history will no doubt record as ’The Rose Garden Pact’.
Happy Monday

29-Mar-2010

Given it’s a Monday, there’s a whole lot to be smiling about today.
Harbottle & Lewis dragged into News International phone hacking row

12-Jul-2011

Emails sent to Harbottle & Lewis as part of News International’s (NI) 2007 enquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World have been retrieved from the firm as part of a fresh investigation and are reported to point to further illegal activity at the paper.
Harbottle forbidden from responding to News International's put-down

20-Jul-2011

Harbottle & Lewis has asked News International to release it from its duty of client confidentiality to allow it to respond to points made by Rupert and James Murdoch in yesterday’s riveting Parliamentary hearing on the phone hacking scandal.
Harbottle given all clear to discuss News International role

21-Jul-2011

Harbottle & Lewis has been given the all clear by News International (NI) to talk to authorities about its remit in the 2007 investigation of phone hacking at News of the World (NoW).
Harbottle pioneers 'preconception' agreements for non-traditional families

14-Feb-2012

Harbottle & Lewis is offering preconception contracts to non-traditional families looking to have children in the wake of a landmark High Court case that introduced the concept of principal and secondary parenting.
Harbottle scuppers Murdoch's lawyer-blaming tactics

2-May-2012

Rule number one in the lawyer handbook of customer relations is never publicly criticise the client.
Harbottle unveils defence against Murdoch's aspersions

16-Aug-2011

Harbottle & Lewis has come out fighting against allegations of a cover-up in the ongoing saga of phone hacking at News International.
Harbottle's hackgate headache

20-Jul-2011

In ancient times - two weeks ago - the idea that the most powerful man in British media could have his cloak of invincibility brutally ripped away was unthinkable.
Harbottle's preconceived idea

14-Feb-2012

It seems the law is forever finding ways to intrude into affairs of the heart. Unfortunately it sometimes has to.
Harbour raises £60m to fund 25 litigation cases

13-May-2010

Third party funder Harbour Litigation Funding has raised £60m to invest in commercial litigation cases valued above £3m.
Hardwicke joins list of firms on revamped Veolia panel

10-Aug-2011

Hardwicke Chambers has scored a spot on Veolia Environnement’s main panel of UK legal advisers joining firms including Herbert Smith and Simons & Simmons.
Hare Court silk Todd convinces Supreme Court that pre-nups are binding

20-Oct-2010

The Supreme Court has ruled that “decisive weight” should be given to pre-nuptial agreements signed by spouses before getting married.
Harneys - Video

14-Oct-2010

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Harneys adds XXIV Old Buildings barrister to partnership

31-Oct-2011

Offshore firm Harneys has continued the growth of its litigation practice with the hire of barrister David Herbert as a partner.
Harneys and Collas Day announce annual promotions

7-Jan-2011

Harneys and Collas Day have kicked off this year’s offshore promotions round with the former adding three new partners and the latter one.
Harneys bolsters Hong Kong presence with Ogier partner hire

4-May-2012

Offshore firm Harneys has added to its Hong Kong team with the hire of Ogier partner Timothy Bridges.
Harneys follows Uruguay launch with Brazil opening

15-Mar-2011

Harneys has become the second offshore firm to establish a foothold in Brazil, following in the footsteps of rival Conyers Dill & Pearman.
Harneys funds partner relocates to Hong Kong

5-Jan-2012

Offshore firm Harneys is relocating funds partner Jonathan Culshaw to its Hong Kong office as Asia continues to be a focal point for the sector.
Harneys hires Freshfields lawyer as it opens in Uruguay

2-Dec-2010

Offshore firm Harney Westwood & Riegels has confirmed the opening of its Uruguay office, six months after first flagging the move.
Harrison Grant wins court victory in Heathrow third runway saga

26-Mar-2010

Lord Justice Carnwath has ordered the Government to re-examine its decision to open a third runway at Heathrow.
Harry Potter and the Order of the High Court

6-Apr-2011

The man who is suing Harry Potter author JK Rowling and publishers Bloomsbury has been ordered by the High Court to pay £1.6m as security for costs or the claim will be struck out.
Has the Government got a Google-plex?

16-Sep-2011

Last night Jeremy Hunt announced his vision for UK digital media at the Royal Television Society in Cambridge.
Hausfeld to appeal class action decision

15-Apr-2009

Hausfeld is to appeal a High Court decision that effectively spelt the end for US-style class actions in English and Welsh courts (see blog ).
Have you had an injury?

28-Jul-2010

Personal injury (PI) lawyers were left reeling at the beginning of the year when Lord Justice Jackson published his proposals on how the litigation model should be reformed to help stem costs (see story).
Havel & Holásek moves to strengthen Moravia presence

9-Sep-2011

Czech-Slovak firm Havel & Holásek has announced plans to combine its operations in the Moravia region.
Hawksmoor Guildhall

14-Nov-2011

When you find a restaurant, bar, or indeed any place you like to visit, there is a certain satisfaction in knowing about it when others do not.
HBJ Gateley makes triple partner hire for Scottish offices

14-Feb-2012

HBJ Gateley has hired a trio of partners from three different firms to give its Scottish practice a boost.
HBJ Gateley Wareing rebrands as Gateley - except in Scotland

4-May-2011

HBJ Gateley Wareing has unveiled a new name as part of a rebranding exercise.
HBJ Gateley welcomes six to partnership

21-May-2012

HBJ Gateley, the Scottish arm of Gateley, has made up six partners in its annual round of promotions.
HBJ puts faith in London real estate expansion

10-Jun-2009

HBJ Gateley Wareing is growing its London real estate base with the hire of Joseph Mazzucca from White & Case.
HBO installs Showtime Arabia GC as Central Europe legal chief

27-Sep-2011

Pay television service HBO Central Europe has turned to Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) for the hire of its first-ever general counsel.
Head of 1 Hare Court joins High Court bench

20-Sep-2011

Family set 1 Hare Court’s chambers head Philip Moor QC has been appointed to the High Court bench, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced this morning.
Head of China-based JS Associates named in New Year's Honours list

3-Jan-2012

The managing partner of a China-based boutique legal consultancy has been made an OBE in the Queen’s 2012 New Year’s Honours list, in recognition of his services to UK business and legal services in China.
Heading away from Herbies

1-Jun-2011

Another week, another departure from Herbert Smith’s global disputes practice.
Heads of Roschier and Hannes Snellman quit to found new firm

4-Oct-2011

Lawyers from two of the largest firms in the Nordic region have teamed up to launch a new corporate and transactional outfit based in Helsinki.
Hearing Singh

11-Dec-2009

With the courts now taking a serious interest, libel reform looks increasingly likely, says Allen Green
Heat wave

4-Jan-2011

Contrary to how most people probably felt while clambering from their beds this morning, today is not actually the most depressing day of the year.
Heavy artillery

11-Dec-2009

After much deliberation, the Court of Appeal has plumped for the country’s top judge, Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, to preside over the preliminary appeal hearing in the Simon Singh vs British Chiropractic Association (BCA) libel case (see story).
Heinz slashes panel in European review

13-Mar-2012

Global food conglomerate Heinz has drastically cut its roster of external law firms from more than 50 to just three, following a Europe-wide panel review.
Heinz to create European panel as part of global review

16-Jun-2011

Global food conglomerate Heinz is kicking off an extensive review of external advisers with a view to setting up a European panel in the autumn.
Helen Thomson: Bond Pearce

15-Jul-2011

Which pub do the non-lawyers drink in? I can’t speak for all the support teams, but the business development team seem to have a habit of ending up in an awful 80s club.
Help the aged

23-Mar-2012

It’s hard enough being told you might lose your job as an established magic circle associate. But to be told you’re being replaced by trainees and newly qualified lawyers (NQs) is something else.
Henderson Chambers helps BVC student win better grades from Cardiff Uni

28-Aug-2009

London set Henderson Chambers has won a High Court battle for a law student who refused to accept the low marks Cardiff University gave her for the Bar Vocational Course (BVC).
Herbert Smith abandons European alliance after merger knockback

24-Nov-2011

Herbert Smith is set to end its alliance with German firm Gleiss Lutz and Benelux firm Stibbe after the European outfits voted against a merger.
Herbert Smith advises as EDF eyes nuclear power station in Somerset

28-Nov-2011

Herbert Smith has advised long time client EDF Energy on its application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) for development consent to construct and operate a 3.2GW nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.
Herbert Smith advises on Government's civil service pensions move

4-May-2012

Herbert Smith has advised on the establishment of a joint venture between the Government and private sector to administer civil service pensions.
Herbert Smith and McGuireWoods on standby for Lloyds shareholder dispute

9-Mar-2012

A shareholder group hope to appoint McGuireWoods dispute resolution partner Hardeep Nahal in their multibillion-pound lawsuit against a group of banking directors.
Herbert Smith bolsters Asia arbitration with Hong Kong move

2-Sep-2009

Herbert Smith is ramping up its Asian arbitration practice, relocating partner Justin D’Agostino to Hong Kong.
Herbert Smith boosts Chinese arbitration with Salans hire

10-Feb-2012

Herbert Smith has named Salans consultant Brenda Horrigan as a partner in Shanghai as the UK firm continues to build up its mainland China arbitration practice.
Herbert Smith bulks up in Belfast with addition of 18 fee-earners

19-Jan-2012

Herbert Smith has hired 18 fee-earners for its litigation due diligence-focused Belfast office.
Herbert Smith closes in on African launch in Guinea

21-May-2012

Herbert Smith is expected to make a decision on whether it establishes a footprint in Africa by the end of next month, with the Republic of Guinea emerging as a strong contender for an office launch.
Herbert Smith cuts Dubai support jobs in bid to streamline office

22-May-2012

Herbert Smith has made five support staff redundant in Dubai in a bid to align the number of back office workers with the number of fee-earners.
Herbert Smith disputes lawyer quits for 39 Essex Street

9-Nov-2011

A Herbert Smith lawyer who had a stint as acting director of enforcement at the FSA has joined London set 39 Essex Street.
Herbert Smith hires former E&Y partner as chief operating officer

21-Nov-2011

Herbert Smith has appointed a new global chief operating officer to replace John Mullins, who will leave the firm at the end of the financial year after more than three decades of service.
Herbert Smith hires White & Case lawyer for Paris base

16-May-2012

Herbert Smith has recruited White & Case corporate partner Frédéric Bouvet to bulk up its Paris corporate offering.
Herbert Smith in long-awaited New York launch after collapse of European alliance

7-Dec-2011

Herbert Smith is set to kickstart its international strategy following the collapse of its European alliance by launching in New York, with openings in Korea and sub-Saharan Africa also in the pipeline.
Herbert Smith loses for BAA in Competition Appeal Tribunal

2-Feb-2012

Herbert Smith has lost a Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) case for BAA after it failed to reverse a Competition Commission decision that forced the airport authority to sell Stansted Airport.
Herbert Smith moves to rebuild Asia capital markets team with A&O hire

5-Dec-2011

Herbert Smith has bulked up its capital markets offering in Singapore with the hiring of a consultant from Allen & Overy (A&O).
Herbert Smith names new Middle East head as incumbent shifts focus to Doha

12-Jan-2012

Herbert Smith has appointed a new Middle East head after the incumbent stepped down after five years in the role.
Herbert Smith net debt grows by £16m in 2010-11

25-Jan-2012

Herbert Smith’s total bank borrowings grew by more than £10m last year, taking total debt back up to near 2008-09 levels, the firm’s LLP accounts have revealed.
Herbert Smith Paris hires Bouygues Travaux Publics GC

2-Dec-2011

Herbert Smith has attracted the general counsel of French infrastructure company Bouygues Travaux Publics as a partner for its Paris office.
Herbert Smith partners give green light to Freehills talks

17-Jan-2012

Herbert Smith and Australia’s Freehills are pushing ahead with merger talks after The Lawyer first reported the pair were mulling discussions in December.
Herbert Smith plans triple German launch in 2013

10-Feb-2012

Herbert Smith is set to launch in Germany in early 2013, with Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Munich top of the agenda.
Herbert Smith prepares to cut up to 51 jobs, 23 in corporate

30-Apr-2012

Herbert Smith plans to cut its London headcount by around 51, with corporate heaviest hit, as it embarks on a redundancy consultation.
Herbert Smith prepares to vote on Freehills tie-up

10-May-2012

Herbert Smith is gearing up to vote on its proposed tie-up deal with Australian firm Freehills, with the firm scheduling mid-June for a partner ballot.
Herbert Smith promos down slightly as 10 get the nod

26-Apr-2012

Herbert Smith has made up 10 lawyers to partner in its annual round of promotions, with the total dipping slightly from last year’s 13.
Herbert Smith puts emphasis on Asia with 13 promotions

27-Apr-2011

Herbert Smith has announced the promotion of 13 lawyers to its partnership, with a strong focus on Asia and emerging markets.
Herbert Smith puts spotlight on Asia by announcing new regional head

24-Nov-2011

Herbert Smith has named its new Asia dispute resolution head following incumbent Mark Johnson’s promotion to Asia head.
Herbert Smith reviews future of European alliance after failed merger bid

22-Nov-2011

Herbert Smith has admitted it is considering what will happen next with its European alliance after German firm Gleiss Lutz and Benelux firm Stibbe rejected a merger proposal.
Herbert Smith snubs overseas partners for strategy meeting

2-Nov-2010

The timing of Herbert Smith’s November general partner meeting (GPM) has triggered claims that lawyers in the firm’s overseas offices are being marginalised by London.
Herbert Smith to open Belfast office to handle litigation due diligence

24-Nov-2010

Herbert Smith is to open a Belfast office to service its dispute resolution practice.
Herbert Smith wins key role on Rio Tinto deal

5-Jun-2009

Herbert Smith has won a place alongside the regular advisers in a deal that will see mining giant Rio Tinto strike up a joint venture with rival BHP Billiton and raise $15.2bn (£9.37bn) in a rights issue.
Herbert Smith's euro crisis

22-Nov-2011

As the turmoil in the eurozone continues to send chills down many a German spine, Herbert Smith is having a Euro crisis of its own.
Herbert Smith's European alliance to officially end at close of year

22-Dec-2011

The European alliance between Herbert Smith, Germany’s Gleiss Lutz and Benelux firm Stibbe will officially come to an end on 31 December.
Herbert Smith's share of deals market plummeted in 2011

2-Jan-2012

Herbert Smith and its former European alliance partners suffered a considerable drop in their share of the M&A market in 2011, new data shows.
Herbies adds to Hong Kong litigation group as local lawyer joins Clifford Chance

1-Jun-2011

Herbert Smith has added a Goodwin Procter partner to its Hong Kong team as a senior consultant quits the firm to join Clifford Chance.
Herbies advises banks on Barratt rights issue

23-Sep-2009

Herbert Smith has advised Credit Suisse and UBS as joint sponsors, joint bookrunners and placing agents on Barratt Development’s £720m rights issue, which was announced today.
Herbies alliance firm Gleiss Lutz launches in Hamburg

28-Jun-2010

Herbert Smith’s German alliance partner Gleiss Lutz has taken over Hamburg corporate boutique Rittstieg Rechtsanwälte to launch its sixth German office.
Herbies alliance firm Stibbe opens in Luxembourg

12-Aug-2010

Benelux firm and Herbert Smith alliance partner Stibbe is set to launch an office in Luxembourg.
Herbies and Brick Court seal victory in long-awaited BSkyB judgment

26-Jan-2010

Herbert Smith and Brick Court’s Mark Howard QC have won a major victory in the Technology and Construction Court for British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB).
Herbies and Halliwells act on JJB gym sale

26-Mar-2009

DLA Piper, Halliwells and Herbert Smith have won places advising troubled retailer JJB Sports on the sale of its gym business and restructuring package.
Herbies and Latham lead on Al Fayed's Harrods sell-off

10-May-2010

Herbert Smith and Latham & Watkins have bagged lead roles on the £1.5bn sale of Harrods to the investment arm of the Qatari Investment Authority (QIA).
Herbies and Links advise as Centrica buys British Energy stake

11-May-2009

Linklaters and Herbert Smith have won instructions in a £2.3bn deal that saw British Gas owner Centrica buy a 20 per cent stake in nuclear energy group British Energy.
Herbies and Links advise on £3.3bn National Grid cash call

20-May-2010

Herbert Smith and Linklaters have taken leading roles on the £3.3bn cash call by energy provider National Grid.
Herbies and Links join India's AZB on Bharti Airtel's Africa bid

18-Feb-2010

Herbert Smith and Linklaters have won roles alongside India’s AZB & Partners on Indian company Bharti Airtel’s $10.7bn (£6.8bn) bid for the African business of Kuwaiti telecoms group Zain.
Herbies and Lovells join Slaughters on Treasury's go-to team

2-Nov-2009

A trio of UK firms has won places on HM Treasury’s legal panel after competing with City rivals in a beauty parade.
Herbies and SJ Berwin act on sale of Addleshaws' building

15-Jun-2009

Herbert Smith and SJ Berwin have advised on the £127m acquisition of Addleshaw Goddard’s new City offices.
Herbies and Skadden lead on News Corp's £7.8bn BSkyB bid

15-Jun-2010

Herbert Smith and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have won the leading roles on News Corp’s £7.8bn bid to buy up the remaining shares in BSkyB.
Herbies and Slaughters lead on Prudential fundraising

17-May-2010

Herbert Smith and Slaughter and May have taken lead roles on Prudential’s delayed $21bn (£14.6bn) rights issue, which will provide part funding for its acquisition of American International Group’s (AIG) Asian insurance arm AIA.
Herbies and Sumption seal victory in Buncefield case

20-Mar-2009

Ashurst and Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) have lost their bid to stave off £750m in claims against Buncefield operators Total.lit
Herbies appoints Asia head as incumbent joins HK regulator

1-Sep-2011

Herbert Smith has named Mark Johnson as its new head of Asia to replace Ashley Alder, who will leave to assume the role of CEO of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission on 1 October.
Herbies appoints Lloyds regulatory chief as a partner

28-Jan-2010

Herbert Smith has bolstered its financial services regulatory (FSR) and bank litigation practices with the appointment of Lloyds Banking Group’s regulatory chief Jenny Stainsby as partner.
Herbies' Asia chief quits to become CEO at Hong Kong regulator

1-Aug-2011

Herbert Smith has lost its Asian managing partner Ashley Alder, who has resigned to become chief executive officer of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.
Herbies back on track with revenue and profit rises

6-Jul-2011

Herbert Smith has recorded a 3 per cent rise in turnover and 4 per cent boost in profit per equity (PEP) partner in its latest financial results, marking another small step towards recovery after the economic crisis.
Herbies beefs up pensions practice with Freshfields partner

26-Feb-2010

Herbert Smith has bolstered its pensions practice with the hire of a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Herbies bolsters DCM team with ex-Linklaters partner

19-Aug-2011

Herbert Smith has boosted its debt capital markets offering with the hire of ex-Linklaters partner Andrew Roberts.
Herbies boosts London finance with Linklaters dual hire

24-Mar-2010

Herbert Smith has hired two lawyers from Linklaters to bolster its energy and project finance team.
Herbies client hit with wasted costs order over e-disclosure failures

7-Mar-2012

The High Court has ordered Herbert Smith client West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) to pay a £135,000 wasted costs order after an e-disclosure exercise spiralled out of control.
Herbies cuts associate pay and launches redundancy talks

20-Apr-2009

Herbert Smith is to cut up to 84 members of staff from its London office and is also reversing all associate pay bands.
Herbies defends decision to sell work placement at auction

2-Jun-2011

Herbert Smith has confirmed that it sold a work placement for £1,150 in a charity auction, despite following a policy of social mobility and equal opportunities for candidates of all backgrounds.
Herbies faces court action from former associate in Paris

8-Dec-2009

Herbert Smith Paris is being targeted for an action before the Paris Criminal Court for allegedly illegally employing an associate.
Herbies finds 84 volunteers to take redundancy

26-May-2009

Herbert Smith has concluded its redundancy consultation with all those due to leave the firm opting for voluntary redundancy.
Herbies finds its didgeridoo

18-Jan-2012

Herbert Smith has finally arrived at the party, but the taxi must have been stuck in traffic.
Herbies for sale

2-Jun-2011

A recent issue of The Economist - The Lawyer reads it occasionally to wind down after a shift of press release shuffling - suggested that the rights to host the World Cup should be auctioned on eBay.
Herbies gets £500,000 from Invest NI to create further 61 jobs

30-Jun-2011

Herbert Smith has announced it will create a further 61 jobs in its newly opened Belfast office over the next five years, after receiving additional public funding of more than £500,000 from Invest Northern Ireland.
Herbies goes on an equity diet

12-Dec-2011

What is the magic number?
Herbies hires A&O lawyer for Spanish finance push

16-Feb-2010

Herbert Smith has hired an Allen & Overy lawyer to build its Spanish finance capability.
Herbies hires former Links partner for capital markets team

11-Mar-2010

Former Linklaters US securities partner Steve Thierbach has joined Herbert Smith’s London-based global capital markets practice.
Herbies hires Taylor Wessing partner for financial regulatory team

16-Jun-2011

Herbert Smith has hired Taylor Wessing’s financial services regulatory head Clive Cunningham as its second non-contentious financial regulatory partner.
Herbies' Irish jig

24-Nov-2010

It’s a big week for outsourcing, what with CMS Cameron McKenna kicking off its plans yesterday (see story). And it’s a big week for the island of Ireland, what with, well, you know…
Herbies is latest firm to freeze associate pay bands

27-May-2011

Herbert Smith has followed Allen & Overy and Linklaters’ lead by freezing salary bands for its associates.
Herbies lands first mandate from Standard Chartered on Cairn refinancing

1-Dec-2009

Herbert Smith and McGrigors have landed lead roles on the refinancing of a US$750m (£451m) debt facility for Scottish energy company Cairn Energy Hydrocarbons.
Herbies launches Hong Kong restructuring practice

7-Apr-2009

Herbert Smith has launched an insolvency and restructuring practice in Hong Kong after hiring Appleby partner Michael Barker.
Herbies launches in Spain with three-partner Linklaters raid

28-Apr-2009

Herbert Smith has pounced on the Madrid office of Linklaters for three partners to open an office in the Spanish city.
Herbies litigation partner wins starring role in The Apprentice

4-Jun-2009

Herbert Smith litigation partner Alan Watts made his television debut last night interviewing the candidates vying to become Sir Alan Sugar’s next apprentice.
Herbies' melting pot

17-Sep-2010

Way back in the less enlightened days of 2008, Herbert Smith was already doing its bit for a better society when it began providing “cultural integration” courses for associates (see story).
Herbies names disputes partner as first-ever GC

3-Mar-2010

Herbert Smith has created the position of general counsel with dispute resolution partner Martin Bakes stepping into the role.
Herbies' NQ retention rates plummet

18-Jun-2009

Herbert Smith’s retention rates for trainee solicitors due to qualify in the autumn has dropped to 74 per cent. .
Herbies' Paris finance head joins BNP Paribas as global GC

19-Apr-2010

The head of Herbert Smith’s international banking and finance practice in Paris has been appointed global general counsel of BNP Paribas.
Herbies' PEP plummets while revenue inches up to £444m

8-Jun-2009

Herbert Smith’s average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure has dropped below the £1m mark for the 2008-09 financial year after smashing the financial landmark for the first time last year.
Herbies posts modest rises in turnover and PEP

28-Jun-2010

Herbert Smith has posted small increases in turnover, profit and average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009-10 financial year.
Herbies prepares for Doha launch

4-Aug-2011

Herbert Smith is in the process of launching a third Middle East outpost with the prospective opening of an office in Qatar.
Herbies prepares for further elections with top finance job up for grabs

20-Jan-2010

Herbert Smith will unveil new corporate and finance practice heads next months as the partnership gears up for a further round of elections.
Herbies' staff costs rose by £17m in 2009-10 despite falling headcount

21-Jan-2011

Herbert Smith saw employee costs grow by £17m in the 2009-10 financial year despite the fact that its total staff headcount dropped year-on-year.
Herbies stalwart Gold takes on corporate monitor role at BAE Systems

31-Aug-2010

Herbert Smith’s former senior partner David Gold has been appointed independent corporate monitor at BAE Systems.
Herbies strengthens Dubai disputes practice with London partner

21-Aug-2009

Herbert Smith is bolstering its Middle East disputes practice by relocating London partner Stuart Paterson to Dubai.
Herbies' stress balls

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It won’t surprise anyone to hear that high levels of stress are part and parcel of law firm life.
Herbies targets cultural diversity with new firm network

17-Sep-2010

Herbert Smith is to launch a multicultural network in a bid to provide support to ethnic, racial and cultural minorities within the firm, while raising awareness on cultural diversity among all staff.
Herbies turns to Gide for Moscow infrastructure hire

2-Jul-2010

Herbert Smith’s Moscow practice has turned to Gide Loyrette Nouel for the hire of its first dedicated infrastructure partner as the firm predicts a rush in projects over the coming years.
Herbies ups trainee and NQ pay, reinstates junior lockstep

1-Jun-2010

Herbert Smith has increased pay bands for newly qualified (NQ) solicitors and trainees while keeping most associate pay bands at last year’s levels.
Herbies wins payout for BSkyB in long-running EDS dispute

9-Jun-2010

Herbert Smith has secured a £318m payout for client British Sky Broadcasting, which was in dispute with Electronic Data Systems (EDS).
Herbies' X-Factor

20-Jan-2010

It’s all go at Herbert Smith. No sooner is Jonathan Scott anointed as the successor to maverick senior partner David Gold than the firm has to dust down the ballot boxes once again.
Herbies, Ashurst tap Stonewall, Freshfields for new diversity heads

28-Jul-2011

Ashurst and Herbert Smith have both made heavy-hitting diversity appointments as the Legal Services Board (LSB) forges ahead with plans to force firms to disclose statistics in relation to social mobility.
Herbies, Links and Slaughters miss out as G4S abandons ISS deal

1-Nov-2011

The abandonment of security giant G4S’s acquisition of ISS and a related £2bn rights issue has hit Herbert Smith, Linklaters, Norton Rose, Slaughter & May and Danish firm Bruun & Hjejle, all of which had roles on the deal.
Herbies, Norton Rose and Slaughters lead on G4S's £5.2bn ISS acquisition

17-Oct-2011

Herbert Smith, Norton Rose, Slaughter & May and Danish firm Bruun & Hjejle have won roles advising on G4S’ £5.2bn acquisition of cleaning and security group ISS from private equity houses EQT and GS Capital Partners.
Herbies: Free(hills) to do what it wants any old time

11-May-2012

So Herbert Smith’s strategy of playing catch-up with the rest of its big City chums continues apace, with a mid-June vote on its proposed tie-up deal with Australian firm Freehills now inked in.
Herbies: one firm in search of a brand

10-Feb-2012

Disbanding a three-firm alliance was always going to be tricky when all three parties shared a logo, font and business card styles.
Here’s looking at you, Sheds

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Of all the law firms in all the world, it had to be Eversheds that walks into Casablanca.
Here's looking at you, Sheds

28-Mar-2011

Of all the law firms in all the world, it had to be Eversheds that walks into Casablanca.
Hewlett-Packard takes private practice lawyer as deputy GC

3-Aug-2011

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has appointed a Drinker Biddle & Reath partner as its deputy general counsel and vice president of global government affairs.
Hextalls fails to cut Middlesbrough FC liability payout

17-Jun-2009

Hextalls has failed in its bid to reduce a landmark compensation order made against its client Middlesbrough Football Club by a former Manchester United hopeful.
Hickman & Rose - video

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Video:Hickman & Rose
High Court confirms pubs' rights to screen football matches

8-Feb-2012

The fight by pub landlords to get the legal right to use foreign decoders to screen FA Premier League (FAPL) matches without infringing copyright took another step forward last week.
High Court loss

25-Mar-2009

Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) partner Nick Young will be licking his wounds this week after a being on the receiving end of a major High Court loss that could cost his client more than £1bn.
High Court prepares to debar Kazakh billionaire Ablyazov

1-Mar-2012

The High Court will debar Mukhtar Ablyazov, the Kazakh billionaire at the heart of the largest commercial claim of the year, if he fails in an appeal against a High Court committal order.
High Court rejects students' tuition fee JR bid

17-Feb-2012

The High Court has rejected a judicial review bid regarding the Government’s decision to raise tuition fees on the grounds the hikes would breach the human rights of students.
High Court rules on Fiona Trust fraud case

14-Dec-2010

The High Court has handed down a 421-page ruling in the Fiona Trust fraud trial, leaving the claimants to decide whether to appeal the tranches that went against them.
High Court ruling could put legal complaints staff jobs at risk

26-Feb-2010

Legal Complaints Services (LSC) staff are at risk of redundancy following a High Court ruling that said a new service for handling legal complaints is not legally required to employ them.
High Court to hear equal pay claims after Birmingham City Council appeal fails

30-Nov-2011

The High Court has jurisdiction to hear equal pay claims after the Court of Appeal ruled in a case brought by Birmingham City Council.
Highland Financial hits Orrick with $95m claim as RBS case continues

30-Jan-2012

A US investment management company has launched a $95m lawsuit against Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe in Dallas as it continues to defend UK litigation brought against it by RBS.
HIGHLIGHTS: The Lawyer Debate No 5: Direct access to the Bar

16-Nov-2011

As in-house counsel look to cut costs, the lower overheads associated with going straight to a barrister look increasingly attractive.
High-stakes cases drive Paul Weiss to record year

9-Feb-2012

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has posted record financial results for the 2011 year, with turnover up 3.9 per cent to $780m, average profit per equity partner up 1.5 per cent to $3.1m and revenue per lawyer remaining flat at $1.06m.
Hill Dickinson boosts corporate practice with Hammonds hire

17-Jun-2010

Hill Dickinson has grown its corporate team with the appointment of Hammonds partner Ian Gillis.
Hill Dickinson gets dreamy

14-Nov-2011

Four years ago Hill Dickinson had a dream. That dream was to become a £100m firm.
Hill Dickinson promotes nine to salaried partner level

20-Apr-2011

Hill Dickinson has made up nine lawyers to its salaried partner ranks and one to legal director in its annual round of promotions.
Hill Dickinson seals victory for Rooney in agent dispute

1-Dec-2011

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed a multi-million pound claim brought against Manchester United footballer Wayne Rooney by his former agency Proactive Sports Management.
Hill Dickinson to merge with Middleton Potts

5-May-2009

Peter Jackson, Hill Dickinson
Hill Dicks adds DLA partner to Sheffield practice

10-Aug-2011

Hill Dickinson has hired DLA Piper partner Tim Littler for its Sheffield banking and finance team.
Hill Dicks lays off secretaries in corporate and shipping

7-Jul-2011

Hill Dickinson has made five secretaries redundant across its London corporate and shipping departments.
Hill Dicks names former Manchester head as firmwide senior partner

11-Apr-2011

Hill Dickinson has appointed former Manchester managing partner David Wareing as its new senior partner.
Hip hop to Trott

9-Mar-2010

“It’s the bow to the wow, creepin and crawlin / Yiggy yes y’allin, Bates Wells a-callin”
Hiring not firing

14-Sep-2009

For the last two years Bermuda-based Conyers has been in spectacular growth mode. Can it maintain its momentum?
Hitching takes over Herbies' finance practice after contested election

5-Feb-2010

Herbert Smith finance partner Malcolm Hitching has beaten off competition from partner Ewen Fergusson to take on management of the firm’s global banking practice.
Hitting the Rock hard

11-Feb-2010

It’s all kicking off in Gibraltar again. The last time we wrote about The Rock, it was about allegations of misconduct made by lawyers against a judge (see story); today we report that the founding partners of a Gibraltar law firm have had their licences cancelled after coming up against charges of false accounting (see story).
HMRC lawyer faces sanctions after whistleblowing

9-Dec-2011

An in-house solicitor at HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is facing possible dismissal and prosecution after disclosing that a senior manager had allegedly let off Goldman Sachs from £10m pounds in tax penalties.
Hog Love

24-May-2010

Unless you’ve been living in a steel bunker through the weekend, it’d be hard to miss the fact that spring has put in a belated appearance.
Hogan closes another office as Akin poaches Geneva team

7-Apr-2010

US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has gutted Hogan & Hartson’s Geneva office to launch its own Swiss practice.
Hogan Lovells adds another partner to US-China IP team

29-Nov-2011

Hogan Lovells has hired an IP partner in Shanghai to bolster its Chinese practice.
Hogan Lovells adds two-partner Berlin team

20-Jul-2011

Hogan Lovells has bulked up its German presence with the addition of five corporate lawyers from Broich Bezzenberger.
Hogan Lovells advises Libya's NTC on release of frozen cash

1-Sep-2011

Hogan Lovells advised representatives of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) on its successful bid to have 1.86bn Libyan dinar held in the UK by printer De La Rue released and flown back to the country.
Hogan Lovells advises on pants deal

3-Dec-2010

Hogan Lovells has advised social enterprise Pants to Poverty on the creation of a bond to raise finance to fund its working capital - with interest payable in the form of fair-trade organic pants and a donation to charity.
Hogan Lovells advises Sport England Olympics lottery grant

1-Dec-2010

Hogan Lovells has advised Sport England on the terms of its £10.5m lottery grant towards the London 2012 Olympics VeloPark project.
Hogan Lovells and Davis Polk lead on $3bn Venezuelan bond issuance

23-May-2012

Hogan Lovells has scooped a role as both US and Venezuelan counsel to Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA on its $3bn (£1.9bn) bond issuance.
Hogan Lovells and Mourant Ozannes advise on John Laing IPO

9-Dec-2010

Hogan Lovells and Mourant Ozannes have won roles on the largest London IPO of a Guernsey company this year.
Hogan Lovells and SJ Berwin advise on Parabis deal

6-Feb-2012

Hogan Lovells and SJ Berwin are understood to have won roles advising on the acquisition of a stake in insurance law firm Parabis Group by Duke Street.
Hogan Lovells appoints San Francisco IP partner for China cases

15-Nov-2011

Hogan Lovells has hired a Squire Sanders & Dempsey partner in San Francisco to strengthen its IP and IP litigation capabilities, particularly in the Chinese context.
Hogan Lovells capital contributions up £10m last year

31-Jan-2012

Hogan Lovells’ 2010-11 financial year accounts for the firm’s international LLP show growth in turnover and profit, while partners were asked to put more money into the business.
Hogan Lovells dismisses senior litigator over £1m of false expenses

17-May-2011

Hogan Lovells senior litigator Christopher Grierson has been dismissed from the partnership after claiming over £1m in false expenses over the course of four years.
Hogan Lovells extends reach to Mongolia with formal alliance

3-Aug-2010

Hogan Lovells has cemented its three-year relationship with Mongolian firm GTs Advocates by entering into a formal association.
Hogan Lovells increases trainee pay scales

25-May-2011

Hogan Lovells is upping trainee salary bands by £1,000 and allowing junior lawyers to gain a larger pay increase by progressing to the next pay level.
Hogan Lovells litigation partner quits for Allen & Overy

29-Mar-2012

Allen & Overy (A&O) has hired Hogan Lovells litigator and joint graduate recruitment partner Lawson Caisley.
Hogan Lovells looks to build in Mongolia with transfer of City partner

12-Apr-2012

Hogan Lovells is sending London-based corporate partner Chris Melville to its Ulaanbaatar office in a bid to extend its reach in Mongolia.
Hogan Lovells loses another Moscow partner

6-Aug-2010

Hogan Lovells has lost another partner from its Moscow office, this time to US firm Baker Botts.
Hogan Lovells loses ECM head to Latham & Watkins

1-Feb-2012

Latham & Watkins has hired Hogan Lovells corporate partner Richard Brown for its City office.
Hogan Lovells loses German banking head to Noerr

28-Sep-2010

The head of Hogan Lovells’ German banking practice has left the firm for partnership at German independent Noerr.
Hogan Lovells makes first lateral with Wilmer Hale partner

27-May-2010

Hogan Lovells has made its first lateral hires since its merger went live on 1 May.
Hogan Lovells merger gets backing of firms' partners

15-Dec-2009

The merger between Lovells and Hogan & Hartson will go ahead at the beginning of May after the two firms’ partnerships voted in favour of the union.
Hogan Lovells' moment of masochism

24-Jun-2010

Anyone who’s bothered to watch England play football in a major tournament knows that it’s pure masochism.
Hogan Lovells mourns loss of Middle East disputes head

18-Aug-2011

Partners at Hogan Lovells are mourning the death of Middle East disputes head Stephen York, who passed away last week.
Hogan Lovells names integration committee ahead of May merger

12-Mar-2010

Hogan & Hartson and Lovells have established a committee to oversee the integration of the two firms.
Hogan Lovells names London-based Cheffings as new chair

8-Feb-2012

Hogan Lovells has confirmed the appointment of London real estate litigation partner Nicholas Cheffings as its new chair.
Hogan Lovells names management board

21-Jan-2010

Hogan & Hartson and Lovells have finalised the members of the board that will take effect when Hogan Lovells comes into being in May.
Hogan Lovells names new head of Madrid

27-Jul-2010

Hogan Lovells has appointed a new managing partner in Madrid, as the office reveals a 5 per cent boost in earnings for 2009- 2010.
Hogan Lovells names successor to retiring insurance head Young

29-Nov-2011

Hogan Lovells has appointed a new head of corporate and regulatory insurance to replace John Young, who retires in April 2012.
Hogan Lovells NQ retention rate in London plummets

17-Dec-2010

Hogan Lovells’ retention rate for London-based trainees due to qualify next spring is on course to tumble to around 66 per cent.
Hogan Lovells one step closer as merger wins full support of both firms' management

29-Oct-2009

Management teams at Lovells and Hogan & Hartson have unanimously backed the firms’ proposed merger and will recommend that their respective partnerships back the union.
Hogan Lovells partner left with hefty legal bill after firm loses boundary dispute

13-May-2010

Hogan Lovells litigation partner Graham Huntley has been left with a huge legal bill after he and his mother lost a two-and-a-half-year dispute with his mother’s neighbour.
Hogan Lovells passes competition hurdle in Cyprus and Germany

28-Jan-2010

Hogan & Hartson and Lovells have moved one step closer to making their agreed merger a reality after gaining competition clearance in Cyprus and Germany.
Hogan Lovells posts 73 per cent retention rate

18-Jul-2011

Hogan Lovells is to keep on 73 per cent of its autumn qualifiers, representing a slightly higher retention rate than at the same point last year.
Hogan Lovells prepares to name City litigator as firm chairman

3-Feb-2012

The head of Hogan Lovells’ London real estate litigation team has been put forward as the firm’s sole chair, with partners expected to vote on the appointment next week.
Hogan Lovells promotes 35 to partner in global round

3-Jan-2012

Hogan Lovells has made up 35 partners in its annual round of promotions, with 46 also promoted to counsel, of counsel or consultant.
Hogan Lovells secures pardon for Belarusian opposition leader

20-Apr-2012

Hogan Lovells’ pro-bono work with a not-for-profit campaign group has led to the release of a Belarusian diplomat after more than a year in jail.
Hogan Lovells seeks to have Ablyazov debarred from BTA Bank case

28-Feb-2012

Hogan Lovells is due to return to court in the coming days to apply for a debarring order to prevent Kazakh billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov from defending claims totalling $5bn that are being brought against him by JSC BTA Bank.
Hogan Lovells set for Rio de Janeiro launch

27-Feb-2012

Hogan Lovells has become the latest international law firm to announce its intention to open an office in Brazil.
Hogan Lovells signs association with Indonesian firm

19-Apr-2012

Hogan Lovells has entered into an association with Indonesian law firm Hermawan Juniarto, in a bid to strengthen its presence in the emerging South-East Asian market.
Hogan Lovells suffers third China departure as Beijing chief quits for Paul Hastings

6-May-2010
Hogan Lovells to move to single chairman as co-incumbent retires

1-Dec-2011

Hogan Lovells has begun soundings for a single co-chair to replace John Young and Claudette Christian, who have shared the role since the merger between legacy firms Hogan & Hartson and Lovells in May 2010.
Hogan Lovells to rethink name over trademark issues

1-Apr-2010

The merger between Hogan & Hartson and Lovells has hit another snag after it emerged that the Hogan Lovells name has already been trademarked by a road haulage company in Nebraska.
Hogan Lovells' turnover flatlines in 2011

16-Feb-2012

Hogan Lovells has posted effectively flat revenues for the 2011 financial year, with turnover reaching $1.665bn compared with $1.664bn in 2010.
Hogan Lovells unveils international executive, reveals IP as priority

8-Feb-2010

Hogan & Hartson and Lovells have announced the composition of the 15-member Hogan Lovells International Management Committee (IMC).
Hogan Lovells wins €500,000 cost in Eli Lilly patent dispute

20-Mar-2012

Hogan Lovells has scooped half a million euros in costs from a successful intellectual property litigation in the French courts.
Hogan Lovells, Linklaters lead on sale of Australian DP World assets

29-Dec-2010

Hogan Lovells and Linklaters have advised on a major investment by Citi Infrastructure Investors in DP World’s Australian-based terminals business.
Hogan Lovells, Links and Withers advise on Jaguar Land Rover refinancing

24-Aug-2010

Hogan Lovells, Linklaters and Withers have secured lead roles on a financing plan for Jaguar Land Rover worth in excess of £500m. The transaction will harmonise the terms of separate facilities provided to Land Rover and Jaguar Cars.
Hogan Lovells, Norton Rose advise on Turkish sukuk issue

27-Aug-2010

Hogan Lovells and Norton Rose have advised on what is reported to be the first sukuk issued from Turkey.
Hogan Lovells, White & Case act on China's Venezuela investment

6-Aug-2010

Hogan Lovells and White & Case have bagged roles on one of the biggest financing projects undertaken by the China Development Bank (CDB) in Latin America.
Hogan Shanghai chief quits for Ropes & Gray

5-May-2010

The managing partner of the Shanghai office of Hogan Lovells legacy firm Hogan & Hartson has left to join Ropes & Gray.
Hogan-Lovells conflicts prompt pre-merger split in Berlin

23-Mar-2010

The bulk of Hogan & Hartson’s Berlin office has shunned the firm’s imminent merger with Lovells because of potential conflicts, spinning out to create a new firm instead.
Hogan's dinar time

1-Sep-2011

Lawyers in ’big bags of cash’ shock - hardly much of a story you’d think?
Hogan's Warsaw office quits for K&L Gates ahead of Hogan-Lovells merger

1-Mar-2010

K&L Gates is to open an office in Warsaw after scooping the entire office of Hogan & Hartson in the city.
Hogarth silk defeats force of Sumption in Star Wars showdown

27-Jul-2011

The Supreme Court has held that Lucasfilm can enforce a US copyright in the UK but that the stormtrooper helmet the movie giant went to court over was not a sculpture and therefore the defendant did not breach copyright.
HogLov loses a partner

16-Jun-2010

Just a few months ago, when he was still managing partner of Hogan & Hartson’s London office, Garry Pegg was pretty upbeat about his firm’s impending merger with Lovells.
HogLov posts PEP hike and marginal revenue drop in first set of merged results

17-Feb-2011

Hogan Lovells has reported a slight dip in revenue in the first set of financial figures the firm has released since its merger in May 2010.
HogLov promotes 36 to partner, with seven getting nod in City

25-Feb-2011

Hogan Lovells has announced its first round of promotions as a merged firm, making up 36 new partners across its global network.
HogLove boosts life sciences team with NautaDutilh hires

1-Jun-2011

Hogan Lovells has boosted its global life sciences practice with the hire of partner Carla Schoonderbeek and her team of five associates from NautaDutilh.
HogLove calls in police as Grierson repays £1m of expenses

3-Jun-2011

Hogan Lovells has reported former partner Christopher Grierson to the police after the senior litigator repaid the £1m he claimed as false expenses from the firm over four years.
HogLove gives Grierson extra week to repay £1m of fraudulent expenses

1-Jun-2011

Hogan Lovells has agreed to extend by a week the deadline for former partner Christopher Grierson to repay £1m in false expenses.
HogLove sends City project finance partner to Dubai

3-Jun-2011

Hogan Lovells has bulked up its Middle East infrastructure and project finance practice by redeploying London-based project finance partner Christopher Cross to its Dubai office.
Holland & Knight opens Colombia office

1-Mar-2012

Miami-based law firm Holland & Knight has announced plans to stretch its Latin America presence with the opening of a new office in Bogota, Colombia.
Holman Fenwick adds trio of partners across City, Brussels and Paris

17-Jan-2011

Holman Fenwick & Willan has hired a partner each for its Paris, Brussels and London offices, building up its corporate and regulatory practices.
Holman Fenwick bolsters Asia team in wake of Aussie expansion

20-Jun-2011

Holman Fenwick & Willan (HFW) has announced a series of partner moves aimed at enhancing its Asia Pacific practice, following the opening of its Perth office.
Holman Fenwick celebrates turnover rise to £112.5m

4-May-2011

Holman Fenwick Willan has announced a 13 per cent turnover increase to £112.5m for the 2010/11 financial year.
Holman Fenwick launches in Sydney with Blake Dawson hire

17-Sep-2009

Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has hired Alex Baykitch from Australian firm Blake Dawson to launch its Sydney office.
Holman Fenwick makes up trio to partnership

30-Mar-2012

Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has made three partnership promotions as it continues to invest in international commerce.
Holman Fenwick mourns death of aviation finance partner

20-Jan-2011

Holman Fenwick Willan is mourning the death of aviation finance partner David Relf, who passed away at the beginning of the month.
Holman Fenwick partner pocketed £1.08m in 2010-11 financial year

28-Nov-2011

The highest-earning partner at Holman Fenwick Willan took home £1m in the 2010-11 financial year, the firm’s LLP accounts have revealed.
Holman Fenwick recruits Western Australia’s former Attorney General

24-Feb-2012

Holman Fenwick Willan has boosted its Perth office with the appointment of Western Australia’s former Attorney General and environment minister Cheryl Edwardes as a partner.
Holman Fenwick returns to BLG for hire of shipping partner

17-Oct-2011

Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has appointed Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) partner Simon Chumas to its shipping practice.
Holman Fenwick to gain São Paulo base with BLG joiners

12-Oct-2011

Holman Fenwick Willan has been gifted a foothold in South America following its acquisition of an eight-strong team of partners from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG).
Holman J rules Gove's BSF decision was 'unlawful'

11-Feb-2011

Mr Justice Holman has ordered the Government to review its plans to scrap the Building Schools for Future programme.
Home truths

7-May-2009

Locally managing part of a European-wide restructuring project is not to be underestimated. Alexander Vandenbergen explains why.
Hong Kong and Middle East drove Eversheds' 2009-10 performance, LLPs confirm

18-Jan-2011

Eversheds saw income from outside Europe more than double during the last financial year while total firmwide revenues dropped.
Hong Kong showdown

9-May-2011

Bruce Lee’s valedictory celluloid appearance in iconic kung fu flick Enter The Dragon opens with the arrival in Hong Kong of twoAmerican challengers ready to take on the best the East has to offer.
Host of Solicitors from Hell-style sites appear following court action

22-Nov-2011

The Law Society spent roughly £150,000 on shutting down the website Solicitors from Hell but faces a latest setback as it has emerged that similar websites attacking UK firms are appearing online, with some said to be hosted abroad to protect them from the British authorities.
HOT DATE: The Lawyer Hot 100 Party 2011

20-Jan-2011

The cream of the UK legal market toasted this year’s Hot 100 last Tuesday. Here’s the evidence…
Hot property

1-Dec-2009

For the last two years the phrase “surprisingly busy” has too often been an unfortunate euphemism used by real estate partners to displace concerns about a dearth of transactional activity.
Hourly billing 'incentivises inefficiency', says Neuberger

16-May-2012

The end of the hourly rate is nigh and a costs council should be established urgently to review litigation billing methods, the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger has warned.
Houston, we have a law firm?

21-Mar-2011

It’s suddenly all about Houston. As this week’s feature shows, the glut of US firms rushing into the world’s oil capital like a gang of teenagers at a TopShop sale may not be alone.
Houthoff Buruma names litigator as co-managing partner

1-Apr-2011

Netherlands independent Houthoff Buruma has elected litigator Johan Rijlaarsdam as its new co-managing partner, replacing Eddie Meijer.
Houthoff snares three from Simmons

7-Jun-2010

Dutch firm Houthoff Buruma has strengthened its corporate practice with a three-lawyer team from Simmons & Simmons.
Howard Kennedy breaks equity bottleneck with partner promotion

26-Mar-2012

Howard Kennedy has admitted a partner to its equity for the first time in three years, with corporate recovery and reconstruction head Vernon Dennis joining the ranks.
Howard Kennedy in talks to cut 40 jobs

17-Apr-2009

West End firm Howard Kennedy has launched a second round of redundancy talks, with 40 jobs potentially at risk.
Howard Kennedy to trim partnership to 'sustain profitability'

14-Feb-2012

Howard Kennedy has entered into redundancy talks with six non-equity partners in its property department in an effort to reinvigorate the firm’s financial performance.
Howard's way

22-Nov-2010

So, despite the galaxy of rumours flying around Manchester, Wayne Rooney never ended up making that short stroll across the city to join the sky blue half last month.
Howes Percival plans major expansion of family practice with Harvey Ingram hire

21-Apr-2010

Howes Percival has brought in former Harvey Ingram partner Jane Cowley to head its new family law team, as the firm forges ahead with plans to expand its private client offering.
Howes Percival to investigate Asil Nadir's finances

9-Dec-2010

Howes Percival has been appointed to help investigate Turkish Cypriot billionaire Asil Nadir’s finances.
Howes Percival welcomes two to partnership

8-Jul-2010

Howes Percival has made up two partners in its annual promotions round, with both based in the firm’s East Midlands employment practice.
Howrey breakaway firm boosts partner ranks ahead of launch

5-Jan-2011

The boutique firm formed by Howrey’s European IP team has made a further five partner hires in time for its official launch.
Howrey conflict sees Covington scoop top Brussels lawyer

24-Mar-2010

Covington & Burling has benefited from an unresolved conflict of interest to hire one of the best-known competition lawyers in Brussels.
Howrey exodus continues as another seven partners jump ship

15-Feb-2011

Seven IP partners have left Howrey’s US offices in the last five days including San Francisco-based rainmaker KT Cherian.
Howrey exodus continues as Brussels partner defects to Covington

22-Dec-2010

Howrey competition specialist Damien Geradin has become the latest partner to leave the firm after joining the Brussels office of US outfit Covington & Burling.
Howrey exodus continues as Chicago chief quits for Morgan Lewis

2-Feb-2011

Three partners have left Howrey’s Chicago office to join Morgan Lewis, including office managing partner David Clough and consumer class action chief Kenneth Kliebard.
Howrey launches in Düsseldorf with hire from local firm Bardehle

12-Jul-2010

US firm Howrey is to launch a Düsseldorf office after hiring a partner from one of Germany’s top IP boutiques.
Howrey left with one City partner as Kirkland swoops

1-Mar-2011

Howrey’s London office has been reduced to only five lawyers following the departure of partner Shaun Goodman and counsel Sarah Jordan to Kirkland and Ellis’s City base.
Howrey loses another partner as Dechert swoops for antitrust lawyer

14-Dec-2010

Howrey’s partner exodus has continued with the departure of antitrust specialist Mike Cowie to the Washington office of US rivals Dechert.
Howrey suffers yet more departures as Pillsbury swoops for US litigation team

2-Mar-2011

US firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has become the latest to pick at what is left of the Howrey partnership, taking on a six-partner litigation team in the States.
Howrey vice-chair quits as Kilpatrick swoops for Taipei outpost

19-Jan-2011

Three Howrey partners have left to join US rivals Dewey & LeBoeuf, including vice-chairman Henry Bunsow, and the firm’s Taipei office has been acquired by US firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton.
Howrey west was lost

19-Jan-2011

What fresh hell is this at Howrey? Having lost its European IP practice down the back of its sofa earlier in the month, the firm has seen three more partners decide that life might be more amenable over at another firm.
Howrey's Brussels woes continue as partner defects to MoFo

1-Mar-2011

Howrey has lost another partner in Brussels with Tom McQuail off to join Morrison & Foerster (MoFo).
Howrey's London chief jumps ship to Field Fisher

7-Jan-2011

Howrey’s London managing partner Mark Hodgson has left the firm to join Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW).
Hoyland pips Aldenhoff in Simmons managing partner race

10-Dec-2010

Simmons & Simmons has elected the head of the firm’s international financial markets practice Jeremy Hoyland as its next managing partner.
HP unveils new-look global legal panel

17-Nov-2011

Baker & McKenzie, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Cravath Swaine & Moore, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, have won roles on Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) new global panel of external advisers.
HSBC hires chief legal officer as Bennett retires

16-Jan-2012

HSBC Holdings has named Stuart Levey as its first chief legal officer ahead of the retirement of general counsel Richard Bennett.
HSBC legal chief dragged into 'informal internships' row

27-May-2011

HSBC’s legal department is at the centre of the ongoing controversy surrounding ’informal’ work experience.
Human Wrongs

13-Apr-2011

When matters of public policy collide with matters of common law the judiciary is usually in the eye of storm.
Hunton & Williams hires former Pinsents privacy head

7-Sep-2011

US firm Hunton & Williams has ramped up its London data protection team with the hire of Rosemary Jay, former head of privacy at Pinsent Masons and former head of legal at the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
Hunton & Williams partner losses spark redundancy round

12-Jul-2011

US firm Hunton & Williams has confirmed it has made nine staff redundant in its London office following a spate of partner exits which have seen the firm’s City base shrink by more than 60 per cent over the past three months.
Hunton for growth

5-Apr-2011

Eight new partners in less than a year is going some for any individual practicegroup, but when a firm starts opening offices off the back of that group you know it really means business.
Hunton loses two more London partners as Chadbourne swoops

13-May-2011

Chadbourne & Parke has boosted its corporate and energy practices in London with hires from Hunton & Williams and Clifford Chance.
Hunton names UK privacy head as City chief

17-Jan-2011

Hunton & Williams has appointed UK privacy and information management head Bridget Treacy as its London managing partner.
Hunton reaffirms commitment to London in wake of partner exits

12-May-2011

Hunton & Williams’ UK managing partner has said the firm remains committed to growth in London, despite the small City office seeing three partners depart in a matter of weeks.
I know something you don’t know; if I share it with you, I will ask you to pay for it.

12-Dec-2011

I am guessing this doesn’t sound like a compelling proposition; indeed you might tell me where to put “it”and I am also guessing the sun don’t shine there.
I love it when a plan comes together

14-Apr-2010

Ten years ago, a crack legal unit was sent to Central and Eastern Europe by a firm to which they didn’t commit.
I wish I knew how to quote for jobs

20-Apr-2012

One of the most problematic and sensitive areas for any lawyer is the end of transaction billing conversation.
IBA Blog - Day Four

31-Oct-2011
IBA conference 2009

7-Oct-2009

Thousands of lawyers have converged on Madrid for the IBA conference. We have moles.
IBA Dubai slammed for erasing women's issues from agenda

7-Nov-2011

Lawyers attending last week’s International Bar Association (IBA) conference in Dubai have slammed the event after several discussion sessions were altered and one even ditched at the last minute.
ICC arbitration court opens office in New York

9-Feb-2012

The International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is opening its third international office in New York.
Iceland crisis: what Ashurst and Mishcon advised

6-Jan-2010

Weeks after asking Ashurst and Mishcon de Reya about the legal consequences of delaying or rejecting a deal to repay the UK and Netherlands almost €4bn (£3.6bn) lost in Icelandic bank Icesave, the country’s president has chosen to hold a referendum on the matter.
If the Shoosmiths fits

14-Jul-2010

Stop us if this starts to sound familiar, but have you heard the one about the firm that posted an 83 per cent profit rise in the midst of the deepest recession since the Ice Age?
If your name's not down...

14-Apr-2009

The decision to publish a list of offshore jurisdictions that fail to comply with international financial regulations will spur a flight to quality according to a number of lawyers operating in the Channel Islands.
Ilford firm Edwards Duthie advises Gaddafi regime on UK asset freezing

19-Aug-2011

Colonel Gaddafi’s regime, the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, has instructed Ilford firm Edwards Duthie to help it regain control of Libya’s embassy and frozen assets in the UK.
I'm a celebrity...

14-Apr-2010

There’s something about a good libel case that makes all other litigation look, well, just a little bit boring.
In a frenzy

17-Feb-2010

Domestic media law is evolving at a rapid pace - most recently Justice Secretary Jack Straw consulted on the possible introduction of a cap on success fees at 10 per cent (see story).
In a 'Galexy' far, far away

25-Aug-2011

In the last few years, the names of Integreon, Exigent and CPA Global have become almost as well known as the law firms they pitch to.
In good defence

22-Apr-2009

Linklaters is quids in. At the end of a case that could have seen the firm paying $55m (£37m) damages to Baltic telecoms company Levicom the firm has been ordered to pay just £5 in nominal damages (see blog).
In Lovells with the French

9-Sep-2009

Lovells is a firm that prides itself on its international reach, with a network of offices that takes in locations as diverse as Budapest, Hanoi, Munich and Tokyo.
In the money

9-May-2012

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.
In the mood for dancing

26-Jun-2009

More than 150 lawyers and academics from law firms across the CIS have converged on a plush hotel in Kiev for the fourth annual CIS LocalCounsel Forum. This blog will report direct from the conference.
In to Africa

26-Jul-2011

The days when firms insisted that the African market could be served just as well out of their European offices could be coming to an end, as Clifford Chance announces the details of its first African outpost just days after A&O did the same.
Ince energy chief resigns over "irregular financial behaviour"

30-Jul-2010

Marine firm Ince & Co’s global head of energy and offshore has resigned after being suspended over “irregular financial behaviour”.
Ince seals Supreme Court victory in Rainy Sky contracts case

3-Nov-2011

Ince & Co has scored a victory in the Supreme Court after it ruled that business sense should be applied when interpreting commercial contracts.
Ince shuns UK in five-strong promotions round

1-Mar-2012

Ince & Co has promoted five into its partnership with all the promotions made outside its UK base.
Ince teams up with Singapore firm to offer local legal advice

7-Apr-2011

Marine firm Ince & Co is to move into the domestic Singaporean market through an alliance with local firm Incisive Law.
Ince ups shipping focus with Monaco launch

11-Aug-2011

Ince & Co has launched an office in Monaco focusing on shipping and energy.
Incoming Dewey chiefs agree profit caps as firm renegotiates guarantees

2-Apr-2012

Five partners appointed to Dewey & LeBoeuf’s new senior management team have agreed to take profit share cuts of up to $3.5m (£2.2m) per year each as the US firm renegotiates its deals with star partners on guarantees.
Incoming Dickie Dees senior partner to put ABSs at centre of strategy

30-Mar-2010

Dickinson Dees’ newly elected senior partner John Marshall has said the firm’s management team will reassess its business strategy to deal with the challenges posed by alternative business structures (ABSs).
Incoming SJ Berwin senior partner eyes international expansion

16-Mar-2012

SJ Berwin’s senior partner-elect is putting international expansion at the centre of his strategy, with a US merger a “work in progress” and a Singapore launch and expansion in Dubai firmly on the agenda.
India liberalisation blow as foreign firms lose landmark case

16-Dec-2009

Ashurst, Chadbourne & Parke and White & Case have lost their long-running case in India against the Lawyers’ Collective.
India Watch: the forbidden land of ‘approximately’ 1.2 million lawyers

20-Oct-2011

By far the personal question that I get asked the most by lawyers in India and abroad is: “Why India?” You might want to ask A&O, CC, Links or Freshfields or the rest of the pack the same question.
Indian court upholds 'fly-in fly-out' practice for foreign firms

21-Feb-2012

In a landmark order made today, the Chennai High Court in India has cleared foreign lawyers from flying in and out of India to advise on foreign law, as well as clearing the way for legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies to operate in the country.
Indian law firms: Too young to live

20-Feb-2012

The main problem in the internal and external perceptions of Amarchand and Mangaldas and Suresh A. Shroff and Co.’s model and that of myriad other Indian law firms stems actually from their youth.
Indian private equity firm launches office in Singapore

3-Jun-2009

Indian private equity boutique firm Lexygen has launched an office in Singapore.
India's FoxMandal and Little & Co head to court over break-up

14-Dec-2011

Attempts by Delhi and Kolkata-headquartered FoxMandal and Bombay’s Little & Co to rescue their 2006 merger have failed, ending up in India’s High Court.
India's FoxMandal boosts partnership with Khaitan hire

2-Jun-2009

Indian firm FoxMandal Little has hired IP specialist Vinay Dwarkadas from the Mumbai office of rival Khaitan & Co.
India's Khaitan boosts partnership with Freshfields hire

27-Mar-2009

Indian firm Khaitan & Co has boosted its partnership with the hire of former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London senior associate Bharat Anand.
Inherit the Wind

16-Oct-2009

If you’re looking for a good night out why not visit the Old Vic near Waterloo station? Set during the 1920s, Kevin Spacey is in the starring role as attorney Henry Drummond, who comes to a small town in Tennessee to defend a case brought against a local school teacher, Bertram Cates, after he is arrested for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his class.
Injunct and be damned

20-May-2011

We’d like to tell you what today’s Lawyer News Daily email is about. But we can’t.
Injury time at Collyer Bristow

25-Apr-2012

Collyer Bristow has spent another day being kicked around the courts like the proverbial football in the latest box-office clash with Rangers FC’s administrators.
Inmarsat general counsel handed chief executive position

7-Jul-2011

Satellite operator Inmarsat has promoted its group general counsel Rupert Pearce to CEO, leaving the company’s senior legal position open.
Inner Temple sets face summer chaos as Belgian Olympic Committee moves in

20-Jan-2012

Concerns have been raised over the prospect of up to 50,000 visitors to the Inner Temple during the summer Olympics following a deal to allow the Belgian Olympic Committee (BOIC) to reside there for the event.
Insurance giant Prudential names new general counsel

15-Dec-2009

Prudential has appointed its interim general counsel and company secretary Margaret Coltman to the role on a permanent basis.
Insurance giant QBE prepares for first-ever European legal panel

1-Feb-2012

Australian insurer QBE is to launch a non-claims UK panel review and establish its first European panel.
Insurer QBE names new legal chief as incumbent joins MOP

25-May-2010

Commercial insurer QBE has promoted Esther Felton to head of legal replacing Adrian Williams, who is set to join Irish firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice.
Interflora v M&S: It’s anyone’s game….

23-Sep-2011

Yesterday morning, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its eagerly awaited ruling on questions referred by the High Court in relation to the keyword advertising dispute between Interflora and M&S.
International expansion drives Holman Fenwick to 10 per cent growth

24-May-2012

International expansion has boosted turnover at Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) by 10 per cent with the firm posting turnover of £123.8m at the year-end, up from £112.5m in 2010-11.
International Lease Finance Corporation hires GC from Gategroup

25-Jan-2012

US-based International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), a subsidiary of American International Group, has appointed Hooman Yazhari as general counsel.
International: Here be giants

17-Sep-2010

The past year has been notable for international mergers, with the 1 May Hogan Lovells tie-up finishing the year in style. Andrew Pugh looks at the motivations behind the moves and highlights the successes and the non-starters
Interpreting error leads to £25,000 retrial costs

17-Apr-2012

A trial at a London court collapsed last Friday after it was revealed that an interpreter employed by Applied Language Solutions had made an interpreting error.
Introduction: Chopping and changing

17-Sep-2010

First, a surprise. Although the total revenue generated by the UK’s 200 largest law firms fell by £676m last year, a 4 per cent drop to £14.94bn, these firms still generated more fees last year than they did at the height of the boom in 2007-08.
Investec introduces performance reviews for panel firms

6-Aug-2010

Specialist banking group Investec is assessing its list of legal advisers as part of a new scheme of rolling performance reviews.
IoP backs Law Soc's bid to create paralegal qualification

29-Jul-2010

The Institute of Paralegals (IoP) has pledged its support for a new study commissioned by The Law Society into the provision of a qualification for paralegals.
IP barrister struck off after admitting to deceiving court

27-Jan-2012

An IP barrister has been struck off after a disciplinary tribunal found him guilty on six charges of professional misconduct.
IP boutique Hoyng Monegier adds Nauta Dutilh partner to ranks

19-Oct-2011

Niche IP firm Hoyng Monegier has hired a team of lawyers from Benelux giant Nauta Dutilh.
IP boutique Rouse names new head of UK

20-Sep-2010

IP specialist Rouse has appointed a new head of its UK operations, with Luke Minford moving into the role after six years heading the firm’s office in China.
IPA hires Apple Retail legal chief to head legal team

22-Apr-2010

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has named Apple Retail’s European legal chief Elaine Hutton as its new head of legal.
Ireland's A&L Goodbody forges links with dozen Chinese firms

29-Mar-2012

Irish firm A&L Goodbody is seeking to gain a foothold in the Chinese legal market by inking agreements with 12 Chinese law firms to facilitate Sino-Ireland cross-border transactions.
Ireland's National Assets Management Agency unveils 64-strong legal panel

27-Jan-2010

More than 60 Irish firms, including Arthur Cox and William Fry, have been appointed to a panel to advise the National Assets Management Agency (Nama).
Irish funds boutique Dillon Eustace launches in Hong Kong

1-Sep-2011

Dublin-based firm Dillon Eustace has expanded its Asian presence by opening a new office in Hong Kong.
Irish lawyers say yes to rescue of professional mutual fund

15-Jun-2011

Irish lawyers have voted by a narrow margin in favour of bailing out professional indemnity insurer the Solicitors Mutual Defence Fund (SMDF).
Irish magic circle split on bailout of profession's insurance fund as losses mount

10-Jun-2011

Irish solicitors will vote next week on whether to rescue a struggling insurer run by lawyers to the tune of €16m.
Irish profession to get independent regulator as government prepares Bill

5-Oct-2011

Ireland’s legal profession is a step closer to independent regulation and multidisciplinary practices after the government gave approval for the publication of the Legal Services Regulation Bill.
Irregular...but not uncommon

27-May-2011

A former Ince & Co partner is under investigation by Scotland Yard after allegedly deciding that the best place for £3m of client money was his own bank account (see story).
Irwin Mitchell boss steps down from LSB after Private Eye complaint

28-May-2009

Irwin Mitchell senior partner Michael Napier has resigned from the Legal Services Board (LSB) after the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) re-opened an investigation into him and the firm.
Irwin Mitchell clinical negligence head replaces Napier as City chief

18-May-2012

Irwin Mitchell has named Alison Eddy as London managing partner, the first time a woman has held a top regional position at the firm.
Irwin Mitchell continues to build property team with LG hire

10-May-2011

Irwin Mitchell has hired former LG partner Sue Wilson as a property litigation consultant, as the firm continues to expand its property practice in London.
Irwin Mitchell expands Spanish footprint with Madrid merger

24-Sep-2010

Irwin Mitchell is stepping up its international expansion programme after acquiring Madrid firm L&E Solución Legal and Empresarial.
Irwin Mitchell fills employment chief role with Pinsents hire

7-Mar-2011

Irwin Mitchell has hired Pinsent Masons partner Tom Flannagan as its new employment chief.
Irwin Mitchell launches Bristol family group with TLT hire

26-Oct-2010

Irwin Mitchell has expanded its Bristol office with the launch of a family practice headed by Alison Hawes, who joins the firm from TLT Solicitors.
Irwin Mitchell launches PI base in Bristol

16-Feb-2010

Irwin Mitchell is to open an office in Bristol in a bid to break into the South West legal market.
Irwin Mitchell LLP accounts show dip into debt

31-Jan-2012

Irwin Mitchell saw turnover rise by 17.2 per cent at the end of the last financial year to £184.1m from £157.1m, the firm’s LLP filings show, but internal investment resulted in a rise in net debt.
Irwin Mitchell picks up personal injury WIP as Donns files for administration

23-Mar-2012

Irwin Mitchell has bought a portfolio of personal injury cases from failed Manchester firm Donns.
Irwin Mitchell posts solid 2010-11 results in run up to LSA

19-Jul-2011

Irwin Mitchell has posted 9 per cent rise in turnover for the 2010-11 financial year, up from £157m to £171m.
Irwin Mitchell promotes non-lawyer ahead of ABS conversion

18-Apr-2012

Irwin Mitchell has promoted four lawyers into its partnership, while a partner and non-lawyer have been made members of the firm, the equivalent of being awarded equity status.
Irwin Mitchell promotes two non-lawyers in partner round

28-May-2010

Irwin Mitchell has made up two non-lawyers to partnership status in this year’s round of partner promotions, marking the firm’s move to become a legal disciplinary practice (LDP).
Irwin Mitchell takes bank advice ahead of post-LSA float

20-Apr-2011

Irwin Mitchell is to convert to an alternative business structure (ABS) when the Legal Services Act (LSA) is implemented to enable it to raise tens of millions of pounds either through floatation or external investment.
Irwin Mitchell to launch City property practice with hire of former Nabarro partner

3-Feb-2010

Irwin Mitchell is to launch a real estate practice in London and has hired former Nabarro Nathanson real estate head Geoffrey Lander to build it.
Irwin Mitchell turns to PwC for first non-lawyer chair

16-Jan-2012

Irwin Mitchell has appointed former PricewaterhouseCoopers vice-chairman Glyn Barker as executive chairman designate, succeeding Michael Napier, as the firm steps up its campaign for alternative business structure (ABS) approval.
Irwin Mitchell, Herbert Smith win Costa Concordia advisory roles

24-Jan-2012

Herbert Smith, Irwin Mitchell and Italian firm Giambrone Law are among a host of firms snapping up advisory roles following the grounding of cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Italian coast earlier this month.
Is gay marriage the Marriage Foundation's blind spot?

1-May-2012

Family judge Sir Paul Coleridge is firing on all cylinders with the imminent launch of the Marriage Foundation and has launched a huge media offensive with interviews and commentary coming thick and fast.
Is libel reform now really possible?

24-Mar-2010

There is so much wrong with the law of libel that statutory intervention is required.
iSheds

30-Jun-2010

Christianity took a good couple of centuries to rise above the level of a cult and become a major socio-political force in Western civilisation.
Israel's Rosenberg ties up with Spain's Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo

5-Oct-2011

The Tel Aviv office of Israeli firm Rosenberg Keren-Polak Epelman Advocates has affiliated itself with Spanish firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo.
ISS UK general counsel takes non-US role at Weight Watchers

3-Feb-2012

Weight Watchers has appointed a new high-level in-house lawyer to focus on matters outside of the US with the hire of ISS UK general counsel Richard Reade.
It never rains but it pours

24-Jul-2009

With lawyers getting rained on from a great height (literally) we could all do with a little good news right now.
It takes Dew, baby

19-May-2011

Despite their playboy tendencies, there must be some kind of deep-seated insecurity gnawing away at the hearts of the City’s high-flying private equity lawyers.
It’s a fair cop

25-Nov-2009

Serious questions must be asked of the Office of Fair Trading after it suffered a major defeat in the Supreme Court this morning.
It’s Time To Stop Data Protection Being Cited As An Obstacle To Doing Good

14-Dec-2011

· Parents can’t take photos of their children in school plays or at sports days.· Companies can’t supply any data about people to third parties.
Italian and German firms unite for Libya launch

27-Jan-2012

Italian firm CBA Studio Legale is teaming up with German Arab law specialist Amereller to open an office in Libya.
Italian employment boutique merges with Studio Legale Persiani

19-Jan-2012

Italian employment boutique the Employment Law Plant (hELP) has merged with labour and welfare law firm Studio Legale Persiani, doubling its size.
Italian employment firms Toffoletto and De Luca Tamajo merge

2-Dec-2011

There has been a further shake-up in the Italian employment law sector with the announcement that boutiques Toffoletto e Soci and De Luca Tamajo-Boursier Niutta e Soci are to merge.
Italian firm NCTM follows Chiomenti to Shanghai

15-Sep-2010

Italian firm NCTM has been granted a licence to work in Shanghai.
Italy's Bonelli adopts three pillar strategy

15-Dec-2011

Italian firm Bonelli Erede Pappalardo is pushing its partners to innovate and work more closely together following the approval of a medium-term strategic plan.
Italy's Carnelutti opens in Moscow

31-May-2011

Italian independent Carnelutti is opening a Moscow office with the hire of two partners.
Italy's Chiomenti beefs up in Hong Kong via tie-up with Clydes spin-off

11-Feb-2010

Italian firm Chiomenti will tie-up with a Clyde & Co spin-off firm in Hong Kong as a precursor to a full merger.
Italy's d’Urso Gatti signs up six lawyer Marena Castorino team

15-Feb-2011

Italian independent d’Urso Gatti e Bianchi has snared a team of six lawyers, including two partners, from banking boutique Marena Castorino d’Angelo & Fagotto.
Italy's Gianni bolsters London presence with partner transfer

16-Dec-2011

Italy’s Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners is relocating finance partner Raimondo Premonte to London in a bid to boost its City presence.
Italy's Gianni prepares for Abu Dhabi launch

4-Jan-2010

Italian firm Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners is looking to expand its international footprint with an Abu Dhabi launch pencilled in for this year.
Italy's Grimaldi e Associati to dissolve after partner vote

13-Dec-2011

Italian independent Grimaldi e Associati is to dissolve at the end of the year, with the fate of its 60 lawyers and 40 staff unknown.
Italy's Labruna hires from Skadden and Bonelli

6-Jun-2011

Italian independent Labruna Mazziotti Segni has strengthened its antitrust team with hires from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo.
Italy's Legance boosts partnership with double promotion

11-Feb-2011

Italian firm Legance has made up two associates to partner and added four senior counsel to its ranks in this year’s promotions round.
Italy's Legance taps NCTM for litigation team

28-Feb-2011

Italian independent Legance has appointed NCTM’s Paolo Pototschnig as a partner in its litigation and arbitration team.
Italy's Pedersoli and Marena D’Angelo seal merger

7-Jul-2011

Italian independents Pedersoli e Associati and Marena D’Angelo & Fagotto have merged, creating a firm of almost 100 lawyers.
Italy's Pirola Pennuto applies for ABS licence

27-Apr-2012

An Italian firm has become one of the first from outside the UK to apply for alternative business structure (ABS) status.
It's a kinda magic

12-Mar-2010

When Linklaters secured its role in cleaning up the mess from the ill-fated party that was the final years of Lehman Brothers, the firm would have had a right to feel a little smug.
It's AllBright now

29-Apr-2010

With less than 48 hours until the Hogan-Lovells mega-merger goes live, Lovells Beijing chief Robert Lewis has nipped in to become (probably) the last partner to jump ship ahead of the union.
It's August and lawyers are having a gripe

1-Aug-2011

From a number of phone calls it would seem that work has picked up (for some practices, at least) to the point where partners and associates have had to cancel their holidays.
It's Cable vs Cleary

22-Dec-2010

If Vince Cable has really declared war on Rupert Murdoch, he’s going to have to get through the crack antitrust practice at Cleary Gottlieb first.
It's good to talk

25-Jun-2009

Many litigators argue that access to justice is hampered in London’s courts because litigation in London is just too expensive. Lord Justice Jackson will publish a report later this year outlining exactly how he feels this situation can be improved.
It's great when you integrate... Yeah!

28-Feb-2011

This one could take some following, so bear with us if you can.
It's not Kylie they're after

16-May-2011

Australia is rich in many things: soap operas, natural resources and creatures that want you dead, to name but a few. It’s not shy of a good law firm or two, either.
It's not unusual

3-Dec-2009

Last Friday, the partners of offshore firm Maples and Calder converged on the Cayman Islands.
It's time

8-Jul-2009

At what age can a firm justify retiring a partner? Age discrimination legislation is an area woefully short of legal clarification. The snowballing case that is Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes (CWJ) started off with a partner suing his firm on grounds of age discrimination. It has escalated into a battle between government and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
JAC begins recruiting for five Chancery Division judges

20-Oct-2011

Lawyers have been invited to apply for High Court judicial appointments in the Chancery division.
Jack of all trades?

7-Dec-2009

Is the age of the specialist coming to an end? Discussions are going on at Linklaters over training a new generation of ‘generalist’ associates (see story).
Jack of Kent on Privileges

20-Jul-2011

The British Constitution is a polite conversation. There are tensions, but they are rarely articulated.
Jack Straw moots end to UK libel tourism

23-Mar-2010

The eradication of libel tourism will be a key concern for the next UK parliament, with Justice Secretary Jack Straw today announcing a range of libel reforms.
Jacko family to appear as witnesses in Channel 4 libel action

9-Apr-2010

Members of the Jackson pop dynasty will be called to take the witness stand when television broadcaster Channel 4 defends a libel action in the High Court in June.
Jackson opposition

21-Apr-2010

Lawyers acting for 18 claimants who won a landmark negligence claim against Corby Borough Council have slammed Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals to move away from the conditional fee agreement (CFA) regime.
Jackson proposes sweeping reforms to cut litigation costs

14-Jan-2010

Significant reforms should be introduced to prevent litigation costs from spiralling, Lord Justice Jackson announced today as he unveiled his long-awaited review into the cost of civil litigation.
Jackson review reviewed

13-May-2009

Lord Justice Jackson gave us all some weekend reading last Friday with a 1,000-page preliminary report on his review of civil litigation costs. And what a document it is.
Jackson's pricing predicament

6-May-2009

On 8 May all eyes in the legal world will be on the preliminary report of Jackson LJ’s year-long review of litigation costs, when the terms of reference for the review will be set out for all to see.
JCHR slams Ken Clarke's 'secret justice' proposals

4-Apr-2012

A report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has condemned the Government’s ‘secret justice’ proposals, claiming they are a “radical departure” from British legal principles.
Jeantet and Links advise on £7bn French transport deal

4-Jan-2011

Jeantet Associés and Linklaters have landed roles on a French deal creating a new European transport giant.
Jeff Marlow: Stephenson Harwood

13-May-2011

What time do you start work each day? 8.30am.
Jersey lawyer jailed for role in money laundering

19-May-2011

A Jersey lawyer has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Jersey lawyers' charge-out rates rise by two-thirds since 2003

4-Oct-2010

Top-end partner rates at Jersey’s premiere firms have increased by 64 per cent since 2003, according to exclusive research for The Lawyer.
Jessica Booker: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

29-Oct-2010

How much time do you spend on Facebook each week? I’ve got an iPhone with a Facebook app, so probably too much. It must be about an hour a day. It’s how I communicate with my parents!
JMW hires from Ralli and DWF

11-Jul-2011

Manchester firm JMW has added to its IP and corporate recovery teams with partner hires from Ralli Solicitors and DWF.
JMW launches in London to be closer to celebrity clients

11-Jun-2010

Manchester-based JMW Solicitors is to open a base in London so that it can better service a celebrity client base that is unwilling to travel up north.
John Cooper QC on legal aid

22-Sep-2011

Legal blogger Charon QC talks to John Cooper QC about legal aid and, in particular, Clause 12.
Jon Beaumont: Harvey Ingram

14-Dec-2010

What time do you start work each day? I’m usually in by 8am, although this is sometimes at the whim of the train operators.
JONATHAN SIMPSON

24-May-2012

On Feb, 24 in an on line article entitled “Hunton ejects City energy partner from firm” it was wrongly stated that Jonathan Simpson had had his partnership terminated by Hunton & Williams and as a result had been escorted off the firm’s premises.
Jones Day adds to City team with hires from Simmons and Addleshaws

22-Sep-2011

Jones Day has added to its energy and financial institutions practices with partner hires from Addleshaw Goddard and Simmons & Simmons.
Jones Day advises as Connaught calls in the administrators

8-Sep-2010

Connaught, the property and environmental services group that has appointed administrators in the largest company administration since Woolworths, has turned to Jones Day to guide it through the process.
Jones Day and Slaughters advise on BHP's $39bn hostile bid for Potash

18-Aug-2010

Jones Day is advising Canadian fertiliser company Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) on the defensive of a $39bn hostile takeover bid from Anglo-Australian mining company BHP Billiton.
Jones Day and Wachtell lead as Kellogg's acquires Pringles

16-Feb-2012

Jones Day and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have landed roles on the $2.7bn (£1.7bn) sale of Pringles crisps to Kellogg’s.
Jones Day appoints DC partner to target global litigation domination

22-Nov-2011

Jones Day has appointed Washington DC partner Tim Cullen to a new role aimed at raising the US firm’s profile globally in litigation.
Jones Day bolsters Brussels trade practice with Van Bael & Bellis hire

30-Mar-2012

US firm Jones Day has expanded its trade practice in Brussels with the hire of Van Bael & Bellis partner Renato Antonini.
Jones Day boosts Paris with Norton Rose team

12-Sep-2011

Jones Day has strengthened its Paris offering with the hire of Norton Rose’s French corporate finance head, Hervé Castelnau.
Jones Day flies in US restructuring star in bid to bolster City arm

26-Apr-2011

Jones Day has appointed US restructuring star Corinne Ball as the partner tasked with spearheading its bankruptcy and distressed M&A efforts in Europe.
Jones Day hires ex-Lovells restructuring partner

29-Feb-2012

Jones Day has hired former legacy Lovells restructuring partner Matthew French from Nomura, where he held a senior M&A role.
Jones Day joins magic circle on SAV sell-off

30-Sep-2011

Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance, Jones Day and Slaughter and May all acted on the £472m sale of credit card provider SAV Credit Limited (SAV) to Värde Partners.
Jones Day London chief keeps schtum after quitting US firm

1-Apr-2011

Jones Day’s London office head Russell Carmedy is remaining tight-lipped about his next move after resigning from the US firm earlier today.
Jones Day loses employment litigation head to BLP

11-Oct-2010

Berwin Leighton Paisner has hired the head of Jones Day’s employment litigation practice.
Jones Day promotes 45 to partner, five in London

19-Dec-2011

US firm has promoted 45 lawyers into its partnership globally, with five of the total coming in London.
Jones Day scores seven-strong team from Kirkland

28-May-2009

Jones Day has boosted its US restructuring practice with the hire of a seven-lawyer team from Kirkland & Ellis.
Jones Day slams SFO as Weavering Capital fraud probe is dropped

8-Sep-2011

The Serious Fraud Office has dropped its two-year long investigation into London-based hedge fund Weavering Capital (UK) prompting complaints from Jones Day which is pursuing a civil fraud case against the hedge fund’s managers.
Jones Day targets Boston with latest office opening

22-Nov-2010

Jones Day has announced plans to open a Boston office in the New Year.
Jones Day to launch three Saudi bases with nascent association

11-Jan-2011

Jones Day has established an associate relationship with Saudi firm Al Sulaim Al Awaji & Partners Law Firm and will open three offices in the kingdom this year.
Jones Day to open São Paulo arm

18-Oct-2010

US firm Jones Day has unveiled plans to open its first office in Brazil.
Jones Day turns to Herbies for hire of Paris energy team

28-Apr-2010

Jones Day has brought in Herbert Smith partner Laurent Vandomme to head its Paris energy practice.
Jones Day, Cads win key roles on Chrysler bankruptcy

1-May-2009

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and Jones Day have secured leading roles advising on Chrysler’s bankruptcy.
Jones Day's Munich chief relocates for Düsseldorf launch

2-Feb-2012

Jones Day is relocating three partners from its German network to open an office in Düsseldorf.
Jones v Kernott - we need an overarching law of financial claims for unmarried couples.

9-Nov-2011

Constructive trusts. A topic to make law students shudder but newsworthy today because the Supreme Court released its decision on Jones v Kernott where our senior judges grapple with constructive trusts.
Judge Birss hits out as porn costs mount

27-Apr-2011

The case of ACS:Law and its campaign against people suspected of illegally downloading pornographic films took yet another turn last month.
Judge blasts Florida lawyers over 'retard' jibes

5-Jan-2011

The new year has got off to a bad start for two US lawyers after they were reprimanded for using a string of insults including “jerk”, “retard” and “scum-sucking loser”.
Judge dismisses ACS:Law file-sharing cases

14-Dec-2010

A judge has halted an attempt by copyright firm ACS:Law to secure default judgment against eight individuals accused of illegally file sharing pornographic films.
Judge found guilty of wife beating removed from judiciary

2-Nov-2011

A deputy High Court judge who beat his wife because she made him wait for his dinner has been removed from his post.
Judge LCJ backs Sumption's handling of Mohamed torture judgment

26-Feb-2010

The Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge has rejected claims that Brick Court’s Jonathan Sumption QC had attempted to interfere with a draft judgment by requesting that a paragraph of the Binyam Mohamed torture ruling be redacted.
Judgement day looms for Herbies corporate partners

7-Sep-2011

Performance comes under scrutiny as department misses budget target
Judges claimed £48k of expenses during Michaelmas

18-Mar-2010

The country’s most senior judiciary claimed a total of £47,745.23 in expenses during the Michaelmas term.
Judi Tucker, Taylor Wessing

20-May-2011

Do you see your colleagues on weekends? Only in my nightmares (only joking).
Juror who skipped duty for Maltese holiday jailed for 56 days

10-Apr-2012

A juror has been jailed for 56 days for going on holiday during a trial.
Just another manic Monday

2-Feb-2010

Monday mornings are a pain. Especially when you’re White & Case’s press office.
Justice minister moots ways of cutting taxpayer burden in employment claims

14-Dec-2011

Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly has launched a consultation aimed at lowering the £84m cost to the taxpayer of running employment tribunals.
Justice secretary moots part-time judges as means of diversifying bench

22-Nov-2011

Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has put forward proposals for more part-time judges and increased diversity at the bench as a way of modernising the judiciary.
K&L Gates adds Taylor Wessing partner to Brussels team

14-Oct-2011

K&L Gates has made its second Brussels partner hire in a month, taking Taylor Wessing partner Jeroen Smets to boost its corporate practice.
K&L Gates bulks up City corporate practice with double partner hire

8-Mar-2010

K&L Gates has strengthened its corporate capabilities in London with the hire of two partners.
K&L Gates chief blasts Norton Rose's 'Noah's ark' mergers

16-Nov-2010

The chairman of US firm K&L Gates Peter Kalis has slammed yesterday’s three-way merger between Norton Rose, Canadian firm Ogilvy Renault and South Africa’s Deneys Reitz.
K&L Gates continues expansion with Tokyo and Moscow launches

19-Jan-2010

K&L Gates has opened offices in Tokyo and Moscow one week after the firm’s chairman vowed to continue with its strategic growth.
K&L Gates expands into Doha

9-Sep-2011

US firm K&L Gates has expanded its Middle East practice with a new office in Doha, which is its second in the region and 38th worldwide.
K&L Gates expands into South America with São Paulo launch

7-Nov-2011

K&L Gates has launched an office in São Paulo, its first in South America and 39th worldwide.
K&L Gates hires Addleshaws corporate crime head

18-Jan-2012

K&L Gates has hired Addleshaw Goddard corporate crime chief Elizabeth Robertson into its equity partnership.
K&L Gates hires former Simmons UAE chief

6-Sep-2011

US firm K&L Gates has recruited former head of Simmons & Simmons’ Middle East Paul Simpson as a finance partner in its Dubai office.
K&L Gates hires McDermott competition partner for London office

21-Jan-2010

K&L Gates has hired the founder of McDermott Will & Emery’s competition practice Scott Megregian as a partner in its London office.
K&L Gates installs Eversheds partner as first Doha lateral

2-May-2012

K&L Gates has made its first partner hire in Doha since opening an office there in September 2011.
K&L Gates launches in Italy with MSP merger

2-Feb-2012

K&L Gates has today launched its first office in Italy following the US firm’s merger with Milan firm Marini Salsi Picciau Studio Legale (MSP).
K&L Gates London revenues rise 10 per cent as global growth stalls

16-Feb-2012

K&L Gates has posted record financial results for its London office as its global figures show a drop in average profits per equity partner (PEP) of 4.3 per cent.
K&L Gates makes up 30 to partnership ranks

24-Jan-2012

K&L Gates has promoted 30 lawyers from 17 offices to its partnership with one new partner coming in London.
K&L Gates opens 40th office with South Carolina hires

12-Dec-2011

US firm K&L Gates has opened its 40th office with the launch of an office in South Carolina following a seven-partner exodus from Parker Poe Adam & Bernstein.
K&L Gates opens in Brussels with McDermott hires

1-Feb-2011

K&L Gates has opened an office in Brussels with the hire of two partners from McDermott Will & Emery.
K&L Gates posts small rises in revenue and PEP

11-Feb-2011

K&L Gates has posted increases in both revenue and average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2010 financial year.
K&L Gates promotes one City lawyer in 44-strong round

26-Jan-2011

K&L Gates has underlined its global coverage by naming 44 new partners across three continents in this year’s partnership promotions round.
K&L gates sees rise in City revenue and profit

11-Mar-2011

K&L Gates has posted another year of rising revenue and profit in its London office, reporting a 6 per cent rise to $46.3m.
K&L Gates smashes through $1bn turnover mark

15-Jan-2010

K&L Gates has broken through the $1bn revenue barrier for the first time.
K&L Gates swells Frankfurt team with addition of litigation partner

11-Jan-2012

K&L Gates has added a litigation partner to its Frankfurt team, bringing the number of partners in the office to 10.
K&L Gates swoops for ten-lawyer Clifford Chance Tokyo team

5-May-2011

K&L Gates has boosted its Tokyo office with the hire of 10 lawyers from Clifford Chance.
K&L Gates to pay for staff to join 'Olympic army'

10-Aug-2010

K&L Gates lawyers or staff members who successfully apply to become Olympic volunteers will be allowed to take time of work, with the firm footing the bill for their hours.
K&L Gates turns to Clifford Chance for New York corporate hire

26-May-2009

K&L Gates has hired Clifford Chance US corporate partner David Bernstein for its New York office.
K&L's empire state of mind

1-Feb-2011

Empire building hasn’t really been a fashionable phrase ever since Kaiser Wilhelm decided that feathered Prussian military head-dress would go down a storm in sub-Saharan Africa.
Kaim Todner replaces Bindmans as St Paul's eviction deadline nears

17-Nov-2011

Bindmans have been replaced as the solicitors advising the protestors occupying space outside St Paul’s Cathedral by public order specialists Kaim Todner Solicitors.
Kalis' b-Ark

16-Nov-2010

Norton Rose’s second stealth merger in as many years is the talk of the town (see story). Not all of it is good.
Kate Ferguson: Barlow Lyde & Gilbert

18-Mar-2011

What time do you start work each day? Between 9am and 9.30am - earlier if I’m interviewing.
Kaye Scholer hires partner duo from Winston & Strawn

3-Feb-2011

Kaye Scholer has hired two litigation partners from Winston & Strawn’s New York office.
Kaye Scholer launches in Silicon Valley with latest White & Case defector

1-Mar-2010

Kaye Scholer is to launch an office in Silicon Valley with the latest partner to defect from White & Case at the helm.
Kaye Scholer makes double partner hire from Simmons Frankfurt

24-Jun-2011

Two Simmons & Simmons Germany partners are leaving the firm to join Kaye Scholer’s banking and finance practice in Frankfurt.
Kazakh billionaire Ablyazov in contempt, High Court rules

16-Feb-2012

The High Court today ruled that Kazakh billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov has been in contempt of court orders because he failed to disclose the full extent of his assets.
Keating turns to 3-4 South Square for hire of clerking director

27-Jan-2010

The senior practice director at 3-4 South Square is to leave the set to join Keating Chambers’ as director of clerking.
Keeping DLA occupied

23-Nov-2011

For the past month or so the news has been dominated by stories about protest groups occupying this that and the other - from St Paul’s to the Inns of Court (@OccupyTheInns).
Keeping it simple

1-Mar-2010

In this year’s offshore survey The Lawyer excluded firms’ fiduciary lawyers and partners to get a better reflection of what’s happening with the legal side of their businesses (see story).
Keeping up with the Joneses

30-Mar-2011

It is not in the public interest for expert witnesses who appear in court to be immune from law suits, the Supreme Court ruled today.
Kemp Little maintains margin despite fall in revenue

16-Jul-2010

Technology boutique Kemp Little’s turnover dipped slightly last year from £7.1m to £6.85m.
Ken Clarke: law and lawyers among the UK's "greatest exports"

14-Sep-2011

Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke has launched the Legal Services Action plan aimed at promoting London as the legal capital of the world.
Kennedys breaks £100m barrier with 12 per cent growth

23-May-2012

Kennedys has announed preliminary growth figures of 11.6 per cent at the 2011-12 year end, breaking through the £100m barrier with turnover of £108m.
Kennedys bucks industry trend by raising salaries

25-Mar-2009

Insurance firm Kennedys is to abandon its bonus scheme in favour of salary rises for all, The Lawyer has learned.
Kennedys gains Dublin office via merger with Irish associate firm

1-Jun-2011

Kennedys has formally merged with its Dublin associate office O’Hare O’Connor Walshe (OHOCW) to create Kennedys Ireland.
Kennedys launches in Portugal via merger with alliance firm

2-Mar-2011

Kennedys has merged with its Portugal-based associate office Almeida & Athayde to launch Kennedys Portugal.
Kennedys' mergers pay off with 30 per cent revenue hike

16-Jun-2009

Consecutive years of major investment has paid off for commercial litigation firm Kennedys, which has reported a 30.7 per cent jump in turnover at the 2008-09 year end.
Kennedys raids Halliwells for Sheffield insurance launch

18-Dec-2009

Insurance firm Kennedys is set to launch a Sheffield office after raiding Halliwells for eight partners and a total of 70 staff.
Kennedys reverses decision on banning bonuses

18-May-2010

Kennedys is to pay bonuses at the financial year-end after telling lawyers last year that they would no longer receive the package.
Kennedys sees turnover growth slow after two strong years

23-Jun-2011

Growth has slowed at insurance firm Kennedys for the first time in three years with the firm posting a 10.4 per cent rise in global revenues from £88.2m to £97.4m.
Kennedys senior partner wins fourth term in charge

13-Jan-2012

Kennedys has endorsed the reelection of senior partner Nick Thomas to a fourth consecutive term at the helm after he stood unopposed.
Kennedys targets Latin America with Miami launch

23-Sep-2010

Kennedys has opened an office in Miami to target insurance work emerging from the Latin American markets.
Kent in-housers seek to cut £3m of legal costs by 2014

25-Apr-2012

The legal team at Kent County Council (KCC) has launched a programme aimed at cutting legal costs by £3m before April 2014.
Kent legal chief slams call to cut certificate fees

20-Mar-2009

Kent County Council legal chief Geoff Wild (pictured) has hit out at a campaign to reduce practising certificate fees for local government lawyers.
Keoghs opens third Bolton office ahead of casualty claims expansion

26-Apr-2012

Greater Manchester insurance specialists Keoghs has opened a third office in Bolton s it seeks to expand its casualty claims team.
Keoghs seeks external investment from Bowmark Capital

28-Feb-2012

Greater Manchester firm Keoghs is in talks with private equity firm Bowmark Capital about taking external investment.
Kerman & Co merges with Max Bitel Greene

18-Jan-2012

Full-service West End firm Kerman & Co has merged with sports and media boutique Max Bitel Greene (MBG).
Kester Cunningham prepares to seal merger with Ashton Graham

5-Jan-2011

The partnerships of East Anglia firms Kester Cunningham John and Ashton Graham are expected to vote on a proposed merger within the next four to six weeks.
Keystone Law solicitor targeted by stalker

23-Mar-2012

A police investigation is underway into a suspected stalker targeting Keystone Law solicitor Graeme Francis.
Khaitan and Bharucha lead on Blackstone Group's India rail acquisition

11-Nov-2009

Indian firms Khaitan & Co and Bharucha & Partners have advised on The Blackstone Group’s acquisition of a Rs3bn (£40m) stake in logistics company Gateway Rail Freight.
Kicking the tyres on lateral hires

25-Oct-2011

One of my very good friends is something of an expert on classic cars (and a damned good lawyer to boot), and over a glass of Malbec the other day – we got onto the subject of lateral partner recruitment and how the partner market was quite similar to the classic car market.
Kilpatrick seals merger with US IP boutique

4-Nov-2010

US firm Kilpatrick Stockton yesterday confirmed it is to merge with IP boutique Townsend & Townsend & Crew.
King & Spalding adds Bracewell & Giuliani partner to London team

7-Apr-2011

Global firm King & Spalding is continuing to bulk up its corporate practice with the addition of Bracewell & Giuliani partner Martin Hunt.
King & Spalding adds five lawyers to Middle East practice

4-Oct-2011

King & Spalding has bulked up its presence in the Middle East with the addition of five lawyers to its offices in Dubai, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.
King & Spalding appoints ex-Hogan London chief to global executive

12-Dec-2011

US firm King & Spalding has appointed London partner Garry Pegg to its 10-person policy committee, effective 1 January 2011.
King & Spalding bolsters NY energy practice with Milbank hire

17-Aug-2010

King & Spalding has hired an energy partner from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in New York.
King & Spalding City partner quits for Herbert Smith

30-Jun-2011

Herbert Smith has strengthened its London construction and engineering practice with the hire of partner James Bremen from King & Spalding.
King & Spalding expands in Paris with Freshfields property team

1-May-2012

US firm King & Spalding has made the first major hire for its Paris office since opening there in 2009, picking up a seven-strong team from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
King & Spalding hires Norton Rose's Dubai capital markets head

4-Nov-2010

King & Spalding has beefed up its Dubai office with the hire of Norton Rose debt capital markets chief Rizwan Kanji.
King & Spalding hires partner duo from Bird & Bird

12-Mar-2012

King & Spalding has boosted its London office with the hire of two litigation partners from Bird & Bird.
King & Spalding makes up one London partner in eight-strong round

4-Nov-2010

King & Spalding has made up eight partners including London-based tax associate John Taylor.
King & Spalding opens in Moscow with hires from HogLove, White & Case

10-May-2011

King & Spalding has opened a base in Moscow after hiring a team of lawyers from Hogan Lovells and White & Case.
King & Spalding posts double-digit PEP increase

10-Feb-2012

King & Spalding (K&S) has posted its financial results for 2011, revealing a higher than current average increase in both revenue and average profits.
King & Spalding prepares for Singapore launch

10-Aug-2010

US firm King & Spalding has announced plans to open its first office in Asia.
King & Wood and Mallesons ink game-changing combination

15-Dec-2011

After a year of negotiations King & Wood and Mallesons Stephen Jaques will today seal their tie-up deal, which will create a three-partnership Asia-centric international firm.
King & Wood and Mallesons iron out confidentiality issues ahead of merger

28-Feb-2012

King & Wood and Mallesons have addressed perceived client confidentiality issues ahead of their 1 March merger by pledging to keep the Chinese partnership out of the firm’s network system.
King & Wood and Mallesons plan for post-merger globalisation

23-Nov-2011

Mallesons Stephen Jaques and King & Wood are are likely to target further deals if their proposed merger wins the backing of their respective partnerships.
King & Wood China partner quits in row over US citizenship

14-May-2012

King & Wood Mallesons Shanghai capital markets partner Stanley Cha has left the firm amid accusations that he was illegally practising PRC law.
King & Wood Mallesons &... Someone Else

21-May-2012

Time was that two firms looking at a merger that would create a £150m player in the UK market would have caused some excitement. But now it seems that any kind of expansion within the UK is met with the response: “They should be looking at China”.
King & Wood Mallesons looks West for international expansion

21-May-2012

King & Wood Mallesons is on the lookout for tie-up partners in the US and UK as part of its bid to become a leading international firm, with Nixon Peabody and SJ Berwin touted by market commentators as early contenders.
King & Wood partners give their backing to Mallesons deal

5-Dec-2011

Chinese firm King & Wood has voted in favour of merging with Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques, giving the green light for the deal to go ahead next year.
King Kong?

5-Feb-2010

Does the decision by Russia’s aluminium giant Rusal to list in Hong Kong rather than London mean a shift in IPOs to the east? Dimitry Afanasiev looks at the evidence.
Kings Bench barrister held in US over alleged $10m tax fraud

14-May-2012

A British barrister is being held in a Manhattan jail accused of aiding a $10m tax fraud.
Kings Chambers adds Exchange silk to its ranks

30-Nov-2010

North West set Kings Chambers has added David Casement QC to its membership.
Kingsley Napley drafted in to represent alleged UBS rogue trader

19-Sep-2011

Kingsley Napley partner Louise Hodges has been instructed to represent Kweku Adoboli, the trader charged with fraud and false accounting at Swiss bank UBS.
Kingsley Napley partner advises Rebekah Brooks over hacking charges

15-May-2012

Kingsley Napley partner Stephen Parkinson is acting for former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie after they were this morning charged with perverting the course of justice.
Kingsley Napley promotes two partners as part of regulatory launch

19-May-2011

Kingsley Napley has launched a four-partner regulatory and professional discipline team, making up two new partners in the process.
Kirkland & Ellis launches in Shanghai

1-Sep-2009

Kirkland & Ellis is to open in Shanghai in November to create its second Asia office.
Kirkland & Ellis makes up three to London salaried partnership

16-Sep-2011

US firm Kirkland & Ellis has promoted three London corporate lawyers to its salaried partnership in a global round of 74 partner promotions.
Kirkland & Ellis's City chief quits for private equity role

20-Jan-2012

The head of Kirkland & Ellis’s London office Jim Learner is leaving the firm to join a US private equity house.
Kirkland adds Shearman high yield star to City team

13-Apr-2011

Kirkland & Ellis has scooped Shearman & Sterling high yield partner Ward McKimm in its latest foray into the lateral hiring market.
Kirkland doubles City trainee intake as first batch qualifies

3-Jun-2011

Kirkland & Ellis is planning to double its trainee intake as the first-ever group of graduates who joined the firm’s London office are all offered newly qualified (NQ) positions.
Kirkland eyes greater ties with China's Jun He as Shanghai partner joins PRC firm

6-Dec-2011

A China-based Kirkland & Ellis corporate partner has left the firm at the end of his three-year contract to return to his former firm Jun He.
Kirkland gains three City partners in latest promotions round

14-Oct-2009

Kirkland & Ellis has added three to its London-based partnership in its latest round of promotions.
Kirkland in major Hong Kong raid on Skadden, Latham and A&O

9-Aug-2011

Kirkland & Ellis has made a dramatic push into the Hong Kong corporate market with the hire of seven partners from a trio of top tier rivals.
Kirkland joins advisers moving in on Misys

20-Feb-2012

Kirkland & Ellis has snatched a role for a US private equity group muscling in on banking software company Misys’ agreed merger with Swiss rival Temenos.
Kirkland launches Middle East practice group

21-Jul-2011

Kirkland & Ellis has launched a Middle East practice group with the rehire of former Kirkland associate Kamran Bajwa, although the firm has no plans to open in the Middle East at present.
Kirkland partner leaves to launch PE team at Duane Morris

14-May-2012

US firm Duane Morris is launching a private equity practice in Europe following the hire of Kirkland & Ellis partner Pierfrancesco Carbone.
Kirkland prepares for City succession ahead of Learner's departure

23-Jan-2012

Kirkland & Ellis moved rapidly last week to calm fears of turbulence in its City office after the shock resignation of London head Jim Learner last Thursday.
Kirkland raids Ashurst for private equity partner duo

1-Jun-2010

Ashurst has lost two corporate partners to the City office of US firm Kirkland & Ellis.
Kirkland takes first Cinven role since scooping client from Ashurst

29-Feb-2012

Kirkland & Ellis’s London team has won its first corporate role acting for private equity house Cinven after winning the client from Ashurst.
Kirkland's happy NQs

6-Jan-2012

Kirkland & Ellis is known for throwing money at projects - the eight-figure amounts bandied about as the price of its Hong Kong raid on A&O, Latham and Skadden in the summer being just one example - so it’s only natural that the US firm has upped its salary for newly-qualified (NQ) London lawyers.
Kirkland's White set for global management role

18-May-2012

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.
Kirklees Council leads appointment of West Yorks barristers panel

19-May-2011

Five West Yorkshire councils are set to appoint a panel of barristers as part of an arrangement worth up to £10m.
Knowles under pressure after DLA kept in dark over personal LawVest stake

27-Feb-2012

Tony Angel puts matter at top of agenda for firm’s Tuesday board meeting after partners express outrage
Knowles-finger

27-Jan-2011

“You cannot ignore Australia,” said DLA Piper’s very own Captain Cook Nigel Knowles, pointing informatively at a massive map of the southern hemisphere on the wall behind him.
Kobre & Kim launches BVI base to service Asia clients

16-May-2012

US litigation firm Kobre & Kim is launching an office in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in response to increasing work in the jurisdiction from Asian clients.
Kobre & Kim opens in Hong Kong with Morgan Stanley hire

22-Nov-2010

US trial lawyers Kobre & Kim launched its Hong Kong office last week, with the new practice being led by Morgan Stanley’s former executive director in Hong Kong William McGovern.
Kon weighs in as new SJ Berwin chief

15-Mar-2012

It’s the Cheltenham Festival of law firms: thoroughbreds charging through the foggy sun, underdogs giving it a go, the odd dark horse enticing a few bets.
Kraft star to relocate to Dubai as Clifford Chance ups ante on partner mobility

13-Jul-2010

Clifford Chance has continued its policy of relocating senior partners to key jurisdictions away from London with the secondment of corporate dealmaker Guy Norman to Dubai
Kramer Levin snares ex-Credit Agricole GC for Paris office

16-Sep-2011

US firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel has picked up the former general counsel of French bank Crédit Agricole, Hubert de Vauplane, as a partner in its Paris office.
Kremlin sacks another official in wake of lawyer’s jail death

17-Dec-2009

Another high-ranking Russian government official has been sacked following the investigation into the death of Russian Lawyer Sergey Magnitsky.
L&E Global adds Norwegian firm to employment alliance

16-Apr-2012

Employment alliance L&E Global has recruited Norwegian firm Storeng Beck & Due Lund as its 13th member firm.
L&E Global adds Polish, Canadian firms to alliance

16-Sep-2011

Employment law alliance L&E Global has expanded into Poland and Canada with the addition of two local firms.
L&E Global continues to grow with addition of Austria's Gerlach

10-May-2012

Employment law alliance L&E Global has continued its expansion with the addition of Austrian firm Gerlach Rechtsanwälte - its 14th member.
L&E Global moves into Asia Pacific with addition of Oz firm Harmers

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International employment law alliance L&E Global has admitted Australia’s Harmers Workplace Lawyers to its membership, as the organisation expands into Asia Pacific.
L&E Global moves into Asia Pacific with addition of Oz firm Harmers

25-Oct-2011

International employment law alliance L&E Global has admitted Australia’s Harmers Workplace Lawyers to its membership, as the organisation expands into Asia Pacific.
Lablaw opens new office in Padua

6-Oct-2011

Italian employment boutique Lablaw has expanded into Padua through bolting on a three-lawyer team headed by partner Stefano Barillari.
Lablaw swoops for Carnelutti's employment chief

9-Nov-2011

Italian firm Carnelutti Studio Legale has lost its employment head Olimpio Stucchi to growing labour law boutique Lablaw.
Lady Hale leads panel making feminist readings of court judgments

17-Oct-2011

A panel of distinguished female lawyers and legal scholars gathered at Norton Rose’s InterLaw Diversity Forum event on Thursday 13 October to discuss judgments from a feminist lawyer’s point of view.
Lambs to the Slaughters?

4-Oct-2010

Unconfirmed reports of porcine aviators over Finsbury Square this morning remain, sadly, unconfirmed.
Lance Sapsford: Addleshaw Goddard

21-Jan-2011

What time do you start work each day? It varies - sometimes travel means a pre-6am start, sometimes taking the kids to school means not getting in until 10am.
Land Securities turns to SABMiller for first-ever legal chief

19-Oct-2010

FTSE100 property company Land Securities has appointed its first group general counsel and company secretary.
Landing with a bump

14-Dec-2009

Picture the scene: you’re young, energetic and full of ambition to become a lawyer. You’re just back from Peru after taking a gap year to teach English.
Landmark and 3 Fleet Street score victory in immigration case

13-Oct-2011

A five-strong panel of Supreme Court justices has dismissed the Home Secretary’s appeal to increase the spouse visa age from 18 to 21.
Landmark barrister defeats appeal over Dale Farm evictions

22-Mar-2012

Basildon Borough Council’s in-house lawyers have successfully defended the latest Dale Farm legal action in the Court of Appeal.
Landmark Chambers wins case for Shoesmith over Baby P sacking

27-May-2011

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld a claim brought by the former head of children’s services at Haringey Council, Sharon Shoesmith, against former Secretary of State for Schools Ed Balls and the council.
Langstaff J named as head of Employment Appeals Tribunal

30-Sep-2011

Mr Justice Langstaff has been appointed head of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge.
Lateral re-thinking

14-Feb-2011

A cautionary tale for any hopeless romantics bravely battling against the queues at Clinton’s this Valentine’s Day: the first flush of love’s young dream may not always last.
Latham and Olswang lead as Searchlight buys stake in Hunter wellies

25-Jan-2012

Latham & Watkins and Olswang were the legal advisors on the sale of a majority stake in Hunter Boot Limited to US private equity house Searchlight Capital Partners.
Latham bolsters China presence with Beijing launch

4-Jan-2010

US firm Latham & Watkins has opened a base in Beijing, meaning its presence in the region now numbers five offices.
Latham bolsters Milan base with addition of Degli Occhi e Associati

5-Dec-2011

Latham & Watkins has filled a gap in its Italian capabilities by bolting on litigation boutique Degli Occhi e Associati.
Latham launches in Saudi with former White & Case sponsor

6-Apr-2010

Latham & Watkins has officially opened in Saudi Arabia, launching its fourth office in the Middle East.
Latham loses star M&A partner to Greenberg

7-Jan-2010

Latham & Watkins has lost renowned M&A partner David Schwartzbaum to Greenberg Traurig in New York.
Latham promotes one City lawyer in latest round

30-Mar-2011

Latham & Watkins has promoted six counsel to partner including London-based restructuring specialist Holly Neavill.
Latham promotes three City partners in robust global round

18-Nov-2010

Latham & Watkins has promoted three to its London partnership as part of a 22-strong global round.
Latham promotes two in London as part of 23-strong global round

30-Nov-2009

The number of lawyers making partner in Latham & Watkins’ London office have dropped from six last year down to two this year.
Latham puts associate salaries back on track a year after freeze

5-Jan-2010

Latham & Watkins has reversed the salary freeze it introduced in December 2008, a sign that the worst may be over for the US firm.
Latham saw PEP rise but revenue fall in "tough" 2009

17-Feb-2010

Latham & Watkins has posted a 5 per cent rise in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009 financial year but a similar drop in total revenue.
Latham scoops Ashurst partner for City corporate push

13-Jan-2010

Latham & Watkins has bolstered its London corporate group with the capture of private equity specialist Graeme Ward from Ashurst.
Latham snares four-partner team from White & Case

29-Jan-2010

Latham & Watkins has swooped on rival White & Case for a four-partner team of bank finance and capital markets partners.
Latham taps Baker Botts for Houston energy partner

5-Apr-2011

Latham & Watkins has appointed Baker Botts corporate partner Ryan Maierson to its recently opened energy industry practice in Houston.
Latham under fire for holding cooking event for female network

20-Apr-2012

Latham & Watkins’ Women Enriching Business (WEB) programme has caused a stir after arranging a canapé-making evening for its members.
Latham's City office matches global performance with 12 per cent revenue rise

24-Feb-2012

Latham’s City office has reported a 12 per cent increase in turnover for the 2011 financial year after securing a roster of multi-billion pound deals last year.
Latham's cooking up a storm

20-Apr-2012

It’s difficult to knock a firm for its efforts to promote gender diversity. But not impossible, so here goes.
Latimer Lee partner defends Man U fan in dispute over Man City expansion

19-Mar-2012

Regional property lawyer Chris Platt of Manchester-based Latimer Lee is leading a land dispute between Manchester City Football Club and a fan of rival side Manchester United.
Launching The UK Law Blogging Review

17-Oct-2011

From this Friday I will be doing a weekly round-up of UK legal blogging for The Lawyer. This will not be some earnest clinical exercise based on aggregate counts of page views, number of commenters, or any other statistical basis or social media metric.
Law Blogs #4 – 14 November 2011

14-Nov-2011

From why lawyers are dreadful to work with to “military hunks” calendars.
Law Blogs #5 – 12 December 2011

12-Dec-2011

Two great advantages provided by legal blogging, and a superb “Christmas contract”
Law Blogs Review #1: 21 October 2011

21-Oct-2011

Why should you bother with legal blogging? Why not just stick with the trade journals, case reports, Westlaw updates, free promotional emails, and any legal news in the newspapers? Why add to the burden of reading? Surely there is enough legal information?
Law Blogs review #2: 28 October 2011

28-Oct-2011

There was some outstanding legal blogging this week, and two posts stand out in particular.
Law Blogs review #3: 4 November 2011

4-Nov-2011

David Allen Green reviews blogs on legal aid cuts, Tabak, Assange, Kiss-and-Tell stories, Hugh Grant, cycling QCs, legalising brothels, and The Joy of Sex…
Law firm partner loses retirement age appeal

29-Jul-2010

Firms can legitimately retire partners at 65 as long as the action is justified, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
Law firms forced to wait for ABS approval as LSA comes into force

6-Oct-2011

The Legal Services Act (LSA) comes into force today (6 October) but law firms will not be able to become multi-disciplinary partnerships because the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is not authorised to regulate them.
Law firms win judicial review case against LSC

20-Dec-2010

Two law firms, Public Interest Lawyers and RMNJ, have successfully fought a judicial review case against the Legal Services Commission (LSC).
Law grads arrested in Brazil over insurance fraud

30-Jul-2009

A round the world trip for two UK law graduates has ended in disaster after the duo were arrested in Brazil over an alleged insurance claim.
Law Soc advice: Don't study law

28-Jul-2009

Doublethink: the act of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs.
Law Soc and Bar Council urged to take action over Solicitors from Hell site

18-Apr-2011

The Law Society and Bar Council should investigate defamatory comments made on the Solicitors from Hell website to find an effective route of redress for firms named on the website, the High Court has said.
Law Soc and Eversheds named top legal Superbrands

24-Feb-2010

The Law Society has the strongest brand in the legal market while Eversheds has the strongest law firm brand, according to research published by branding organisation Superbrands.
Law Soc loses patience with Solicitors from Hell website

16-Aug-2011

The Law Society has given Solicitors from Hell owner Rick Kordowski until 2 September to remove his website from the internet otherwise it will take High Court action against him for defamation, harassment and breach of the Data Protection Act.
Law Soc moots class action against Solicitors from Hell website

11-May-2011

The Law Society has consulted leading media silk Hugh Tomlinson QC on potentially launching a legal action against consumer website Solicitors from Hell.
Law Society reduces cost of practising certificate

14-Jul-2011

The Law Society Council has cut the cost of the solicitors practising certificate by 23 per cent, knocking it down from £428 to £328.
Law Society seeks to become ABS regulator

23-Mar-2011

The Law Society is to seek approval to become a designated licensing authority for alternative business structures (ABS).
Law Society to students: legal career may be too risky

28-Jul-2009

The Law Society is set to launch a campaign warning students to think twice about embarking on a career in law.
Law Soc's Hellish 'libel'

2-Sep-2011

Satan or Lucifer, Beelzebub or Apollyon (which as any fule kno, is the Greek name for the angel of the bottomless pit, meaning destroyer).
Law: In a class of its own

21-Jul-2009

In-housers have had it pretty much all their way of late, with strict pitch criteria meaning they can dictate terms and even get their law firms to do some menial work for their companies. It looks like that balance of power is not going unchallenged, however.
Lawes wins Freshfields senior partner race

30-Sep-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has elected former financial institutions co-head Will Lawes as its next senior partner, replacing incumbents Konstantin Mettenheimer and Guy Morton as the sole holder of the role.
Lawrence Graham eyes international expansion with Singapore tie-up

17-Feb-2012

Lawrence Graham (LG) is set to launch an office in Singapore after forging an alliance with a local firm.
Lawrence Graham welcomes four lawyers to partnership

18-Apr-2012

Lawrence Graham (LG) is making up four new partners in its 2012 promotions round, double the number that made the grade last year.
Lawyer 2B/BPP essay competition winners announced

25-Mar-2009

Congratulations to Sonia Burgess and Joanna Saunders who emerged victorious from the gruelling selection process in the annual Lawyer 2B/BPP Law School essay competition.Saunders who has a degree in European Studies and Modern Languages from the University of Manchester, and is currently working for the Charity Commission, scooped a free place on BPP’s Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) in London.Burgess, who won a place on the Legal Practice Course, is currently ...
Lawyer for terror suspects hits out at ECHR decision in extradition case

10-Apr-2012

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s legal advisers have secured a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that will see the extradition of five alleged terrorists, prompting the lawyer representing three of them to slam the judgment.
Lawyer settles solicitorsfromhell.co.uk libel case

28-May-2010

A lawyer who instructed Carter Ruck to launch a libel claim against a website that claimed to ’name and shame’ underperforming lawyers has settled his dispute.
Lawyer who advised on Rangers FC takeover takes role at Segens

11-Apr-2012

Former Collyer Bristow partner Gary Withey, who advised businessman Craig Whyte on his takeover of Rangers Football Club, has emerged as a consultant at City boutique Segens Solicitors.
Lawyers accused of insider dealing to challenge FSA's case

5-Aug-2009

The partners at the centre of an insider trading investigation have opted for an old style committal hearing, signalling that they intend to challenge the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over whether there is enough evidence to bring the case to trial.
Lawyers and business plans <sigh>

25-Nov-2011

Four or five years ago, I recall going to a law firm cocktail party. The firm – now no longer with us – was in the ‘mid-tier’ (= covers a multitude of sins), and had a respectable name. The chief executive excitedly told me that at the recent partners’ conference, the firm had approved its first ever business plan.
Lawyers at the ready as City of London resumes Occupy LSX action

15-Nov-2011

The City of London Corporation has resumed its legal action against protestors occupying space around St Paul’s Cathedral after a two-week hiatus.
Lawyers back Jack Straw's bid to ban referral fees

28-Jun-2011

Personal injury lawyers have applauded former justice secretary Jack Straw’s calls to ban referral fees, saying the practice does not benefit law firms or their clients.
Lawyers back London as seat of European patents court

13-Dec-2011

UK lawyers are backing London as the home of the new European patents court, saying that the capital is a perfect fit.
Lawyers charged with insider dealing to stand trial

22-Sep-2009

The two lawyers charged with insider trading by the FSA have been committed to stand trial at the Crown Court.
Lawyers enjoy decade of post-Enron success

2-Dec-2011

Ten years ago today Enron, which was the US’s seventh largest company, filed for bankruptcy after a creatively planned accounting scam came to the fore.
Lawyers from BLG, Latham and MoFo launch fixed-fee tech boutique

4-Jan-2011

Five senior City lawyers have launched an outsourcing and technology boutique today, which pledges to axe the billable hour.
Lawyers from Cleary and Darrois Villey set up French independent

12-Jan-2012

A team of lawyers from French independent Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s Paris office have split off to set up a corporate boutique.
Lawyers from DLA and Eversheds launch Madrid boutique

26-Feb-2010

A group of lawyers from the Spanish offices of DLA Piper and Eversheds have spun-off to launch a boutique in Madrid.
Lawyers give mixed response to launch of new Competition and Markets Authority

15-Mar-2012

Antitrust lawyers have given a cautious welcome to the creation of a single super-regulatory competition body that will crack down on cartels.
Lawyers give mixed response to Woodcock age discrimination ruling

23-Mar-2012

Employment lawyers have given a mixed response to an eagerly anticipated Court of Appeal (CoA) ruling on whether discrimination can be justified by saving costs.
Lawyers give muted response to legislative plans in Queen's Speech

10-May-2012

Competition reform, secret courts and changes to defamation pricked the ears of lawyers during the Queen’s Speech yesterday.
Lawyers give Osborne RMB plan stamp of approval

16-Jan-2012

The UK Treasury’s plans to make London the leading international centre for trading China’s currency, the renminbi (RMB), have been welcomed by finance lawyers.
Lawyers in Bangkok

21-May-2010

Thankfully it seems that the week of protests and violence that has left 50 people dead in Bangkok has come to an end and some semblance of normality is returning.
Lawyers laugh openly at Northern fool

23-Jul-2009

The legal profession was once again thrown into total disarray in the minds of no-one at all following a damning report which revealed the shocking truth that law continues, as it has done for centuries, to be dominated by rich, white, middle-class men.
Lawyers mourn death of Lord Bingham

13-Sep-2010

The Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge has led tributes to Tom Bingham who died on Saturday, aged 76.
Lawyers named in FSA insider dealing case acquitted

3-Jun-2010

The two lawyers accused by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) of insider dealing have been acquitted at Southwark Crown Court.
Lawyers on the catwalk

23-Sep-2009

Designer Mark Fast may have stunned London Fashion Week by using size 14 models, but it seems that the UK general counsel of insurance giant Zurich remains committed to a more waif-like look.
Lawyers predict changes to privacy pay-outs after News of the World scandal

20-Jul-2009

Lawyers are gearing up for potential changes to invasion of privacy compensation in the wake of the News International phone hacking scandal.
Lawyers share in Lehman advisory bill of over £1bn

6-Mar-2012

Law firms and consultants have profited from Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy to the tune of almost $1.6bn (£1.02bn), according to the latest filings – making it the largest bankruptcy in history by a wide margin.
Lawyers should wake up to social media, urges PR agency

7-Dec-2010

Solicitors have yet to wake up to the value of social networking, with firms tending to prefer “traditional” to web 2.0 approaches.
Lawyers slam "populist" Takeover Panel consultation

25-Feb-2010

M&A lawyers have reacted with scepticism to the announcement that the Takeover Panel is to launch a consultation on the rules governing hostile takeover bids.
Lawyers slam government plans to restrict unfair dismissal claims

26-Oct-2011

Employment lawyers have hit back at a leaked government paper that proposes abolishing unfair dismissal claims for ’unproductive workers’, stressing it would rob all employees of basic legal protection.
Lawyers slam Government’s new court interpreting system

16-Feb-2012

As recent changes to the provision of interpreters for court hearings are set to save the Government £18m a year, many are concerned that the new system is leading to severe delays and costing more money.
Lawyers slam National Insurance changes announced in pre-Budget report

9-Dec-2009

Chancellor Alistair Darling has come under attack from City lawyers following the announcement of a rise in National Insurance alongside a further tax on bankers’ bonuses.
Lawyers take fee hit as News Corp abandons BSkyB bid

13-Jul-2011

Competition lawyers advising News Corp on its bid for BSkyB have taken a blow after Rupert Murdoch’s media giant pulled its bid.
Lawyers welcome Norgrove report into family justice

3-Nov-2011

Lawyers and family law campaign groups have widely welcomed the family justice review aimed at tackling the “shocking delays” in the family justice system.
Lawyers withdraw defence in case against Saudi investment group AHAB

20-Jun-2011

The defence of a major banking litigation worth $250m (£154.5m) has collapsed nine days into the High Court trial.
LDA slashes 10 firms from legal panel

3-Jun-2009

The London Development Agency (LDA) has unveiled its streamlined legal panel, cutting its list of advisers from 18 to eight.
Leading in Leeds

9-Jan-2012

Ever-expanding Gateley has opened an office in Leeds with a couple of Cobbetts partners (see story).
Leading real estate practices shrink by 18 per cent as recession bites

12-Aug-2009

The combined turnover of the top 20 UK real estate practices fell by 18 per cent in the last financial year, down from £977m in 2007-08 to £804m, research by The Lawyer has revealed.
Leading sets sign up to bar social mobility scheme

12-Mar-2012

The Inner Temple has launched a social mobility initiative in partnership with 42 chambers with the aim of giving work experience to underrepresented students.
Leading UK firms see 20 per cent rise in partner promos

20-Apr-2011

Partner promotions at the top UK firms have gone up virtually across the board, with only one firm - Bird & Bird - seeing its promotion numbers drop.
Leaning one way

20-Oct-2010

Were gender politics at play in the decision handed down by the Supreme Court in the Radmacher divorce case?
Lee & Thompson wins libel damages for Peter Andre

31-Jul-2009

Media boutique Lee & Thompson and 5 Raymond Buildings have secured libel damages for Peter Andre in a case against People newspaper.
Legacy Hammonds posts flat revenues for 2010-11

22-Jul-2011

The legacy UK business of Squire Sanders Hammonds has recorded a turnover identical to Hammonds’ 2009-10 result and a three per cent rise in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the last financial year.
Legacy Hogan London chief quits Hogan Lovells for King & Spalding

16-Jun-2010

The London office of Hogan Lovells has suffered its first high-level departure since the 1 May merger of Hogan & Hartson and Lovells, with partner Garry Pegg set to join US firm King & Spalding.
Legal alliances Legal Networks International and Oasis announce merger

18-May-2012

Law firm alliances Legal Networks International and Oasis have merged to create LNI Oasis, an organisation with around 57 firms spanning 50 countries.
Legal bodies team up to launch Institute of Family Law Arbitrators

22-Feb-2012

A group of legal associations have launched a landmark scheme to enable the resolution of family disputes through arbitration, it was announced today.
Legal Brief: New World Order?

15-Jul-2011

The past two weeks have been seismic for the media industry, with allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World (NoW) leading first to the newspaper’s closure and then to the dropping of its parent company’s bid for BSkyB.
Legal exec aims for top job after making partner at Glaisyers

20-Jul-2009

Manchester-based Glaisyers Solicitors has become the latest law firm to promote a legal executive to its partnership.
Legal Ombudsman to 'name and shame' complained-about lawyers

7-Nov-2011

Law firms and lawyers who have had a series of complaints upheld against them will be named and shamed by the Legal Ombudsman (LeO) from April next year.
Legal process outsourcing to London in Russian cases?

6-Dec-2011

Russian claimants like to litigate in London because we have common law disclosure and Moscow doesn’t.
Legal Services Board concedes 'no big bang' in five years since LSA

4-Apr-2012

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has admitted that the 2007 Legal Services Act (LSA) has not resulted in sweeping changes to the profession, stating in a five-year progress report that it is “early days” to judge its impact.
Legal Services Board strives for excellence

16-Apr-2009

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has promised to develop “excellence” in legal services regulation in its first business plan.
Legal teams on standby as Eircom lenders prepare to take control of business

13-Dec-2011

Lawyers involved in one of Europe’s largest restructurings, that of Irish telecoms company Eircom, are gearing up for the next stage of the matter after the owner yesterday offered to inject €200m of new capital into the ailing business.
Legality of Scottish independence referendum under the spotlight

12-Jan-2012

Brodies public law and regulatory head Christine O’Neill looks at the arguments surrounding the legal basis for a referendum on Scottish independence
Legrand takes helm as DLA senior partner for EMEA

26-Jun-2009

DLA Piper has appointed litigator Janet Legrand as new senior partner for Europe and Asia.
Lehman exploited Linklaters opinion to tidy up balance sheet

12-Mar-2010

A report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers has found that the failed investment bank exploited its relationship with Linklaters to green light an accounting practice that kept billions of dollars off its balance sheet.
Lehman latest sees Linklaters win court battle

22-Nov-2010

Linklaters has won the latest legal battle over Lehman Brothers’ main European operations.
Lehman payback

4-Aug-2010

It was always going to take years for lawyers to unravel the financial maze behind the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Lehman: the day the financial world changed

16-Sep-2009

Twelve months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the aftershocks are still being felt in the legal world.
Lehman's UK legal advice costs £60m in first year

20-Oct-2009

The legal advisers acting on the administration of Lehman Brothers in the UK have racked up $112m (£60.5m) in fees during the last year.
Leigh Day claims £105m costs for Trafigura litigation

12-May-2010

Leigh Day & Co has claimed £105m in costs against Trafigura, the company that, it is alleged, was responsible for the dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast.
Leigh Day seals victory for former Countryfile host in BBC employment case

11-Jan-2011

Leigh Day partner Camilla Palmer has helped secure victory for former Countryfile presenter Miriam O’Reilly in her age discrimination case against the BBC.
Leigh's pay Day

13-May-2010

It’s been a week of firsts. A hung parliament, a coalition government and an Old Etonian prime minister (well, maybe not the latter).
Lessons learnt from the first anti-bribery act case

28-Nov-2011

Within months of the Bribery Act 2010 coming into force, the Crown Prosecution Service (“CPS”) has secured the first ever conviction under the Act. On 18 November, Munir Patel, a magistrates’ court clerk who pleaded guilty in October to soliciting and receiving a bribe of £500 for removing motoring offences from official records, was handed a six year prison sentence at Southwark Crown Court.
Lester Aldridge bulks up partnership with double hire

29-Jan-2010

South coast firm Lester Aldridge has hired two new partners as part of a recruitment drive that has seen five staff join since the start of the year.
Let them eat cake

25-Jun-2009

More than 150 lawyers and academics from law firms across the CIS have converged on a plush hotel in Kiev for the fourth annual CIS LocalCounsel Forum. This blog will report direct from the conference.
Lets be cappin' you

18-Jul-2011

There’s a lot to be said for penny pinching, there really is.
Let's hear it for The Hoff

1-Jul-2009

Today will go down as being one of the most memorable of Lord Hoffmann’s career.
Leveson J to lead tabloid phone-hacking inquiry

13-Jul-2011

Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed appellate judge Lord Justice Leveson to head the public inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed News International.
Lewis Silkin bolsters corporate with hires from FSI and Kaye Scholer

7-Nov-2011

Lewis Silkin has made a double partner hire with the addition of Graham Reid from Finers Stephens Innocent and Owen Watkins from Kaye Scholer.
Lewis Silkin highest ranking firm in Sunday Times' best employer list

5-Mar-2012

Six law firms have made it into The Sunday Times’ 100 Best Companies to Work For list.
Lewis Silkin hires former Mel Gibson lawyer as partner

25-Apr-2012

The former legal director of Mel Gibson’s entertainment label has closed his law firm to join Lewis Silkin as partner.
Lewis Silkin in law firm first with tech product launch

13-Jan-2011

Lewis Silkin will today formally launch a new document management system backed by Microsoft that it believes will mark a sea change in legal technology.
Lewis Silkin promotes five to partnership

7-Apr-2010

Lewis Silkin has expanded its partnership by five in the latest promotions round.
Lewis Silkin's sword

13-Jan-2011

Excalibur, mighty sword of Arthurian legend that could blind an enemy with one swift smiting, was the weapon conferred upon the mythical King to help the people of Briton through some of their darkest days.
LG and Macfarlanes advise on RJW-Slater & Gordon deal

30-Jan-2012

LG and Macfarlanes have won advisory roles on the sale of Russell Jones & Walker (RJW) to listed Australian firm Slater & Gordon.
LG and Nabarro promote three partners apiece

23-Apr-2009

Nabarro and LG have both made up three partners this year, a fall from the five apiece promoted at the firms last year.
LG appointed as foreign counsel to Ukraine's Naftogaz

16-Jun-2011

LG has won a bid to become foreign legal advisor to Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state-owned oil and gas company.
LG bolsters real estate team with hires from Herbies and Linklaters

17-May-2012

LG has tapped Herbert Smith and Linklaters to hire three real estate partners.
LG cuts 33 jobs at end of second round of talks

16-Apr-2009

LG has completed a second redundancy consultation, with 33 members of staff losing their jobs.
LG elevates four to partnership

30-Apr-2010

LG has promoted four lawyers to the partnership, all of them based in the firm’s London office.
LG goes Fishing for a merger

18-May-2012

Now, no one’s saying it’s definitely happening, but Field Fisher Waterhouse and LG are at least pondering whether to merge.
LG keeps promotions tight as two make partner

14-Apr-2011

LG has promoted two lawyers to partner, with the corporate and dispute resolution practices gaining one each.
LG launches Moscow base after winning Lukoil panel role

26-Mar-2009

LG has launched an office in Moscow after merging with local Russian firm Aurora.
LG names new senior partner as managing partner gains another term

23-Dec-2010

LG has elected dispute resolution head Andrew Witts to succeed Penny Francis as senior partner, with Hugh Maule re-elected as managing partner.
LG partner Garnham quits firm for social networking

12-Dec-2011

LG private client partner Caroline Garnham has left the firm to concentrate on the social networking site she dreamed up five years ago.
LG posts 63 per cent PEP hike as turnover nudges up

18-Jun-2010

LG has trumped its UK rivals by posting a 63 per cent rise in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009-10 financial year.
LG reports drops in turnover and PEP for 2010-11

14-Jul-2011

LG’s turnover dropped 9 per cent in the 2010-11 financial year while average profit per equity partner (PEP) fell by 10 per cent over the same period.
LG sues former client over unpaid fees

6-Feb-2012

LG has launched legal action against former client Dr Zaur Leshkasheli for unpaid fees in relation to litigation.
LG to phase out salaried role in favour of two-tier partnership

25-Feb-2010

LG is to get rid of its salaried partner rank following an extensive consultation at the firm.
LG welcomes one man in 12-strong trainee intake

19-Nov-2009

LG’s male-to-female trainee ratio has been skewed by its new intake as 11 of the 12-strong cohort are female.
LG wins key advisory role as Hextalls emerges from administration

16-Apr-2009

Hextalls has been bought out of pre-packed administration with LG partner Steve Cottee acting for Begbies Traynor administrator David Hudson and London firm Judge Sykes Frixou acting for the firm.
Libel politics

16-Dec-2009

The fact that the heavyweights of the judiciary are lining up to hear academic Simon Singh appeal a ruling handed down by Mr Justice Eady demonstrates just how seriously the country’s leading judges are taking the debate around libel laws (see story ).
Libya sets out pathway to democracy

5-Sep-2011

The Libyan transitional constitution is a giant step forward, say Philip Wood and Camille Astier
Life investing

5-Oct-2010

The UK life sciences industry is a world leader, but the lack of appetite from domestic investors is potentially threatening the development of life-saving medicines, says Simon Wallwork
Lincolnshire's Wilkin Chapman boosts revenues with local merger

21-Jan-2010

Lincolnshire firm Wilkin Chapman and Grimsby’s Grange Wintringham are to merge, creating a firm with a combined turnover of £15m.
Lindsey Turner: Clifford Chance

21-Feb-2011

What time do you start work each day? Around 9am.
Linklaters achieves top law firm ranking in Superbrands index

19-Mar-2012

Linklaters is the most recognisable law firm in the UK according to research published today looking at the profile of business brands.
Linklaters advises on €5bn Cinven fundraising after usurping Ashurst

25-Oct-2011

Linklaters’ funds team has won its first key role on a fundraising for private equity house Cinven after winning the client from Ashurst.
Linklaters advises on Game Group administration

30-Mar-2012

Linklaters has leveraged its longstanding relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to win an appointment as legal adviser to the administrators of Game Group.
Linklaters advises PwC on deal to return assets to Lehman clients

6-Jan-2010

Linklaters has again reaped the benefit of its ongoing relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as the fallout from the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers continues.
Linklaters and Allens Arthur Robinson to launch alliance

23-Apr-2012

Congratulations to Linklaters, which has handily picked Shakespeare’s birthday to announce its alliance with Aussie firm Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR), but disappointingly, ditched the cross-dressing and the clowns.
Linklaters and Garrigues strengthen Spanish litigation and insolvency teams

16-Sep-2009

The Madrid office of Linklaters and Spain’s largest firm Garrigues have both made moves to strengthen their domestic litigation and insolvency expertise.
Linklaters and Norton Rose win roles on RBS's Indian sell-off

7-Jul-2010

Linklaters and Norton Rose are working alongside their Indian best friends to advise on the sale of RBS’s Indian retail and commercial banking business to HSBC.
Linklaters and Sidley join cast on Glencore's £3.9bn Viterra take-over

21-Mar-2012

Linklaters and Sidley Austin have taken European roles on Swiss commodities trader Glencore’s acquisition of Canadian grain trading company Viterra in a deal that has given advisory roles to a raft of firms in Australia, Canada and the US.
Linklaters and Skadden advise on Greek banking merger

30-Aug-2011

Linklaters and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have scored top roles advising on the merger of Greece’s second and third largest banks.
Linklaters and SNR Denton lead on Petroplus administration

26-Jan-2012

Linklaters and SNR Denton have picked up lead advisory roles on the administration of UK-based Petroplus Refining & Marketing.
Linklaters announces new competition leadership roles

21-Jun-2011

Linklaters has made two new leadership appointments for its competition practice.
Linklaters announces new heads for corporate, litigation and US

1-Apr-2010

Linklaters has made a number of key appointments with Jeremy Parr taking over as corporate chief, John Turnbull becoming regional managing partner for the Americas and Marc Harvey named as global head of litigation.
Linklaters appoints new co-heads for US practice

16-May-2011

Linklaters has appointed Jeff Norton and Conrado Tenaglia as co-managing partners for the US, succeeding Larry Byrne and Nick Rees in the roles after they completed a four-year term.
Linklaters Asia boss quits for JPMorgan

23-Nov-2009

Linklaters has lost its second Asia managing partner within 12 months following the announcement that Zili Shao will be leaving the firm in January.
Linklaters associates receive pay rise in salary thaw

4-May-2012

Linklaters has done away with its two-year freeze on associate salary bands, announcing small increases for lawyers with one, two and years’ post-qualification experience (PQE).
Linklaters banking chief race down to three as Amsterdam partner pulls out

4-Jul-2011

Amsterdam managing partner Martijn Koopal has pulled out of the race to become head of Linklaters’ global banking practice.
Linklaters' bittersweet symphony

23-Nov-2009

The best thing about breaking up is the making up. Linklaters would certainly see it that way.
Linklaters bolsters Middle East practice with Abu Dhabi launch

7-Jul-2011

Linklaters has bulked up its presence in the Middle East by launching a new office in Abu Dhabi.
Linklaters bolsters Paris team with addition of Gide partner

30-Aug-2011

Linklaters has bulked up its French capital markets team with the hire of a partner and three associates from Gide Loyrette Nouel.
Linklaters boosts Amsterdam with addition of De Brauw restructuring chief

8-Mar-2011

Linklaters has hired the head of the restructuring practice at Dutch independent De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek to boost for its Amsterdam office.
Linklaters' Cheyne takes consultant role as senior partner term ends

26-Sep-2011

Outgoing Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne will stand down as a partner of the firm and continue as a consultant when his term at the helm comes to an end this month.
Linklaters corporate partner takes role at Milbank

29-Feb-2012

Linklaters corporate partner Mark Stamp is leaving the firm to join US firm Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Linklaters cuts pay bands and associate bonuses

30-Apr-2009

Linklaters has cut associate pay bands by an average of seven per cent and slashed bonuses across the firm.
Linklaters decides against ditching grad recruitment brochures

19-Aug-2010

Magic circle law firm Linklaters has ditched plans to scrap its graduate recruitment brochure after research revealed that students favour paper-based products over their online equivalents.
Linklaters drafted in to advise News Corp's Hackgate committee

21-Jul-2011

Linklaters litigation partner John Turnbull has been instructed to advise News Corp’s management and standards committee, which has the mandate to oversee post-Hackgate investigations.
Linklaters elects new German chief

24-Mar-2010

Linklaters has elected a new senior partner in Germany to succeed Michael Lappe.
Linklaters ex-global cartel head jumps ship for Clifford Chance Brussels

13-Sep-2011

Clifford Chance has raided magic circle rival Linklaters for senior Brussels competition partner Johan Ysewyn.
Linklaters extends restructuring with up to 70 partners facing the axe

16-Jan-2012

Linklaters’ partnership restructuring is set to be more widespread than previously thought, with partners higher up the food chain now bracing themselves for a cull.
Linklaters faces £115m Credit Suisse claim over Parmalat advice

11-Feb-2011

Credit Suisse is set to sue Linklaters for €136m (£115m) for professional negligence over advice it was given for a deal with Italian food giant Parmalat.
Linklaters follows A&O with ban on associate pay rises

12-May-2011

Linklaters has become the latest magic circle firm to freeze its associate salary bands for the 2011-12 financial year, holding them at the same level for a second consecutive year.
Linklaters' former corporate head takes role at BLP

27-Feb-2012

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired Linklaters’ former global head of corporate David Barnes.
Linklaters gains 18 new partners, six in London

6-Apr-2009

Magic circle firm Linklaters has promoted 18 to its partnership, favouring London on a regional basis and corporate on a practice group basis.
Linklaters handed £2.2m profit share to highest-earning partner in 2010-11

30-Nov-2011

Linklaters’ top-earning partner in the 2010-11 financial year took home £2.2m, the firm’s latest LLP accounts show.
Linklaters hands EEMEA remit to India head

27-Apr-2010

Linklaters has named India head Sandeep Katwala as the new managing partner of its Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) practice.
Linklaters hands global banking head role to lev fin co-head

26-Jul-2011

Linklaters has appointed leveraged finance co-head Gideon Moore as global head of banking, replacing restructuring specialist Robert Elliott.
Linklaters hands graduate recruitment role to corporate partner

4-Apr-2012

Linklaters has appointed corporate lawyer Simon Branigan as one of its two graduate recruitment partners.
Linklaters hires CC structured finance partner for Amsterdam office

8-Mar-2010

Linklaters is to launch a structured finance practice in Amsterdam after securing a partner from Clifford Chance.
Linklaters hires Herbies litigation star Christa Band

3-Aug-2009

Linklaters has hired litigation star Christa Band from Herbert Smith.
Linklaters holds associate pay bands at 2009 levels

31-Mar-2010

Linklaters has become the second magic circle firm to announce its associate pay scale for the coming year, with the firm maintaining its current rates after reducing them 12 months ago.
Linklaters' HR director to retire from firm

17-Aug-2011

Linklaters is to lose a second senior member of its HR team, with HR director Jill King set to leave the firm at the end of October.
Linklaters in line for India tax bill after court ruling

20-Jul-2010

Linklaters could be facing up to a major tax bill for its India-related work following a Mumbai Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) decision to apply a retrospective amendment to its Income Tax Act
Linklaters' Indian ally boosts partnership with internal promotion

24-Mar-2011

Linklaters’ Indian best friend Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) has promoted banking and finance managing associate Sonali Mahapatra to its partnership to take its partner headcount back up to six.
Linklaters is UK's biggest firm after edging past Freshfields

3-Jul-2009

Linklaters has become the largest UK firm by revenue, posting £1.3bn for the 2008-09 financial year and beating Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer by just £11m.
Linklaters is UK's most diverse firm, says exclusive research

17-Dec-2010

Linklaters’ progressive workplace policies have led it to be crowned this year’s most diverse firm.
Linklaters launches fast-track LPC

12-Feb-2010

The College of Law (CoL) has teamed up with Linklaters to introduce a fast-track Legal Practice Course(LPC) for the magic circle firm’s future trainee solicitors.
Linklaters leads as China's Bright Food takes majority stake in Weetabix

3-May-2012

Linklaters, Mills & Reeve and Weil Gotshal & Manges have won roles advising on the acquisition of a 60 per cent controlling stake in Weetabix by state-owned Chinese company Bright Food.
Linklaters leads competition advice as OFT approves NHS dental merger

27-Apr-2012

The OFT has given its backing to an NHS dental merger that gifted roles to a raft of UK firms.
Linklaters' lockstep revamp to allow reversal of positions

4-Aug-2011

Linklaters is considering a review of its lockstep that could see partners at the top of equity moved down the scale.
Linklaters looks for BFF

28-Feb-2012

Slaughters would do well to heed the advice of some old sage about keeping its friends close.
Linklaters loses £37m Levicom negligence claim

11-May-2010

Litigation boutique Stewarts Law has won a major victory against Linklaters in the Court of Appeal in a ruling that could see the magic circle firm liable for a $55m (£37m) negligence claim.
Linklaters loses German capital markets team to Taylor Wessing

5-Jul-2011

Linklaters has suffered rare partner losses in Germany with the departure of high-flying equity capital markets (ECM) partner Christoph Vaupel.
Linklaters loses its grip on Barclays as bank announces revamped panel

2-Jul-2009

Linklaters has lost almost half its panel places on Barclays’ revamped roster of legal advisers while Addleshaw Goddard has increased its presence on the panel, winning four additional places.
Linklaters loses Stockholm lawyer to Roschier

28-Apr-2010

Nordic firm Roschier has recruited a counsel from Linklaters’ shrinking Stockholm office and made up a record number of lawyers to its partnership in Helsinki.
Linklaters moots tie-up with Slaughters' Aussie best friend

28-Feb-2012

Linklaters is understood to be in tie-up talks with Slaughter and May’s Australian best friend Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR), The Lawyer can reveal.
Linklaters mourns death of London associate

27-Jul-2010

An associate in the projects team at Linklaters died last week after he was hit by a tube train in central London.
Linklaters mourns passing of 'legendary' French partner

11-Jan-2011

Linklaters has confirmed that French M&A star Thierry Vassogne has died at the age of 59 after suffering a heart attack.
Linklaters names Hong Kong partner as Shanghai chief

3-Feb-2010

Linklaters has continued the re-organisation of its Asian corporate offering with the appointment of Teresa Ma as head of its Shanghai office.
Linklaters names new head of Luxembourg office

10-Mar-2010

Linklaters has named financial regulation partner Freddy Brausch as head of its Luxembourg office.
Linklaters names next Asia head as Shao departs for JPMorgan

14-Jan-2010

London-based partner Stuart Salt will take over as Linklaters’ Asia managing partner next month, replacing incumbent Zilli Shao.
Linklaters names partner duo to head China practice

30-Jun-2009

Linklaters has selected two partners to jointly run its China practice, taking over from Zili Shao who has been promoted to Asia managing partner.
Linklaters partner decides against move to Mayer Brown

2-Sep-2011

Linklaters competition partner Carsten Grave has decided to remain at the firm after announcing his decision to move to Mayer Brown’s Cologne office nearly two months ago.
Linklaters partner retires after unsuccessful management bid

19-Jul-2011

Linklaters corporate partner David Barnes retired at the end of last month following 36 years at the firm.
Linklaters picks Gray as new leveraged finance chief

31-Jan-2012

Linklaters has appointed former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner Brian Gray as co-head of its leveraged finance practice, replacing global banking head Gideon Moore.
Linklaters picks up lead mandate on Chinese Thames Water bid

24-Jan-2012

Linklaters won the lead role advising China Investment Corporation (CIC) on its acquisition of a stake in Thames Water’s parent company Kemble Water.
Linklaters plans to go green by ditching printed recruitment material

3-Nov-2009

Linklaters is planning to scrap its graduate recruitment brochures in a bid to become more environmentally friendly.
Linklaters' pre-Christmas partner cull

8-Dec-2011

Tricky things, project names. What do you call your third partner cull in a decade?
Linklaters prepares to hand Davies second term at the helm

12-Jan-2012

Linklaters managing partner Simon Davies is set to stand uncontested for re-appointment after the deadline for challengers’ nominations passed.
Linklaters promotes 23 to partner, six in London

23-Apr-2012

Linklaters is making up 23 new partners in its 2012 promotions round, with only six of the new partners coming from the London office.
Linklaters promotes eight City partners in 14-strong round

26-Apr-2010

Linklaters has made up 14 new partners, with eight coming from the ranks of its London lawyers.
Linklaters promotes six City lawyers in 18-strong global round

11-Apr-2011

Linklaters has made up 18 lawyers to its partnership, with only six of the new partners coming from the London office.
Linklaters raids Clifford Chance for German restructuring star

16-Jul-2009

Linklaters has again turned to its magic circle rivals for a key German hire, snaring a leading restructuring partner from Clifford Chance’s Frankfurt office.
Linklaters raids Freshfields for restructuring star Howard

22-Nov-2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer finance partner Chris Howard has rejoined Linklaters in a major coup for the Silk Street firm.
Linklaters ramps NY corporate with White & Case hire

1-May-2009

Linklaters has boosted its New York corporate offering with the hire of partner Daniel Dufner from White & Case.
Linklaters retains 80 per cent of September NQs

15-Jul-2009

Linklaters has offered jobs to nearly 80 per cent of its trainees, the highest retention rate in the magic circle.
Linklaters retains crown as UK's largest corporate practice

25-Aug-2009

Linklaters has retained its place as the largest corporate practice in the UK, according to figures compiled for The Lawyer’s UK 200 Annual Report 2009.
Linklaters scoops Carlyle buyout instruction

31-Jan-2011

Linklaters has won the prize mandate acting for private equity house the Carlyle Group on its £450m acquisition of Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH) from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML), as well as the proposed merger with rival Associated Dental Practices (ADP).
Linklaters seals Allens Arthur Robinson alliance

23-Apr-2012

Linklaters has announced that it has signed an exclusive alliance with Australian firm Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR) in a tie-up which will see the firms combine in an Asian joint venture.
Linklaters seals hire of first lateral partner in Sweden

30-Nov-2011

Linklaters Sweden has netted a Hannes Snellman partner in what is now the firm’s first lateral hire in the Nordic practice.
Linklaters sees half-year turnover drop by 9.5 per cent

20-Nov-2009

Linklaters’ turnover is down 9.5 per cent at the half-year stage, with the firm attracting £591m compared with £653m during the same period last year.
Linklaters' senior partner vote opens after conference hustings

13-Apr-2011

Voting has opened in the Linklaters senior partner election, with insiders suggesting the race will be much closer than was initially thought.
Linklaters sets up Dutch litigation practice with local partner hire

13-Oct-2009

Linklaters is to launch a litigation practice in the Netherlands with the hire of NautaDutilh partner Daniella Strik.
Linklaters' staff costs fell 16 per cent in 2009-10, LLPs reveal

7-Dec-2010

Staff costs at Linklaters fell by 16 per cent in the 2009-10 financial year, according to limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts filed with Companies House.
Linklaters stands by Swedish branch despite string of departures

5-Jun-2009

The managing partner of Linklaters in Sweden has denied the office’s future is under threat despite suffering a steady stream of departures in the past year.
Linklaters Stockholm continues to shrink as tax team heads to Vinge

4-Jun-2010

The exodus from Linklaters’ Stockholm office has continued with the defection of four associates to local firm Vinge.
Linklaters sues Gianni after being hit with Credit Suisse-Parmalat writ

21-Mar-2011

Linklaters has issued a High Court claim against Italian firm Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners after the magic circle firm was hit with a €136m (£115m) professional negligence claim from Credit Suisse.
Linklaters teams up with Magus to help clients develop cookie strategy

27-Sep-2011

Linklaters has joined forces with governance compliance company Magus to help businesses make sense of new European data privacy rules.
Linklaters to axe up to ten per cent of partnership in new restructuring

8-Dec-2011

Linklaters is set to cull over 30 partners across the network as part of the firm’s biggest round of layoffs since the New World restructuring in 2009.
Linklaters to re-run managing partner vote after Davies fails to win backing

17-Feb-2012

Linklaters is taking its firmwide managing partner election to its annual partnership conference after incumbent Simon Davies failed to obtain enough votes for re-election.
Linklaters tops FTSE list for first time

3-Sep-2009

Linklaters has joined Slaughter and May as the top legal adviser to FTSE 100 companies.
Linklaters turns to Herbert Smith for new HR director

22-Nov-2011

Linklaters has appointed a new global HR director after her predecessor Jill King stepped down from the role after several years at the firm.
Linklaters unveils revamped international board

22-May-2012

Linklaters has confirmed its new-look international board, with corporate big-biller Charlie Jacobs among the three London partners stepping down from the senior governance committee.
Linklaters US investment chief takes on global practice head role

30-Mar-2010

Linklaters has appointed Scott Bowie as head of its global investment management team.
Linklaters' US structured finance head defects to derivatives regulator

24-Aug-2011

Linklaters’ US head of structured finance and derivatives Gary Barnett has left the firm for a new leadership role at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Linklaters vows to stick with lockstep after dismissing all-equity model

27-Apr-2012

Linklaters has nixed discussions to move to an all-equity or eat-what-you-kill style partnership, telling members at its partnership conference last week that it was sticking to the lockstep.
Linklaters, Addleshaws scoop Yorkshire-Chelsea building society merger

2-Dec-2009

Addleshaw Goddard and Linklaters have secured mandates on Yorkshire Building Society’s proposed merger with rival Chelsea.
Linklaters, Clifford Chance win dim sum bond roles

16-Jan-2012

Linklaters and Clifford Chance have completed the RMB3bn (£300m) offshore bonds issuance of Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC) in Hong Kong.
Linklaters, Slaughters act as Resolution finally wins Friends Provident

11-Aug-2009

Linklaters and Slaughter and May have taken the key advisory roles as Resolution completes its £1.86bn takeover of Friends Provident.
Linklaters: what would Nick Clegg say?

16-Jan-2012

Nick Clegg made the headlines this morning for saying British companies should be run in the mould of John Lewis, distributing profits among members, but the deputy prime minister was perhaps a little hasty to think that partnerships are pure idyll.
Links and Norton Rose win spots on prudential panel

7-Apr-2011

Linklaters and Norton Rose have clinched new spots on Prudential Group’s global legal panel, in a move that formalises both firms’ long-standing relationships with the financial services giant.
Links and Salans advise on Habitat administration

28-Jun-2011

Linklaters and Salans have clinched top roles advising on the administration of furniture retailer Habitat.
Links and Shearman advise on €4bn UniCredit rights issue

21-Jan-2010

Linklaters and Shearman & Sterling have landed lead roles on UniCredit’s €4bn (£3.48bn) rights issue.
Links and Simpson Thacher lead on E.ON's £4bn PPL sell-off

3-Mar-2011

Linklaters and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have taken the lead roles on the £4bn sale of E.ON’s UK electricity distribution business to Pennsylvania Power and Light (PPL).
Links and SJ Berwin lead on CIC's Apax investment

15-Feb-2010

Linklaters and SJ Berwin have claimed key roles for sovereign wealth fund Chinese Investment Corporation’s (CIC) $956m (£611m) investment in Apax Partners.
Links and Skadden lead as BP-Rosneft arbitration concludes

12-May-2011

Linklaters and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom both had roles in the arbitration between BP and Alfa-Access-Renova (AAR), the Russian oligarch consortium behind joint venture TNK-BP.
Links and Slaughters advise on Lloyds fundraising

19-May-2009

Linklaters and Slaughter and May have been instructed on the £4bn share raising made by Lloyds TSB.
Links and Slaughters lead on £1bn JPMorgan Cazenove deal

19-Nov-2009

Linklaters and Slaughter and May have bagged mandates on JPMorgan’s £1bn buy-out of the remaining half of UK broker Cazenove.
Links and Slaughters win roles on Ladbrokes rights issue

8-Oct-2009

Linklaters and Slaughter and May have been called in to act on a £275m rights issue by betting group Ladbrokes.
Links and Wachtell lead as Deutsche Börse and NYSE merger advances

10-Feb-2011

Linklaters and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have claimed the leading M&A roles on the proposed merger between the US and German stock exchanges.
Links and Weil advise on £2bn sale of RBS's credit card arm

9-Aug-2010

Linklaters and Weil Gotshal & Manges bagged the leading roles on the £2bn sale of a majority stake in RBS’s Global Merchant Services arm to private equity houses Advent International and Bain Capital.
Links and Weil advise on sale of DHL

5-Jan-2010

Weil Gotshal & Manges has delivered the goods for Home Delivery Network (HDN) on its acquisition of DHL Domestic from German rival Deutsche Post DHL.
Links and White & Case advise on Russian bond issue

17-Feb-2010

Linklaters and White & Case have landed leading roles on Russia’s first convertible bond issue for nearly a decade.
Links boss takes the flak

17-Feb-2012

This is where you realise that axing scores of partners won’t make you terribly popular.
Links' former Asia chief joins Fontenergy as GC

9-Nov-2010

Linklaters partner and former Asia managing partner Andrew Roberts has left the firm to join energy company Fontenergy as in-house counsel.
Links installs former UBS man as US co-head

7-Apr-2009

Linklaters has hired a UBS managing director to co-head its US practice and head up its tax practice group.
Links jumps on high yield bandwagon with Cravath hire

13-Sep-2010

Linklaters has become the latest magic circle firm to recruit a high yield specialist to its partnership with the arrival of Cravath Swaine & Moore counsel Mark Hageman.
Links lends brollies to wannabe lawyers

15-Oct-2010

Linklaters is looking to add some innovation to the law fair giveaway season by lending umbrellas to students rather than loading them up with freebies.
Links matches Freshfields - again

15-Jul-2009

Forget the Goldman Sachs bonuses. Perhaps the biggest sign that the City is weathering the financial storm is today’s news that Linklaters is retaining almost 80 per cent of its trainees (see story).
Links names new grad recruitment partner as incumbent heads to Moscow

24-May-2010

Linklaters has named capital markets lawyer Mark Middleton as its joint graduate recruitment partner.
Links' new Cheyne gang

10-Mar-2011

Linklaters is gearing up for a three-way international bun fight to replace senior partner David Cheyne, although cynics may have a thing or two to say about just how international the battle will be.
Links' new rainmakers

15-Oct-2010

With summer fast becoming a distant memory, thoughts inevitably turn to how to handle the impending chilly winds and icy storms of winter.
Links on hunt for corporate chief as Barnes steps down

4-Feb-2010

Linklaters head of corporate David Barnes is set to stand down in April as the fixed terms of a number of key management figures come to an end.
Links on the ball again

25-Aug-2009

Just like football’s elite division, the top end of the UK’s legal rankings tends to be dominated by the same four names.
Links' Paris chief becomes firmwide commercial head

12-May-2010

Linklaters has named Paris managing partner Arnaud De La Cotardière as its new commercial head.
Links seeks client input as it overhauls flexi-working policy

31-Mar-2011

Linklaters is to launch a client forum to help develop a best practice approach to work-life balance issues at the firm.
Links, Gianni and Credit Suisse settle Parmalat negligence claims

20-Oct-2011

A £115m professional negligence dispute between Linklaters, its former Italian alliance partner Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners and investment bank Credit Suisse has settled for an undisclosed sum.
Lion's mane representation

3-Jul-2009

Richard Smith QC has got probably the best job in law - for a rugby fan at least.
Listed company launches bid for Silverbeck Rymer

24-Jan-2012

Liverpool firm Silverbeck Rymer is set to become the first law firm to be acquired by a listed company after Quindell Portfolio announced it had agreed to pay almost £20m for the firm.
Litigation costs come under scrutiny with launch of new e-disclosure regime

1-Oct-2010

New practice directions (PD) on electronic disclosure aimed at speeding up the litigation process and reduce legal costs come into force today.
Litigation determination

6-Jul-2009

For the last 12 months litigators and barristers have been examining contracts and offering advice to clients who want to know if and how they can recover losses.
Litigation funder Burford acquires ATE provider for UK entry

12-Dec-2011

US litigation funder Burford Capital is poised to enter the UK litigation-funding market with the acquisition of after-the-event (ATE) insurance provider Firstassist.
Litigation funder to finance low-value cases

29-Nov-2011

A new player in the third-party litigation funding market has vowed to transform the industry by providing “alternative” litigation funding for lower-value commercial disputes.
Litigation funder Woodsford snaps up Allianz investment officer

6-Jan-2012

Third party funder Woodsford Litigation Funding has appointed Timothy Mayer, formerly of Allianz ProzessFinanz, as an investment officer to assess cases for investment opportunities.
Litigation funders celebrate as clients seek third-party capital

8-May-2012

Third-party funder Harbour Litigation Funding has raised £120m to plough into commercial litigation cases while its market rival Vannin Capital has quadrupled its annual litigation fund from £25m to £100m to meet growing demand.
Litigation leads as BLG posts turnover rise

17-Jul-2009

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has posted a 6.4 per cent rise in turnover from £81.7m to £86.9m at the 2008-09 year-end.
Litigation looking forward

26-Aug-2009

While the sceptics are questioning the motives behind Lord Justice Jackson’s report on civil litigation costs, one straight-talking litigation chief is calling on London’s litigators to stand proud.
Litigation nation

19-Aug-2009

Next month’s publication of The Lawyer UK 200 Annual Report is likely to make grim reading for most of the market’s transactional lawyers.
Litigation shake-up

5-Aug-2009

When Stone & Rolls secured independent litigation funding for its £90m claim against auditors Moore Stephens in January 2007 it did so in a flurry of publicity (The Lawyer, 5 January 2007).
Litigation X

7-Oct-2009

As we write, Clifford Chance is counting the votes to find out who will be its next global litigation chief.
Litigation: Up, up and a wait

17-Sep-2010

While litigation practices for the top 15 firms can boast a 4 per cent average rise in revenue, there is still no sign of the predicted boom, reports Katy Dowell
LIU Europe creates chief counsel role

7-Sep-2009

Insurance company Liberty International Underwriters Europe (LIU Europe) has appointed Nigel Davenport to the newly created position of chief counsel.
Liverpool FC board granted injunction against owners

15-Oct-2010

The High Court has granted the board of Liverpool Football Club an anti-suit injunction against the club’s owners.
Liverpool FC turns to Grabiner as ownership dispute heads to High Court

11-Oct-2010

Liverpool Football Club has instructed One Essex Court silk Lord Grabiner QC in its High Court showdown with US owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
Liverpool saga back in court to block Texas injunction

14-Oct-2010

The battle for Liverpool Football Club will hit the High Court again this morning with the club’s board calling on Mr Justice Floyd to grant an anti-suit injunction.
Liz Russell: Nabarro

24-Sep-2010

I’m constantly busy at work so there’s very little time to be bored. The most frustrating part of my job is chasing people for things. I’m sure some people must get pretty bored of emails and voicemails from me.
Lloyds finalises first post-merger legal panel

21-Oct-2010

Lloyds Banking Group has completed its first panel review since Lloyds TSB acquired HBOS in 2008.
Lloyds shareholders instruct Winckworth Sherwood to take action against the bank

4-Jun-2009

A group of former shareholders in Lloyds TSB has turned to Winckworth Sherwood as it prepares to launch legal proceedings against the bank.
LLP conversion highlights disparity in Macfarlanes' profit figures

16-Nov-2009

Macfarlanes’ first set of LLP results reveal a disparity between the profitability figure for the 2008-09 financial year and the number the firm released at the end of its financial year.
Locke Lord continues to build in London with Berkeley House hire

29-Mar-2012

US firm Locke Lord has hired a lawyer from Berkeley House Investments to join its nascent London office.
Locke Lord welcomes City partners to management boards

20-Feb-2012

Texan firm Locke Lord has voted to change its partnership agreement to allow London partners to sit on its management boards following a seven-partner City launch.
Locke Lords it in London

7-Nov-2011

The catch with US firms’ success in the City is that their growth always seems to be at the expense of someone else.
Lohn replaces Gilmour as Field Fisher head

20-Oct-2011

Field Fisher Waterhouse has appointed Matthew Lohn as its new managing partner with immediate effect.
London - The world's litigation capital

2-Nov-2011

The promotion of London as a centre for excellence when it comes to litigation, arbitration and mediation is long overdue; after all, ask people overseas what they most admire about this country and many will say our legal system and the quality of our judiciary.
London and Kent authorities appoint joint legal panel

10-Jun-2010

A consortium of boroughs in London and Kent have appointed 26 firms to a new joint panel.
London Capital Group hires legal chief from Axiom

11-Jan-2012

Financial spread betting and contract for difference provider London Capital Group (LCG) has appointed a group legal counsel from Axiom Legal.
London dominates as Clifford Chance adds 22 to partnership

4-May-2010

Clifford Chance has promoted 22 lawyers to partner, five more than were made up last year.
London firm offers divorce vouchers for Christmas

16-Dec-2009

London firm Lloyd Platt & Company is offering divorce gift vouchers to entice clients.
London law firm fined £400,000 by Financial Services Tribunal

13-May-2010

London law firm Atlantic Law has been fined £400,000 for its part in an illegal boiler room share fraud.
London lawyers raise £380,000 for charity on sponsored walk

19-May-2009

London’s legal community yesterday smashed its own fundraising record by £20,000, generating £380,000 for the London Legal Support Trust.
London riots: the best of the legal blogs roundup

12-Aug-2011

A tumultuous August week, to say the least. As scenes of violence, rioting and looting spread across the capital and into the English regions, legal bloggers had plenty of fodder on which to opine.
London's Barnet and Harrow councils to save £4.4m via legal services merger

5-Apr-2012

The London Boroughs of Barnet and Harrow have agreed to merge their legal services in a move that is expected to save them an estimated £4.4m over the next five years.
London's Merton and Richmond authorities to merge legal functions

28-Feb-2011

The London Boroughs of Merton and Richmond upon Thames have been given the green light to merge legal services in a move that could slash legal costs by 20 per cent.
Lord Chancellor and Master of the Rolls prepare for Magna Carta's 800th anniversary

12-Nov-2010

This morning the Lord Chancellor Ken Clarke QC and the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger will be among the dignitaries gathered at Runnymede Meadows to kick off five years of celebrations marking the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
Lord Chancellor chides Thorpe LJ over driving ban

13-Jan-2012

Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Thorpe has been reprimanded by the Lord Chancellor Ken Clarke and the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge over his driving ban.
Lord Chief Justice paves way for court Tweeting

14-Dec-2011

The Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge has issued guidance on the use of text-based messaging from the courts, clearing the way for the use of Twitter to become more common in the courts.
Lord Judge to chair landmark libel appeal hearing

11-Dec-2009

Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, the country’s most senior judge, will chair a panel of three to preside over a landmark libel trial set to be heard by the Court of Appeal in February.
Lord Neuberger to decide if phone-hacking NoW journalists should be named

4-Feb-2011

The Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger is to decide whether Glenn Mulcaire, the man at the heart of the New of the World (NoW) phone hacking scandal, must disclose the names of journalists who instructed him to hack into voicemail messages.
Lord Neuberger to lead appeal panel over Channel Four libel jury case

8-Jun-2010

The Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger will examine Mr Justice Tugendhat’s decision to disallow a jury in a major libel trial against Channel Four.
Lord Phillips to head east after Supreme Court

9-May-2012

Retiring Supreme Court president Lord Phillips will take on two senior international judicial roles, it has been announced.
Lord Prescott wins right to challenge Met in phone hacking saga

23-May-2011

The High Court has upheld a judicial review application against the Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.
L'Oreal wins ECJ trademark ruling against eBay

12-Jul-2011

The European Court of Justice has ruled that online auction site eBay should be held liable for trademark infringement where it is aware that users are selling counterfeit items via the site.
Love Harts in Lisbon?

16-Nov-2009

As Lovells partners pack their bags in preparation for their annual conference in Lisbon’s Corinthia Hotel this week they’ll have one thing on their minds: money, and the prospect of earning shedloads of it.
Loveharts and dinner dates

15-Dec-2009

Who would The Lawyer invite to its dream Christmas dinner party?
Loveharts to Mongolia

3-Aug-2010

Picture the scene. You’ve just pulled off the merger of the decade, creating one of the world’s biggest law firms with offices spanning the planet’s major commercial and financial centres (and Boulder, Colorado). What next?
Lovells advises on Babcock & Brown fund sell off

24-Jul-2009

Lovells has been instructed by a group of former Babcock & Brown staff who have bought out the failed firm’s €2.2bn (£1.9bn) European infrastructure fund.
Lovells and 39 Essex St scoop LSB panel places

5-Jan-2010

The Legal Services Board (LSB) has appointed Lovells and 39 Essex Street as legal advisors following a tender that attracted responses from 16 applicants.
Lovells and Norton Rose win roles on Swiss PPP deal

15-Dec-2009

Norton Rose has helped a consortium featuring the German arm of construction company BAM and Swiss company Marti finance a public-private partnership (PPP) project in Switzerland.
Lovells axed from ING panel as Bakers and Norton Rose win places

4-Jun-2009

Dutch financial group ING has axed Lovells and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek from its global panel.
Lovells Beijing chief quits for role at alliance firm

29-Apr-2010

The head of Lovells’ Beijing office has left the firm on the eve of its merger with Hogan & Hartson to join China’s AllBright Law Offices.
Lovells enters tie-up with France's Kuntz

8-Sep-2009

Lovells has formed a co-operation agreement with Paris-based insolvency boutique Kuntz & Associés.
Lovells eyes transatlantic merger with US firm Hogan & Hartson

8-Oct-2009

Lovells is in merger talks with US firm Hogan & Hartson with the aim of creating a transatlantic player with a combined turnover of £1.1bn.
Lovells finds a partner

17-Aug-2009

“That’s one of the great things about this job. There’s always something new.” The words of HM Revenue & Customs general counsel Anthony Inglese.
Lovells freezes salaries and cuts 79 jobs

2-Apr-2009

Lovells is the latest firm to freeze salaries at this year’s levels with all lawyers, support staff and legal PAs affected.
Lovells goes live with Saudi association

14-Sep-2009

Lovells has launched an association in Saudi Arabia with local firm Al Yaqoub Attorneys and Legal Advisers, The Lawyer can reveal.
Lovells in merger talks with Hogan

8-Oct-2009

For years, Lovells’ US practice has been characterised by its low-key, softly-softly strategy.
Lovells lands Segro takeover of Brixton

10-Jul-2009

Lovells and Clifford Chance have advised on Segro’s takeover of Brixton, which was agreed yesterday (9 July).
Lovells launches diversity scheme in response to Milburn report

20-Jan-2010

Lovells has launched an initiative for youngsters aimed at demystifying the legal industry and increasing access to the law.
Lovells launches Dubai real estate practice

1-Apr-2009

Lovells has launched a Middle East real estate practice with the recruitment of a former Al Tamimi partner.
Lovells' PEP rises 13 per cent in year before Hogan merger

14-Jul-2010

Hogan Lovells legacy firm Lovells has reported a 13 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP), rising from £586,000 to £663,000.
Lovells posts turnover rise in last year as unmerged firm

9-Jul-2010

Hogan Lovells legacy firm Lovells saw a marginal increase in turnover in the 2009-10 financial year.
Lovells promotes 19 to partnership

9-Apr-2009

Lovells has promoted 19 to its partnership, pushing the firm’s total tally of partners up to 365 across its international network.
Lovells promotes 21 ahead of Hogan merger

15-Apr-2010

Lovells has promoted 21 lawyers to its partnership in its largest promotions round since 2007.
Lovells real estate chief lines up post-retirement role with Welbeck Land

2-Jun-2009

Lovells real estate head Bob Kidby has been appointed as a non-executive director at property developer Welbeck Land ahead of his retirement from Lovells next year.
Lovells retains just 69 per cent of autumn qualifiers

5-Aug-2009

Lovells’ retention rate for trainee solicitors due qualify in the autumn has dropped to 69 per cent.
Lovells revamps partnership council

1-Apr-2009

Lovells has elected five new members to its partnership council with five existing members coming to the end of their terms at the end of April.
Lovells scoops top Government litigation pilot

7-Aug-2009

HM Revenue & Customs has handed Lovells a major tax litigation project, the first time the department has outsourced an entire case to an external law firm.
Lovells Seisler leaves firm six months after election defeat

14-May-2009

Lovells former Continental Europe head Harald Seisler has left the firm six months after running an unsuccessful campaign to become firmwide managing partner.
Lovells shake-up confirms Gamble as London chief

18-Mar-2009

Lovells has appointed international banking head Andrew Gamble to the London regional managing partner role as part of a management shake-up instigated by managing partner David Harris.
Lovells' staff costs rose by £29m in 2008-09

26-Jan-2010

Lovells had to shell out an extra £29m in staff costs over the last 2008-09 financial year compared with the previous 12 months, the firm’s LLP accounts have revealed.
Lovells to shut Chicago after Hogan merger goes live

30-Mar-2010

Lovells is to close its seven-partner Chicago office after it underperformed for a number of years.
Lovells wins controversial genocide case for Canadian oil company

6-Oct-2009

Lovells has sealed a US court victory for Canadian oil company Talisman Energy in a long-running case brought by a Sudanese church.
Loyens boosts partnership with five promotions

5-Jan-2011

Benelux firm Loyens & Loeff has promoted five associates to partner in its Netherlands and Luxembourg offices.
LSB approves reduction in cost of practising certificate

4-Aug-2010

The Legal Services Board has approved the SRA’ decision to set the annual practising certificate fee at the reduced cost of £428.
LSC chief exec named in New Year's Honours list

31-Dec-2010

The chief executive and former commissioner of the Legal Services Commission (LSC) are among the representatives of the legal profession to be named in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
Lucasfilm invokes the force of Sumption QC in Star Wars showdown

5-Jan-2011

Brick Court’s Jonathan Sumption QC has been called upon to represent Lucasfilm in its Supreme Court battle over the alleged copyright infringement of the Star Wars stormtrooper helmet.
Lucozade Sport is a drink not a food, tax tribunal rules

15-Nov-2011

The maker of sports energy drink Lucozade has lost an attempt to prove that it is a functional food rather than a beverage, with the Tax and Chancery Upper Tribunal ruling that Lucozade Sport is mainly drunk for hydration and pleasure.
Lutyens Restaurant

16-Sep-2011

Mayer Brown banking head Dominic Griffiths and senior PR manager Charlotte Ward had fond memories of Clement Freud while dining at Lutyens.
Lyceum Capital injects £25m into LPO start-up

19-Nov-2009

Business service provider Laureate Legal Services (LLS) has secured £25m of funding from private equity house Lyceum Capital as it seeks to take advantage of the upsurge in legal outsourcing work.
Macclesfield case reheard after judge fell asleep at bench

5-Apr-2012

A North West lawyer has made an official complaint after a judge fell asleep during her mitigation at Macclesfield Magistrates Court.
Macdonald, Kelsey-Fry score victory in Redknapp case

8-Feb-2012

The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Ken Macdonald QC and Cloth Fair Chambers’ John Kelsey-Fry QC have successfully defended football bosses Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric from charges of tax evasion.
Mace & Jones cleared of professional negligence

22-Dec-2010

The High Court has thrown out a £60m professional negligence claim brought against North West firm Mace & Jones this morning.
Mace & Jones cleared of professional negligence and awarded £800,000

25-Jan-2011

North West firm Mace & Jones has been awarded £800,000 in indemnity costs after it was cleared of professional negligence claims levelled at it by construction company D Morgan.
Macfarlanes adds Addleshaws partner to corporate practice

14-Mar-2012

Macfarlanes has made an addition to its corporate practice with the hire of Addleshaw Goddard partner James Dawson.
Macfarlanes advises latest bidder for Liverpool FC

12-Oct-2010

Macfarlanes has been handed the mandate to act for the latest bidder to throw his hat into the ring in the battle for control of Liverpool Football Club.
Macfarlanes and Slaughters lead as Comet sells for £2

9-Nov-2011

Macfarlanes and Slaughter and May have won key roles advising on Anglo-French electrical goods retailer Kesa’s sale of its 250 Comet stores to private equity house OpCapita.
Macfarlanes bolsters finance team with Clifford Chance hire

31-May-2011

Macfarlanes has scooped a Clifford Chance structured finance partner as it looks to bolsters its debt capital markets and acquisition finance offering.
Macfarlanes bolts on boutique in funds boost

16-Jan-2012

Macfarlanes has made a significant addition to its funds practice with the hire of a nine-strong team from a West End hedge fund boutique.
Macfarlanes boosts real estate with hire of Shearman's Nisse

9-Sep-2011

Macfarlanes has hired Shearman & Sterling partner Ian Nisse to head its commercial real estate practice.
Macfarlanes drops out of million-pound club as PEP falls to £846,000

16-Jul-2009

Macfarlanes has become the latest UK firm to fall below the million-pound mark in average profit per equity partner (PEP) terms.
Macfarlanes launches second round of redundancy talks

11-Jun-2009

City firm Macfarlanes has launched a fresh redundancy consultation for support staff.
Macfarlanes makes a troika

21-Sep-2011

Macfarlanes has become the third UK firm this year - following previous victims SJ Berwinand Clifford Chance - to have its funds practice raided by a US rival (see story).
Macfarlanes makes up first corporate lawyer in five years in increased round

30-Mar-2012

Macfarlanes has made up five associates to its partnership in a round that included its first corporate promotion for five years.
Macfarlanes makes up four partners in latest promotions round

1-Apr-2011

After promoting just one associate last year, Macfarlanes has made up four partners across four practice areas.
Macfarlanes muscles in on Slaughters' Chinese best friend with partner secondment

23-Jan-2012

Macfarlanes is set to second a partner to Slaughter and May’s Chinese best friend as part of a move to strengthen its relationship with the firm.
Macfarlanes names new managing partner, re-elects senior partner

8-Oct-2010

Macfarlanes has named banking and finance head Julian Howard as its next managing partner.
Macfarlanes partner invented kidnap story to avoid drink-driving charge, court hears

16-Dec-2011

Former Macfarlanes partner Francis Bridgeman is alleged to have lied to police that he had been kidnapped in order to get out of a drink-driving charge, a court has heard.
Macfarlanes promotes just one in depleted round of promos

27-Apr-2010

Macfarlanes has become the latest firm to cut the number of new partners it has made up with just one associate being promoted.
Macfarlanes' revenue drops 7 per cent

12-Jul-2010

Macfarlanes has unveiled a 6.7 per cent revenue fall for the 2009-10 financial year, with fees dropping from £99m to £92.4m.
Macfarlanes' slick job

24-Feb-2011

The best efforts of Colonel Gaddafi and his family notwithstanding, BP is finding it hard to stay out of the news these days.
Macfarlanes suffers double partner loss with defections to Clydes and Fladgate

4-Mar-2011

Macfarlanes has lost two partners from its real estate practice just months after the group was broken up into three separate teams, acting within existing practice areas.
Macfarlanes unveils Meek as new corporate head

5-May-2011

Macfarlanes has named Charles Meek as its new head of corporate, replacing Kevin Tufnell who has completed three years in the job.
Macfarlanes wins follow-on role from TNK-BP's Rosneft deal

24-Feb-2011

Macfarlanes has landed a major new mandate advising the independent directors of BP’s Russian joint venture partner Alfa Access Renova (AAR) on their position following last month’s tie-up between the UK oil company and Russia’s state-owned Rosneft.
Maclay Murray & Spens LLPs reveal cost of Glasgow move

30-Jan-2012

Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens saw its profits dip during the 2010-11 financial year, while the firm took on more debt following an office move.
Maclays IP head Nicolson joins Bristows

1-Jun-2009

Bristows has hired the former head of the IP and technology department at Maclay Murray & Spens as a partner in its commercial group.
Maclays names real estate chief as next CEO as Swanson steps down

21-Jan-2011

Maclay Murray & Spens chief executive Magnus Swanson is standing down after three terms and will be replaced by the firm’s real estate chief.
Maclays' PEP slides at end of "disappointing" year

24-Jul-2009

Scotland-headquartered firm Maclay Murray & Spens saw average profits per equity partner (PEP) fall 32 per cent over the last financial year on the back of a turnover drop of 9 per cent.
Maclays set to make private client redundancies

4-May-2012

Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens has announced that it has begun a redundancy consultation in its private client team.
Macs of my tears

4-Mar-2011

For one of the City’s sleepier institutions, Macfarlanes has had a bit of a tumultuous 12 months.
Made up

22-Mar-2010

The annual round of partnership promotions is underway and, if the early signs are anything to go by, not many firms are taking a punt on the recovery yet.
Madrid and middle-earth

7-Oct-2009

Imagine a wonderful Spanish city, with all its cathedrals, art galleries, bustling markets, lively bars open to the early hours….
Maggie Forman: Olswang

15-Oct-2010

What are the best perks of your role? I am aware of what’s happening throughout the firm as a whole which is very interesting.
Magic circle cautiously optimistic for growth despite economic stagnation

7-May-2012

Law firms are predicting muted results and a sustained lull in the markets following a disappointing second half to the financial year.
Magic circle figures: Freshfields top on PEP as A&O closes turnover gap

8-Jul-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have posted their financial results for the 2010-11 year, revealing that the top four UK firms are now neck-and-neck with each other in turnover terms.
Magic circle firms announce NQ retention rates of 89 per cent

24-Jan-2012

Allen & Overy and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have both announced they are keeping 89 per cent of their spring 2012 qualifying trainees.
Magic circle gets on the phone

16-Sep-2011

Two more magic circle firms have been sucked into the phone-hacking affair, which has about as much likelihood of calming down as Naomi Campbell in a traffic jam.
Magic circle split as Clifford Chance follows Freshfields on associate pay

7-Jun-2011

Clifford Chance has followed magic circle rival Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer by announcing small hikes in associate salaries.
Magic circle tag redundant, Eversheds research finds

18-Mar-2010

Over half of all clients think that the magic circle designation is redundant, with 94 per cent of them arguing that the profession should reclassify its peer groups, according to new research.
Magisters' Kiev office raided over Naftogaz investigation

4-Feb-2011

Magisters’ managing partner has hit out at the Ukrainian government after armed men from the General Prosecutor’s office yesterday raided the firm’s Kiev office, seizing documents and detaining staff for six hours.
Magisters taps CMS Russia for projects chief

3-Dec-2009

Magisters’ Moscow office has turned to local rival CMS Russia for the hire of a CIS-wide head of projects.
Magisters’ founding partner leaves firm for public office

7-Sep-2009

The co-founding partner of CIS firm Magisters has left to launch a political career in Ukraine.
Magna party starter

12-Nov-2010

Some things just take a long time.
Magnusson hires Ramberg Advokater partner for Malmö launch

9-Jan-2012

Nordic firm Magnusson has opened a base in the Swedish city of Malmö, meaning the firm now has eight offices in total.
Maher heads back to Mayer for Greenberg launch

22-Jul-2009

Greenberg Traurig Maher, which officially launched in London this month, has leased office space in London from Mayer Brown.
Maher overlooked in Mayer Brown rejig

17-Apr-2009

Mayer Brown’s London-based vice-chair Paul Maher has been overlooked in the firm’s management rejig with his US-based counterpart winning the newly created role of firmwide managing partner.
Maher takes leave of absence from Mayer Brown

28-Apr-2009

Mayer Brown vice chairman Paul Maher has issued a highly unusual statement regarding his future at the Chicago-headquartered firm, announcing his decision to take a leave of absence following the firm’s recent leadership elections.
Maitland adds to London team with Boodle Hatfield hire

5-Oct-2011

Offshore and wealth services firm Maitland has hired a partner from Boodle Hatfield as it continues to build its private client offering in London.
Maitland chief exec leaves bar for Pemberton Greenish

14-Apr-2011

Maitland Chambers chief executive Robert Graham-Campbell has quit the set for private practice and has been appointed as chief executive of Knightsbridge firm Pemberton Greenish.
Maitland hires Withers funds partner for London team

14-Jul-2011

Private client specialist Maitland has made a trio of lateral hires in London and Cape Town, including a partner from Withers.
Maitland taps Withers for Geneva tax lawyers

18-Nov-2011

International private client firm Maitland has hired a team of tax and wealth management lawyers for its Geneva office.
Maitland wins fraud case for pub chain JD Wetherspoon

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Catherine Newman QC of Maitland Chambers has won a High Court victory on behalf of JD Wetherspoon (JDW).
Majoring in Asia

17-Aug-2010

The beauty of an international profession like law is that things are never dull. As the sun sets in one market, it rises in another.
Making a dent

19-May-2010

Further pain may be about to come in the UK economy, but Dentons at least is (briefly) celebrating a significant PEP increase for the 2009-10 financial year.
Making changes

21-Oct-2009

Since the Woolf reforms were introduced in April 1999 the litigation system in England and Wales has been transformed, not least because of the wider use of conditional fee arrangements (CFAs).
Making hey

30-Sep-2009

Mr Justice Blake fired a warning shot when handing down his judgment in the Heyday case last week. Legislation governing the default retirement age must be reformed, his judgment said.
Mallesons' managing partner to assume chief exec role

31-Mar-2011

Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques has announced that managing partner Stuart Fuller will succeed Robert Milliner as chief executive.
Mallesons partners green light King & Wood merger

24-Nov-2011

Partners at Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques have voted in favour of a merger with King & Wood, with the Chinese firm still to vote.
Mallesons signs up with Integreon in Aussie LPO deal

27-Oct-2011

Mallesons Stephen Jaques has signed a formal supplier agreement with legal process outsourcer (LPO) Integreon in a bid to increase efficiency and reduce cost for clients.
Mallesons snares RMB bond duo from Simmons in Hong Kong

27-Sep-2011

Australia’s Mallesons Stephen Jaques has grown its Asian debt capital markets practice with the addition of two Simmons & Simmons lawyers who specialise in renminbi (RMB) products.
Man murdered at King's Cross station was leading immigration lawyer

28-Oct-2010

British Transport Police today confirmed that the person struck and killed by a tube train following an incident at King’s Cross Station last Monday was David Burgess, a lawyer at north London firm Luqmani Thompson & Partners.
Manches abandons Halliwells merger talks

17-Sep-2009

Manches has pulled out of merger talks with Halliwells after the two firms seriously considered a tie-up, TheLawyer.com can reveal.
Manches construction head moves to Taylor Wessing

8-Dec-2011

Taylor Wessing has made its second construction hire this year with the scoop of partner Joanne Kelly from Manches, where she formerly headed the firm’s London construction practice.
Manches duo split off to form media boutique

18-Jan-2012

The former heads of Manches’ IP litigation and publishing and media groups have joined forces to launch a boutique specialising in IP, media and entertainment law and dispute resolution.
Manches lays off 10, corporate worst hit

19-Mar-2009

Manches has laid off 10 people with the bulk of the redundancies affecting its corporate practice.
Manches leads on 'glamorous' F1 IPO

9-Mar-2011

Manches and Nabarro’s German alliance partner, GSK Stockmann + Kollegen, have snared the leading roles on Williams F1’s groundbreaking IPO.
Manches sues celebrity chef's wife for unpaid fees

8-Feb-2012

Manches is claiming over £200,000 in unpaid fees from the wife of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White after she instructed the firm on the couple’s divorce.
Manchester barrister stars in Coronation Street

19-Mar-2010

Barrister Paul Dockery of Manchester set 18 St John Street Chambers made a return appearance on Coronation Street last night, playing a court usher as Gail McIntyre was put on remand for murder.
Manchester Met law lecturer in grade inflation row

19-Mar-2009

A law lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University has branded students there as “lazy”, claiming an exam board had to top up their grades.
Manchester Met picks four in panel rejig

5-Jul-2010

Manchester Metropolitan University has revamped its legal panel with the appointment of four firms to the new roster.
Manchester solicitor jailed for money laundering

11-Jan-2012

Manchester-based solicitor Nicholas Heywood has been jailed for 12 months after being found guilty of laundering money from a vulnerable lottery winner.
Manchester's JMW makes Pinsents, Nexus hires

6-May-2011

Manchester firm JMW has boosted its corporate and employment teams after hiring partners from Pinsent Masons and Nexus.
Manchester's Linder Myers expands with pre-packed rescue of RFC

3-Jan-2012

Manchester headquartered Linder Myers has bought fellow Manchester firm Rowlands Field Cunningham (RFC) out of administration, as the firm sets its sights on growing from a £10m to £25m operation in three years.
Maples shake-up sees shock departure of management team

3-Dec-2009

The managing partners of offshore law firm Maples and Calder have left the firm following its partner retreat last week.
Marketing for dummies, Squammonds style

4-Nov-2010

The dream, alas, is over. The greatest law firm name in history is not going to happen after the killjoys at Hammonds and Squire Sanders & Dempsey got together and came up with their new coalesced moniker.
Marks & Clerk boosts partnership with Simmons hire

6-Jan-2010

Marks & Clerk Solicitors has brought on Simmons & Simmons partner and dispute resolution specialist William Cook to the firm.
Marrache London hits out after Gibraltar partners charged with false accounting

11-Feb-2010

A partner in the London office of Marrache & Co has reacted angrily to news that the firm’s Gibraltar-based founding partners have had their Financial Services Commission (FSC) licenses cancelled, claiming the City base’s reputation is suffering by association.
Martin Lucas, White & Case

1-Apr-2011

How did you spend your last bonus? (If you have never received a bonus, how would you hope to spend it in the future)? Dinner for two - with my wife.
Martineau anoints new senior partner after leadership race

9-Jul-2009

Andrew Whitehead, the head of energy at Birmingham-headquartered Martineau, has become the firm’s new senior partner after a contested election.
Martineau launches in Brussels as it ramps up energy focus

18-Oct-2011

Martineau senior partner Andrew Whitehead is to launch the firm in Brussels after signing a strategic collaboration with German law firm, Becker Büttner Held (BBH).
Martineau moots merger with London's Sprecher Grier

20-May-2011

Birmingham-based firm Martineau and London firm Sprecher Grier Halberstam have announced that thy are in merger talks. The tie-up would create a combined entity with a £31m turnover.
Martineau sees first-half turnover rise ahead of Sprecher Grier tie-up

28-Nov-2011

Martineau has posted a 7 per cent turnover hike for the first half of the 2011-12 financial year as it gears up for a merger with Sprecher Grier Halberstam.
Martineau turnover down ten per cent; PEP drops by a quarter

21-Jul-2009

Birmingham-based Martineau has posted a 24 per cent drop in profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2008-09 financial year.
Martineau's Belgian manoeuvres

18-Oct-2011

Belgium is already small and densely populated and, frankly, law firms are doing little to alleviate the situation.
Master of the Rolls orders retrial of Ashfords negligence claim

13-Jan-2012

The Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger has ordered the retrial of a professional negligence claim brought against Ashfords after the first instance judge His Honour Judge (HHJ) Denyer QC halted the trial after just one day.
Master of the Rolls slams Irwin Mitchell's 'out of kilter' costs

21-Feb-2012

Irwin Mitchell has been forced to defend its pricing policy after the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger highlighted a case in which it charged six times the amount paid out to its client.
MasterChef production company installs BBC lawyer as chief counsel

28-Jan-2011

The independent TV production company that makes MasterChef and One Born Every Minute has hired a new legal chief.
Match of the day

11-May-2011

For most barristers the most memorable cases are those that come from nowhere yet the court’s decision is imperative to future progression.
Matrimonial bliss

21-Mar-2012

Equal marriage: is it a done deal or is everything still to play for? Barrister Anya Palmer gives her view.
Matrix adds human rights silk from Doughty Street

14-Mar-2012

Matrix has hit rival set Doughty Street Chambers for human rights silk Richard Hermer QC.
Matrix loses filesharing appeal brought by BT and TalkTalk

6-Mar-2012

The Court of Appeal has thrown out a bid by British Telecom (BT) and TalkTalk to overturn a judicial review ruling handed down by Mr Justice Parker last year, paving the way for the implementation of the Digital Economy Act.
Matrix on song

23-Jul-2010

Hell apparently hath no fury like a TV talent contestant scorned.
Matrix silk confirmed as High Court judge in latest appointments

29-Jul-2011

The High Court is to welcome five new judges in the Michaelmas term, including Matrix Chambers’ Rabinder Singh QC.
Matrix silk convinces court that Woolas breached election laws

5-Nov-2010

Matrix Chambers’ Helen Mountfield QC has successfully challenged the outcome of the May general election for Liberal Democrat candidate Elwyn Watkins in a ruling that will force Labour MP Phil Woolas from his seat.
Matrix silk to lead group Hackgate claim against News International

21-Jul-2011

As many as 25 phone-hacking cases against News International are to be heard jointly at the beginning of 2012, with five high-profile individuals acting as lead claimants.
Matrix silk to represent Naomi Campbell in Charles Taylor trial

4-Aug-2010

Matrix Chambers’ Ken Macdonald QC will advise supermodel Naomi Campbell when she appears at The Hague to give evidence at the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
Matrix wins deportation appeal for alleged Russian spy

29-Nov-2011

A Russian citizen working as a parliamentary aide has won her appeal against deportation after a court rejected MI5’s claim that she posed a threat to national security.
Matrix's Tomlinson in court for Ferdinand's Mirror privacy case

5-Jul-2011

Matrix Chambers’ Hugh Tomlinson QC is in court this week leading a privacy action against the Mirror Group on behalf of footballer Rio Ferdinand.
Matthew Arnold & Baldwin hires Edwin Coe TMT head

2-Dec-2011

Matthew Arnold & Baldwin (MAB) has added Ted Mercer to the firm’s London TMT sector group.
May the best man win

21-Sep-2011

When any client walks out the door in favour of a rival lawyer it is going to be disappointing.
May the force be with you

5-Jan-2011

A legal battle of galactic proportions will be heard by the Supreme Court in March, when litigation boutique SC Andrew takes on the might of movie mogul George Lucas in a copyright fight over stormtroopers.
Mayer Brown adds A&O lawyer to leveraged finance team

1-Feb-2010

Mayer Brown has continued to strengthen its London leveraged finance team with the hire of leveraged finance partner Neil Caddy from Allen & Overy (A&O).
Mayer Brown advises on latest sale of Portsmouth FC

6-Oct-2009

Mayer Brown corporate partner Rob Hamill has led a team from the firm advising on the sale of Portsmouth Football Club - six weeks after advising on its purchase.
Mayer Brown and Simmons decide against merger

29-Jun-2010

Mayer Brown and Simmons & Simmons have concluded that they will not proceed with a merger following extensive discussions about a possible tie-up.
Mayer Brown beefs up in Asia with hires from Winston and Sidley

17-Aug-2010

Mayer Brown JSM has added two partners to its Asia practice, hiring from Winston & Strawn in Beijing and Sidley Austin in Hong Kong.
Mayer Brown boosts Paris disputes team with Ayela merger

26-Nov-2009

Mayer Brown Paris has merged with litigation boutique Ayela Semerdjian & Associés, adding seven lawyers to its dispute resolution department.
Mayer Brown completes management overhaul

28-May-2009

Mayer Brown has completed the restructuring of its management team after electing the final five partners to its 12-member partnership board.
Mayer Brown elects chair to replace Holzhauer

7-Apr-2009

Mayer Brown has nominated Chicago private equity partner Bert Krueger to succeed James Holzhauer as chairman, with the incumbent stepping down after two years at the helm.
Mayer Brown exits continue as Hong Kong partner defects to Holman Fenwick

4-Jan-2011

Holman Fenwick & Willan has hired a partner and associate from Mayer Brown’s Hong Kong office
Mayer Brown governance structure in limbo as Maher quits

19-May-2009

Mayer Brown’s co-vice-chair Paul Maher has officially resigned from the firm after announcing that he would be taking a leave of absence to consider his options.
Mayer Brown grows South American footprint with new alliance

22-Dec-2009

Mayer Brown has expanded its presence in South America through an alliance with Brazilian firm Tauil & Chequer (T&C).
Mayer Brown hires A&O partner for US derivatives push

18-Feb-2010

Mayer Brown has poached a partner from Allen & Overy (A&O) in New York to lead its US derivatives and structured products practice.
Mayer Brown JSM bulks up Beijing as Singapore base opens

17-Oct-2011

Mayer Brown JSM has added two lawyers to its Beijing office on the same day its new Singapore base officially opens.
Mayer Brown JSM launches Singapore base

30-Jun-2011

Mayer Brown is expanding its Asian footprint with the launch of a Singapore office via its Asian business Mayer Brown JSM.
Mayer Brown launches Paris competition practice

19-Apr-2010

Mayer Brown has launched a competition and distribution practice in Paris with the hire of a new practice head.
Mayer Brown lays off 45 more lawyers in US

3-Apr-2009

Mayer Brown has cut 45 lawyers and 90 support across its US offices.
Mayer Brown litigation partner joins E&Y as global general counsel

20-Sep-2011

Mayer Brown litigation partner Clare Canning is set to leave the firm to become global general counsel at Ernst & Young (E&Y).
Mayer Brown loses three partners as White & Case, Vinson swoop

15-Dec-2010

Mayer Brown’s London office has lost three partners to US rivals White & Case and Vinson & Elkins.
Mayer Brown names new chair as Krueger steps down

18-May-2012

Mayer Brown has confirmed the appointment of Chicago-based corporate partner Paul Theiss as its new chair.
Mayer Brown names new competition head

26-Aug-2009

Mayer Brown has promoted partner Gillian Sproul to head of competition and antitrust in its London office.
Mayer Brown partner guilty of Refco fraud

13-Jul-2009

A Mayer Brown partner charged with conspiracy relating to the fraud at collapsed commodities brokerage Refco was found guilty on Friday (10 July).
Mayer Brown picks up Camerons property finance partner

19-Mar-2012

Mayer Brown has turned to CMS Cameron McKenna for a real estate finance partner.
Mayer Brown plans City redundancy round

4-May-2012

Mayer Brown has become the latest to announce a redundancy programme, with the US firm planning to cut around 20 lawyers and staff from its London office.
Mayer Brown posts 10 per cent rise in average profit for 2011

3-Feb-2012

Mayer Brown has become the latest US firm to post financial results for 2011, with the Chicago-headquartered firm showing a 2.4 per cent rise in total fee income from $1.107bnto $1.13bn.
Mayer Brown prepares for departure of five London partners

16-Dec-2011

Mayer Brown’s London office is set to lose five partners from its commercial dispute resolution, corporate and real estate practices over the coming weeks.
Mayer Brown promotes 32, six in London

24-Nov-2010

Mayer Brown has made up six partners in London as part of a 32-strong round of annual partner promotions.
Mayer Brown property and DCM heads quit for US firms

8-Feb-2012

Mayer Brown is set to lose its head of real estate and head of debt capital markets in London in separate raids by US firms.
Mayer Brown ramps up finance practice with hires from Clifford Chance, Linklaters

13-Jul-2009

Mayer Brown has hired three leveraged finance partners for its London office after pledging to significantly bulk up its finance capabilities in the City.
Mayer Brown rebuilds asset finance with Orrick hire

22-Mar-2011

Mayer Brown has boosted its City asset finance offering with the hire of former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Europe managing partner Stuart McAlpine
Mayer Brown refocuses in Germany with Düsseldorf launch

17-Aug-2011

Mayer Brown is set to consolidate its presence in the German market, closing its bases in Cologne and Berlin and launching a new office in Düsseldorf.
Mayer Brown scoops role on ex-BP CEO Hayward deal

7-Sep-2011

The London office of Mayer Brown has advised on a $4.2bn merger that has created a new oil and gas vehicle for former BP chief executive Tony Hayward.
Mayer Brown swoops on Debevoise for insurance partner

5-Sep-2011

Global firm Mayer Brown has grown its corporate and securities practice and insurance industry group with the hire of Colin Scagell as a partner in London.
Mayer Brown takes two from Simmons in Germany

8-Aug-2011

The German arm of Mayer Brown has bulked up its finance offering with two hires from Simmons & Simmons.
Mayer Brown to cut 55 more jobs in London

20-Mar-2009

Mayer Brown has begun a second redundancy consultation which will lead to the loss of up to 55 jobs in London while associate pay will be frozen.
Mayo Wynne Baxter bulks up with Allen Ticehurst deal

3-Jan-2012

Sussex firm Mayo Wynne Baxter has merged with East Grinstead’s Allen Ticehurst Solicitors.
McDermott adds 29 to partnership in US and Europe

29-Nov-2011

McDermott Will & Emery is the latest US firm to announce partner promotion with 29 lawyers across 11 offices and 9 practice group making the cut to partnership. The appointments will take effect on 1 January 2012.
McDermott cuts 70 more jobs in the US

5-Jun-2009

McDermott Will & Emery has cut 25 associates and 45 support staff in its second round of layoffs in the US.
McDermott elects two to chairmanship

6-Apr-2009

McDermott Will & Emery has elected partners Jeffrey Stone and Peter Sacripanti as joint chairman of the firm.
McDermott launches in Turkey via Fora & Sanli link-up

4-Jan-2012

McDermott Will & Emery has become the latest international firm to forge an alliance in Turkey, choosing health law as its route into the country.
McDermott names Nineham as first-ever Europe chief

20-Jan-2010

McDermott Will & Emery has appointed London office managing partner Hugh Nineham as its new head of Europe as part of a push to move Europe closer to the core of the US firm’s global strategy.
McDermott prepares for South Korea launch

14-Feb-2012

McDermott Will & Emery is laying the ground for a Seoul launch and has deployed Korea head In-Young Lee to the city to lead the preparation.
McDermott promotes two in UK while preparing move to City's most expensive building

14-Dec-2010

US outfit McDermott Will & Emery has made up two partners in London ahead of the firm’s relocation to the 46-story Heron Tower, the City’s tallest building.
McDermott unveils London private client practice

11-Sep-2009

McDermott Will & Emery has launched a private client practice in its London office with a view to aligning the service with that in its New York offering.
McDermott's London IP litigation chief quits for boutique EIP

24-Oct-2011

The head of the London intellectual property litigation group group at McDermott Will & Emery, Gary Moss, is leaving the firm to launch a legal practice at patent and trademark boutique EIP.
McGrigors and Pinsents vote in favour of merger

6-Feb-2012

McGrigors and Pinsent Masons have agreed to merge following a partner vote that closed on Friday, 3 February.
McGrigors and Slaughters lead on Wood Group's purchase of PSN

23-Dec-2010

McGrigors won the mandate to sit across the deals table from Slaughter and May on the £607m sale of oil services company PSN to Aberdeen-based FTSE 250 company Wood Group.
McGrigors appointed sole adviser to Belfast's Queen's University

27-Feb-2012

Queen’s University Belfast is to appoint McGrigors as its sole legal adviser following a competitive tendering process.
McGrigors beefs up in City, Manchester and Aberdeen with raft of hires

26-Aug-2010

McGrigors has bolstered the Manchester team it hired from Hammonds earlier this year with the addition of seven lawyers at the same time as bulking up its Aberdeen and City practices.
McGrigors boosts tax team with high-profile KPMG hire

5-Sep-2011

National firm McGrigors has bolstered its tax team with the hire of Reg Day.
McGrigors bulks up in Belfast with local merger

28-Aug-2009

Edinburgh-headquartered firm McGrigors has merged with Irish firm L’Estrange & Brett, its second merger in a year.
McGrigors does an Osborne

20-Oct-2010

When it comes to redundancies, today must be one of the best days in history to bury bad news.
McGrigors' empire state of mind

26-Aug-2010

It’s just two-and-a-half years since McGrigors launched in Manchester in a bid to shake off its Scottish firm tag once and for all.
McGrigors favours Belfast in six-strong promotions round

7-Oct-2011

Scotland-headquartered firm McGrigors has bolstered its team by making six promotions across its network and adding a Jones Day senior associate to its City partnership.
McGrigors hands board seat to legacy L'Estrange partner

7-Mar-2011

Edinburgh-headquartered firm McGrigors has restructured its management board as it seeks to reflect a more UK-wide business, with a Belfast partner from legacy firm L’Estrange and Brett joining the board.
McGrigors hands second term to managing partner

8-Feb-2011

Edinburgh-headquartered firm McGrigors has handed managing partner Richard Masters a second term at the helm.
McGrigors helps Iraqi government access development funds

28-Jul-2009

McGrigors and Erskine Chambers have helped the Iraqi government recover millions of dollars tied up in a UK trust for nearly 20 years.
McGrigors London besieged by protesters over cleaner row

24-Nov-2011

Cleaning staff staged a protest outside McGrigors’ London office today (24 November) complaining of mistreatment by the Scottish firm’s contract cleaning company.
McGrigors' Mancs breaks ranks

12-Mar-2012

We’ve seen it time and time again: firms merge, conflicts arise, partners leave.
McGrigors moots cuts in maternity and sick benefits

15-Sep-2011

A storm is brewing at McGrigors over proposed changes to the firm’s maternity leave package.
McGrigors name to disappear as part of Pinsent Masons deal

2-Feb-2012

McGrigors is set to lose its brand if its merger with Pinsent Masons goes ahead, according to sources close to the firms.
McGrigors to cut 40 jobs in UK-wide redundancy round

20-Oct-2010

Edinburgh-headquartered McGrigors has launched a redundancy consultation with the aim of cutting 40 jobs across its UK network of offices.
McGrigors: we're all in it together, apparently

15-Sep-2011

George Osborne’s age of austerity has caught up with the overly fertile at McGrigors, as the firm looks to make sweeping changes to its maternity leave package (see story).
McGuire Woods beefs up in London with Squire Sanders hires

11-May-2010

McGuire Woods has strengthened its London office with the arrival of two former Squire Sanders & Dempsey partners, including former managing partner Andrew Visintin.
McGuire Woods picks up Norton Rose corporate partner

2-Feb-2012

Norton Rose corporate partner Simon Cox is leaving the firm to join US outfit McGuire Woods’ London office.
McGuireWoods beefs up in Texas with Nickens Keeton bolt-on

19-Nov-2010

US firm McGuireWoods has announced plans to acquire five-partner Texan civil litigation outfit Nickens Keeton Lawless Farrell & Flack.
McGuireWoods names new London chief

4-May-2012

US outfit McGuireWoods has announced a new head for its London office following in the footsteps of former Grundberg Mocatta Rakison (GMR) chief Anders Grundberg.
McKeeve to head BLP's private equity practice

19-Mar-2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has hired private equity heavyweight Raymond McKeeve in a boost for the firm’s ambitious corporate practice.
McKinnon lawyer: the fight will go on

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The lawyer instructed by Gary McKinnon, the man charged by the US with hacking into Pentagon and Nasa computers, has vowed to continue her struggle to prevent his extradition to the US.
Media frenzy

17-Feb-2010

The rise in the number of media interventions in cases appears to be the result of an orchestrated attack by defendant media lawyers on their claimant counterparts.
Mediation: the next frontier?

27-May-2009

The beauty of mediation is its simplicity. It has made a real impact on the dispute resolution landscape and is here to stay. The obvious question therefore is, where does mediation go from here?
Meeson exits 39 Essex Street after decade at the helm

4-Feb-2011

Long-standing chambers director Michael Meeson has resigned from 39 Essex Street after more than 10 years with the set.
Meet the new boss

31-Mar-2010

Addleshaw Goddard has elected a new chairman. And she’s a woman.
Memery Crystal tops tables with highest number of Aim clients

2-Aug-2011

Memery Crystal has beaten LG, Norton Rose and Pinsent Masons to storm to the top of a ranking of firms by number of Aim-listed clients for the first time.
Merger fallout begins

31-Jan-2012

Fallout from mergers is unavoidable. Some teams will find their roles redundant at the new firm, others will run a mile of their own accord.
Merger mania: who says size matters?

16-Mar-2012

A quarter of a century ago I strode into my first ever partners’ meeting. The highlight of the meeting was to be a presentation from what in those days passed as law firm consultants. They had done a strategic review of our position in the marketplace and it was with a warm sense of anticipation that I sat down to hear how wonderful and perfectly formed we were.
Merger of Competition Commission and OFT meets with muted response

16-Mar-2011

Competition lawyers have offered a lukewarm response to Government proposals to streamline and improve the UK’s competition regime.
Merger purge

30-Jun-2011

Despite the warnings, SNR Denton’s UK financials are still a little bit shocking.
Merger Watch

7-Feb-2012

Merger Watch keeps track of the latest law firm deals in the market
Merger: not impossible

6-Jun-2011

It has only been a couple of days since news broke about a possible Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Clyde & Co merger, and already the inevitable analogies are coming thick and fast.
Merton and Richmond boroughs appoint new joint head of legal

8-Sep-2011

The London Boroughs of Merton and Richmond have appointed Paul Evans as their new joint head of legal services, taking over from previous legal chief Helen White.
Merton and Richmond legal chief resigns after overseeing merger

18-May-2011

The head of legal at Merton and Richmond councils is to give up the post less than a year after overseeing the merger of their legal services divisions.
Messy conclusion to BA price-fixing case highlights weaknesses in competition law enforcement

24-Apr-2012

Last week the OFT’s long-running price-fixing case against British Airways came to an end with the original fine agreed in 2007 being halved to £58.5m.
Met Police unveils slimmed-down panel after cost-saving review

22-Mar-2012

The Metropolitan Police has taken an axe to its external legal panel in a cost-cutting move that has seen nine firms exit the roster.
Mexican litigation boutique launched by White & Case team

24-May-2012

Four partners are due to leave White & Case’s Mexico City office to launch a firm that will focus on administrative litigation matters.
Mexico's Natividad Abogados signs up to L&E Global alliance

19-Oct-2011

Mexican firm Natividad Abogados has become the latest firm to join employment law alliance L&E Global.
Michael Simkins hires former Addleshaws employment partner

5-Oct-2009

Media firm Michael Simkins has hired a former Addleshaw Goddard partner to head its employment practice.
Michelmores pays bonus to all staff after 5 per cent turnover rise

9-May-2012

Exeter-headquartered Michelmores is to pay all lawyers and staff a bonus equivalent to 3 per cent of their individual salaries after posting a 5 per cent rise in turnover to £19.2m.
Micklethwaite leaves Gherson for Brown Rudnick

24-Jun-2009

Immigration and human rights boutique Gherson’s commercial litigation team, headed by partner Neil Micklethwaite, is joining the London office of Brown Rudnick.
Mighty United

15-Apr-2009

Last November the European Commission issued a green paper on Consumer Collective Redress which highlighted the need for a more comprehensive and united approach to group actions across Europe.
Migrationwatch drops Sally Bercow libel threat

7-Oct-2010

Migrationwatch has dropped its libel complaint against political commentator Sally Bercow less than a week after she instructed lawyers to defend the threatened action.
Milbank builds up City practice with Ashurst hire

26-Aug-2009

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has hired an Ashurst restructuring partner to bulk up its capabilities in the City.
Milbank hires DLA partner for City litigation push

14-Apr-2009

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has launched a commercial litigation practice in London, hiring DLA Piper partner Julian Stait to work on technology disputes.
Milbank hires DLA partner for London litigation team

6-Oct-2010

Milbank has boosted the litigation capabilities of its London office with the hire of DLA Piper partner Tom Canning.
Milbank hires five-partner team from Latham

6-Aug-2010

A five-strong team of banking partners has left Latham & Watkins’ New York office to join Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Milbank launches European antitrust practice with SJ Berwin hire

18-May-2010

SJ Berwin has lost its German head of EU and competition after Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy swooped for Alexander Rinne to launch its own European antitrust practice.
Milbank scores Munich coup with Hengeler hire

5-Jan-2010

Slaughter and May’s German best friend Hengeler Mueller has suffered a rare partner departure with a Munich corporate lawyer defecting to US firm Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Milbank's Latin losses

15-Jun-2011

How about this for a trend reversal?
Milburn: the law is too elitist

21-Jul-2009

A new government paper has called on the legal industry to remove the barriers preventing those from poorer backgrounds joining the profession.
Mills & Reeve adds Kennedys partner to insurance team

7-Dec-2011

Mills & Reeve has made its fifth lateral hire this year with the appointment of insurance partner Paul Spibey.
Mills & Reeve defeats negligence claim in case Smith J was recused from

24-Apr-2012

Mills & Reeve has defeated a profession negligence claim in the Court of Appeal (CoA) in a case that caused controversy in litigation circles after Mr Justice Peter Smith was told to stand down from the dispute.
Mills & Reeve sees marginal increases in turnover and PEP

12-Jul-2010

Mills & Reeve has posted slight increases in turnover and average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009-10 financial year.
Mills & Reeve welcomes three to partnership in latest promotions

1-Jun-2011

Mills & Reeve has promoted three lawyers to partner, boosting its partnership headcount to 97.
Mills & Reeve's revenues increase by 7 per cent

14-Jul-2009

Mills & Reeve has reported a 7 per cent revenue hike for the last financial year.
Mincoff Jacksons to de-merge a year after forming

1-Oct-2009

Newcastle firm Mincoff Jacksons is to split into individual firms, exactly a year after Mincoffs and Jacksons merged.
Mincoffs, Jacksons sneezes

1-Oct-2009

It’s all kicking off in Newcastle. Exactly one year since the merger of Newcastle firms Jacksons and Mincoffs the two have decided to go their separate ways.
Miners compensation scandal: Nulty struck off

30-Apr-2009

Andrew Nulty, the lawyer who boasted of his £13m fortune, has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal for his part in the miners’ compensation scandal.
Minter Ellison adds Nabarro partner to Perth base

17-Apr-2012

Minter Ellison has appointed Nabarro’s international committee chair Michael Hales as a partner in its Perth office.
Minter Ellison expands China presence with Beijing launch

24-Aug-2010

Australian firm Minter Ellison has launched an office in Beijing, the firm’s third in Greater China.
Minter Ellison hires Mayer Brown partner for London expansion

26-Oct-2011

Australian firm Minter Ellison has bulked up its London corporate team with the addition of a partner from Mayer Brown.
Minter Ellison relaunches in Perth after Squire Sanders raid

29-Sep-2011

Thirty lawyers from Minter Ellison’s legacy Perth office are to financially integrate with the Australian firm on 1 October, the same day that the office’s other 80 lawyers will launch Squire Sanders’ Australian arm.
Minter Ellison takes second partner from Mayer Brown in London

2-May-2012

Minter Ellison has added Mayer Brown finance partner Nicola Marley to its London team.
Minter Ellison taps Jones Day for three-partner Hong Kong team

14-Dec-2010

Australian firm Minter Ellison has hired three partners from Jones Day for its Hong Kong office.
Minter Ellison’s former CFO pleads guilty to £1.8m theft

22-Mar-2012

Minter Ellison’s former South Australian and Northern Territory chief financial officer Craig Raneberg has admitted stealing A$2.7m (£1.8m) from the firm at a hearing in an Australian court.
MIPIM 2010 Blog: Friday 19th March

19-Mar-2010

Hordes of real estate lawyers are in Cannes this week for MIPIM, but what are they really getting up to? Find out in our MIPIM blog all week. Latest: Tim Webb, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig Maher
MIPIM 2010 Blog: Thursday 18th March

18-Mar-2010

Hordes of real estate lawyers are in Cannes this week for MIPIM, but what are they really getting up to? Find out in our MIPIM blog all week. Latest: Tim Webb, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig Maher
MIPIM 2010 Blog: Tuesday, 16th March

16-Mar-2010

Hordes of real estate lawyers are in Cannes this week for MIPIM, but what are they really getting up to? Find out in our MIPIM blog all week. Today: Neil Sagoo of Maples Teesdale and Tim Webb of Greenberg Traurig Maher
MIPIM 2010 Blog: Wednesday 17th March

17-Mar-2010

Hordes of real estate lawyers are in Cannes this week for MIPIM, but what are they really getting up to? Find out in our MIPIM blog all week. Latest: Rhodri Pazzi-Axworthy, real estate partner, Nabarro
MIPIM 2011: Day 1

9-Mar-2011

Hordes of real estate lawyers are in Cannes this week for MIPIM, but what are they really getting up to? Find out in our MIPIM blog all week.
MIPIM 2011: Day 2

9-Mar-2011

As my MIPIM train rolls into Aix, I notice that inside me there is A Year in Provence struggling to get out.
MIPIM 2011: Day 3

10-Mar-2011

MIPIM Wednesday is the day on which the serious business is done and on another chilly morning one could feel a sense of purpose in the air.
MIPIM 2011: Day 4

11-Mar-2011

As MIPIM draws to a close, it is time to reflect on the biggest event in a property lawyer’s calendar
Mipim Day Four

6-Mar-2012

Nabarro partner Martin McKervey heads for home pondering the fact that, while we might be up the economic creek, Mipim has proved that there are still plenty of paddles.
Misappropriating the Mickey

28-Jul-2011

The High Court has granted an injunction to a consortium of six major Hollywood studios, including Disney enterprises, forcing British Telecom (BT) to stop its internet users from accessing a website that infringes copyright (see story).
Mishcon and 1 Hare Court secure £8m settlement in divorce appeal

28-Jan-2011

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has ordered an oil technology millionaire to raise his divorce settlement payout from £5.4m to £8m.
Mishcon and Eversheds lead on Rolls Building sale

21-Dec-2011

Eversheds and Mishcon de Reya both took leading parts in the £305m sale of the Rolls Building to Legal & General Property (L&G).
Mishcon and RPC advise on Daily Mail harassment case

23-Apr-2012

Phone-hacking victims’ lawyer Charlotte Harris is taking on another newspaper group in a case of alleged harassment by the press.
Mishcon and Stewarts secure victory for ex-Dresdner bankers in bonus dispute

9-May-2012

Mishcon de Reya and Stewarts Law have won their bid to force Dresdner Kleinwort to pay out bonuses promised to its investment bankers prior to its takeover by Commerzbank in 2008.
Mishcon beats budget with 30 per cent turnover hike

2-Jun-2011

Mishcon de Reya has unveiled a budget-busting increase in both total turnover and average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2010-11 financial year.
Mishcon boosts real estate with double SJ Berwin hire

4-Jan-2010

Mischon de Reya has bolstered its real estate practice with the capture of two of SJ Berwin’s star performers.
Mishcon expands New York base with launch of family practice

30-Nov-2011

Mishcon de Reya is to launch a family practice in its New York office after hiring family partner Michael Stutman from US firm Mayerson Stutman Abramowitz.
Mishcon experiences another tough year for PEP

6-Jul-2010

Mishcon de Reya has posted another sharp decline in average profit per equity partner (PEP), with the firm’s PEP now having dropped 39 per cent in two years.
Mishcon harnesses private client nous with advisory launch

24-Feb-2012

Mishcon de Reya is pinning its hopes of future revenue growth on its private client base, with the launch of a new business for high-net-worth individuals and wealthy families.
Mishcon promotes four partners, all in London

18-Apr-2012

Mishcon de Reya has made up four partners in London in its annual round of promotions
Mishcon seals victory for Lady Gaga in IP case against Lady Goo Goo

14-Oct-2011

IP set 11 South Square was both a winner and a loser in the High Court this week as pop superstar Lady Gaga obtained an injunction preventing a computer game company from releasing a single by a cartoon character.
Mishcons and Debrett's publish guide to best behaviour in divorce

23-Jan-2012

Celebrity divorce go-to firm Mishcon de Reya has teamed up with Debrett’s - etiquette and manners advisors since 1769 - to publish a £12.99 guide on how to maintain a level of decorum and good manners in the usually messy business of divorce.
Mishcons gags Goo Goo for Gaga

14-Oct-2011

Lady Gaga has a new single: Just Injunct.
Misys appoints general counsel as CEO amid merger talks

8-Feb-2012

The general counsel of FTSE 250 listed software company Misys has been made acting chief executive officer following the resignation of the present chief.
MJ Hudson hires new partner for City private equity push

14-Sep-2010

MJ Hudson, the boutique funds firm set up by former SJ Berwin private equity partner Matthew Hudson, has made its first partner hire since launching in the summer.
Mobile giant Three announces new regulatory chief

16-May-2011

Mobile phone network Three has hired a new legal chief for its competition and regulatory arm from rival operator Everything Everywhere.
MoFo and Sidley add to Chinese capital markets partnerships

2-Nov-2011

US firms Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) and Sidley Austin have bulked up their Chinese capital markets teams with the addition of a partner apiece.
MoFo cancels Broadmoor retreat

1-Apr-2009

Morrison & Foerster has postponed its 2009 partner conference, which was due to be held at Broadmoor in June.
MoFo first major law firm to launch iPhone app

16-Mar-2010

US firm Morrison & Foerster has entered the digital age with the launch on an iPhone application MoFo2Go.
MoFo posts rises in revenue and PEP

27-Jan-2011

Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has become the latest US firm to post year-end financial results that reveal a marginal increase in total revenue coupled with a significant hike in average profit per equity partner (PEP).
MoJ backs Jackson's civil litigation reforms

15-Nov-2010

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has backed the sweeping reforms of the civil litigation system that were put forward by Lord Justice Jackson.
MoJ bans referral fees outright

9-Sep-2011

Referral fees for personal injury cases will be subject to an outright ban, the Ministry of Justice said today.
MoJ delays legal aid reforms by six months

2-Dec-2011

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has pushed back the implementation of new rules governing civil and family legal aid from the originally proposed October 2012 to April 2013.
MoJ delays no-win no-fee reforms

31-Jan-2012

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced a six-month delay in the implementation of the Jackson reforms aimed at revamping civil litigation.
MoJ ditches new court interpreting system in face of major backlash

23-Feb-2012

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has decided to allow courts to revert to the old system of selecting interpreters from the National Register of Public Service Interpreters (NRPSI) in order to avoid further hearings being adjourned as a result of interpreters from a new agency failing to turn up to court.
MoJ plans massive rise in court fees

16-Nov-2011

Court fees charged to litigants are expected to soar after the Ministry of Justice said the High Court and Court of Appeal should be paid for by court-users rather than the taxpayer.
MoJ prepares to unveil revamped no-win, no-fee regime

29-Mar-2011

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will unveil plans to reform the conditional fee system later today.
MoJ to lift ban on contingency fees in revamp of no-win, no-fee system

29-Mar-2011

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will radically depart from the current conditional fee agreement regime (CFA) by lifting the ban on contingency fees in a bid to tackle escalating legal fees.
MoJ unveils its plans for overhauling libel laws

15-Mar-2011

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has published its draft Defamation Bill in an effort to bring Britain’s libel laws up to date.
Molson Coors unveils six-firm roster for UK and Ireland advice

17-Mar-2011

Herbert Smith has been named as major projects adviser for Molson Coors as the brewing giant unveils a six-firm UK and Ireland legal panel.
Monckton barristers to face off in Ryanair's OFT dispute

20-Jan-2011

Monckton Chambers barristers John Swift QC and Daniel Beard are set to go head to head in the Competition Appeal Tribunal as Ryanair challenges the decision by the Office of Fair Trading to investigate its aborted takeover of Aer Lingus.
Monckton Chambers boosts merger control team with A&O lawyer

30-Mar-2012

Monckton Chambers has added Allen & Overy competition lawyer Alison Berridge in a move to strengthen the set’s merger control group.
Monckton defeats Blackstone in cigarette sales appeal

20-Jun-2011

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected a bid by the tobacco industry to reverse an impending ban on the sale of tobacco products from vending machines.
Monckton leads as Nokia prepares for price-fixing showdown

27-Mar-2012

Mobile phone giant Nokia has been given permission to take a damages claim to trial, with a team from Monckton Chambers preparing to argue that its client has been the victim of an alleged price-fixing cartel.
Monckton scores appeal victory as court rejects BSkyB-ITV case

21-Jan-2010

The Court of Appeal has handed Monckton Chambers a major victory after ruling that broadcaster BSkyB should reduce its stake in ITV.
Monckton seals partial victory for Yukos in ECHR fight

20-Sep-2011

Monckton Chambers’ Piers Gardner has won a victory for the now defunct oil giant Yukos after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the Russian government had breached its rights.
Monckton silk nominated for elevation to ECJ bench

19-Apr-2012

Monckton Chambers silk Christopher Vajda QC has been nominated by the Government to join the European Court of Justice (ECJ) bench.
Monckton silk to represent Iceland in Icesave depositors case

12-Jan-2012

Monckton Chambers’ Tim Ward QC is to represent Iceland in its dispute with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Surveillance Authority (ESA) over failed Icesave deposit schemes.
Monckton turns to Justice for addition of human rights barrister

4-Oct-2011

Grays Inn set Monckton Chambers had grown its human rights group with the addition of barrister Eric Metcalfe as a tenant.
Monckton v Monckton: new silk defeats colleague in OFT's Ryanair case

28-Jul-2011

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has been given permission to investigate Ryanair’s minority stake in AerLingus, thanks to a Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruling.
Money, money, money

10-Mar-2011

Fact. The cost of training as a lawyer is becoming increasingly expensive.
Monica's moniker

9-Dec-2010

Those readers of a certain vintage have probably never recovered from the shock of waking up one morning in the early 1990s to discover that their beloved Marathon bars would forever more be known by the less impressive name of Snickers.
More on A&O and the erotic writer

20-May-2010

“Can lawyers only write about bland matters?”
More upheaval at BLG

1-Dec-2010

Today’s news that yet another partner is to leave Barlow Lyde & Gilbert may have an air of déjà vu about it.
Morgan Lewis confirms Dewey trainee intake

24-May-2012

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has confirmed that it has hired seven former Dewey & LeBouef trainees.
Morgan Lewis continues City funds hires with Proskauer partner

1-Mar-2012

Former Proskauer Rose funds partner William Yonge has joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius’s London office in the latest in a string of moves in the City funds market.
Morgan Lewis flies in heavy-hitter to boost London

10-Nov-2009

Morgan Lewis is relocating one of its best-known partners from the US to London.
Morgan Lewis leads as Deutsche Boerse appeals EC merger decision

22-Mar-2012

Morgan Lewis & Bockius is leading Deutsche Boerse’s appeal into the European Commission’s (EC) decision to block its proposed merger with NYSE Euronext.
Morgan Lewis to eschew UK litigation as London chief steps down

24-Sep-2009

Morgan Lewis is to reduce its exposure to litigation in the UK when London managing partner Robert Goldspink, a litigator, retires at the end of the month.
Morgan M

16-Dec-2011

It’s never good to walk into a restaurant and find that there are only two tables occupied. It doesn’t set the right tone. The restaurant is quietly comfortable in feel, quite formal and decorated in muted Farrow and Ball colours on just the right side of quirky.
Mosley's privacy bid thrown out by European court

10-May-2011

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected a bid by former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley to force newspapers to inform subjects prior to publication if details of their private lives are going to revealed.
Motor Insurers’ Bureau unveils six-strong legal panel

3-May-2012

Half a dozen UK firms have won places on the legal panel of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) following a review.
Mourant and Ozannes merge to create third-largest offshore firm

3-Feb-2010

Channel Islands-based offshore firms Mourant du Feu & Jeune and Ozannes are to merge, creating the third-largest offshore firm in terms of partner numbers.
Mourant joins stellar list of transatlantic firms on space broadband deal

1-Dec-2010

Mourant Ozannes has completed work on the fundraising for a $1.2bn (£770m) space satellite programme aimed at providing internet connections to global developing markets.
Mourant Ozannes adds Serle Court barrister to London team

21-Jul-2011

Mourant Ozannes has turned to Serle Court Chambers for a lawyer to lead a new foray into international private client work.
Mourant Ozannes, Walkers appoint Jersey management

18-Jan-2012

Offshore firms Mourant Ozannes and Walkers have rejigged their management, both appointing new managing partners for Jersey.
Mourant taps Maples for Cayman funds partner

15-Dec-2009

Offshore firm Mourant du Feu & Jeune has hired an investment funds partner from local rival Maples and Calder, as the firm seeks a bigger market share in the Cayman Islands.
Mr Loophole is UK's best-known solicitor

27-Oct-2010

Payne Hicks Beach divorce partner Fiona Shackleton has lost her position as the UK’s highest-profile solicitor, eclipsed by road traffic lawyer Nick Freeman.
Mr Loophole's greatest lits

27-Oct-2010

Far be it from us to suggest that there are certain lawyers who suffer from a surfeit of hubris. Actually, scratch that. That’s exactly what we’d suggest.
MTV names UK-based legal chief

15-Jun-2009

MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has promoted Roger James to the role of senior vice president, general counsel for MTV Networks International and MTVN UK & Ireland.
Muckle bulks up litigation group with Eversheds hire

22-Dec-2010

Newcastle firm Muckle has hired the former head of Eversheds’ North East litigation practice as a partner.
Muckle promotes one to partnership

16-Apr-2009

North East firm Muckle has made up one new partner in its latest round of promotions.
Mulcaire to take phone-hacking appeal to Supreme Court

15-Feb-2012

Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire is heading to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to protect the identity of the person who instructed him to intercept voicemails for the News of the World (NoW).
Munich lawyers team up for IP boutique launch

15-Dec-2011

Four lawyers from firms including Eversheds and Taylor Wessing have joined forces to launch an IP boutique in Munich.
Murdoch: Harbottle & Lewis made 'major mistake' on internal News International inquiry

15-Jul-2011

Rupert Murdoch has slammed advising law firm Harbottle & Lewis for making ‘a major mistake’ in underestimating the scope of the ongoing phone hacking scandal.
Music to their ears

8-Jul-2011

There’s a party going on right here, a celebration that’ll last throughout the year.
Musical Youth loses court battle over Pass the Dutchie royalties

29-Mar-2012

Former members of 1980s reggae band Musical Youth, who had a hit with ’Pass the Dutchie’ in 1982, have lost their royalties legal battle with their former music lawyer Anthony Seddon.
Muted response to Budget from legal community

24-Mar-2010

Lawyers have greeted Alistair Darling’s last Budget before the general election with a lukewarm response, believing his plans to further tax the City smack of electioneering electioneering.
Nabarro adds 'softer' element to partner pay

28-Jul-2011

Nabarro has increased its emphasis on soft factors such as keeping clients happy and sourcing new work when slicing up equity to partners.
Nabarro beefs up nascent Singapore base with Norton Rose hire

2-Feb-2011

Nabarro has made a second partner hire for its recently opened Singapore office with the appointment of Glenn Cheng from Norton Rose.
Nabarro best friend Nunziante seals deals in Istanbul and Tirana

12-Jan-2011

Nabarro’s Italian best friend Nunziante Magrone has signed exclusive tie-ups with firms in Albania and Turkey.
Nabarro hands third term to senior partner Simon Johnston

3-Feb-2011

Nabarro senior partner Simon Johnston has been re-appointed for a third term, meaning he will stay in post until 2016.
Nabarro hires former Halliwells partner for Sheffield office

18-Aug-2010

Nabarro has hired a former Halliwells partner to lead its Sheffield banking practice.
Nabarro in new redundancy round as PEP drops 35 per cent

8-Jul-2009

Nabarro has launched a second round of redundancy talks with 19 staff after posting a 10 per cent fall in turnover for the 2008-09 financial year.
Nabarro makes up five partners in 2011 round

18-Apr-2011

Nabarro has promoted five associates to its partnership, the highest number it has made up in the last three years.
Nabarro names corporate lawyer as next managing partner

29-Jul-2011

Nabarro has appointed Andrew Inkester as its new managing partner, replacing Nicole Paradise.
Nabarro partner sets up niche practice for SME advice

21-Mar-2012

A corporate partner who left Nabarro in January has set up his own niche practice catering to SMEs.
Nabarro promotes three in latest round

30-Apr-2010

Nabarro has promoted three associates to partnership, all of them based in the firm’s London offices.
Nabarro real estate partner quits for Norton Rose

6-Jan-2012

Another Nabarro real estate partner has left the firm, with Neil Biswas resigning to join Norton Rose.
Nabarro represents newsagents in OFT inquiry bid

15-May-2012

Nabarro competition lawyers are bidding to force the OFT to launch an inquiry into whether cover price rises are putting people off buying newspapers and magazines.
Nabarro Singapore wins first panel appointment

5-Apr-2011

Nabarro’s Singapore office has been appointed to Australian engineering company Clough’s global legal panel.
Nabarro slashes staff costs by £4.4m

17-Nov-2010

Nabarro has reduced its staff costs by almost 10 per cent over the past financial year, largely as a result of it slimming down its total salary bill.
Nabarro unveils minor drops in turnover and profit

1-Jul-2011

Nabarro has announced a slight drop in revenue and profits for the 2010-11 financial year.
Nabarro's European alliance gains Spanish member after two year hiatus

23-Jan-2012

Nabarro’s international alliance has added Spanish firm Roca Junyent as its newest member.
Nabarro's Spanish best friend quits alliance after Gomez-Acebo merger

30-Jun-2009

Nabarro’s Spanish alliance firm Rodes y Sala is to merge with Gomez-Acebo & Pombo and exit its year-old alliance relationship with the UK firm.
Nabarro's turnover nudges up in first half of 2010-11

9-Nov-2010

Nabarro has posted a three per cent increase in turnover for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year.
Naked ambition lunch

11-Jun-2009

Spies keeping tabs on the six bands currently gearing up for next week’s epic battle of the bands showdown at the 100 Club have reported some shocking news.
Napier announces retirement from Irwin Mitchell

16-Nov-2011

Irwin Mitchell chairman Michael Napier is to retire from the firm after 40 years.
Nappy days at Ashurst

16-Jul-2010

If you want a sign that the private equity market has gone down the pan, how’s this?
Nasdaq Dubai names next general counsel

22-Aug-2011

Nasdaq Dubai has appointed Angela Russo to the role of general counsel and acting head of market regulation.
Nationwide slashes 43 firms from commercial lending panel

22-Oct-2010

Nationwide Building Society has cut the number of firms on its commercial lending panel from 60 to 17 following a comprehensive three-month review of its legal advisers.
Nationwide unveils five firms for first panel

14-Jul-2009

Nationwide Building Society has unveiled its first general panel, with places for Allen & Overy, Burges Salmon, Eversheds, Nabarro and Olswang.
Nauta Dutilh boosts Brussels team with Van Bael hire

24-Aug-2011

Benelux firm Nauta Dutilh has hired Van Bael & Bellis partner Pascal Faes to boost its Brussels tax expertise.
Nauta Dutilh launches IP practice with hire of P&T Luxembourg in-houser

14-Oct-2011

Benelux firm Nauta Dutilh has kickstarted an IP and technology practice with the hire of in-houser Vincent Wellens.
NCTM veteran leads four-lawyer exit to set up boutique

17-Dec-2010

The co-founder of Italian firm NCTM has announced that he will leave the firm, along with an equity partner and two salary partners, to launch a niche practice.
NDA legal team grounded by Cumbrian shootings

2-Jun-2010

The legal department at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is currently subject to a lock-in following news that a gunman has killed several people in and around Whitehaven in Cumbria, where the NDA is based.
Nearing the end of a turbulent year

19-Dec-2011

Occupy London Stock Exchange gets its day in court today, with Mr Justice Lindblom hearing its High Court showdown with The City of London at high noon (see story).
Neuberger LJ to be Master of the Rolls

23-Jul-2009

Lord David Neuberger has been appointed as the 95th Master of the Rolls (MR), to take over from incumbent Anthony Clarke who joins the Supreme Court in October.
Neuberger MR calls for regulatory reform as ABS timeline is unveiled

23-Feb-2010

The Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger has called for the regulatory “maze” introduced by the Legal Services Act (LSA) to be simplified by the Legal Services Board (LSB).
Neuberger MR overturns ruling in G20 kettling case

19-Jan-2012

The Metropolitan Police has won an appeal against a High Court decision that ruled that the controversial kettling tactics used by police officers in two respects during the G20 protests in 2009 was unlawful.
Neuberger report says media should get prior warning of injunctions

20-May-2011

Newspapers should be given advance warning of injunction applications but there should be no fast track appeal system to challenge their existence, the Master of the Rolls (MR) Lord Neuberger has concluded.
Never Knowingly Undersold: Employee share ownership

18-Jan-2012

“We need more individuals to have a real stake in their firms more of a John Lewis economy if you like…employee ownership is a highly under used tool for unlocking growth”. – Nick Clegg.
Never mind the buzzcocks

15-Jan-2010

Now listen closely. Put Lord Justice Jackson’s report down and pay attention. In all the fuss over Sir Rupert’s cost-saving measures (see story), the real story has been missed.
New age negligence

8-Apr-2010

A new consumer complaints system will be in place later this year. Nick Bird and Andrew Williamson say the rules could mean headaches for some law firm leaders
New home

15-Jul-2009

In 1876 the Appellate Jurisdiction Act created the judicial function of the House of Lords, the highest court in England and Wales. At the end of the month the Law Lords will pack up their judicial robes and wigs for the summer break, but they will have heard their last case in the House of Lords.
New House

12-Aug-2009

Like many of London’s litigators, Allen & Overy (A&O) head of litigation Tim House is optimistic about the forthcoming year.
''New ICC rules light the path for international business''

10-Oct-2011

The ICC has new rules which will come into effect on 1 January 2012. This would be a different sort of news if it involved a game of 11 a side, and a large field (and that confusion has been known before!).
New PI firm to eschew referral fees ahead of Government ban

18-Nov-2011

A new personal injury law firm that will shun referral fees has been launched in the wake of the Government’s plan to ban the controversial payments.
New Rose blooms at Proskauer

5-Oct-2010

New brooms are all the rage at the moment. First there was Miliband the Younger’s coronation as new darling of the new left.
New York Bar bans lawyers from working in firms owned by non-lawyers

22-Mar-2012

The New York Bar has banned lawyers in the state from becoming an employee of a firm in which non-lawyers hold a stake, effectively preventing UK firms with New York bases from seeking external investment.
New York's Maalouf Ashford launches Saudi base

5-Jan-2010

New York-based Maalouf Ashford & Talbot has opened an office in Saudi Arabia - its first base in the Middle East.
NewGalexy signs outsourcing deal with India's MV Kini

25-Aug-2011

Indian firm MV Kini and specialist legal outsourcing company NewGalexy Partners have joined forces in a new legal process outsourcing venture.
News Corp appoints Grabiner QC to oversee phone-hacking investigation

18-Jul-2011

Lord Grabiner QC is joining the lengthening list of legal advisers winning roles on the fallout from the phone-hacking allegations surrounding News International.
News Corp appoints interim general counsel

22-Jul-2011

News Corporation has appointed Janet Nova as its interim general counsel following the departure of previous legal head Lawrence Jacobs.
News Corp creates competition role for OFT international head

24-Aug-2009

News Corporation has appointed Andrea Appella in the newly-created role of director of legal, competition and regulatory affairs for Europe and Asia.
News Corp legal chief quits after seven years in top job

16-Jun-2011

News Corporation’s group general counsel Lawrence Jacobs has resigned from his position to ’pursue new opportunities’, the company has announced.
News Corp on cusp of GC appointment following phone-hacking scandal

3-Jan-2012

New Corporation is close to appointing a senior Washington DC litigator as its new general counsel, some six months after the previous legal head stood down.
News Corp racked up $87m of legal fees in final quarter of 2011

13-Feb-2012

The News of the World phone-hacking scandal cost parent company News Corp $87m in the last quarter of 2011.
News Corp turns to Matrix silk over Met payment claims

6-Jul-2011

Matrix Chambers’ Ken Macdonald QC, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, is acting for the board of News Corporation over allegations that its tabloid News of the World (NotW) made inappropriate payments to Metropolitan Police Service officers.
News Group officially dumps Farrers for Olswang in all hacking matters

17-Oct-2011

News Group Newspapers (NGN) has replaced Farrer & Co with Olswang as official adviser on all phone-hacking claims made against defunct tabloid News of the World.
News Group ordered to pay Glenn Mulcaire's legal fees

21-Dec-2011

News Group Newspapers (NGN) will have to continue paying the legal fees of private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, the High Court has ruled.
News Group's no nonsense settlements

25-Jan-2012

Like Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, News Group Newspapers, owner of the now defunct News of the World, has created a legal market all of its own.
News International refers Times lawyer to SRA over NightJack

25-Apr-2012

News International (NI) has reported a lawyer working at The Times and Sunday Times to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for their role in the paper’s exposé of the NightJack blogger.
News International replaces Olswang with Linklaters on all phone-hacking claims

15-Mar-2012

Linklaters has replaced Olswang as instructed advisers to News International on all outstanding phone-hacking claims.
News International's legal chief leaves company

13-Jul-2011

News International legal head Tom Crone, a stalwart of the Fleet Street lawyer set, has left the company, the Associated Press has reported.
News International's Mulcaire legal bill hit £250,000

17-Aug-2011

Legal fees paid by News International to lawyers acting for private investigator Glenn Mulcaire added up to almost £250,000.
News of the (legal) world

7-Jul-2011

Ah, July. Ah, holidays.
News of the World publisher settles 19 phone-hacking claims

19-Jan-2012

Linklaters partner Christa Band and 11 South Square’s Michael Silverleaf QC have driven settlement talks for News Group Newspapers (NGN) over allegations of phone hacking made against the News of the World (NoW).
Nine firms get the nod in revamped Yorkshire Forward panel

8-Apr-2010

Regional development agency Yorkshire Forward has completed a panel review with nine firms winning places.
Nine more Howrey partners jump ship, joining Jones Day and Ober Kaler

16-Feb-2011

Another nine construction partners left Howrey yesterday including Stephen O’Neal, the former chairman of collapsed US firm Thelen.
Nineham takes control of McDermott's London office

9-Oct-2009

McDermott Will & Emery’s new London head Hugh Nineham today vowed to focus on the integration and expansion of key practice areas, as the former Lovells partner prepared to take over from previous head Doron Ezickson on Monday.
Nineteen jobs go at Pinsents as PEP falls 38 per cent

17-Jul-2009

Pinsent Masons has reported a 38 per cent fall in average profits per equity partner (PEP) as the firm reveals a package of measures in response to challenging market conditions.
Nixon Peabody names Boston chief as firmwide CEO and managing partner

14-Dec-2010

Nixon Peabody has named Andrew Glincher as successor to Richard Langan as chief executive officer and managing partner.
Nixon Peabody seals alliance with Hong Kong firm

18-Nov-2010

Nixon Peabody has entered into a formal association with Hong Kong firm Cheng Wong Lam & Partners.
Nixon Peabody ties up with Chinese firm in strategic alliance

13-Mar-2012

US firm Nixon Peabody has increased its offering in the greater China region by forming a strategic alliance with Beijing-headquartered Hylands Law Firm.
Nixon Peabody turns to SNR Denton for Paris employment hire

2-Feb-2011

Nixon Peabody has expanded its European labour team with the appointment of SNR Denton’s French employment head Ludovic Roche.
No (Clifford) Chance, says Jumeirah

1-Sep-2010

As everyone with their finger on fashion’s fickle pulse knows, the buzzword this autumn is austerity.
No “Gaines” for taxpayer following Supreme Court ruling

28-Oct-2011

In the culmination of a protracted UK tax residency dispute between Seychelles-based British millionaire Mr Robert Gaines-Cooper and HMRC, Mr Gaines-Cooper’s appeal has been dismissed by the Supreme Court, opening the floodgates for HMRC to pursue retrospectively the large number of UK citizens living overseas for unpaid UK tax.
No 5: Direct access to the Bar - Interview with Darren Burrows, One Essex Court

16-Nov-2011

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No 5: Direct access to the Bar - Interview with Jonathan Peddie, Barclays

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No ABS says US

22-Mar-2012

All eyes were focused on George Osborne yesterday as he delivered his Budget speech and dashed the hopes of all those in the market for a £2m property.
No adversity in diversity

17-Dec-2009

It’s getting there, but slowly.
No Belgian waffle at Links

13-Apr-2011

Finally the seal has been broken and the wave of new partners is about to sweep its way into the marbled corridors of the City’s law firms.
No Childsplay

21-Jan-2010

Rumours of David Child’s ruthlessness at Clifford Chance are probably overstated, but the man is not afraid to ruffle a few feathers when he needs to.
No Clout

13-Jul-2009

As an offshore jurisdiction the Isle of Man was lacking the presence of an offshore giant.
No more heroes at Halliwells

28-Jun-2010

Questionable management, delusions of grandeur, overpaid and overrated…
No more Solicitors from Hell

5-Apr-2011

The creator of controversial website Solicitors from Hell has been blasted by Mr Justice Tugendhat for “abusing court processes” during a failed defence of a defamation claim (see story).
No place like home

1-Jul-2009

The glories of a British heat-wave are upon us: long balmy evenings, jugs of Pimms, Wimbledon, people being “taken ill” on the Northern line…
No room for improvement at Clifford Chance

8-May-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf will be wishing it had the same problems haunting Clifford Chance.
No stopping Kennedys

2-Mar-2011

Don’t stop them now, they’re having such a good time. They’re in Portugal. Don’t stop them now, if you want Iberian advice just give them a call.
No tea for Olswang trainees

8-Feb-2011

In another sign that everything is actually okay now and we can stop worrying about our jobs, mortgages, career prospects and general mental health, Olswang has granted its potential trainees of the future an extra 12 months off.
No win, no fee, no dough

10-Dec-2010

Lawyers are not renowned as the world’s greatest gamblers, so we should probably applaud Addleshaw Goddard for taking a punt on the conditional fee arrangement (CFA) model.
No woman, just guys

24-Mar-2011

After the famine comes the feast. Well, maybe that’s over-egging the soufflé somewhat, but Slaughter and May’s 2010 promotion round might still convince a few associates to put away their CVs for the time being. Unless they happen to have a pair of X chromosomes that is.
No5 Chambers mourns death of Ralph Lewis QC

7-Jul-2010

Leading barrister Ralph Lewis QC passed away on Sunday after recently being diagnosed with cancer.
Noerr appoints news Moscow head as incumbent moves to Munich

21-Jan-2011

Noerr’s Moscow office, its largest outside Germany, has appointed a new leader after incumbent Peter Zier announced he is to step down.
Noerr hit leaves Freshfields with no Düsseldorf real estate partners

6-Jun-2011

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost both its Düsseldorf real estate partners to German outfit Noerr.
Noerr makes up London co-head in promotions round

14-Jan-2011

German firm Noerr’s London co-head has been promoted into the equity along with six others as part of the firm’s annual promotions.
Nokia Siemens hires HP legal chief as general counsel

30-Jul-2010

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has hired Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) Europe legal chief as its general counsel.
Nomura nears completion of EMEA panel review

5-Aug-2010

Investment bank Nomura is undertaking a review of its preferred roster of law firms in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Northern Irish police decide against questioning lawyer ahead of Massereene murder trial

7-Nov-2011

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has made a rapid U-turn on its decision to interview a lawyer from Belfast-based firm Kevin R Winters & Co as he begins to lead the defence of a high-profile murder trial in Northern Ireland.
Northern Rock general counsel takes post-buyout role at Virgin Money

30-Jan-2012

Northern Rock general counsel Jasan Fitzpatrick has been appointed director of legal at Virgin Money after it acquired the high street bank on 1 January.
North-West lawyers top in-house salary rankings

4-May-2012

Young in-house lawyers based in the North West are earning thousands of pounds more than their peers in other regions.
Norton Rose adds Allen & Overy partner to City finance team

30-Apr-2012

Norton Rose has ratcheted up its City finance offering with the hire of former Allen & Overy (A&O) partner David Shearer.
Norton Rose adds Clifford Chance lawyer to Hong Kong practice

23-Dec-2010

Norton Rose has continued its Asian expansion with the hire of Clifford Chance consultant Charlotte Robins as a partner in its Hong Kong corporate team.
Norton Rose adds five partners to Australasian practice

11-Mar-2010

Norton Rose has continued its Pacific push with four new partners joining the firm in Australia, along with one in Singapore.
Norton Rose and Slaughters advise as BA-Iberia tie-up gets green light

8-Apr-2010

The tie-up between British Airways (BA) and Iberia has been rubber stamped with Norton Rose and Slaughter and May landing the UK mandates.
Norton Rose and Slaughters advise on BA-Iberia tie-up

16-Nov-2009

Norton Rose and Slaughter and May have bagged advisory roles on British Airways’ proposed £4.4bn merger with Spanish carrier Iberia.
Norton Rose appoints DLA Piper partner for Paris IP push

15-Dec-2010

Norton Rose has hired a DLA Piper partner to strengthen its IP and IT practice in Paris.
Norton Rose Bahrain staff given option to flee troubled region

23-Feb-2011

Norton Rose has informed staff in its Bahrain office that they may leave the country following days of anti-government protests.
Norton Rose banking partner returns to City from Frankfurt

6-Jul-2011

Norton Rose banking partner Tomas Gärdfors has returned to London after eight years in the firm’s Frankfurt office.
Norton Rose beefs up in Frankfurt with White & Case hire

26-Sep-2011

Norton Rose has recruited a White & Case partner for its arbitration practice in Frankfurt.
Norton Rose bolsters Paris competition practice with Salans hires

23-Sep-2009

Norton Rose has hired a competition team led by Mélanie Thill-Tayara from Salans for its Paris office.
Norton Rose boosts Australia team with hire from Jones Day

26-Oct-2010

Norton Rose Australia has boosted its banking practice in Perth with a partner from Jones Day.
Norton Rose boosts Bahrain practice with Islamic finance hire

7-Jul-2010

A former Norton Rose partner has returned to the firm’s Bahrain office after a stint at Al Salam Bank.
Norton Rose bulks up in Australia with local hire and London relocation

7-Apr-2010

Norton Rose has continued to add to its Australian practice following its tie-up with Deacons with the relocation of its climate change head from London to Sydney in addition to a local hire.
Norton Rose chief optimistic after flat first half

11-Dec-2009

Norton Rose chief executive Peter Martyr has said he is “cautiously optimistic” about the rest of this financial year after the firm posted flat turnover figures for the first six months of the year.
Norton Rose closes Brisbane leasing practice after 13-strong walkout

20-Sep-2011

Thirteen members of the Norton Rose retail leasing team including partner Cameron Cooling have left the firm’s Australian real estate team for independent outfit Gadens.
Norton Rose continues Asian drive with China hire

10-Jun-2010

Norton Rose has boosted its Beijing practice with the hire of corporate partner Michael Yu from Global Law Office, highlighting the firm’s increasing push into the Asian market.
Norton Rose creates deputy managing partner role

23-Jun-2011

Norton Rose has introduced a deputy managing partner role, appointing corporate head Tim Marsden to the position as part of a global management overhaul.
Norton Rose embraces the web with apps launch

7-Sep-2011

Norton Rose Group has launched its first smartphone applications for iPhone and BlackBerry.
Norton Rose enters South America via merger with Canada's Macleod Dixon

4-Oct-2011

Norton Rose is to gain a presence in South America for the first time after confirming its merger with Canadian outfit Macleod Dixon.
Norton Rose explores second Canadian merger

4-Oct-2011

Norton Rose is in merger talks with Calgary firm Macleod Dixon, just four months after merging with Canada’s Ogilvy Renault.
Norton Rose follows magic circle's lead with Casablanca launch

28-Jul-2011

Norton Rose has announced that it is opening in Casablanca, following a trend set by Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance.
Norton Rose formalises alliance with Indonesia's Susandarini & Partners

1-Mar-2011

Norton Rose has signed an alliance with Jakarta firm Susandarini & Partners while also bulking up its Australia practice with the hire of an IP partner from Allens Arthur Robinson.
Norton Rose gets massive support for four-day week plan

2-Apr-2009

Staff at Norton Rose have voted overwhelmingly in support of the firm’s flexible working scheme, which will give the firm the option to put partners and salaried staff on a four-day week.
Norton Rose hands Moscow brief to China managing partner

1-Feb-2011

Norton Rose has revamped the management of its Moscow office as the firm looks to exploit trade between Russia and China.
Norton Rose hands second term to chairman Parish

14-Feb-2012

Norton Rose has re-elected Stephen Parish as chairman of its LLP after a three-year term in the role.
Norton Rose harnesses power of Thames in green push

1-Apr-2010

Norton Rose has launched a project to generate power from the Thames tides.
Norton Rose hires Ashurst partner to bulk up in Singapore

17-Dec-2010

Norton Rose has bolstered its energy practice with the hire of Ashurst partner Ashley Wright to lead its Asia Pacific oil and gas team in Singapore.
Norton Rose hires Dentons banking head for international push

10-Feb-2010

Norton Rose has continued to build its finance practice with the capture of Denton Wilde Sapte’s co-head of banking Nick Grandage.
Norton Rose in four-partner Oz swoop

26-Aug-2011

Norton Rose has scooped three partners from Australian firm Clayton Utz and one from an in-house position as it beefs up its capacity down under.
Norton Rose joins CC on Orange's T-Mobile merger

8-Sep-2009

Clifford Chance and Norton Rose are advising on the potential merger of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK in a deal that would create the largest mobile phone operator in the UK.
Norton Rose keeps a secret

1-Dec-2011

There are some things you want to keep quiet about: spider phobias, childhood secrets, being a closet Millwall fan.
Norton Rose loses four partners in Middle East after "challenging" trading conditions

8-Aug-2011

Norton Rose has lost four partners and made a new hire from Clifford Chance as part of a major reshuffle of its Middle East practice.
Norton Rose loses Islamic finance chief to KPMG

25-Jan-2011

Norton Rose’s global Islamic finance head Neil Miller is leading the firm to join accountancy giant KPMG.
Norton Rose play at home and away

26-Aug-2011

Oh, look. Norton Rose has just added three partners and an in-house counsel to its Australia practice and, in a surprising turn of events, not one of the new hires is an energy or mining lawyer (see story).
Norton Rose posts £833m turnover at end of acquisitive year

17-May-2012

Norton Rose has announced its unaudited financial results for the 2011-12 financial year, with the turnover figure of $1.32bn (£833m) representing a 9 per cent like-for-like increase on last year.
Norton Rose posts 6 per cent PEP drop

7-Jul-2010

Norton Rose’s average profit per equity partner figure (PEP) for 2009-10 has fallen by 6 per cent to £486,000, following a 17 per cent dip last year.
Norton Rose promotes 11 in reduced round

21-Apr-2010

Norton Rose has made up 11 new partners, one fewer than last year and five down on 2008’s figure of 16.
Norton Rose promotes 15 to global partnership

20-Apr-2011

Norton Rose has made up 15 new partners, representing its highest level of promotions since 2008.
Norton Rose pushes global integration with local champions

26-Jan-2012

Norton Rose has appointed local ‘champions’ as go-to people for partners around the world if they need someone to work on a deal with.
Norton Rose puts partner performance at centre of lockstep review

29-Sep-2011

Norton Rose has revamped its lockstep to put an increased emphasis on individual partner performance.
Norton Rose raids Blake Dawson for partner hire

13-Sep-2010

Norton Rose’s Australian arm has added to its commercial litigation team with a partner from Blake Dawson.
Norton Rose raids DLA Piper HK for IP duo

20-Jul-2010

Norton Rose has continued to grow its Asian footprint with the hire of two IP partners from DLA Piper’s Hong Kong office.
Norton Rose relocates Montreal partner to Hong Kong

17-Oct-2011

Norton Rose has relocated Montreal-based partner Andrew Bleau to fortify its Hong Kong capital markets and M&A practice four months after its merger with Canadian firm Ogilvy Renault.
Norton Rose retains 88 per cent of September qualifiers

9-Aug-2011

Norton Rose is the final top 10 law firm to reveal its newly qualified retention (NQ) rate, announcing another steady result.
Norton Rose revamps Australian management

18-Aug-2011

Norton Rose has appointed employment partner Wayne Spanner as the new head of its Australian operations.
Norton Rose revenue up 9 per cent at half year

9-Nov-2010

Norton Rose has posted a 9 per cent rise in turnover for the first six months of 2010-11, becoming the second top 10 firm so far to reveal its half-year results.
Norton Rose revenues up 7 per cent at half-year

16-Nov-2011

Norton Rose has revealed a 7 per cent increase in revenues for the first half of the 2011-12 financial year.
Norton Rose saw cash outflows of £17.5m in 2009-10, LLPs reveal

5-Jan-2011

Norton Rose experienced a net cash outflow of £17.5m for the 2009-10 financial year, compared with an inflow of £2.4m in 2008-09, according to LLP accounts filed with Companies House.
Norton Rose sets up Asian IP group

28-Oct-2010

Norton Rose has launched an IP and technology practice that will be headquartered in Hong Kong and offer services across Asia.
Norton Rose shelves flex scheme after pick up in workflow

28-Jan-2010

Norton Rose has ditched its flexible working scheme three months ahead of schedule, citing an increase in activity.
Norton Rose signs tie-up with Australia's Deacons

23-Jun-2009

Norton Rose is to merge with Deacons Australia, giving the combined entity a turnover of more than £420m and 12 offices across Australasia.
Norton Rose snares eight DLA partners for Hamburg launch

25-Feb-2011

Norton Rose has opened an office in Hamburg following a raid on DLA Piper for a group of seven partners, with one more joining the existing Frankfurt office.
Norton Rose suffers four-partner walk out in Paris

14-Oct-2010

Norton Rose is set to lose a team of four partners in Paris, one month after losing five lawyers to Stephenson Harwood.
Norton Rose takes currency bets with £55.6m loan

2-Feb-2012

Norton Rose borrowed £55.6m in the 2010-11 financial year while its net debt increased by £9.7m, the firm’s latest LLP accounts show.
Norton Rose taps Freshfields for Moscow disputes head

6-Jan-2011

Norton Rose has raided Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for the firm’s Russian dispute resolution chief Yaroslav Klimov.
Norton Rose to merge with Canada's Ogilvy and South Africa's Deneys

15-Nov-2010

Norton Rose has announced tie-ups with Canadian firm Ogilvy Renault and South African firm Deneys Reitz.
Norton Rose transfers Aussie energy partner to Tokyo

25-May-2011

Norton Rose has further strengthened its Australasian practice with the relocation of an energy, mining and projects partner from Brisbane to Tokyo.
Norton Rose turnover falls 2 per cent during 2009-10

18-Jun-2010

Norton Rose has posted a 2 per cent drop in turnover for the 2009-10 financial year, with profit per equity partner (PEP) also expected to be slightly down on last year.
Norton Rose turns to Clifford Chance for knowledge systems chief

10-May-2011

Norton Rose has created two high-level non-lawyer positions in its IT and knowledge management functions.
Norton Rose turns to HogLove for latest Paris hire

2-Jun-2011

Norton Rose has continued its hiring spree in Paris with the appointment of Hogan Lovells partner Jon Harry.
Norton Rose unveils bumper crop of partner promotions

17-Apr-2012

Women make up nearly half of 36 new partners; first promotions in Africa, Canada, Latin America
Norton Rose wins The Lawyer's top HR accolade for work on Flex

10-Feb-2010

Norton Rose carried off the top prize in The Lawyer HR Awards last night for its groundbreaking work on the Flex scheme, which allowed the firm to be one of the tiny number not to make redundancies last year.
Norton Rose, Shearman raid Simmons Paris

4-Apr-2011

Simmons & Simmons’ Paris office has suffered a double partner loss with defections to Norton Rose and Shearman & Sterling.
Norton Rose's Martyr re-elected after secret summer ballot

1-Dec-2011

Norton Rose chief executive Peter Martyr was re-elected for a three-year term in an uncontested vote in July, it has emerged.
Norton Rose's oval ambition

15-Nov-2010

With a year to go before kick-off at the Rugby World Cup (not to be confused with the real World Cup, which features a sport contested by more than just half a dozen former penal colonies) Norton Rose is obviously hedging its bets.
Norton Rose's Paris employment chief defects to local firm Franklin

7-Oct-2009

French firm Franklin has beefed up its Paris employment practice with the hire of Norton Rose’s French employment chief.
Norton Rose's South African merger partner bulks up ahead of tie-up

7-Apr-2011

Deneys Reitz, the South African firm that will merge with Norton Rose later this year, has begun a concerted lateral hiring effort with the recruitment of four directors and four associates, including two partners from Eversheds.
No-show trial

2-Oct-2009

Plea bargaining used to be one of those strange American customs, like tickertape and turkey in November.
Not about Wacko Jacko

26-Jun-2009

Try as we might, we couldn’t find much of a legal angle on Michael Jackson today, apart from the undoubted insurance implications of the axing of his tour.
Not for all the students in China

2-Nov-2011

How things change. Not so long ago it was UK firms dredging through Australia’s talent pool for lawyers to cope with the boom in work.
Not so Bearish at BLP

24-Apr-2012

When Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) made a bee-line for the emerging markets back in September 2008, it looked counter-intuitive at the very least.
Not so Fresh

25-Feb-2010

Freshfields was the darling of the City last February when it came out and did what most firms wanted to but were afraid to: freeze associate salaries.
Not-so-alternative business structures

6-Oct-2011

It’s here, people. It’s D-Day. A great tectonic shifty kind of day. A day when legal services are going to be blown apart by Tesco, Coca-Cola or Lidl.
Novartis GC Werlen to join Quinn Emanuel as partner

31-Oct-2011

US litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has picked up the outgoing general counsel of pharmaceutical giant Novartis as a partner to boost its European offering.
Number of partnership squabbles hitting courts doubles in last year

23-Sep-2010

The number of partnership disputes reaching the High Court Chancery division rocketed by 96 per cent in 2009, statistics published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have revealed.
Nuts about Brazil

9-Jun-2010

It’s all about Brazil these days, it would seem, as European firms begin to march to the beat of the samba.
O’Melveny enters Indonesia via association with Tumbuan & Partners

8-Nov-2011

O’Melveny & Myers has entered into a formal association with Indonesian law firm Tumbuan & Partners and will relocate Singapore-based partner Joel Hogarth to Jakarta to coordinate the association.
O’Melveny shows return to form on PEP with 13 per cent hike

20-Feb-2012

O’Melveny & Myers has posted a 13 per cent increase in profit per equity partner (PEP) to $1.73m (£1.09m) in the 2010-11 financial year.
Obama's war on banks expected to prompt flurry of regulatory work

22-Jan-2010

Financial regulation lawyers are gearing up for a flood of work following the unveiling of US President Barack Obama’s radical plans to overhaul the banking system.
Obituary: Susan Ward

19-Jul-2011

Obituary: Susan Ward, founding member of the Association of Women Barristers and judge at the Asylum and Immigration Appeal Tribunal
Occupy London: Is it possible to protest too much?

20-Jan-2012

I have just finished reading Mr Justice Lindblom’s judgment handed down yesterday in The Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London - v- Samede and others [2012] EWHC 34 (QB) dispute.
Occupy LSX movement told to move along

22-Feb-2012

Occupy London Stock Exchange’s legal challenge to remain at St Paul’s Cathedral was slapped down by Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger today, to the surprise of no one.
Occupy LSX to appeal court's eviction decision

19-Jan-2012

Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) protestors are to appeal a High Court judgment handed down yesterday that ruled that the group must leave their camping ground outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
Of Turks and tortoises

23-Aug-2011

History is littered with what-might-have-beens. Remember when Decca told The Beatles it didn’t like their sound and that guitar music was on the way out? Or when Hoover laughed James Dyson and his designs out of its offices?
Ofcom legal chief leads investigation into hacking at Sky News

23-Apr-2012

Ofcom general counsel Polly Weitzman and her in-house legal team will advise the watchdog on its investigation into Sky News email hacking.
Offshore firm Appleby prepares for Shanghai launch

20-Feb-2012

Appleby is set to become the second offshore firm in mainland China when it opens a Shanghai office on 2 April this year.
Offshore firm Harneys bolsters ranks ahead of Uruguay launch

25-Aug-2010

Offshore firm Harneys has swelled its lawyer headcount in the Cayman Islands, London and British Virgin Islands with hires from top US and UK firms as it prepares to open an office in Uruguay.
Offshore firm Mourant Ozannes launches Hong Kong base

31-Jan-2012

Mourant Ozannes has formally launched a Hong Kong office, some six months after first announcing it was moving into Asia.
Offshore firms Collas Day and Crill Canavan to merge

2-Dec-2010

Channel Islands law firms Collas Day and Crill Canavan have announced they are to merge, creating a 15-partner firm with a presence in Guernsey, Jersey and London.
Offshore galore

12-May-2009

Are there early signs that some offshore firms are starting to adjust to the new economic climate?
OFT bank charges investigation derailed by Supreme Court ruling

25-Nov-2009

The Office of Fair Trading loses two-year fight to investigate overdraft charges by high street banks
OFT pulls criminal case after document review failure

11-May-2010

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has withdrawn criminal proceedings against four British Airways (BA) executives who were alleged to have been involved in a multinational price-fixing scam.
OFT triumphs against Ryanair in Aer Lingus case

23-May-2012

Ryanair could be forced to sell its stake in a rival airline after Monckton Chambers silk Daniel Beard won a long-running case for the OFT.
OFT unveils decision-making changes ahead of CMA move

29-Mar-2012

The OFT has announced a string of proposals that it hopes will make its decision-making more robust.
Ofwat finalises first legal panel with three firms winning places

11-Mar-2010

Water and sewerage regulator Ofwat has announced its first-ever legal panel with Addleshaw Goddard, Norton Rose and Wragge & Co making the mark.
Ofwat launches tender for inaugural legal panel

19-Nov-2009

Water and sewage industry regulator Ofwat is looking to put together its first-ever legal panel and is in the process of asking firms to tender for places.
Ogier and Carey Olsen join magic circle duo on £17bn GDF Suez deal

7-Feb-2011

Offshore firms Ogier and Carey Olsen joined magic circle firms Clifford Chance and Linklaters and French independent Bredin Prat on one of the biggest M&A transactions to complete so far this year.
Ogier appoints personal law head as next chair

16-Dec-2011

Offshore firm Ogier has appointed partner Sarah Fitz as its non-executive chair following an uncontested election.
Ogier elects new Jersey managing partner

6-Sep-2011

Offshore firm Ogier has shuffled its Jersey management team, with Matthew Swan taking over the office managing partner role from Matthew Thompson.
Ogier leads offshore pack as it opens in Shanghai

4-Jul-2011

Ogier has continued its Asian expansion with an office in Shanghai, the first offshore firm to open in mainland China.
Ogier names Cayman's chief as head of Hong Kong

12-Nov-2010

Offshore firm Ogier has appointed a new Hong Kong managing partner to replace the Duncan Smith, who will retire early next year.
Ogier opens in Luxembourg in offshore first

10-Jan-2012

Ogier has become the first offshore firm to open an office in Luxembourg, poaching senior partner François Pfister from local firm OPF Partners (formerly Oostvogels Pfister Feyten).
Ogier's former Uruguay chief sets up boutique firm

31-Mar-2011

The former head of Ogier’s Uruguay office has launched his own boutique offshore firm, providing British Virgin Island (BVI) and Cayman Island advice from Montevideo.
O'Gorman steps up as new Arthur Cox chief

16-Sep-2011

Irish independent firm Arthur Cox has selected corporate partner Brian O’Gorman as its next managing partner.
Oh, Howrey mighty have fallen

7-Jan-2011

The reports over the last couple of days were true then. Hodgson has gone.
Ol' blue ears

31-Jul-2009

If you’re looking for some diversion on a Friday afternoon, call this number: 0207 219 3111.
Old Mutual GC takes EMEA role at Neuberger Berman

19-Mar-2012

Neuberger Berman, the investment manager that was bought by Lehman Brothers and subsequently sold after the bank’s collapse, has appointed a new legal head for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Old Square and Devereux back in court for BA contracts dispute

2-Feb-2010

Old Square Chambers silk John Hendy QC is back in court this morning trying to overturn changes to employment contracts introduced by British Airways (BA) last year.
Old Square and Devereux silks prepare for BA court battle

16-Dec-2009

John Hendy QC of Old Square Chambers is facing Bruce Carr QC of Devereux Chambers this morning as British Airways (BA) heads to court seeking an injunction to stop its workers striking over Christmas.
Old Square barrister saves a life on his way to court

24-Nov-2011

Old Square Chambers barrister Charlie Woodhouse has been hailed a hero by fellow members of the bar after an unlikely turn of events at the Central London County Court saw him go over and above the call of duty.
Old Square defeats Littleton in BA strike appeal

20-May-2010

British Airways (BA) has suffered a major blow in the Court of Appeal after it ruled that planned strikes by cabin staff who are members of the Unite union are legal.
Old Square silk to represent unions in actions against BA and Royal Mail

4-Nov-2009

A silk from London set Old Square Chambers is about to step back into the limelight after being instructed in injunctive actions against both British Airways and Royal Mail.
Olswang advises NotW on all phone-hacking claims

7-Jul-2011

Olswang wins wider role for tabloid publisher as Collyer Bristow is instructed by family of killed serviceman
Olswang and Pinsents lead on Liberty Living refinancing

2-Mar-2012

Olswang and Pinsent Masons have both advised on the £300m refinancing of student accommodation provider Liberty Living.
Olswang bulks up arbitration and construction with Bakers hire

22-Sep-2010

Olswang has added to its London international arbitration and construction practices with the hire of a partner from Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong office.
Olswang bulks up Madrid offering with Greenberg hire

18-Jul-2011

Olswang has boosted its Madrid office with the hire of a former Greenberg Traurig partner.
Olswang celebrates 30 per cent profit rise after strong year

21-May-2012

Olswang has made a significant return to financial form, posting a 17 per cent rise in turnover and a 30 per cent growth in profit in its 2011-12 financial results.
Olswang discovers the world

15-Jun-2010

Bird & Bird will no doubt be trembling at the news that tech rival Olswang has opened in Madrid (see story).
Olswang elections end with Stewart as CEO

10-Mar-2010

Olswang has completed its elections for all of its senior management positions.
Olswang eschews associate lockstep with new pay scheme

21-May-2010

Olswang has become the latest firm to move away from the associate lockstep model after introducing a new pay scheme for its junior lawyers.
Olswang fails to overturn Guardian injunction

19-Mar-2009

Olswang has failed in its bid to overturn a temporary gagging order made against its client The Guardian.
Olswang gears up for Singapore launch

9-Sep-2011

Olswang has obtained a foreign law practice licence for its Singapore office from the country’s Ministry of Law, and has appointed partner Rob Bratby as Asia managing partner as it moves closer to launch its first presence in the region.
Olswang instructs Serle Court for RBS shareholder action

25-Jan-2010

Serle Court barrister Philip Marshall QC has been instructed by Olswang partner Steven Baker to act for a group of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) shareholders in a legal action against the bank.
Olswang kicks off promotions round with two new partners

17-Mar-2010

Olswang has promoted two associates to its partnership, the same number as in 2009 but eight fewer than in 2008.
Olswang launches in Madrid with TwoBirds' local corporate head

15-Jun-2010

Olswang has opened only its third overseas office with the hire of Bird & Bird Madrid corporate head Javier Vasserot.
Olswang makes up two Berlin lawyers in five-strong promos round

27-Mar-2012

Olswang has promoted five lawyers to its partnership, with two of the new partners based in its Berlin office and the remainder in London.
Olswang opens Munich IP office

7-Jul-2011

Olswang has extended its European network with the launch of an IP-focused office in Munich.
Olswang promotes five to London partnership

6-Apr-2011

Olswang has made up five of its London associates to partner in its annual round of promotions.
Olswang seals non-exclusive alliance with Cooley

24-Jun-2010

Olswang has moved to rebuild its US coverage after the collapse of its Greenberg Traurig relationship by forming a non-exclusive alliance with technology firm Cooley.
Olswang shows his Quality

20-Oct-2011

Funny how certain names crop up and, when they do, resonate.
Olswang signs up to Acculaw after cancelling 2013 graduate recruitment

20-Sep-2011

Olswang has become the first firm to sign up to a pilot scheme run by Acculaw, a business that will recruit its own trainees and second them to firms.
Olswang taps BLP for hire of real estate partner

4-Jan-2012

Olswang has boosted its real estate team with a partner hire from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP).
Olswang triples Berlin office with Freshfields hires

25-Mar-2009

Olswang has tripled the partner headcount in its Berlin office by hiring a real estate team from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Olswang turns to Pinsents for restructuring partner hire

26-May-2010

Olswang has taken on the co-head of Pinsent Masons’ London restructuring practice as a partner.
Olswang's litigation head defects to Quinn Emanuel

2-Dec-2010

The head of Olswang’s litigation practice Martin Davies is leaving the firm to join US firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
Olswang's PEP rises 38 per cent after 'draconian' approach to spending

2-Jun-2010

Olswang has posted a 38 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009-10 financial year, bringing the total to £420,000.
Olympic Gates

10-Aug-2010

There aren’t many things that have caught Londoners’ imaginations recently as much as the Boris bike.
Ombudsman criticises SRA for 'poor' decisions

10-Jul-2009

The Legal Service Ombudsman (LSO), Zahida Manzoor, has highlighted a drop in performance at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over 2008-09.
O'Melveny & Myers promotes seven to partnership

19-Jan-2011

O’Melveny & Myers has made up seven partners in its annual round of promotions.
On a Roll

23-Mar-2011

Over a year into his tenure as Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger is proving to be a popular choice.
On the case-load

12-Aug-2009

While most litigators and barristers are taking a well-earned break from the daily grind, those still in London are reporting a sudden surge of instructions.
On the road to lawyerdom and darting the game of one-upmanship

20-Oct-2011

One of the things I enjoy about being on the road to lawyerdom is that it’s a profession people often have a lot to say about. Some of their thoughts are positive, some are negative, some fairly indifferent, but most people have an opinion of one sort or another.
On the shelf

24-Jun-2009

The London litigation market is often lamented as being the most expensive in the world. Yet with innovative solutions being offered by the alternative funding market, is it really a difficult place to get access to justice?
On the up

19-Apr-2010

There’s nothing like a weekend of sunshine to pick up the nation’s mood.
One Crown Office Row silk cleared of inquest misconduct

28-Mar-2012

A One Crown Office Row barrister has been cleared of professional misconduct after he was accused of making an insensitive joke at an inquest.
One Crown Office Row silk defeats set-mate on GMC misconduct case

7-Mar-2012

One Crown Office Row’s Stephen Miller QC has won an appeal against the General Medical Council for Professor John Walker-Smith, the doctor who carried out some of the tests that suggested a link between the MMR vaccination and autism.
One Essex Court pupils to pocket £60k salary

6-Aug-2009

One Essex Court’s 2010 intake of pupils are to be the highest earning trainees at the bar, with the set revealing it has set its pupillage salary at £60,000.
One small step for Ashurst...

1-Apr-2011

Congratulations must go to Ashurst this morning.
Online defamation cases more than double thanks to social media

30-Aug-2011

Social media has led to a surge in the number of online defamation cases being brought, according to research carried out by legal information provider Sweet & Maxwell.
Online hell

7-Sep-2011

Attempts by the lawyers to derail the Solicitors from Hell website through the courts have been repeatedly knocked back by the site’s owner, Rick Kordowski.
Only £85,000?

7-Jul-2009

Lawyers can be an unsympathetic bunch.
Opinion: Deny the passengers, who want to get on

20-Mar-2009

Solicitors who are employed in the Government service are not required to comply with the same regulatory system as other solicitors. According to the Law Society and most of the legal profession, that exemption is not justified.
Opinion: Downsizing in Asia?

15-Jul-2009

UK or US law firm leaders operating in Asia should consider carefully the downsizing strategies used and how these are affected by the cultural nuances of the region.
Opinion: Funder the cosh

11-Aug-2009

Stone & Rolls v Moore Stephensshows why clients’ liability in litigation funding is a major concern, says Rocco Pirozzolo
Opinion: News of the World - a closure without closure? Will the stigma last?

8-Jul-2011

The closure of the News of the World leaves its employees facing an uncertain future. It does not take News International’s own Mystic Meg to predict that that future will inevitably involve litigation. But what is the legal landscape and what claims can we expect?
Opinion: Unfair dismissal claims

4-Oct-2011

Three million people will lose the right to claim unfair dismissal if the government goes ahead with plans to double the qualifying period from one year to two. George Osborne claims this will give employers an increased confidence to take people on “without immediately facing the prospect of tribunal hearings” [sic]and therefore help reduce unemployment. But is there any evidence to support that claim?
Opportunity knocks

17-Nov-2009

If you’re an associate you can hardly have failed to notice that the number one topic of conversation right now is pay (see story).
Optima - law firm in disguise

9-Aug-2010

If any group of professionals is likely to understand the technicalities of the law, it’s a fair bet to assume it would be lawyers.
Orrery

14-Dec-2011

Orrery (named after a mechanical representation of the solar system for those who want to know) sits discreetly on fashionable Marylebone High Street.
Orrick adds Dewey partner to Paris restructuring team

11-Jan-2011

Orrick Rambaud Martel has added to its restructuring and litigation practices with the hire of a partner from Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Orrick and Slaughters advise as Venture rejects Centrica's takeover bid

14-Jul-2009

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Slaughter and May are advising as talks continue between Centrica and North Sea gas producer Venture Production.
Orrick launches City regulatory team with Liquid Capital hires

11-Oct-2011

US firm Orrick has launched a London regulatory practice with the hire of a partner duo from Liquid Capital Group (LCM).
Orrick London finance team hit by Bartlam loss

17-Jan-2012

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe London finance partner Martin Bartlam has resigned and is set to join DLA Piper, leaving the US firm with just one finance partner in the City.
Orrick London head steps down after five years at helm

12-Feb-2010

The London head of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is stepping down after five years.
Orrick looks to rebuild in the City with Norton Rose hire

25-Nov-2011

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is set to start its recovery in the City with the hire of corporate partner Anthony Riley from Norton Rose.
Orrick makes up London partner in promotions round

10-Feb-2012

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has announced the promotion of 15 lawyers to its partnership, including one new partner in London.
Orrick pulls out of merger talks with SJ Berwin

4-May-2010

Orrick has put a stop to merger talks with SJ Berwin less than two weeks after it emerged as frontrunner for a tie-up with the City firm.
Orrick rejoins merger club by courting Akin Gump

29-Sep-2010

US firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe are in talks regarding a potential merger.
Orrick seals alliance with Vietnam firm

8-Dec-2010

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has tied up with a Vietnam firm run by its former Hong Kong managing associate.
Orrick snares Holme Roberts' German team for Munich launch

4-Jan-2011

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has announced plans to launch in Munich after acquiring the German practice of US firm Holme Roberts & Owen.
Orrick turns to Hogan Lovells for Beijing hires

17-Aug-2011

US firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has bulked up its corporate team in Beijing with the hire of partner Thomas Man and of counsel Brad Herrold, both from Hogan Lovells’ China corporate practice.
Orrick's tale of the orient

8-Dec-2010

Good things do come to those who wait. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, it’s probably fair to say, has something of a history when it comes to thwarted mergers.
Osborne Clarke adds to Cologne team with Geyr Hintz partner

13-Jul-2011

Osborne Clarke has strengthened its German team with the hire of an insurance partner from Germany’s Geyr Hintz & Partners.
Osborne Clarke anoints new heads of London and Thames Valley

20-Jan-2012

Osborne Clarke has elected two corporate partners as new heads of its London and Thames Valley offices after contested elections in both locations.
Osborne Clarke bulks up in Bristol with BLP hire

16-Jun-2011

Osborne Clarke has hired Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) funds partner Tim Simmonds as a partner in its Bristol office.
Osborne Clarke leads on Carphone Warehouse demerger

10-Feb-2010

Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst, DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Osborne Clarke have bagged roles on the demerger and subsequent £1bn refinancing of Carphone Warehouse and TalkTalk.
Osborne Clarke makes up five to partnership

10-May-2011

Osborne Clarke has promoted five lawyers into its partnership in its biggest promotion round since 2007.
Osborne Clarke mourns loss of corporate lawyer

16-Dec-2011

Osborne Clarke has paid tribute to senior corporate lawyer Julian Gamble, who was killed in a climbing accident in Nepal earlier this month.
Osborne Clarke posts double digit revenue rise at half year stage

15-Dec-2011

Osborne Clarke has posted a 10 per cent increase in turnover for the first half of the 2010-11 financial year.
Osborne Clarke promotes two UK partners after one-year hiatus

30-Apr-2010

Osborne Clarke has made up two private equity associates to partner – the first UK promotions at the firm since 2008.
Osborne Clarke ramps up in London with quartet of hires

27-Sep-2011

Osborne Clarke has shored up its London team with the hire of two lawyers as partners and two as consultants.
Osborne Clarke repositions as European firm with local mergers

29-Mar-2012

Osborne Clarke is to merge with its Spanish and Italian Alliance partners, Osborne Clarke Spain and SLA Studio Legale Associato, as it dismantles its formal European alliance with the aim of transforming into a standalone European firm.
Osborne Clarke sees PEP plummet as turnover drops 12 per cent

15-Jul-2009

Bristol headquartered Osborne Clarke has seen significant falls in both turnover and profitability during the last financial year.
Osborne Clarke Spain launches in Madrid with Lener hires

21-Feb-2012

Osborne Clarke’s Spanish alliance member has launched in Madrid with a five-partner team in a move that almost doubles the size of the firm.
Osborne Clarke suits French Connection for Farhi deal

15-Mar-2010

Osborne Clarke has bagged a leading role advising new client French Connection on the sale of fashion label Nicole Farhi to private equity group OpenGate Capital.
Osborne Clarke to cut five jobs in real estate group

18-Nov-2010

Osborne Clarke is set to make up to five redundancies in its real estate department, with the London and Reading offices expected to be affected.
Osborne Clarke to take four-sector approach following review

14-May-2010

Osborne Clarke has identified four key sectors in an overhaul of its strategy as it bids to target high end clients.
Osborne Clarke turnover tops £90m as German revenues flourish

6-May-2011

Osborne Clarke has revealed revenue growth of 8 per cent for the 2010-11 financial year.
Osborne Clarke turns east

29-Mar-2012

Osborne Clarke (OC) has always been one for outgrowing itself. In the 1980s it realised it needed to look outside the West Country.
Osborne Clarke wins role for Tchenguiz group on SFO probe

10-Mar-2011

Osborne Clarke has won a role acting for property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz’s R20 Group in relation to a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing.
Osborne Clarke’s Belgian ally revamps management team

31-Jan-2012

Osborne Clarke’s Belgian alliance firm De Wolf & Partners has elected a three-strong management committee.
Osborne Clarke's PEP rises on flat turnover figure

2-Jul-2010

Osborne Clarke has posted a 12 per cent rise in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for 2009-10, with partners taking home an average of £393,000.
OSN installs AlixPartners in-houser as legal chief after HBO defection

21-Nov-2011

Middle East subscription television service Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) has appointed Helena Samaha as general counsel.
Ostrich farm

10-Aug-2009

One of the features in this year’s The Lawyer UK 200, published next month, will be an analysis of how similar firms’ 2008 LLP accounts were to the figures they provided us with last year.
Out and about

22-Feb-2010

Legal outsourcing is all the rage at the moment. Rio Tinto did it and saved $8m. Pinsents reckons it can make a 50 per cent cost saving through its arrangement with Exigent in South Africa. Even über-conservative Slaughter and May went down that route where specific client demands required it.
Outer Temple silk leads on £1m insider trading case

7-Mar-2012

Outer Temple Chambers silk Michael Bowes QC has taken a leading role on a high-profile insider trading case that has pitted him against QCs from Doughty Street, Three Raymond Buildings, 2 Bedford Row and 2 Hare Court.
Outer Temple takes on Doughty Street silk

21-Mar-2012

Doughty Street Chambers’ Christopher Gibson QC has defected to rival set Outer Temple Chambers.
Packer Owen Pam

24-Sep-2009

Large UK Law law firm based in North London and Essex
Painting seized by Hitler at centre of Wolf Theiss legal battle

1-Oct-2009

Central and eastern European firm Wolf Theiss is working on the restitution of a Vermeer masterpiece bought in controversial circumstances by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War.
Pair of CC property partners move to Abu Dhabi

23-Mar-2009

Clifford Chance has boosted its Middle East offering by relocating London real estate partners Andrew Rolfe and Catherine Cook to Abu Dhabi.
Pair of Freshfields Paris lawyers break away to set up boutique

22-Sep-2011

A duo of associates from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Paris office have left the firm to set up their own financial regulatory boutique.
Pair of Hogan Lovells partners to launch litigation boutique

20-Mar-2012

Hogan Lovells investment bank dispute resolution chief Graham Huntley is leaving the firm to launch a boutique litigation firm.
Palo Alto drives Sidley to 6 per cent revenue growth

8-Feb-2012

Sidley Austin has posted its year-end financials for 2011, revealing concentrated growth in revenue at the firm’s Palo Alto location.
Pannick QC fails to convince CoA that privilege should apply to non-lawyers

13-Oct-2010

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has ruled that legal professional privilege cannot be extended to accountants offering tax advice.
Pannone boosts London with Wilmer Hale corporate partner

8-Dec-2011

Pannone has bulked up in the City with the hire of corporate partner Catherine McLoughlin - the eighth partner to join the firm in 12 months.
Pannone employment partner follows Kingsley to JMW

6-Jan-2011

JMW Solicitors senior partner Joy Kingsley has brought over a partner from her former firm Pannone to become head of employment.
Pannone managing partner succeeds Kingsley as senior partner

7-Jul-2010

Pannone has handed its managing partner Steven Grant the role of senior partner with immediate effect, following the departure of previous incumbent Joy Kingsley for smaller firm JMW.
Pannone names clin neg chief as managing partner

14-May-2010

Pannone’s clinical negligence head Emma Holt has been appointed as the firm’s next managing partner, following an uncontested election.
Pannone posts turnover drop as it launches in London

1-Jul-2010

Pannone has launched a corporate crime team in London, as it posts a six per cent drop in turnover and average profit per equity partner (PEP) remains static.
Pannone prepares for post-LSA world with white-label arm

21-Apr-2011

Pannone is set to launch a white-label division to capitalise on the new opportunities that will arise when the Legal Services Act (LSA) comes into full force.
Pannone promotes four to partnership

7-Apr-2011

Pannone has made up four partners, three of whom are women, in its annual round of promotions.
Pannone promotes seven to new junior equity role

14-May-2012

Pannone has shaken up its partnership model and made up seven lawyers to the new role of junior equity partner but none to full partner, in its annual round of promotions.
Pannone sees profits fall after year of restructuring

1-Aug-2011

Pannone’s average profit per equity partner (PEP) fell 9.5 per cent in the 2010-11 financial year with the firm blaming restructuring costs for the drop.
Pannone senior partner Kingsley leaves firm after three decades

25-May-2010

Pannone senior partner Joy Kingsley is leaving the Manchester firm after 32 years to join local rival JMW Solicitors.
Pannone to make redundancies in three NW offices

10-Jan-2012

North West firm Pannone is mulling redundancies in its construction, road traffic accident and family teams in Manchester, as up to 12 fee earners and support staff look set to lose their jobs when the firm closes two satellite offices.
Pannone's top earner saw 62 per cent pay uplift in 2009-10

26-Jan-2011

The top earner at Pannone made £398,000 during the 2009-10 financial year, a 62 per cent increase on the previous financial year, the firm’s LLP accounts have revealed.
Paper trial

29-Jul-2009

If there’s one thing that defendant and claimant defamation lawyers agree on, it’s that more judges are needed to oversee large scale defamation cases.
Parabis plans acquisitions with private equity cash

6-Feb-2012

Insurance firm Parabis Group is set to receive a £50m war chest to fund up to five acquisitions by the end of this year through an investment from private equity house Duke Street.
Paramount cuts London legal team in global restructuring

21-May-2012

Film-maker Paramount Pictures has taken an axe to its London in-house legal team, with the US company reducing its headcount in the city from seven to two.
Paris Bar reveals higher number of women than men in the law

8-Mar-2012

The number of female lawyers in Paris is fast outstripping the number of men - but women are failing to make partnership, research by the Paris Bar Association has shown.
Paris, exes

14-Oct-2010

In France, it isn’t just the football team that seems to have a problem with authority.
Paris's Darrois Villey hires from Links, Skadden and bench

12-Feb-2010

Parisian law firm Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier has beefed-up its practice with three partner hires, taking lawyers from Linklaters, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and the judiciary.
Part and parcel

1-Jun-2011

For every case that reaches the Royal Courts of Justice there are dozens more that have settled behind closed doors.
Partner bust-up boom

23-Sep-2010

On Monday we revealed the glorious news - for private practice lawyers at least - that hourly rates had made an astonishing bounce back, giving many in the City and beyond a rare reason to smile (see story).
Partner promotions down across the UK top 30

6-May-2009

A fuller picture is emerging of the next generation of partners at UK firms, with data compiled by The Lawyer showing an overwhelming trend at the top 30 UK firms of shrinking its promotion numbers this year.
Partnering up

4-May-2010

With this year’s round of partner promotions drawing to a close, Clifford Chance has nipped in at the death to claim the crown of champion promoter.
Partners at Dentons and Sonnenschein say yes to merger

9-Jun-2010

Partners at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Denton Wilde Sapte have voted in favour of the firms’ planned merger.
Partners from Proskauer and Salans form Paris litigation independent

13-Nov-2009

A group of partners from Proskauer Rose and Salans have combined to create a 31-lawyer independent law firm in France.
Partnership promotions

25-Mar-2009

Partnership promotions
Party in progress

7-Oct-2009

Nearly two years on, recommendations by the Commercial Court Working Party have largely worked, says Simon Davis
Party time at Watson Farley

10-Jun-2010

Staff at Watson Farley & Williams have cause to celebrate after the firm’s management has announced that all staff will get one week’s pay as a bonus (see story).
Passage to India

27-Apr-2011

Clyde, the orangutan star of Clint Eastwood’s Brechtian social commentary vehicle Every Which Way But Loose, won the hearts of audiences worldwide in the late 1970s by his ability to ’flip the bird’ at his easily-riled biker pursuants.
Passmore triumphs in Simmons senior partner election

28-Apr-2011

Second round of voting sees star litigator come out on top; rival Dawkins to return to fee-earning
Patently unclear

20-Oct-2009

It’s not easy for a UK firm to get a successful patent prosecution business off the ground in Germany. Arguably the only real firm to have done it is Bird & Bird.
Paul Beattie: Norton Rose Group

8-Apr-2011

How much time do you spend on Facebook each week? I’m told I’m a poor Facebooker; less than 10 minutes a week.
Paul Hastings' European projects chief defects to Hunton's City base

8-Feb-2011

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker’s European projects head is leaving the firm to join the City office of US outfit Hunton & Williams.
Paul Hastings hires Macfarlanes corporate partner

16-Jun-2011

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has continued expanding its private equity practice with the hire of corporate partner Garrett Hayes from Macfarlanes.
Paul Hastings names new City chief

12-Apr-2011

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has appointed its corporate vice-chairman Ronan O’Sullivan as managing partner of its London office.
Paul Hastings names new Paris head as incumbent steps down

10-May-2012

US firm Paul Hastings has appointed a new head for its Paris office as managing partner Dominique Borde steps down to return to practice.
Paul Hastings raids Hogan and Proskauer for five-partner team

22-Feb-2011

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has brought a five-partner team in to its Paris office with lawyers from Hogan Lovells and Proskauer Rose.
Paul Hastings real estate boss to head London office

30-Jul-2009

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has named global real estate head partner Phil Feder as head of its London office.
Paul Hastings' revenue dips as firm targets more network expansion

28-Feb-2012

Paul Hastings’ 2011 financial results, released today (28 February), show revenue dipped 2 per cent last year, from $902m to $884m, while revenue per lawyer (RPL) broke through the $1m barrier to $1.003m.
Paul Hastings strengthens Frankfurt with Bakers trio

8-Feb-2012

Paul Hastings has become the latest international firm to boost its Frankfurt office with a triple partner hire from Baker & McKenzie.
Paul Hastings taps energy leaders for Houston launch

24-Apr-2012

Paul Hastings has opened an office in Houston with the hire of three energy-focused transactional partners from leading local firms.
Paul Hastings turns to Cahill Gordon for NY finance partner

6-Jul-2011

US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has raided Cahill Gordon & Reindel for the second time in a month for another partner hire to boost its New York leveraged finance team.
Paul Weiss launches in Toronto with double Shearman hire

13-Apr-2011

Paul Weiss is set to open a Toronto office with two newly appointed partners, tapping into Canada’s rich pool of natural resources and transactional work.
Paul Weiss scoops DoJ prosecutor for New York practice

16-Apr-2010

US litigation powerhouse Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has made one of the highest-profile post-crash hires to date with the appointment of Department of Justice (DoJ) prosecutor Mark Mendelsohn.
Paul Weiss successfully defends Citi against Guy Hands' EMI action

5-Nov-2010

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison partner Ted Wells has sealed victory for Citigroup in a court action brought by the founder of private equity group Terra Firma.
Pavia e Ansaldo picks up energy team

31-Jan-2011

Italian independent Pavia e Ansaldo has hired a team focusing on renewable energy, led by a former of counsel from Carnelutti.
Pay gap

24-Nov-2009

Basing pay on long service discriminates against women, says Emma Hawksworth
Peers looking at you kids

19-Nov-2010

What a simply marvellous week it’s been for Payne Hicks Beach’s family law terror Fiona Shackleton.
Penningtons ramps up with Dawsons deal

3-May-2011

Penningtons has acquired seven new partners as part of its completed merger with Lincoln’s Inn firm Dawsons.
Penningtons reports bumper turnover growth after mergers

24-Apr-2012

South-East firm Penningtons has announced a revenue increase of 35 per cent for the 2011-12 financial year on the back of its double merger with Dawsons and Wedlake Saint.
Penny for the Guy

5-Nov-2010

It’s Bonfire Night, and across the Atlantic the hopes of Britain’s very own Guy have just gone up in flames.
Pension tension

18-Mar-2009

Cherie Booth QC found herself back in the headlines this week, this time as the champion of two pension funds aiming to get the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Sir Fred Goodwin into a US courtroom.
Pensions are fun

30-Jun-2010

Pensions, it has to be said, could bore even the most committed of geeks.
PEP drop at DLA Piper after Middle East woes

13-Jul-2010

DLA Piper has posted a one per cent drop in fee income for the 2009 financial year, as PEP fell by 18 per cent.
PEP falls 21 per cent at Pannone as revenue nudges up

15-Jul-2009

Pannone brought in turnover of £52.5m in the 2008-09 financial year, a three per cent increase on the total of £50.8m for 2007-08.
PEP falls 27 per cent at Walker Morris

3-Aug-2009

North East firm Walker Morris saw average profits per equity partner (PEP) drop 27 per cent in the last financial year on the back of a turnover drop of 8 per cent.
PEP up 56 per cent for Bakers' London partners

12-Aug-2010

Average profit per equity partner (PEP) at Baker & McKenzie’s London office rose 55.5 per cent to £650,000 in the 2009-10 financial year.
Perils of social media – a tweet too far?

30-Sep-2011

Love or hate him, Joey Barton has again hit the headlines following some provocative “tweets” concerning a fellow professional football player, Karl Henry. Following a 3-0 win by Queens Park Rangers over Wolves last weekend and a heavy tackle, Barton, the captain of QPR, launched a verbal attack on Henry, a Wolves midfielder.
Permanent shift

24-Nov-2009

Should companies now be considering increased use of permanent staff, askMartina Murphy and Peter Linstead
Peter Andre turns to Stewarts for court battle with Shackleton

1-Jun-2009
Peters & Peters hires bribery and asset recovery star

6-May-2011

Peters & Peters has appointed Alan Bacarese, an international fraud specialist, as special counsel.
Petronas Energy's first general counsel moots legal panel

7-Jul-2011

Petronas Energy Trading, the European arm of the Malaysian energy giant’s gas trading business, has appointed its first in-house lawyer.
Pharma buy

14-Oct-2010

Despite global economic conditions, deal-making by large pharmaceutical companies has remained relatively buoyant, say Daniel Pavin, Grant Castle and Alexandra Pygall.
Philip Morris turns to Kraft as general counsel resigns

21-Feb-2012

International cigarette and tobacco company Philip Morris International has appointed Kraft Foods general counsel Marc Firestone to head its legal department as current general counsel David Bernick resigns.
Philippa Piper: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

11-Mar-2011

What time do you start work each day? 8.30am.
Phillipa Smith: Pinsent Masons

3-Dec-2010

How much time do you spend on Facebook each week? What’s Facebook?
Phoenix from the ashes

11-Sep-2009

Remember the heady boom days, when deals were ten a penny and time was hard to find? While countless acquisitions were rushed through in record time, it looks like Eversheds could be taking the heat for the legal sector in terms of cutting corners on the due diligence front.
Phone hacking: core participants in full

15-Sep-2011

A raft of celebrities and prominent public figures are among 46 named individuals who will be invited to give evidence at the inquiry into phone hacking.
Phone jacker

8-Sep-2010

A handful of lawyers is working its way through the tangled web that is the alleged phone hacking scandal to have engulfed the News of the World (NoW).
Phone-hacking lawyer prepares to launch claims in US

12-Apr-2012

Taylor Hampton partner Mark Lewis is set to bring a number of phone-hacking claims against News Corporation in the US courts.
PI rates expected to soar after Quinn Insurance enters administration

31-Mar-2010

The decision to put Irish insurer Quinn Insurance into administration has sent shockwaves through the market and prompted warnings of dramatic rate hikes across the solicitors’ professional indemnity (PI) market.
Pick a picket or two

30-Nov-2011

As public sector workers across the country strike en masse in numbers not seen since 1979, spare a thought for partners at Linklaters.
Pillsbury beefs up New York with 14-lawyer Nixon Peabody team

18-Jun-2010

Pillsbury has strengthened its New York office with the hire of 14 lawyers from Nixon Peabody.
Pillsbury extends reach to Middle East with Abu Dhabi launch

26-Oct-2011

US firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has opened an office in Abu Dhabi, its first in the Middle East, on the back of increasing work from the region.
Pillsbury lawyer takes in-house role at China Security & Surveillance Technology

22-Dec-2011

A lawyer in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman’s Washington DC office has taken up the general counsel role at firm client China Security & Surveillance Technology (CSST).
Pillsbury names finance chief as New York managing partner

6-Dec-2011

US firm Pillsbury has appointed Jonathan Whitney as New York managing partner, replacing David Crichlow.
Pillsbury posts drops in revenue and profit for 2009

13-Jan-2010

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has posted its end of year financial results, revealing a dip in the firm’s revenue but no change to individual partners’ take home pay.
Pillsbury profits rise 10 per cent as revenues remain static

20-Jan-2011

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has posted a 10 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2010 financial year off the back of flat revenue growth.
Pillsbury promotes eight partners and two counsel across US and Shanghai

1-Dec-2010

US-firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has made up eight partners and two counsel in its annual round of promotions, effective from 1 January 2011.
Pilots pension scheme litigation withdrawn on eve of CoA hearing

14-Nov-2011

A major pensions dispute for the Port of Tyne Authority has been dropped just hours before the legal fallout over the PNPF Trust Company litigation was due to be heard by the Court of Appeal.
Pinsent Masons partner joins Squire Sanders Hammonds as outsourcing head

18-Oct-2011

Squire Sanders Hammonds has hired an IT and outsourcing specialist from Pinsent Masons to head its global outsourcing team.
Pinsents adds BLP partner to banking team

30-Sep-2011

Pinsent Masons has given its banking and restructuring team a boost with a partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP).
Pinsents and Salans seal international alliance

2-Jun-2009

Pinsent Masons has signed an alliance with international firm Salans that will see the two top 25 firms preparing joint pitches and referring work to each other globally.
Pinsents builds funds practice with addition of SJ Berwin lawyer

8-Mar-2011

Pinsent Masons has boosted its partnership with the addition of a lawyer from SJ Berwin’s fund formation team.
Pinsents considers making cash call

7-Aug-2009

Pinsent Masons is looking into the potential of asking partners to put more cash into the business in a bid to boost its coffers.
Pinsents looks to strike out £10m professional negligence claim

1-Aug-2011

Pinsent Masons is set to go to the High Court tomorrow in a bid to strike out a £10m professional negligence claim being pursued against it by construction contractor Shepherd Construction.
Pinsents loses four construction partners to Reed Smith

23-Apr-2010

Reed Smith is poised to take on four senior construction partners from Pinsent Masons, tripling its construction practice in the process.
Pinsents mourns death of former Masons chief

22-Oct-2009

The former global managing partner of Pinsent Masons legacy firm Masons Tony Bunch has died after suffering a brain tumour.
Pinsents names corporate head as incumbent takes on development role

21-Apr-2011

Pinsent Masons has appointed a new head of corporate and tax to replace incumbent Gareth Edwards.
Pinsents posts £213m turnover for 2010-11

16-May-2011

Pinsent Masons’ revenue has risen 3 per cent over the past financial year, with the firm posting turnover for the 12-month period of £213m.
Pinsents posts turnover rise of 6 per cent at half-year stage

16-Nov-2011

Pinsent Masons has announced half-year results of £105 million, a 6 per cent increase on revenue figures for last year.
Pinsents promotes 13 in first post-merger round

16-May-2012

Pinsent Masons has made up 13 new partners in its first round of promotions since merging with McGrigors on 1 May, with two new members coming from the legacy Scottish firm.
Pinsents promotes eight to partnership

14-Apr-2009

Pinsent Masons will add eight new partners to its ranks this year, with promotions taking effect on 1 May.
Pinsents reports revenue drop but profit rise

23-Jun-2010

Pinsent Masons’ net profit grew by a third for the 2009-10 financial year, while turnover dropped by four per cent.
Pinsents retains AIM crown with greatest number of clients

1-Feb-2010

Pinsent Masons has retained its place at the top of Hemscott’s quarterly AIM rankings, maintaining the greatest number of AIM clients in the final quarter of 2009.
Pinsents sails for Singapore

6-Jul-2010

“We sail tonight for Singapore/We’re all as mad as hatters here,” sang Tom Waits back in the 1980s.
Pinsents scoops £25m incentive for office move

8-Feb-2012

Pinsent Masons got a £24.6m cash incentive from its developer to move into its offices in Crown Place, according to the firm’s latest LLP accounts.
Pinsents seals JV with Singapore's MPillay

6-Jul-2010

Pinsent Masons has launched a joint venture in Singapore that will allow it to practise local law and share profits.
Pinsents targets construction work with Chinese tie-up

9-Feb-2011

Pinsent Masons has formed an alliance with a Chinese firm so that it can expand the amount of construction clients it acts for.
Pinsents to launch redundancy talks

11-Jun-2009

Pinsent Masons is looking to launch redundancy talks after announcing a turnover rise of 1 per cent in the last financial year.
Pinsents votes for Bristol closure

9-Sep-2011

Pinsent Masons will close its Bristol office, offering the 11 lawyers there relocation and working closely with support staff to “assess alternative options”.
Pinsents welcomes four new partners across UK offices

23-Apr-2010

Pinsent Masons has promoted four lawyers to its partnership, all of whom are based in its UK offices.
Pippa Middleton's gun buddy is Shearman associate

18-Apr-2012

The man photographed brandishing what appeared to be a gun while driving Pippa Middleton in Paris is an associate at Shearman & Sterling who has acted for a small arms manufacturer, it has emerged.
Pitch perfect?

6-Aug-2009

Just when it seemed that bank of Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) couldn’t underwrite another big-hitter, out comes the cheque book.
Pitchford J joins Court of Appeal

11-Jan-2010

Mr Justice Pitchford is to join the bench in the Court of Appeal as successor to Lord Justice Scott Baker, who has retired.
Please can we stop religious oaths in the legal process?

10-Feb-2012

Do we really have to have religious oaths as a formal part of the legal process? And why are solicitors obliged to go through some quasi-religious ceremony when administering these oaths, regardless of the solicitor’s own beliefs or lack of beliefs? Why can’t we now just have affirmations as a universal standard?
Please give generously....

15-Jun-2011

There’s nothing flashy about the British & Irish Legal Information Institute (Bailii) website. There are simple links, an easy-to-use search engine - and literally thousands of judgments of criminal and civil cases from courts across the UK and Europe.
Plexus parent Parabis prepares for ABS conversion

14-Apr-2011

Parabis Group, the parent of Plexus Law and Cogent Law, is to plough investment into developing specialist legal teams ahead of converting to an alternative business structure (ABS) when the Legal Services Act (LSA) is implemented.
PLMJ forms new Mozambique alliance

4-Jul-2011

Portuguese firm PLMJ has opened a new office in Mozambique through a joint partnership with a local Maputo-based practice.
PLMJ tax lawyers spin off to form Rogério Fernandes Ferreira & Associados

9-May-2012

Eight tax lawyers have left Portuguese law firm PLMJ - AM Pereira S Leal O Martins Júdice & Associados to form tax boutique Rogério Fernandes Ferreira & Associados.
Podcast - Without Prejudice

14-Nov-2011

In a Without Prejudice ’special’ Charon QC talks with Carl Gardner about a range of important topical issues:
Poke a lawyer

7-Dec-2010

When the full social history of the late 20th and 21st centuries comes to be written, what will be seen as the great leaps forward?
Police investigate former Ince partner over alleged £3m fraud

27-May-2011

Former Ince & Co partner Andrew Iyer is under investigation by Scotland Yard over £3m of client money that he allegedly moved into accounts under his name.
Police's 2001 May Day kettling was lawful, European court rules

16-Mar-2012

The European Court of Human Rights has found that the police’s use of the controversial kettling tactic at a 2001 demonstration was lawful.
Poll dancing

7-Apr-2010

Election fever is sweeping the country today, with commentators, business leaders and the public alike nailing their colours to the mast as future leaders outline their utopian visions.
Poll taxing

3-Nov-2010

As the US mid-terms pass us by with barely a flicker on the newsometer, partners at Clifford Chance are positively gripped by election fever.
Portugal's Abreu seals alliance with Mozambique's Ferreira Rocha

21-Oct-2010

Portuguese firm Abreu Advogados has begun an exclusive strategic partnership with Mozambique firm Ferreira Rocha & Associados.
Portugal's Rui Pena Arnaut signs up to CMS network

24-Oct-2011

The CMS network is expanding its reach into Portugal with 14-partner local firm Rui Pena Arnaut & Associados (RPA) poised to become a member.
Portugal's Sérvulo & Associados opts for sole managing partner

3-Mar-2011

Portuguese independent Sérvulo & Associados has voted through a transition to a single managing partner model, with Pedro Furtado Martins taking up the new role.
Portugal's Sérvulo and Brazil's Manesco Ramires sign partnership agreement

1-Dec-2011

Portuguese firmSérvulo & Associados has signed a partnership agreement with Brazilian outfit Manesco Ramires Perez Azevedo Marques Sociedade de Advogados.
Portugal's Sérvulo hires banking team from Cuatrecasas

22-Jun-2011

Portuguese independent Sérvulo & Associados has hired a banking and insurance team from Iberian giant Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira.
Portugal's Vieira adds Abreu partner to competition team

28-Jul-2011

Portuguese firm Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VdA) has strengthened its competition and EU practice with the hire of a team led by a former Abreu Advogados partner.
Portugal's Vieira de Almeida opens in Angola

16-Feb-2011

Portuguese firm Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VDA) has launched in Angola, as the firm looks to strengthen its international coverage.
Positive thoughts

26-Aug-2009

The 2008-09 year-end figures for Lovells’ litigation practice show that the group is beginning to benefit from the disputes arising from the economic downturn. The litigation practice has increased fee income by 27.3 per cent from £95.8m a year earlier to £122m.
Post mortem finds no foul play in death of high-profile Scottish silk

7-Mar-2012

An initial post-mortem examination has found no suspicious circumstances in the death of high-profile Scottish QC Paul McBride.
Postcard from ... Dubai

11-Dec-2009

It was approximately 20 months ago to the day that my pregnant wife and I, along with our two-year-old son, departed for Dubai. What awaited us was a spacious, 3 bedroom apartment overlooking the Arabian Gulf on Palm Jumeirah and a new life in the much hyped land of hope, opportunity, glamour and adventure.
Postcard from ... Tel Aviv

9-Apr-2010

This postcard is from the city that never sleeps - New York, you ask? No - Tel Aviv! I came here for a month and never left.
Postcard from... São Paulo

29-May-2009

Too crowded. Too polluted. Too dangerous. Just a few of the immediate reactions I get from people when I tell them I live in São Paulo, a city of some 19 million inhabitants spread over 2,000 sq km.
Postcard from... 4 Peaks

6-Aug-2010

Four mountains, three climbers, one driver - 48 hours!
Postcard from... Abu Dhabi

9-Oct-2009

A dozen dhows bob gently on the turquoise waters of a boatyard and beyond the minarets of a dozen mosques reach up in to the clear blue sky.
Postcard from... Abu Dhabi

11-Jun-2010

My wife and I moved to Abu Dhabi eight months ago. This has been an exciting time in both our lives. I’ve transferred from my firm’s London office to Abu Dhabi, we have a new home, it’s my wife’s first visit to the Middle East, and we’re also expecting a new addition to our family later this year.
Postcard from... Alexandria

28-Apr-2009

Well, we are now on the last leg of the British Council exchange programme for women judges in Egypt. Cairo and Alexandria in less than 5 days, and our feet have not touched the ground yet.
Postcard from... Almaty, Kazakhstan

16-Apr-2010

After growing up in the Northeast of Kazakhstan, I moved to Almaty in 1991 to pursue a career in law. Having lived here now for nearly 20 years, I can happily call it my home.
Postcard from... Astana

4-Jun-2010

Astana is officially the second coldest capital in the world, number one being neighbouring Mongolia’s Ulan Bator.
Postcard from... Bangladesh

15-Jan-2010

‘Amar shonar Bangla, ami tomae bhalobashi.’ (‘My golden Bengal, I love you’). So begins the national anthem of Bangladesh, written by famous author, poet and composer Rabindranath Tagore.
Postcard from... Beijing

14-Apr-2009

I was offered the opportunity to move to China and manage Norton Rose’s Beijing and Shanghai offices in 2007.
Postcard from... Beijing

5-Mar-2010

As I look out of the taxi window on my rides through the city these days, I see large red banners with four golden characters framing the doors of almost every home and store in Beijing.
Postcard from... Bucharest

20-Apr-2009

Time has certainly passed since I first arrived in Bucharest in August 1996 to serve as a legal advisor on a one-year contract with the American Bar Association’s Central and East European Legal initiative.
Postcard from... Bucharest

2-Oct-2009

After a year and a half as an expat in Poland, I accepted a new challenge and moved to Romania following the opening of Garrigues’ new office in Bucharest. And here I am, a new country, new culture, new language and new colleagues.
Postcard from... Budapest

5-Feb-2010

It has been five months since I first arrived in Budapest, Hungary for my six-month secondment as a trainee solicitor and I can say, without hesitation, that it has been a fantastic experience.
Postcard from... Casablanca

17-Jul-2009

For thousands of people around the world, Casablanca is more a movie than a town.
Postcard from... Cayman Islands

11-Sep-2009

“Where are the Cayman Islands?” friends at home often ask me. “South of Cuba, north of Jamaica,” I usually say, to which an envious response follows.
Postcard from... China

18-Sep-2009

Feeling a little nervous and apprehensive as I approached Peking International Airport, a team of swine flu testers marched onto the plane to make sure we were safe to enter China – my first experience of Chinese culture.
Postcard from... Cyprus

4-Sep-2009

Cyprus is easy to visit and hard to leave; when I arrived just under two and a half years ago I never planned to spend more than six months or so on the island before heading back to London. However, as with so many people before me, Cyprus grew on me quickly and I decided to stay, taking a position in the corporate department at the largest law firm on the island, Andreas Neocleous & Co LCC.
Postcard from... Dar es Salaam

16-Oct-2009

It’s just after 7am in Dar es Salaam and I’ve finished the school drop-off - a typically early Tanzanian start designed to avoid the worst of the heat. I’m on my way to the office via a traffic jam and a route that is a far cry from the bus down the Strand to where I started my legal career - Denton Wilde Sapte.
Postcard from... Glastonbury

2-Jul-2010

Glastonbury has it all: 1,000 acres of Somerset is turned for a week in June into a city within a steel ring.
Postcard from... Guangzhou

16-Jul-2010

When Wragge & Co announced it was opening an office in Guangzhou, within minutes I’d tapped out a speculative email volunteering for any future secondments.
Postcard from... Hong Kong

12-Feb-2010

My firm Gide Loyrette Nouel invited me to work in their Hong Kong office for six months as a precursor to starting my training contract in the London office and I was eager to get as much out of the work placement as humanly possible.
Postcard from... Hong Kong

26-Feb-2010

Vibrant and vertiginous, Hong Kong is home to one of the world’s finest collection of skyscrapers, the third busiest container port in the world, and the tailor with the world speed record for making a suit (one hour, 50 minutes and two seconds if you’re interested).
Postcard from... Isle of Man

29-Jan-2010

Originally from the Isle of Man, I’ve been working here as a corporate and private client lawyer for the past six years, and I’m still amazed at the continuing success of the Isle of Man as an international finance centre, and at the calibre of some of the professionals to be found here.
Postcard from... Kinshasa

26-Apr-2010

Just out of Kinshasa airport, without too many problems this time as I did not forget my yellow fever certificate and the border police officers only spent 10 minutes discussing whether the 08 for August as the validity end date of my visa is not actually 03 for March, but managed to sort out this issue without them trying to impose any ’fines’.
Postcard from... Kuwait

27-Aug-2009

When I announced to family and friends that I would be leaving Michigan to take up a position in Kuwait, I received responses ranging from astonishment to extreme alarm. Questions regarding the safety of Kuwait were probably the most prominent. It seems much of my family and friends mistake Kuwait for Iraq.
Postcard from... London

31-Jul-2009

The legal intern in London is something of a myth. Unlike in America, where every summer hordes of over-eager law student interns swarm law offices ready to research and, Britain appears to have no tradition of semi-indentured legal labour.
Postcard from... London

20-Nov-2009

Having completed my LLM programme in the UK, the Nigerian law firm I work with - Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie - thought it would be a great idea for me to do a three-month work placement with the London law firm Denton Wilde Sapte (DWS), a firm we regularly work with.
Postcard from... Minsk

10-Jul-2009

When Magisters announced the opening of a new office in Minsk, I became rather excited as I knew I would have an opportunity to travel to the city where I had spent a number of years of my childhood, but hadn’t been back in over 20 years. I was intrigued to see what had changed and eagerly anticipated to see the city and what surprises laid ahead…
Postcard from... Mongolia

7-May-2010

In the latest of our ’Postcard from…’ series, Sarah Henderson shares her experience of life in Mongolia:
Postcard from... Mumbai

3-Jul-2009

“Have you seen Slumdog Millionaire yet?” The question, posed incessantly since I first announced my departure, echoed in my ears as I boarded the British Airways flight to the subcontinent. The answer: no. Luckily one of the in-flight films on offer resolved the matter.
Postcard from... New York

5-Nov-2009

The journalist Mignon MacLauglin once said that “a car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else, the same with good manners”.
Postcard from... Perth

19-Feb-2010

Perth is nestled on the banks of the Swan River in Western Australia. From my office window I can see blue sky reflected off the water of the river with one solitary boat cruising by.
Postcard from... Piraeus

24-Jul-2009

It is now 20 years since I first arrived in Piraeus (the Greek port city which for this article is interchangeable with Athens) as a young shipping lawyer. I knew Greece a little from holiday visits and college friends from Greece, but thought I would be staying only 3 pleasant, island-hopping years.
Postcard from... Port Moresby

12-Mar-2010

Greetings from Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, the country which is often referred to as the “land of the unexpected”.
Postcard from... Prague

18-Dec-2009

Bird & Bird actually has four offices throughout Central Europe and I live in the middle, about three or four hours from each of them by train. I usually spend two or three days in each office and prefer to take a night train or early morning train to arrive there first thing in the morning.
Postcard from... Saudi Arabia

19-Mar-2010

Living in Saudi Arabia as a lawyer means a lot of travel, because you are covering a country roughly the size of Western Europe, with its main business centres Jeddah on the Red Sea, Riyadh in the centre and Dammam on the Arabian Gulf, plus a fair number of out-of-country meetings in neighbouring Dubai and Bahrain.
Postcard from... Shanghai

7-Aug-2009

When I started my training contract with Eversheds in September 2007 I was excited to learn that the firm offered a Shanghai secondment.
Postcard from... Shanghai

9-Jul-2010

It’s two years since my wife Elaine and I first arrived in Shanghai.
Postcard from... Shanghai

30-Jul-2010

Shanghai is bedazzling; it’s a cliché but it’s true.
Postcard from... Tanzania

30-Mar-2009

I left my native Tanzania to take up a three-month placement in a London law firm with mixed feelings of what lay ahead. To be honest, I expected a lot of challenges from the opportunity presented to me under the auspices of International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA).
Postcard from... Tripoli

4-Jun-2009

Libya has only recently opened up to foreign investment. After decades of a combination of an international embargo against the country and internal policies which increased the scale and scope of the public sector, much of the private sector disappeared completely.
Postcard from... Warsaw

19-Jun-2009

When I first accepted a posting to Poland, I had never once set foot in the country. My first visit took place on the occasion of the official inauguration of Garrigues’ Warsaw office and my initial impression on arriving in the city was excellent - a well-ordered, modern and entirely European city. Without a doubt, it more than lived up to my expectations.
Postcard from... Johannesburg

6-Apr-2009

I must confess that Johannesburg took me by surprise when I started working here a couple of years ago.
Postcard from...Bangkok

21-May-2010

There were a number of reasons why I applied for a seat in Bangkok: I’d spent some time here in the past and was curious to see how different expat life would be to the backpacker life I had already experienced.
Postcard from...Brussels

28-May-2010

“I only meant to stay for six months” is a common refrain among non-Belgians here in Brussels, a city where people come for work and stay for the lifestyle in a place that has much more to offer than waffles, chocolate and Tintin. Brussels is a good city to visit, but a great place to live.
Postcard from...Croatia

14-May-2010

Almost 20 years after former Yugoslavia started falling apart, my job is more regional than ever before. Yesterday I was in Sarajevo, today at home in Zagreb and tomorrow I will be in our Ljubljana office, where I actually spend most of my working time.
Postcard from...Dili

25-Sep-2009

Before you say ‘where on earth is Dili?’ – close your eyes, imagine the warm sun on your shoulders, the lapping of waves, the wave of coconut palm and banana trees, children excitedly shrieking “bom dia malai” (hello foreigner), the roar of UN vehicles, the hum of blackhawk helicopters and the blasting of Indonesian pop songs. Welcome to Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste/East Timor.
Postcard from...Geneva

26-Jun-2009

The last time I worked in the Alps I was a GAP year ski-bum plongeur in a hotel. One of my fellow kitchen workers quit his job to become a drug dealer in his home town- it was less work and better paid apparently. That was Méribel, and 16 years later I am at the foot of the Alps in Geneva- and the two experiences couldn’t be more different.
Postcard from...Madrid

13-Nov-2009

Four years have passed since I left my warm Caracas and moved to Spain, and although I miss Venezuela, I have come to agree with the popular saying “From Madrid to heaven” that most Madrileños mumble to the city’s visitors, as they proudly add “You can find everything in Madrid”.
Postcard from...Moscow

8-Jan-2010

I moved to Moscow for a number of reasons - I wanted a new challenge after over 10 years of working and living in London and the work opportunities, adventure, culture, history and quite frankly the mystique of Russia fitted perfectly with what I was looking for.
Postcard from… Singapore

11-May-2009

Once a sleepy fishing village, Singapore is today the world’s busiest port and a major commercial centre. I moved here four years ago from Mumbai, and I work at Berwin Leighton Paisner.
Postcard from…Buenos Aires

4-Dec-2009

From the wide Parisian avenues of Recoleta to the colonial architecture of San Telmo and the skyscrapers of the Microcentro, Buenos Aires - or BA - is a unique mix of antique and modern, a European city, blending Hispanic and Italian cultural influences and styles, with a distinctly American twist.
Postcard from…Grand Cayman

7-May-2009

I have just returned for my second stint in the Cayman Islands after eighteen months away. It’s a lot greener than I remember.
Postcard from…New Delhi

23-Oct-2009

It was an opportunity I couldn’t miss when I discovered Eversheds was looking for legal advisors to second to Indian firm Khaitan & Co in New Delhi and Mumbai. Having visited India on a number of occasions on holiday I was unsure of what to expect on the business side.
Postcard from…Paris

30-Nov-2009

As I sat down and started writing this postcard it hit me how tricky it could be for an international arbitration lawyer to draw a true picture of where they live and work.
Postcomm denies Simmons partner conflict

9-Jul-2010

Concerns of a conflict of interest surrounding Simmons & Simmons partner Jenny Block’s appointment to the postal regulator Postcomm have been raised in Parliament by Brighton Pavillion MP Caroline Lucas.
Post-merger DAC Beachcroft snaps up Scotland's Andersons

22-Mar-2012

DAC Beachcroft is to take over Scottish firm Andersons Solicitors in a deal it believes will give a “more comprehensive” service to both firms’ insurer clients.
Post-merger Edwards Wildman posts revenue rise for 2011

29-Feb-2012

Edwards Wildman Palmer has posted its first post-merger financial results, revealing an 18 per cent increase in total revenue from $297.9m to $352.7m in 2011.
Potential Effect of the Equality Act on Charities

6-Oct-2011

Charities, like any other service provider, are now subject to restrictions of unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.
Pound weakness helps Lovells report turnover rise of 11 per cent

27-May-2009

The massive impact of sterling’s decline against the euro and the dollar has helped bolster Lovells’ 2008-09 financial results, with the firm posting a rise in revenue of 11 per cent over the past financial year.
Power-cuts

8-Dec-2009

DLA Piper has announced yet another round of job cuts, with nine per cent of its Middle East staff set for the chop (see story).
PR tales

19-Jul-2011

In the old days, you were only qualified to talk about narrative if you’d cycled along the Cam for a spot of tea with FR Leavis.
Preiskel & Co advises Sally Bercow on potential libel case

1-Oct-2010

City firm Preiskel & Co has been retained by Sally Bercow, political commentator and wife of Commons speaker John Bercow MP, to respond to threats of a libel suit against her.
Premier League, DLA Piper defeated at ECJ in key broadcast rights ruling

4-Oct-2011

The European Court of Justice has ruled against the Premier League, advised by DLA Piper, after it ruled that it is not illegal for individuals to buy decoders from foreign broadcasters.
Pre-nuptials could become binding after Shackleton loses appeal

2-Jul-2009

The UK courts could be forced to recognise the binding powers of pre-nuptial agreements following a judgment handed down by the Court of Appeal today.
Pressing for freedom

2-Feb-2011

As head of the Queen’s Bench jury and non-jury lists, Mr Justice Tugendhat’s judgments are open to more scrutiny than most of his peers.
Privacy cases on the rise after year of injunctions

2-Dec-2011

The row over the use of injunctions has prompted a significant jump in the number of privacy cases being pursued in the High Court.
Privacy law: is Max Mosley right?

9-Mar-2010

For those whose privacy is invaded, the phrase “Freedom of the Press” is no more compelling than “Freedom of the State”.
Privacy lawyers scramble to advise celebrities on tabloid phone hacking claims

10-Jul-2009

Lawyers are gearing up for litigation stemming from the News International phone hacking allegations.
Private equity house takes stake in insurance firm Parabis

6-Feb-2012

Acquisition-hungry firm Parabis Group is to take a cash injection from private equity house Duke Street.
Pro bono 1, medics 0

21-Mar-2012

If you think the Law Society got it wrong now and then, then check out the case brought against the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
Procter & Gamble GC takes top legal job at PC games publisher

23-Sep-2009

Procter & Gamble western Europe general counsel Christopher Walther has left the company to become legal chief at a computer game publisher.
Prof neg silk takes tenancy at 4 New Square

5-Aug-2010

Construction and professional negligence silk David Sears QC is to take up tenancy at 4 New Square from next week.
Profession remains elite despite social diversity push

22-May-2012

Social diversity programmes have a mountain to climb, with 15 per cent of lawyers educated privately compared with seven per cent of the population.
Profits and revenue up at Latham & Watkins

17-Feb-2011

Latham & Watkins has posted a 4.5 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2010 financial year.
Profits dip at Norton Rose but turnover edges up

12-Jun-2009

Norton Rose’s average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure fell by 17 per cent in the 2008-09 financial year, due in part to the firm’s decision not to make any job cuts.
Profits down 15 per cent at Camerons as revenue remains steady

22-May-2009

CMS Cameron McKenna has kicked off the financial reporting season by announcing a slight rise in turnover alongside a 15 per cent drop in its average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure.
Profits of doom?

6-Sep-2010

Few in the City would assert that lawyers like working for free.
Promotions plummet at Hammonds with six making the grade

24-Apr-2009

Hammonds is to promote six to its partnership, a dramatic fall from last year’s record total of 19 promotions.
Promotions table

21-Apr-2009

Clifford Chance and A&O may have postponed their partnership appointments because of their respective restructures, but elsewhere the season is full swing.
Property partners seek new model

12-Aug-2009

Remember the height of the boom? Back then it wouldn’t have been uncommon to hear groans emitted from groups of property partners quaffing Chablis in one of London’s finest watering holes or basking in the sun between meetings on the Croisette of Cannes at Mipim.
Proportion of lawyers educated at public school far outstrips national average

15-Nov-2010

The legal profession has become increasingly elitist over the past 20 years, with 15 per cent of lawyers being public school educated while just 2 per cent of the population is.
Proposed online privacy rules are a 'missed opportunity'

25-Jan-2012

Lawyers have expressed concern over the European Commission’s overhaul of the EU’s online privacy rules that will see companies facing fines of as much as 2 per cent of annual turnover for breach of code.
Proskauer bolsters Hong Kong presence with launch of Beijing office

11-Nov-2011

US firm Proskauer Rose has launched a representative office in Beijing, three years after announcing its intention to open in the Chinese capital.
Proskauer confirms hire of Jones Day partners Carmedy and Nouril

11-Apr-2011

Proskauer Rose has ended more than a week of speculation by confirming its appointment of partners Russell Carmedy and Michael Nouril to its London office, following the pair’s departure from Jones Day.
Proskauer continues funds raid on SJ Berwin with six associate hires

5-Sep-2011

Proskauer has continued its raid on SJ Berwin’s funds talent with the recruitment of six associates, who are set to join funds partners Nigel van Zyl and Oliver Rochman who defected to the US firm’s London office in July.
Proskauer continues to build London team with Kirkland hire

28-Jul-2011

Proskauer Rose has continued its London expansion with the hire of funds partner Kate Simpson from Kirkland & Ellis.
Proskauer elects its youngest-ever chair as SJ Berwin talks continue

5-Oct-2010

Proskauer Rose has elected a new global chairman as the New York firm continues to pursue a potential merger with SJ Berwin.
Proskauer funds team takes key clients from SJ Berwin

16-Jan-2012

SJ Berwin is set to lose its grip on one of its biggest-billing clients following the defection of a two-partner funds team to Proskauer Rose.
Proskauer hires Dewey City steering group duo

18-May-2012

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.
Proskauer just wants to have funds

27-Jul-2011

US firms are doing a pretty good job of hoovering up funds teams from the UK’s top practices.
Proskauer picks up a pair from White & Case

10-Jun-2011

Proskauer Rose has hired a corporate duo for its Hong Kong office, increasing the firm’s partner count in the city to six.
Public enemy

9-Feb-2011

Some of the public sector cuts we’re all going to have to live with as the Age of Neo Austerity bites are likely to have the unflappable folk of Albion taking to the streets in riotous protest. Others, let’s face it, are not.
Public sector lawyers split on Government spending cuts

20-Oct-2010

The implications of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) for local government legal services will be immense.
Pulling a fast one?

14-Dec-2010

ACS:Law will have some sympathy for the eight alleged illegal file sharers it attempted to sue after the firm was caught with its pants down by a judge.
Putting the brakes on the referral fee merry go round

20-Oct-2011

Switch on the TV during the day and you, as a consumer, will undoubtedly be asked two questions, “Do you have any unwanted gold?” or “Have you had an accident which wasn’t your fault?”
PwC launches Czech legal department with local hires

6-Sep-2011

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has launched a new legal team in the Czech Republic after raiding local firms.
PwC turns to Taylor Wessing to fight off Cattles claim

3-Nov-2011

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has instructed Taylor Wessing partner Andrew Howell and 4 New Square’s Justin Fenwick to defend a £840m claim brought by sub-prime lender and former client Cattles.
Qatari Diar prepares ground for first-ever legal panel

15-Dec-2011

Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company is putting together its first legal panel and is seeking tenders from 46 international firms.
QC promotions down as 88 take silk

29-Feb-2012

The Queen’s Counsel selection board has promoted 88 new silks in the latest round of appointments, down more than a quarter on last year’s 120 appointments.
QEB acts for Cheryl and Ashley as the Coles head to divorce courts

27-May-2010

Specialist family set QEB has been instructed to act on both sides of the celbrity divorce of pop star Cheryl Cole and her footballer husband Ashley.
Quadrant launches arbitration team as Steel J returns to bar

14-Oct-2011

Quadrant Chambers is to launch an arbitration division with the appointment of retired High Court judge Sir David Steel.
Quality (not just high) Street

7-Oct-2010

Time was when the upper end of the foodie market would turn its epicurean nose up at the spinal-fluid-in-a-bap offerings of the fast-food franchises next door to Poundland.
QualitySolicitors sets sights on UK domination with private equity injection

20-Oct-2011

High street franchise QualitySolicitors has secured a private equity investment aimed at significantly growing the brand across the UK.
QualitySolicitors to launch 50 branches as talks with top 100 firms heat up

7-Oct-2010

QualitySolicitors is in talks with several top 100 firms that are considering signing up to the law firm franchise, according to chief executive Craig Holt.
QualitySolicitors to put desks in 500 WHSmith branches

7-Apr-2011

WHSmith has agreed a deal to allow QualitySolicitors to place representatives in up to 500 of it branches.
Quartet of corporate partners quit Mayer Brown

18-Dec-2009

Four corporate partners have resigned from Mayer Brown’s London office as the US firm announces plans to cut up to eight associates from its office in the capital.
Quartet of firms win roles on Duke Street funeral homes deal

10-Apr-2012

CMS Cameron McKenna, Hogan Lovells, Ropes & Gray and SJ Berwin have advised on a £37.5m acquisition by private equity house Duke Street.
Quartet of West Country authorities announce joint panel

18-May-2011

Burges Salmon, Charles Russell and Sharpe Pritchard are among the firms appointed to four West Country councils’ joint panel.
Queen appoints five Appeal Court justices

5-Jul-2011

The Queen has approved the appointment of five Court of Appeal justices following the elevation of Lord Justice Wilson to the Supreme Court and Lord Justice Thomas’s appointment as president of the Queen’s Bench Division.
Queens park Changer

19-Aug-2011

Selling a 66 per cent stake in a Premier League football club may seem like a divorce, but Formula 1 tycoon Bernie Ecclestone clearly sees things differently.
Quinn Emanuel announces maximum associate bonuses of £53,000

22-Dec-2010

US firm Quinn Emanuel Urqhart & Sullivan has announced its associate bonus payouts for 2010 with awards ranging from $8,438 (£5,449) through to $82,500 (£53,256).
Quinn Emanuel cites contingent fees as reason for strong 2011 financials

30-Jan-2012

Litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has kicked off this year’s US financial reporting season by posting a 31 per cent increase in gross revenue.
Quinn Emanuel continues growth spurt with Olswang hire

11-May-2010

Olswang has lost one of its rising star litigation partners to the growing London office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
Quinn Emanuel eyes expansion across Germany and Asia

9-Mar-2012

US litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has announced plans to expand its overseas network across Asia and Europe following the success of its London and Mannheim offices.
Quinn Emanuel fights back as BoA attempts to eject firm from AIG case

19-Oct-2011

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has vowed to fight an attempt by Bank of America (BoA) to boot the US firm off its $10bn (£6.3bn) litigation with insurer AIG over an alleged conflict of interest.
Quinn Emanuel makes City promotion two years after UK launch

15-Dec-2010

US litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has elected a London associate to its partnership in an eight-strong promotions round.
Quinn Emanuel makes fresh raid on A&O, takes two City partners

9-May-2012

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is bolstering its international arbitration practice with a double hire from Allen & Overy (A&O), taking on global international arbitration head Stephen Jagusch and arbitration partner Anthony Sinclair.
Quinn Emanuel poised to open DC office

5-Sep-2011

US litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has announced plans to open an office in Washington DC after hiring a trio of local partners from Alston & Bird.
Quinn Emanuel posts 62 per cent profit margin

21-Jan-2011

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has posted a 31 per cent increase in fee income for the 2010 financial year, with total revenue rising to $550.5m.
Quinn Emanuel raids Dechert for Moscow launch

19-Oct-2011

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is set to launch a Moscow office with two litigation partners from Dechert.
Quinn Emanuel scores victory against A&O in High Court

23-May-2012

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has won a major derivatives jurisdiction battle against rival Allen & Overy (A&O).
Quinn Emanuel taps A&O again for Hamburg launch

1-May-2012

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has opened a second German office, picking up Allen & Overy (A&O) IP and antitrust litigation partner Nadine Herrmann and a team of 10 lawyers and staff for a Hamburg launch.
Quinn Emanuel taps A&O for German IP launch

23-Feb-2010

US litigation firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is launching its first office in Continental Europe with the hire of a group of IP lawyers from Allen & Overy (A&O) in Germany.
Rabinowitz QC pulls out of Berezovsky case

24-Jan-2012

Addleshaw Goddard is on the hunt for a top-notch silk to lead the second tranche of the Boris Berezovsky proceedings after One Essex Court’s Laurence Rabinowitz QC withdrew from the case.
Race to the finish

14-Oct-2009

No sooner has the dust settled on one good old-fashioned Clifford Chance election battle than a pair of partners start squaring up for another.
Race-claim barrister appeal bid dismissed by EAT

18-Jun-2010

The barrister who brought and lost a race discrimination claim against 4 New Square has had her appeal bid thrown out by the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT).
Raft of entities seek ABS conversion as SRA receives 120 applications

17-Feb-2012

Over 120 organisations have now applied to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for a licence to practise as an alternative business structure (ABS).
Raft of firms advise on Terra Firma's acquisition of Garden Centre Group

2-Apr-2012

Ashurst, Dundas & Wilson, Macfarlanes, McGrigors, Memery Crystal and SJ Berwin all won roles advising on the acquisition of the Garden Centre Group from Lloyds Banking Group by Guy Hands’ private equity house Terra Firma Capital Partners.
Raft of firms and chambers appointed to South-West Wales Legal Consortium

19-Jul-2011

The South-West Wales Legal Consortium has appointed six law firms to partner status and confirmed a full list of solicitors and barristers panels after completing the procurement of its new multi-million pound framework agreement.
Raft of firms land roles as Chinese mining companies snap up international assets

7-Oct-2011

A number of Australian and Canadian law firms have been called in to act on two Chinese mining companies’ recent overseas acquisitions - Hanlong Mining’s A$1.65bn bid for Perth-based Sundance Resources and China Minmetals’ A$1.3bn takeover of Montreal-based Anvil.
Raft of firms sign up to Nick Clegg's Business Compact

12-Jan-2012

Ten law firms are among over 100 businesses to sign up to the Government’s Business Compact on social mobility, announced by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today.
Raft of firms win roles on OFT's accounting giant investigation

13-Mar-2012

Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters are among a raft of firms to have won roles advising on an investigation into the accountancy sector that was started by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) but has now been passed to the Competition Commission.
Raft of Moscow prison officials sacked following jail death of lawyer

11-Dec-2009

The head of Moscow’s Federal Penitentiary Service has been sacked along with 20 other high-ranking prison officials after an investigation into the death of Russian lawyer Sergey Magnitsky.
Raft of transatlantic elite firms act on HP's $12bn Autonomy bid

19-Aug-2011

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Slaughter and May have scored top roles advising on Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) $11.7bn (£7.1bn) acquisition of global software company Autonomy, the largest ever deal in the technology sector.
Rage against the machines

24-Apr-2012

With financial results stagnant across Europe, only the strongest independent firms will survive the continuing onslaught of the inter national behemoths
Raising the bar on diversity – A response to Zoe Saunders

31-Oct-2011
Rajah & Tann in Asia Pacific push with Vietnam, Thailand launches

14-Sep-2011

Leading Singapore firm Rajah & Tann has kickstarted a push into Asia Pacific with the launch of two new offices, in Ho Chi Minh and Bangkok respectively.
Raleys appeals SDT decisions on miners case

6-Aug-2009

North-east firm Raleys Solicitors is appealing two Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) decisions relating to the firm’s role in handling compensation claims from sick coalminers.
Rangers' lawyer quits Collyer Bristow following club's administration

5-Mar-2012

Rangers FC company secretary Gary Withey has left Collyer Bristow for “family and personal reasons”, the firm has confirmed.
Rare AIM deal sparks market optimism at Covington, Dorsey

2-Sep-2009

Dorsey & Whitney and Covington & Burling were the key legal advisers in the AIM flotation of Indian Energy, only the fourth company to be admitted to the alternative market this year.late
RBS Insurance appoints RSA lawyer as general counsel

20-Sep-2011

RBS Insurance has appointed RSA Insurance group legal director Humphrey Tomlinson to the role of general counsel and company secretary.
RBS legal chief McLean announces retirement as bank posts £3.6bn loss

25-Feb-2010

RBS group general counsel and group secretary Miller McLean is retiring from the state-backed bank at the end of April with his deputy Chris Campbell set to step into the lead legal role.
RBS litigation head takes on Virgin Money general counsel role

28-Jun-2010

RBS’s litigation chief Stephen Pearson is leaving the bank to take on the newly created general counsel position at Virgin Money.
RBS racks up £4m in legal fees on Highland Capital case

13-Jan-2012

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has spent £3m on its legal battle with US hedge fund Highland Capital, a figure that is expected to rise to £4m by the end of the five-day trial that begins on 23 January.
RBS: more money to lawyers

13-Jan-2012

RBS was owed some money by US hedge fund Highland Capital so it brought in the heavies (Herbert Smith) to “extract payment”.
Reaching for the Sky

27-Jan-2010

British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) has been battling with Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for the last seven years after the latter agreed to install a customer relationship management (CRM) system in 2000.
Ready, aim...... hire

4-Jan-2012

The string of lateral hires in the City and elsewhere dominating our rolling news website since yesterday would have many people talking about New Year’s Resolutions, if it were not that these things take several months to iron out.
Real Estate and the dirty business of recruitment

24-Oct-2011

Armageddon. That’s what recruiters say to me about the state of the recruitment market for real estate. No one’s hiring, they say, only you.
Real Estate: Property clash

17-Sep-2010

Despite an active London real estate market, property teams continue to suffer from hangovers coming out of the recession. Luke McLeod-Roberts looks back at a difficult year for the sector
Recovery period?

26-Jan-2010

Bring out the bunting, fetch the Vera Lynn records down from the attic and get your glad rags on, because today brings the news we’ve all been craving for so long - Britain is officially out of recession!
Recruitment Table

29-Apr-2010

Check out who is hiring and who is not among the top 50 with our new dedicated recruitment table
Red faces at Herbert Smith

7-Mar-2012

Apparently email is 20 years old on 11 March.
Reed and Carnwath elevated to Supreme Court

21-Dec-2011

Lord Reed and Lord Justice Carnwath were yesterday named as new justices of the Supreme Court.
Reed Smith adds one new partner in London in 18-strong round

10-Dec-2009

Reed Smith has added just one new member to its London-based partnership as part of its latest round of promotions.
Reed Smith adds seven-strong real estate team in Pittsburgh

19-May-2010

US firm Reed Smith has snared seven real estate lawyers from the Pittsburgh office of Pepper Hamilton.
Reed Smith and Texan firm Thompson & Knight call off merger talks

7-Jan-2011

Merger talks between US firms Reed Smith and Thompson & Knight have been called off, the firms have confirmed.
Reed Smith bolsters NY practice with Dorsey hire

25-May-2010

Reed Smith has continued a recent hiring spree with the arrival of finance partner Jonathan Ross.
Reed Smith breaks associate lockstep

28-Oct-2009

Reed Smith has broken the lockstep remuneration system for its associates, replacing it with a merit-based structure.
Reed Smith cuts US associate salaries by 20 per cent

11-Nov-2009

Reed Smith has slashed the pay-packets of its US-based first-year associates.
Reed Smith expands ME practice with addition of Holland & Knight partner

6-Dec-2011

Reed Smith has continued its hiring spree with the arrival of Holland & Knight’s Abu Dhabi managing partner Donald Moore.
Reed Smith eyes Texas market with potential Thompson & Knight tie-up

4-Oct-2010

US firms Reed Smith and Thompson & Knight have confirmed they are in discussions over a potential merger.
Reed Smith forced to wait for half its Pinsents partner team

12-Jul-2010

Two of the senior construction partners snared by Reed Smith from Pinsent Masons as part of a four-partner team have joined the US firm, but the other two partners remain temporarily locked-in at the national firm.
Reed Smith installs City head as part of firmwide management shake-up

27-Mar-2012

Reed Smith has named Richard Swinburn as London managing partner as part of a wave of management changes across the firm’s global practice.
Reed Smith instructed on WorldSpreads administration

19-Mar-2012

Reed Smith has won the role acting for the administrators of WorldSpreads, the spread-betting operator being wound up after accounting irregularities were found in its finances.
Reed Smith kickstarts Paris IP practice with former Howrey hires

4-May-2011

Reed Smith has become the latest firm to pounce upon the remnants of failed firm Howrey, taking two partners to launch a Paris IP practice.
Reed Smith makes Paris hire as Simmons partner exodus continues

28-Sep-2011

Reed Smith has become the latest beneficiary of partner departures from Simmons & Simmons after hiring Paris corporate lawyer Marc Fredj.
Reed Smith makes up four City partners in 22-strong round

4-Jan-2012

Reed Smith has made up two energy partners and two shipping partners in London as part of a 22-strong global round of promotions.
Reed Smith Paris partner quits for France's Moisand Boutin

23-May-2012

French firm Moisand Boutin & Associés has hired a corporate partner from US firm Reed Smith.
Reed Smith promotes four London lawyers in 25-strong global round

5-Jan-2011

Reed Smith has promoted 25 lawyers to its partnership as part of its annual round of promotions, including four based in London.
Reed Smith sees PEP slide as turnover rises

23-Feb-2012

Reed Smith has posted a near 4 per cent rise in turnover up to $993m (£633m) for the 2011 financial year.
Reed Smith sees revenue dip coupled with profit rise in 2009

28-Jan-2010

Reed Smith has posted a 4 per cent drop in total revenue for the 2009 fiscal year.
Reed Smith snares Dorsey partner for Shanghai opening

12-Jul-2011

International firm Reed Smith has appointed New York-licensed lawyer Jay Yan as managing partner of its new Shanghai office, which is expected to open ‘imminently’ after securing its licence.
Reed Smith strengthens structured finance with BLP's Box

21-Dec-2011

Reed Smith has given its structured finance capacity a boost with a hire from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP).
Reed Smith suffers exodus of 50 staff in Hong Kong

9-Jan-2012

A total of 50 staff including 15 lawyers have left Reed Smith’s Hong Kong arm to join newly established Hong Kong firm Howse Williams Bowars (HWB).
Reed Smith taps Herbert Smith for Beijing partner hire

4-Jan-2010

Reed Smith has bolstered its Beijing office with the hire of corporate partner Michael Fosh from Herbert Smith.
Reed Smith taps SJ Berwin for German venture capital head

3-Feb-2012

Reed Smith has hired SJ Berwin’s German venture and growth capital head Justus Binder as the leader of its German private equity practice.
Reed Smith tempts back ex-Hong Kong finance head

24-Jan-2012

Reed Smith’s former Hong Kong head of finance John McGuinness has returned to the firm on a consultancy basis after a seven-year hiatus.
Reed Smith turns to SNR Denton for London energy hire

16-May-2011

Reed Smith has continued to expand its London energy and natural resources practice with a hire from SNR Denton.
Reed Smith's Hong Kong arm loses three founding partners

20-Dec-2011

Three partners have quit Reed Smith Richards Butler’s Hong Kong office to set up a new firm led by litigation veteran Chris Howse.
Reeper-barney brewing in Hamburg

25-Feb-2011

There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned spat on a Friday afternoon. And Hamburg, city of 1001 drunken sailors, is no stranger to the odd punch-up.
Regulators... ready

21-Oct-2009

It’s one of the biggest infrastructure deals of the year, but one that might never have happened without the attention of the UK’s competition regulator.
Regulatory lawyers welcome FSA's parliamentary stay of execution

13-May-2010

City lawyers have welcomed news that the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government will not press ahead with Tory plans to scrap the FSA as part of a radical shake-up of financial services regulation.
Reinventing the wheel

21-Feb-2012

Riverview Law might not actually reinvent the legal market but, says Jeremy Hopkins, it offers the perfect model for harnessing and applying the best of current good practice
Relationship breakdown

1-Oct-2010

“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Relocation, relocation, relocation

23-Apr-2010

When it comes to construction, Pinsent Masons is storeys above much of the competition.
Remaining Howrey partners vote to dissolve firm

10-Mar-2011

Howrey’s executive committee has confirmed that the partnership has voted to dissolve the firm, bringing an end to its 55-year history.
Renault names legal chief in wake of Husson's departure

1-Jul-2011

French car maker Renault has appointed Anne-Sophie Le Lay as its new general counsel.
Rereading the Riot Act

15-Aug-2011

In light of recent rioting across England, Colin Wynter QC believes a sympathetic application of a strict law can be necessary for victims of crime.
Research highlights rule of law risk in energy-rich states

8-Feb-2012

A new study rating 197 countries on their respect for the rule of law highlights oil and gas rich Burma, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, Libya, Angola and Iraq as ‘extreme risk’ countries, offering the least legal protection to foreign companies and investors.
Revealed: Camerons rocks

19-Jun-2009

CMS Cameron McKenna emerged victorious from a hard-fought inaugural Law Rocks battle of the bands last night.
Revealed: Davis Polk snares Freshfields partner for English law launch

6-Jan-2012

Davis Polk & Wardwell is launching an English law capability in London with the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer heavy hitter Simon Witty.
Revealed: Mayer Brown and Simmons & Simmons merger talks back on

18-Jun-2010

Mayer Brown and Simmons & Simmons have resumed merger talks, with both firms’ management set to brief their respective partnerships next week on the merits of a potential union.
Revealed: McGrigors and Pinsent Masons moot £282m merger

19-Jan-2012

McGrigors and Pinsent Masons are preparing the ground for a potential merger in a deal that would make the combined firm the 12th largest in the UK by turnover.
Revealed: Pinsents and McGrigors to vote on merger

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Clydes, BLG, Beachcroft, DAC: so last year, darling.
Revealed: the reasons why UK associates join US firms - and it's not just for money

10-Apr-2012

Nearly twice as many men as women join US firms to improve their chances of making partner, a survey by The Lawyer reveals today.
Revealed: two-thirds of solicitors would take in-house role

2-Apr-2012

More than 65 per cent of private practice solicitors would consider moving into an in-house role, a survey by The Lawyer reveals today.
Revenue and PEP up at Reed Smith

9-Feb-2011

Reed Smith has posted a slight rise in both total revenue and average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2010 financial year.
Revenue and profit up at Beachcroft for 2009-10

7-Jun-2010

Beachcroft has revealed an 8 per cent rise in turnover at the 2009-10 year end to £131m from £121m a year earlier.
Revenue down at Paul Weiss as PEP nudges up

12-Jan-2010

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has posted a slight dip in revenue for the 2009 financial year but a rise in average profit per equity partner (PEP).
Revenue drops 7 per cent at SJ Berwin, PEP nudges up

16-Jun-2010

SJ Berwin has announced a 7 per cent drop in turnover for the 2009-10 financial year, with fee income falling from £184m last year to £171m.
Revenue up 12 per cent at Hill Dickinson, PEP falls

3-Jul-2009

Hill Dickinson has posted fee income of £82m for the 2008-09 financial year, an increase of 12 per cent on the previous year’s total of £73.1m.
Revenue up 8 per cent at Stephenson Harwood

18-Nov-2009

Stephenson Harwood has performed reasonably strongly at the half-year stage, with the firm’s worldwide revenue 8 per cent up on the same period in 2008-09.
Revenues down 11 per cent at White & Case

2-Feb-2010

White & Case has posted an 11 per cent drop in total revenue for the 2009 financial year while average profit per equity partner (PEP) has remained flat.
Revenues down at White & Case London during 2010

11-Mar-2011

The City base of White & Case has a reported a 6.5 per cent fall in revenue - down from $197 to $184m - and has said it will not be releasing its profit per equity partner (PEP) figure.
Revenues down seven per cent at Pinsents in first half of year

11-Nov-2009

Pinsent Masons has seen its half-year revenues drop by seven per cent during the first six months of 2009-10 compared with revenues for the same period last year.
Rice takes top finance job at Linklaters as Tucker returns to client work

12-Jul-2011

Linklaters has appointed structured finance and securitisation partner Jim Rice head of its finance and projects division, replacing John Tucker.
Richards J slates Herbert Smith's 'lackadaisical' approach to disclosure

14-Mar-2012

Mr Justice Richards has accused Herbert Smith of taking a “lackadaisical” approach to a disclosure exercise in a case in which the firm has been instructed by Irish businessman Paddy McKillen.
Right here, right now - the changing the face of the internet

13-Jan-2012

Hogan Lovells partner David Taylor explores the likely impact of the introduction of a raft of new high-level internet domain names
Right to reply

25-Nov-2010

David Allen Green is an excellent blogger: I’ve greatly enjoyed reading Jack of Kent’s blog for a couple of years – I’ve left occasional comments and we’ve had a couple of Twitter exchanges. He’s also done excellent pro bono work in a series of recent libel trials.
Ringfencing banks

13-Sep-2011

Jacqui Hatfield picks through the ICB report and its implications for the banking sector
Rio Tinto legal chief defects to outsourcer CPA Global

16-Feb-2010

Legal process outsourcing (LSO) company CPA Global has named former Rio Tinto managing attorney Leah Cooper as its strategy director.
Rio Tinto outsources legal work to India

18-Jun-2009

Mining giant Rio Tinto has embarked on an outsourcing project that will see part of its internal and external legal needs outsourced to India.
Rio's defence kicked into touch

30-Sep-2011

The courts are not even in session yet but Matrix Chambers’ Hugh Tomlinson QC is already back in the headlines.
Riot act

25-Aug-2009

A riot at a detention centre has resulted in a clearer definition of ‘damages’ in public liability cases, says Richard Mattick
Riot and wrong

10-Aug-2011

Dramatic examples of lawlessness, such as the recent London riots, make everyone feel uneasy.
Rise of the machines

10-Oct-2011

LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer, disruptive online legal service providers from across the Atlantic, have added Great Britain to their expansion | plans.
Rising to the top

3-Sep-2009

For as long as anyone can remember, Slaughter and May has been the FTSE 100’s favourite law firm.
Rising up

13-Jan-2010

The UK’s most gay friendly law firms have just got a little gay friendlier.
Risky business

10-Nov-2010

Addleshaw Goddard’s decision to bankroll the multi-billion dollar cases being pursued through the High Court by client Boris Berezovsky demonstrates the firm’s confidence in its litigation practice, despite the exit of practice chief Simon Twigden.
RJW 4eva

2-Nov-2009

Russell Jones & Walker has done it again. “It” being packaging up its legal know-how into a marketable bite-sized chunk and giving it a snazzy name, preferably one that includes at least one digit.
RJW advises as Hodgson lands job as new England manager

3-May-2012

Russell Jones & Walker sprang into action on Sunday when the Football Association finally decided to act on appointing the new England manager.
RJW mourns death of regulatory chief

18-Nov-2010

Russell Jones & Walker (RJW) partner George Marriott has passed away, the firm said this morning.
RJW promotes six to partner status

8-Jul-2011

Russell Jones & Walker (RJW) has promoted six to its partnership, with four made up in the firm’s employment team.
RJW raids Gorvins for temporary Milton Keynes launch

25-Jan-2010

Gorvins senior partner George Marriott is set to join Russell Jones & Walker (RJW) in a move that will give the latter firm a base in Milton Keynes for the first time.
RJW wins SRA backing for ABS conversion

27-Apr-2012

Russell Jones & Walker has been authorised by the SRA to convert to an alternative business structure (ABS) and will list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASE) as part of its planned merger with Slater & Gordon.
Robert Powell, CMS Cameron McKenna

22-Jul-2011

What is the most unusual Christmas present that you have received from a colleague? Last Christmas I received four cans of Stella and a tin of Lynx from Secret Santa, not sure what he/she was trying to tell me!
Roca Junyent acquires 12-lawyer Madrid firm

6-Feb-2012

Nabarro’s new Spanish ally Roca Junyent has bolted on a 12-lawyer firm in Madrid, strengthening its team across several practice areas.
Rock hard

18-Nov-2009

Complaints against the judiciary are extremely rare, so when four Gibraltar firms came together in 2007 to make an official complaint against the colony’s Chief Justice it created mayhem.
Rogues (and claims) gallery

15-Apr-2009

Settling the estate of an eccentric artist who left behind bizarre artefacts and hundreds of claimants has been the (strangest) case of a lifetime, explains Peter Walmsley
Roll with it?

5-Oct-2011

In the weeks running up to the opening of the Rolls Building members of the judiciary, barristers, clerks and litigators were called in to take a tour.
Rolling Rev Counter

30-Jun-2009

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Rolling Rev Counter

13-Jul-2010

See how your firm has done in comparison with your rivals in this most turbulent of financial years
Rolling Rev Counter 2009

19-Aug-2009

In September The Lawyer will publish the UK 200 Annual Report 2009, the definitive guide to the finances of the UK’s largest law firms. But with the financial reporting season now in full swing, the Rolling Rev Counter will keep you up to date with all the results as they happen. See how your firm has done in comparison with your rivals in this most turbulent of financial years.
Rolls Building

14-Sep-2011

While it may not officially open until December the Rolls Building will see action in October when one of the biggest cases of the year comes to town - Berezovsky v Abramovich.
Rolls-Royce installs former BA GC as legal chief

20-Feb-2012

Engineering group Rolls-Royce has appointed Robert Webb QC as general counsel to succeed Tim Rayner.
Romanian firm rebrands as Mareş Danilescu & Asociaţii following hire

7-Nov-2011

Romania’s Mares & Asociatii has hired a partner from Zamfirescu Racoti Predoiu in a move that sees the firm re-launch itself as Mares Danilescu & Asociatii.
Romania's BPV Grigorescu and Ştefănică & Florea merge

16-Mar-2011

A new independent Romanian firm has been formed through the merger of the local member of Central and Eastern European alliance BPV Legal with Stefanica & Florea.
Romania's Tuca opens in Spain with Garrigues’ former CEE chief

15-Dec-2009

Tuca Zbârcea & Asociatii has become the first Romanian firmto open in Spain after teaming up with Garrigues’ former Central and Eastern Europe head and a former Spanish ambassador to Romania.
Ropes & Gray hires White & Case partner for City funds launch

13-Feb-2012

Ropes & Gray is set to become the latest US firm to launch a London funds team with the hire of White & Case partner and practice head Matthew Judd.
Ropes & Gray joins Paul Hastings on list of US firms targeting Seoul launch

6-Mar-2012

Ropes & Gray has become the latest US firm to draw up plans to enter Korea, while Paul Hastings has claimed to be the first US firm to submit a preliminary application for a Seoul office to the Ministry of Justice of Korea.
Ropes & Gray opens Shanghai base

21-Jul-2011

Ropes & Gray has opened an office in Shanghai more than a year after the local managing partner of legacy firm Hogan & Hartson joined the firm.
Ropes & Gray prepares to offer Hong Kong law advice with local hires

15-May-2012

Ropes & Gray has hired two Hong Kong partners in preparation for the launch of its Hong Kong law practice on 28 May.
Ropes & Gray promotes one City partner in 10-strong round

8-Nov-2010

Boston-headquartered Ropes & Gray has made up 10 partners across its international offices including London finance counsel Tania Bedi.
Ropes & Gray Shanghai bulks up with senior Hogan Lovells IP hire

7-Sep-2011

Ropes & Gray has strengthened the IP capabilities of its newly opened Shanghai office with the hire of Geoffrey Lin, a former IP partner at Hogan Lovells.
Ropes & Gray snatches Nordic Capital fundraising from White & Case

13-Mar-2012

Ropes & Gray’s new funds team has received an early boost, with the firm snatching the role for Nordic Capital on its latest €4.3bn fundraising from White & Case mid-matter.
Ropes & Gray turns to White & Case for latest City hire

26-Feb-2010

The exodus from White & Case’s London banking team has continued with Ropes & Gray hiring senior associate Tania Bedi as counsel.
Ropes & Gray ups City real estate nous with former Clifford Chance partner

4-Jan-2012

Ropes & Gray has boosted its London corporate real estate practice with the hire of former Clifford Chance partner Iain Morpeth.
Ropes boosts London corporate with Jones Day hire

9-Mar-2011

Ropes & Gray has further boosted its London private equity practice with a second lateral partner hire in the space of a month.
Ropes' hopes

9-Mar-2011

They’ve been to the well a few times and come back with nothing but wet hands, but now Ropes & Gray’s dynamic London duo are starting to build the private equity practice they’ve been craving since setting up shop last year.
Ropes London acts on first high-yield mandate

16-Nov-2009

Ropes & Gray’s new London office has secured its first mandate since its launch last month, advising on the financing of Liberty Global’s €3.5bn (£3.12bn) acquisition of Unitymedia.
Ropes raids Weil for restructuring hire

29-Jan-2010

Weil Gotshal & Manges restructuring partner Tony Horspool is leaving the firm to join Ropes & Gray less than two years after defecting from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.
Ropes taps Weil's City office for Hong Kong finance hire

11-Jan-2011

Ropes & Gray has raided the London office of Weil Gotshal & Manges to boost its Hong Kong finance practice with the hire of partner Michael Nicklin.
Roschier hires Vinge trio, shakes up Stockholm management

6-Jul-2011

Scandinavian firm Roschier has recruited three partners and appointed a new management team in its Stockholm office.
Roschier promotes six partners across Stockholm and Helsinki

1-Feb-2011

Nordic firm Roschier has made up six lawyers to partner across its Stockholm and Helsinki offices.
Roschier tempts back former partner for EU law push

8-Dec-2011

A former partner at Sweden’s Roschier is set to rejoin the firm after a stint as managing partner at local rival Nord & Co.
Rosenblatt and One Essex Court seal victory for Tullett in staff poaching dispute

18-Mar-2010

The High Court today ruled that broker BGC Partners acted unlawfully when it conspired to poach senior staff from rival Tullett Prebon.
Roth J hands victory to Eurostar in train contract row

20-Jan-2012

Eurostar is not a utility obliged to comply with the Public Contract and Utilities Regulations, the High Court ruled today, in an ongoing procurement trial between it and Alstom Transport.
Rouble trouble

3-Nov-2010

The decision handed down by the Court of Appeal in the long-running Springwell dispute reaffirms London as an unattractive forum for claimants bringing mis- selling disputes.
Rounding up the stragglers

15-May-2009

CMS Cameron McKenna’s entry to next month’s Law Rocks spectacular is pinning its hopes for a packed 100 Club on its band’s legal skills.
Royal Dutch Shell hires Debevoise silk as next legal chief

5-Oct-2010

Royal Dutch Shell has appointed a new legal director to take over from incumbent Beat Hess, who retires in January 2011.
Royal Mail slashes legal panel with three firms winning places

25-Nov-2010

Royal Mail has cut its legal panel from eight firms to three following a review of its external advisers.
Royal Opera House threatens to sue blogger over photo row

10-Sep-2010

The Royal Opera House (ROH) has threatened legal action against a blogsite after it posted pictures of the ROH building on its website.
RPC adds Reed Smith partner to contentious banking team

9-May-2012

City firm RPC has hired Reed Smith disputes partner Simon Hart for its banking litigation team.
RPC and Doughty Street seal CoA victory for The Guardian

3-Apr-2012

RPC senior associate Brid Jordan and Doughty Street Chambers’ Gavin Miller QC have won a major case for The Guardian in the Court of Appeal (CoA), which ruled that the media has a right to see documents used in criminal cases.
RPC bags BLG insurance hire ahead of Clydes merger

15-Sep-2011

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has bolstered its insurance practice with the hire of Victoria Sheratt as partner.
RPC follows pack to Singapore, launches with BLG partner

27-Oct-2011

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain is the latest firm to open in Singapore on the back of the hire of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) insurance and reinsurance partner Mark Errington.
RPC opens in Bristol following raid on Camerons

3-Jan-2012

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has formally launched in Bristol with 18 lawyers from CMS Cameron McKenna, with the full extent of the firm’s raid on the City firm now revealed.
RPC promotes two to equity partnership

14-Jun-2011

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has promoted two lawyers to the partnership, one down on the three it made up last year.
RPC sends City lawyer to bolster nascent Singapore base

5-Mar-2012

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) is to expand its recently opened Singapore office with the transfer of legal director Jeremy Hewitt from London to lead a regional financial lines practice.
RPC wins landmark media harassment case for Daily Mail

24-May-2012

RPC has successfully defended Associated Newspapers in the first media harassment case to go to trial, after the newspaper group was sued by the partner of MP Chris Huhne, Carina Trimingham.
RPC wins Rothschild libel case for Daily Mail

10-Feb-2012

The High Court has handed victory to RPC after it ruled that Associated Newspapers (AN) did not defame billionaire investor Nathaniel Rothschild, which he claimed had portrayed him as a “puppet master” of former Labour minister Peter Mandelson.
RSA hires Gallagher Heath GC for newly created litigation role

15-Dec-2011

Global insurer RSA has appointed Will Bloomer to the newly created role of UK head of litigation.
RSA names new legal chief

22-Jul-2010

Insurance giant RSA has appointed Derek Walsh as group general counsel to succeed Mark Chambers.
Ructions at McGrigors

25-Nov-2011

Now is the unusually mild autumn of our discontent, with demonstrations springing up across the capital as rapidly as Starbucks and Pret A Manger outlets once did.
Running order

29-May-2009

It’s all kicking off in the music world as the Law Rocks extravaganza draws near.
Russell Jones & Walker acquired by listed Aussie firm Slater & Gordon

30-Jan-2012

Russell Jones & Walker (RJW) is to be acquired by Australian listed firm Slater & Gordon.
Russian authorities to launch probe into death of Hermitage Capital lawyer

25-Nov-2009

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an investigation into the death of a Russian lawyer who died in custody.
Russian off at Hogan Lovells

6-Aug-2010

Much like the oil companies it covets as clients, Hogan Lovells’ Moscow office is leaking a major resource all over the place.
Russian Retribution

31-Mar-2010

Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich is to be called as a witness in one of the biggest trials of 2011 after Mr Justice Colman today ruled that he must answer allegations that he used coercive tactics against former business partner Boris Berezovsky.
Russian retribution

23-Feb-2011

A handful of warring Russians continue to feed London’s litigation boom.
Ryanair sent packing by the new silk on the block

23-May-2012

Rooting for the underdog is a very British pastime. But, to be honest, when the other side of the argument is being put forward by Ryanair, it’s pretty much a no-brainer whose side most people would choose.
Ryanair set for take-OFT

20-Jan-2011

It might not give you a free meal, but Ryanair has always done its bit when it comes to providing good copy. And chief exec Michael O’Leary hasn’t let us down this time as he gears up for what is set to be one of the legal set-tos of the year.
Sacked Stringfellows stripper appeals Employment Tribunal decision

28-Nov-2011

A former £200,000-a-year Stringfellows stripper has been granted permission to appeal a decision by the London Central Employment Tribunal, which ruled she could not sue her former ‘employer’ as she was self-employed.
Safety in numbers

6-Sep-2011

Independent thinkers. Intrepid innovators. Courageous iconoclasts. That’s lawyers for you.
Sainsbury’s rolls out Dragons’ Den-style contest

18-May-2009

Sainsbury’s general counsel Nick Grant has challenged the firms on his legal panel to compete against each other in a Dragons’ Den-style contest.
Sainsbury's revamps legal roster with three firms winning places for first time

4-Feb-2011

Sainsbury’s has completed a review of its advisers with 12 firms admitted to the panel, including three new appointees.
Salans adds Moscow competition head from Baker & McKenzie

1-Feb-2012

Salans has turned to Baker & McKenzie for the hire of a new competition head in Moscow.
Salans adds partners from SNR Denton and Willkie Farr to Paris team

4-Nov-2011

Salans has continued the growth of its Paris office, scooping a duo of private equity partners from SNR Denton and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
Salans and SNR Denton latest firms to hold merger talks

14-Feb-2012

Salans and SNR Denton are in talks over a potential tie-up that would create a transatlantic giant with a combined turnover in the region of £760m.
Salans beefs up in Madrid with Linklaters partner hire

19-Oct-2011

European firm Salans has picked up a real estate partner from Linklaters in a boost for its Madrid office.
Salans beefs up in Paris with restructuring bolt-on

15-Dec-2011

Salans has continued the growth of its Paris office by bolting on restructuring boutique Sonier & Associés.
Salans follows Berlin group with London hire

26-Nov-2009

Salans has added an insolvency partner in London in the same week as it made an eight-lawyer hire from German law firm Beiten Burkhardt.
Salans gains one new London partner in global promotions round

18-Jan-2010

Salans has promoted one partner in London as part of a worldwide round that saw nine partners made up to the partnership.
Salans gets a fillip with hire of Squire's Larkin

11-Jan-2011

Salans has hired a partner from Squire Sanders Hammonds to head its global hospitality sector group in London.
Salans hands third term to Paris-based boss

28-Oct-2010

Salans has elected Dariusz Oleszczuk as global managing partner for the third time, making him the firm’s longest serving chief.
Salans hires Beiten Burkhardt capital markets team

6-Jul-2011

European firm Salans has boosted its capital markets practice in Germany with the hire of a team from local independent Beiten Burkhardt.
Salans in three-partner swoop on Bird & Bird, Beiten Burkhardt

15-Sep-2011
Salans installs Ropes' administration chief as COO

10-Aug-2011

Salans has appointed a global chief operating officer in the shape of Peter Griffith, who joins from US firm Ropes & Gray’s London office.
Salans launches in Brussels with team from Mayer Brown

17-Feb-2010

Salans has raided Mayer Brown to launch a new Brussels office with seven lawyers moving from the US firm’s local office.
Salans makes up four to partner

10-Jan-2012

Salans has promoted four associates to partner, with two of the promotions in its Frankfurt office.
Salans offers staff four-day week

23-Mar-2009

Salans is offering a four-day working week to staff in some departments, becoming the latest firm to propose flexible working in response to the economic downturn.
Salans picks office managing partner to build London

16-Jan-2012

European firm Salans has elected litigator Smeetesh Kakkad as its new London managing partner.
Salans puts faith in Shanghai as it pulls out of Beijing

13-Apr-2012

Salans has voted to close its Beijing office as the firm opts to focus on Shanghai in China.
Salans revamps German management team

16-Dec-2010

Salans has shaken up its management in Germany as the firm looks to grow in the country.
Salans secures new Turkish alliance partner

12-Jan-2012

Salans has linked up with a new alliance firm in Turkey after the partners in its previous associated firm decided to go their separate ways.
Salans sees turnover rise and profits flatline in 2011

5-Mar-2012

Pan-European firm Salans has unveiled a five per cent turnover increase with flat profits for the 2011 financial year.
Salans shifts China focus solely to Shanghai as it closes Hong Kong office

10-May-2012

Salans has closed its Hong Kong office weeks after pulling out of Beijing as it shifts the focus of its China practice onto Shanghai.
Salans signs cooperation deal with Belarus firm

11-Apr-2011

Salans has signed its 11th cooperation agreement with another firm, linking up with Belarus’s Stepanovski Papakul & Partners.
Salans turns to Ashurst for German hire

7-Jan-2010

Salans has beefed up its German restructuring practice with the hire of former Ashurst partner Dietmar Schulz.
Salans turns to Beiten Burkhardt for team of Berlin lawyers

3-Feb-2011

Salans has bulked up its Berlin presence with the hire of a team of lawyers from German firm Beiten Burkhardt.
Salans Warsaw hires trio of lawyers from Clifford Chance

12-Mar-2010

Salans has bolstered its Warsaw office with the hire of three corporate lawyers from Clifford Chance.
Salans, Freshfields win seats on Habitat sale

22-Dec-2009

Salans and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised the buyer and vendor, respectively, in Habitat’s sale to turnaround fund Hilco UK.
Sandelson, Brock go head to head in Clifford Chance litigation vote

30-Sep-2009

Clifford Chance partners Jeremy Sandelson and Denis Brock are competing for the role of global head of litigation at the magic circle firm.
Santa's grotty

17-Dec-2010

What do the following have in common: hair dye; lacy knickers; breath freshener; and alcohol?
Saudi and surely

8-Mar-2010

Today millions of women (and some men) around the world will march, debate and - in some countries like China where it is a national holiday - put their feet up in recognition of International Women’s Day.
Saville Inquiry

16-Jun-2010

The conclusion of Lord Saville’s inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday has brought into sharp focus the need to reduce both the cost and duration of public inquiries, according to some of lawyers involved.
Saville Report: the lawyers involved

15-Jun-2010

The release of the Saville Report into the events around the Bloody Sunday shootings in Londonderry in 1972 has signalled the end of involvement for dozens of law firms and barristers.
Saying bye-bye to BLP

5-Oct-2011

Call it coincidence. Call it an autumnal career itch.
Schilling Zutt raids Skadden for Frankfurt launch

26-Mar-2010

Schilling Zutt & Anschutz (SZA) has raided Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom’s tax practice ahead of its new office opening in Frankfurt.
Schillings advises 'CTB' in injunction case against Twitter

20-May-2011

Schillings has been instructed to take on the might of Twitter in the High Court, with partner Gideon Benaim instructed by CTB, the individual at the centre of an injunction row.
Schillings seals victory for Coogan in Mulcaire phone-hacking appeal

1-Feb-2012

The Court of Appeal has today rejected an appeal by Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal, over a High Court order forcing him to disclose who instructed him.
Schillings withdraws Nicola Horlick injunction

11-Feb-2010

Schillings has withdrawn an injunction filed against former City journalist turned PR Damien McCrystal on behalf of fund manager Nicola Horlick.
Schoenherr names new Budapest head

24-Feb-2010

Austrian firm Schoenherr has shaken up its Budapest office with the appointment of a new managing partner and head of real estate.
Schoenherr opens equity to non-Vienna partners

4-Nov-2010

Austrian firm Schoenherr has brought partners from outside its Vienna headquarters into its equity partnership for the first time.
Schoenherr swoops for UBS chairman Kurer

22-Nov-2010

Austrian firm Schoenherr has appointed former UBS chairman Peter Kurer as external member of its strategy committee.
School scraps

8-Jul-2009

The College of Law and BPP Law School are famed for their rivalry.
Scot at the top

8-Apr-2011

It’s a revolution. Irn Bru is soon to be made available in the vending machines of Davis Polk offices the world over, with deep fried Mars bars, square sausages and inside-out animal stomachs set to hit the canteen menus after the firm elected a Scotsman as its new managing partner (see story).
Scotland's Harper Macleod posts 14 per cent turnover rise

3-May-2012

Scottish firm Harper Macleod has announced an unaudited turnover rise of 14 per cent for the 2011-12 financial year, becoming one of the first UK firms to post its figures for the year.
Scotland's Harper Macleod posts growth in turnover and PEP

9-Jun-2010

Scottish firm Harper Macleod saw revenues rise 6.5 per cent in the last financial year, up from £14.1m in 2008-09 to £15m.
Scott Jones: Baker & McKenzie

1-Jul-2011

What is the most unusual Christmas present that you have received from a colleague? Just For Men - not sure why.
Scott wins race to succeed Gold as Herbies chief

18-Dec-2009

Herbert Smith partners have elected competition partner Jonathan Scott as the firm’s new senior partner.
Scottish Law Society up in arms as Nationwide slashes conveyancing panel

5-Apr-2012

Nationwide Building Society plans to slash by 200 the number of solicitors on its Scottish conveyancing panel have been slammed by the Law Society of Scotland.
Scottish lawyers pay tribute to silk found dead in Pakistan

6-Mar-2012

The Scottish legal community has paid tribute to MacKinnon Advocates silk Paul McBride QC, who died suddenly on a business trip to Pakistan.
Scottish lawyers unperturbed by Dutch stereotyping

12-Nov-2009

The Netherlands Bar Society has done its bit for international relations by using a novel picture to illustrate a story about the liberalisation of Scotland’s legal market.
Scottish private client firm Turcan Connell launches Glasgow base

20-Apr-2012

Scottish law firm Turcan Connell is set to expand into the west of Scotland with the opening of a new office in Glasgow.
Scottish referendum gives narrow backing to ABSs

7-Apr-2010

Members of the Law Society of Scotland (LSS) have voted narrowly in favour of alternative business structures (ABSs) being introduced in Scotland.
Scottish solicitors vote against ABSs two weeks after backing them

21-Apr-2010

Scottish solicitors have voted against the introduction of alternative business structures (ABSs) despite the profession giving them their backing two years ago and again in a referendum earlier this month.
SDT strikes off former Ince partner over £3m expenses fraud

7-Feb-2012

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has struck off former Ince & Co partner Nathan Iyer after he admitted charges that he stole £3m from his firm and from clients.
SDT suspends ACS:Law founder for two years

17-Jan-2012

ACS:Law founder Andrew Crossley has been suspended from practising for two years and ordered to pay £76,326.55 in costs at a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) hearing yesterday (16 January).
Searching for Clifford Chance

24-Nov-2009

We are officially naming this capital markets day.
Second Chance?

2-Feb-2010

It’s started. There’s been plenty of talk about the private equity market’s long-awaited comeback, but very little action. Until now.
Second Dewey partner quits for KPMG

24-Apr-2012

A Dewey & LeBoeuf New York tax partner has followed in former London chief Fred Gander’s footsteps, leaving the firm for KPMG.
Seconds out at Clifford Chance

30-Sep-2009

There hasn’t been a good old-fashioned election battle at Clifford Chance for a while, so fight fans will be delighted with our story today.
Secret justice

14-Mar-2012

The case for secret hearings was chewed up and spat out by a panel of ravenous open justice campaigners this week.
Secret Keltie client acquires herbertsmithfreehills.com domain name

19-Jan-2012

A UK and European patent and trademark firm has registered the domain name www.herbertsmithfreehills.com following the news that Herbert Smith and Freehills are in merger talks.
Seesaw commercial law

30-Apr-2012

Are commercial law departments in law firms at a tipping point?
Segro names trio of firms for property panel

1-Feb-2010

Property company Segro has appointed three firms to advise it on UK property-related matters.
Select committee exonerates Harbottle over Murdoch's 'major mistake' claim

1-May-2012

Harbottle & Lewis, which was accused by Rupert Murdoch of making “a major mistake” in underestimating the scope of the phone-hacking scandal, has been cleared by a report from the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
Self-defence is no defence

11-Nov-2011

The Civil Justice Council’s report on access to justice for litigants in person is out, and by the sounds of it the legal disputes of the future will be tussles between highly paid professionals and amateurs off the street (see story).
Selling short

20-Apr-2011

Had it been successful in its judicial review of the FSA and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) would have forced the financial regulator to look again at its approach to regulation.
Selling standards

27-Oct-2009

In yesterday’s issue of The Lawyer we profiled Malcolm Wood, company secretary and general counsel of Standard Life (see story).
Senior Clifford Chance partner quits for King & Wood

7-May-2010

Clifford Chance partner Rupert Li has left the firm to become international managing partner at King & Wood.
Setting the tone

9-Jun-2010

After months of speculation about the possibility of shareholder action against a high street bank, Lloyds TSB is now facing two test cases relating to the bank’s ill-fated takeover of HBOS.
Seven City lawyers get the nod in White & Case promos

13-Oct-2010

White & Case has promoted 35 partners across its global offices, including seven in London.
Seven make the partnership grade at Simpson

24-Nov-2010

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has promoted seven lawyers to its partnership including London-based corporate associate Alvaro Gomez De Membrillera.
Seven-barrister team quits Renaissance Chambers for 4 Paper Buildings

1-Jun-2009

Family law set 4 Paper Buildings has taken on seven barristers from Renaissance Chambers, including leading family silk Henry Setright QC.
Seyfarth Shaw launches in UK with Norton Rose hire

8-Dec-2010

US firm Seyfarth Shaw is opening a London office after poaching Norton Rose employment chief Peter Talibart.
SFO convicts ex-Mishcon partner of fraud

5-Dec-2011

Former Mishcon de Reya property partner Kevin Steele has been convicted of forgery and fraud offences by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
SFO launches investigation into News International

18-Jul-2011

The Serious Fraud Office has launched a preliminary investigation into News International in light of the ongoing phone-hacking scandal and allegations of corrupt payments made to members of the Metropolitan Police.
SFO names 6 King’s Bench Walk silk as next director

16-Dec-2011

6 King’s Bench Walk barrister David Green QC is to become director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Attorney General Dominic Grieve announced today.
SFO Sighting

3-Mar-2010

The last time campaign groups Corner House Research and Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) clashed with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), then Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that the Government pushed the SFO into dropping an investigation into BAE Systems.
SH win allows NTC to instruct on Libyan cash

31-Aug-2011

Stephenson Harwood has won a High Court order for the British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB) allowing it to act legally on the instructions of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC).
Shack attack

26-Mar-2012

Payne Hicks Beach marriage-dissolution maven Fiona Shackleton may be a proven force when it comes to advising on divorce - having represented Princes Andrew and Charles, former Beatle Paul McCartney and singer Madonna - but one client is less satisfied with her savvy when it comes to child support.
Shackleton faces negligence claim from former client

26-Mar-2012

Payne Hicks Beach is being sued by a client who claims a mistake by Britain’s highest-profile divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton cost him £250,000.
Shaken, not stirred

15-Feb-2010

Like a despotic Bond villain metronomically stroking a fluffy cat in an underground lair, A&O is striving to achieve global domination.
Shakespeares and Harvey Ingram in talks to create £50m firm

24-May-2012

Midlands firm Shakespeares is set to achieve its £50m growth target two years early after entering into exclusive discussions to merge with Leicester-based Harvey Ingram.
Shakespeares goes for Midlands domination with fourth merger in 18 months

10-Nov-2011

Midlands firm Shakespeares is preparing to do its fourth merger in under 18 months with a tie-up with Solihull-based Wood Glaister due to go live on 1 December.
Shakespeares' play

8-Jun-2010

The West Midlands has a new legal giant. Well, okay, a new £24m firm.
Shakespeares' play, Part II

18-Aug-2010

Another day, another Shakespeare Putsman merger.
Shakespeares targets 'leading Midlands firm' tag with Berryman merger

18-Aug-2010

Shakespeare Putsman has merged with Nottingham-based Berryman, creating a £30m firm with 440 lawyers and staff across the East and West Midlands.
Shakespeares, Needhams merge to create £24m Birmingham giant

8-Jun-2010

Birmingham-based Shakespeare Putsman is to merge with Midlands rival Needham & James, creating a £24m, 56-partner firm.
Shall we comply with the law?

20-Mar-2012

The compliance team is often seen as the poor relation to the in-house legal team in a business, but I suspect this is all about to change.
Sharp Operator

16-Mar-2010

It took a while, but Dewey & LeBoeuf finally has its man in London.
Sharp practice

17-Mar-2010

Yesterday we revealed that Dewey & LeBoeuf had finally appointed a managing partner for its London office, allowing firmwide chair - and nominal London head Steve Davis - a bit more time to focus on other things.
Shearman & Sterling favours London in promos round

14-Dec-2011

Shearman & Sterling has promoted four lawyers to partners in its London office, thought to be the most ever in a single round.
Shearman and Weil top of the Kops

6-Oct-2010

You could say that Bill Shankly will be turning in his grave. But given the ongoing travails of Liverpool over the last few seasons the chances are he’s been on a spin cycle for quite some time now.
Shearman beefs up energy practice with addition of Ashurst partner

10-Jan-2012

Ashurst is set to lose heavyweight City projects partner John Inglis to Shearman & Sterling in a move by the US firm to bolster its energy and resources practice.
Shearman Brussels left partnerless by Arnold & Porter hires

27-Aug-2009

Shearman & Sterling’s European network has been hit by the defection of two Brussels antitrust partners to Arnold & Porter.
Shearman chair Weerasinghe leaves firm for GC role at Citigroup

3-Apr-2012

Shearman & Sterling senior partner Rohan Weerasinghe has quit to join Citigroup as general counsel.
Shearman in the Middleton

18-Apr-2012

Shearman & Sterling might just be stealing the crisis limelight from Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Shearman investigates viral email trainee

9-Feb-2012

Shearman & Sterling is investigating the trainee who was part of a group of City workers whose list of holiday rules for a lads’ holiday went viral yesterday, ending up as national news.
Shearman launches Hong Kong law practice with O'Melveny hires

6-Jan-2010

Shearman & Sterling has hired two partners from O’Melveny & Myers to launch a Hong Kong law practice.
Shearman loses Latin American head for Milbank launch

21-Apr-2010

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has hired the head of Shearman & Sterling’s Latin American practice to lead its new São Paulo office.
Shearman loses two German partners to Taylor Wessing spin-off

13-Apr-2012

US firm Shearman & Sterling has lost a partner each from its Düsseldorf and Munich offices to Taylor Wessing spin-off Glade Michel Wirtz.
Shearman names M&A co-head as next senior partner

2-May-2012

Shearman & Sterling has confirmed that M&A partner Creighton Condon will succeed Rohan Weerasinghe as its senior partner.
Shearman promotes one in London as seven make partnership cut

17-Dec-2009

Shearman & Sterling has made up seven partners across five offices: Abu Dhabi, Düsseldorf, London, New York and Paris.
Shearman relocates two Rome partners for Milan launch

28-Oct-2009

Shearman & Sterling is relocating two of its Rome partners to Milan to launch its second office in Italy.
Shearman revamps City management as Ward joins global executive

17-May-2011

Shearman & Sterling has appointed EMEA project finance and development head Nicholas Buckworth as London managing partner, replacing banking colleague Anthony Ward.
Shearman slashes NQ salaries by 8 per cent

25-Mar-2009

Shearman & Sterling is slashing newly qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries by more than 8 per cent and is freezing trainee and associate pay in the UK, Asia and Middle East.
Shearman snaps up five-partner Howrey team for Brussels push

23-Feb-2011

Shearman & Sterling has hired five partners and around a dozen associates from Howrey’s Brussels office, including former head Trevor Soames.
Shearman takes 'appropriate action' against viral email trainee

16-Feb-2012

Shearman & Sterling has concluded its investigation of a trainee whose private holiday email to friends went viral and ended up as national news.
Shearman to rebuild Brussels with relocation of German team

22-Sep-2009

Shearman & Sterling has relocated a four-lawyer team from Düsseldorf to Brussels in a bid to rebuild its competition practice there.
Shearman turns to Linklaters for Paris banking hire

10-Aug-2011

Shearman & Sterling has hired a Linklaters partner for its banking and finance team in Paris.
Shearman unveils diversity of City office

30-Nov-2011

US firm Shearman & Sterling has published its diversity statistics for the first time, showing the social diversity of staff in the firm’s London office.
Shearman ups pay bands for City associates

20-May-2011

Shearman & Sterling has boosted associate salary rates across the board in its latest UK lawyer salary review.
Shearman vows to triple City arbitration group as partner quits for US rival

14-May-2012

Shearman & Sterling has lost its former London arbitration head to US rival Arnold & Porter.
Shearman wins another GM-related role

4-Jun-2009

US firm Shearman & Sterling has won a lead role advising on the acquisition of General Motors business Hummer.
Shearman, Slaughters and Weil advise on sale of Liverpool FC

6-Oct-2010

Shearman & Sterling, Slaughter and May and Weil Gotshal & Manges have netted the prize roles on the proposed takeover of Liverpool Football Club by the owner of US baseball franchise the Boston Red Sox.
Shearman's City growth outshines firm's global performance

24-Feb-2012

Revenue at Shearman & Sterling’s City office rose by 5 per cent in the last financial year, up from $104.2m in 2010 to $109.2m in 2011.
Shearman's City office breaks through $100m in revenues

2-Mar-2011

Shearman & Sterling’s London revenues rose 4.5 per cent in 2010, with the US firm breaking through the $100m barrier in the City for the first time.
Shearman's former City chief takes GC role at UK Green Investments

22-Dec-2011

Shearman & Sterling former London managing partner Kenneth MacRitchie is set to leave the firm to join UK Green Investments (UKGI) as general counsel.
'Sheds' heaven

18-Jan-2011

FIFA is not the only international organisation apparently dead set on turning its back on the Old World.
Sheffield firm set for administration; BDO called in

13-Dec-2010

Five equity-partner Sheffield-based conveyancing firm Ashton Morton Slack has filed to go into administration.
Shell kicks off global litigation group with Fulbright hire

7-May-2012

Royal Dutch Shell has launched a new global disputes group to handle all of its litigation and arbitration, appointing Fulbright & Jaworski partner Richard Hill as the group’s associate general counsel.
Shepherd & Wedderburn posts 11 per cent revenue drop

17-Jun-2010

Scottish firm Shepherd & Wedderburn increased profits by 9 per cent in the 2009-10 financial year despite revenues dropping by 11 per cent.
Shepherd & Wedderburn sees revenue rebound with 6 per cent hike

20-Jun-2011

Scottish-headquartered Shepherd & Wedderburn has posted a 6 per cent rise in turnover for the 2010-11 financial year, representing a turnaround in fortunes on the previous year, when revenues fell by 11 per cent.
Shepherd and Wedderburn promotes deputy chief executive to top role

28-Mar-2012

Scottish-headquartered firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has announced the appointment of Stephen Gibb as the firm’s new chief executive following a unanimous vote by the firm’s partnership.
Shepherd and Wedderburn raids McClures for corporate head

10-May-2012

Scottish-headquartered Shepherd and Wedderburn has bolstered its corporate practice with the hire of McClure Naismith practice head George Frier.
Sheppard Mullin makes it three US firms into Seoul

8-Dec-2011

Sheppard Mullin has become the third US firm that has publicly announced its plan to open a Seoul office in the first quarter of 2012 following the recent ratification of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement by both countries.
Ship-shape

9-Sep-2009

When Eversheds named Ian Gray as its next London litigation chief, many assumed the post was only left vacant because the outgoing boss, John Heaps, wanted to move up the ladder. Almost two years later and Gray has reshaped the practice, brought in some new blood and read the riot act to the bar.
Ship-shape and Ince & Co fashion

11-Aug-2011

In the continuing trend of law firms opening offices in places because partners fancy a bit of sun, Ince & Co has launched an office in Monaco (see story).
Shoosmiths announces redundancy talks with 93 jobs to go

3-May-2012

Shoosmiths plans to cut its headcount by 93, with most roles at risk of redundancy sitting in the volume motor personal injury team.
Shoosmiths chief exec steps down in wake of trainee deferral row

22-May-2009

Shoosmiths chief executive Paul Stothard has stepped down from the role after a seven-year reign and is set to leave the firm.
Shoosmiths hires Halliwells team for Manchester corporate launch

27-Jul-2010

Shoosmiths has continued the expansion of its Manchester office with the arrival of a three-strong corporate team from Halliwells.
Shoosmiths launches consumer brand in bid to corner volume market

1-Feb-2010

Shoosmiths is the latest firm to launch a consumer brand in a bid to shore up its competitiveness ahead of the implementation of the Legal Services Act.
Shoosmiths moots pay cuts for all staff

18-Sep-2009

Shoosmiths has asked all staff to consider a 2.5 per cent pay cut in order to save jobs, with employees making a decision over whether to accept this over the next few weeks.
Shoosmiths names new head of Manchester

8-Jul-2010

Shoosmiths has installed a new head for its Manchester office.
Shoosmiths' partner profits halved

6-Jul-2009

Shoosmiths has recorded a 54 per cent drop in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2008-09 financial year.
Shoosmiths posts massive profit hike despite falling turnover

14-Jul-2010

Shoosmiths has posted an 83 per cent hike in net profit for the 2009-10 financial year with average profit per equity partner (PEP) rising 69.5 per cent over the same period.
Shoosmiths promotes seven to partner, nine to senior associate

12-Apr-2012

Shoosmiths has made up seven lawyers to partner, an increase of one on last year.
Shoosmiths usurps Linklaters as most diverse firm

14-Nov-2011

Shoosmiths has knocked Linklaters off of the top spot in this year’s Black Solicitors Network’s Diversity League Table (DLT).
Shop tactics

7-Apr-2011

You know that feeling when you pop out to replenish your rubber band and second-class stamp supply and, halfway to the shop, you remember that you need a bit of conveyancing done?
Should solicitors really do “reputation management”?

22-Apr-2010

Whenever the word “management” is used by lawyers it usually means that they are up to something. For example, there is “digital rights management”. And, of course, there is “reputation management”.
Should workers lose their most basic employment rights?

28-Oct-2011

Employment lawyers have been struggling to keep up with policy developments lately. Three weeks ago I wrote here about a government decision to increase the qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims from one year to two.
Showing signs of weakness

12-May-2010

The collapse of the criminal prosecution against four British Airways executives by the OFT reveals an inherent weakness in the department’s ability to pursue criminal charges.
Showing some HogLove

17-Feb-2011

After months of speculation, recrimination and, quite possibly, inebriation, the great day is finally here.
Sidley Austin raids raft of firms for Houston energy launch

16-Feb-2012

Sidley Austin is to open a Houston base that will focus on energy-related work, staffed by partners hired from firms including Akin Gump, Baker Botts and Vinson & Elkins.
Sidley expands Asian presence on executive committee

3-Oct-2011

Sidley Austin has added two Asia-based partners to its executive committee, bringing the total number of Asia-based executive committee members to five.
Sidley promotes 15 to partnership, one in London

11-Dec-2009

Global partner promotions at Sidley Austin have halved this year, dropping from 34 in 2008 to 15.
Sidley promotes City quartet in 28-strong global round

25-Jan-2011

US firm Sidley Austin has added four lawyers to its partnership in London in a 28-strong round of annual promotions.
Sidley snares Pinsents' insurance chief for City practice

12-Mar-2010

US firm Sidley Austin has hired two Pinsent Masons partners for its London insurance practice, including the head of Pinsents’ insurance group.
Sidley’s former NYC chief flies into City for full-time European role

16-Mar-2012

Sidley Austin is sending its former New York head George Petrow to the City on a permanent basis to take charge of its European operations.
Siemens installs Vodafone lawyer as UK general counsel

6-Mar-2012

Engineering and technology services company Siemens has hired a Vodafone lawyer as its next legal chief.
Sign of The Times

21-Jul-2010

The gossip mongers work hard in Fleet Street so when news that The Times’ most senior lawyer Alastair Brett had left the paper abruptly on Friday (16 July) it didn’t take long for his peers to surmise that he had fallen out with someone.
Signy plays key role as Simpson Thacher advises Blackstone on Broadgate deal

18-Sep-2009

Former Clifford Chance heavyweight Adam Signy has scored his first major deal since joining Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, advising Blackstone Group on its acquisition of the Broadgate estate.
Silence the witness

12-Jan-2011

Should an expert witness be immune from professional negligence suits? This is the matter that seven Supreme Court Justices will hear debated this week.
Silk and money

6-Apr-2011

Any readers familiar with gritty US crime drama The Wire will know the oft-exasperating concept of the chain of command.
Silk street

26-Feb-2010

Chancery Lane’s wig and gown makers will be abuzz this afternoon as their annual feeding frenzy kicked off with the announcement of the latest QC appointments (see story).
Silks from Blackstone and Maitland secure Pirate Bay crackdown

3-May-2012

The High Court has ordered Britain’s internet providers to stop users accessing filesharing site The Pirate Bay following a successful application by entertainment firm Forbes Anderson Free for music industry body BPI.
Silky Stuart

1-Mar-2011

Is there anything that part-time international crime-fighting superhero and former Clifford Chance senior partner Stuart Popham can’t do?
Silver or brass?

29-Jul-2009

SJ Berwin’s financial results tell the tale of an entire section of the legal market (see story).
Silverbeck takes gold in ABS race

24-Jan-2012

And they’re off. It was inevitable that the first mover in the post ABS-world was going to be an insurance firm and, sure enough, Liverpool PI outfit Silverbeck Rymer has obliged.
Silverman Sherliker moves closer to NoW class action

3-Aug-2011

City law firm Silverman Sherliker has doubled the number of ex-News of the World (NoW) employees it is advising and says they have ‘a very strong case’ for launching a stigma damage action against News International (NI).
Silverman Sherliker prepares for potential NotW class action

8-Jul-2011

City law firm Silverman Sherliker has launched a News of the World (NotW) action group for employees of the axed tabloid with the aim of launching a class action against the newspaper.
Simmons & Simmoffs

28-Sep-2011

Simmons & Simmons is getting a bit careless with its partners - the firm has lost five of the blighters since August.
Simmons & Simmons, Clifford Chance and diversity

25-Oct-2010

Never before have law firms been so attuned to the subject of diversity.
Simmons & Simmons-off-on-off

29-Jun-2010

The course of true love, Bill Shakespeare once wrote, never did run smooth.
Simmons added to roster as Standard Chartered tweaks UK panel

29-Apr-2010

Simmons & Simmons has been added to Standard Chartered Bank’s UK panel, joining six existing firms on the roster.
Simmons adds De Brauw veteran to Dutch partnership

1-Sep-2011

Simmons & Simmons has appointed a partner from Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek to its financial markets group in Amsterdam.
Simmons adds Paul Hastings employment partner to Shanghai team

5-Mar-2012

Simmons & Simmons has secured the services of partner Lesli Ligorner, formerly the co-chair of Paul Hastings’ international employment law practice, for its Shanghai base.
Simmons advises underwriters in Unite Group fundraising

29-Sep-2009

Simmons & Simmons has advised underwriters JPMorgan Cazenove and Numis on a £82m fundraising for student housing company Unite Group.
Simmons and Clydes hire from King & Wood Mallesons

1-Mar-2012

Simmons & Simmons and Clyde & Co have hired a partner each from King & Wood and Mallesons Stephen Jaques respectively, as King & Wood Mallesons goes live today.
Simmons are doing it for themselves

29-Nov-2010

Simmons & Simmons has unveiled plans to up the proportion of females among its new partners to 30 per cent (see story).
Simmons bolsters finance group with BLP hires

24-May-2011

Simmons & Simmons is set to give its finance department a major boost with a group of partners and former partners from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP).
Simmons bolsters Frankfurt base with three-partner Dewey team

14-May-2012

Simmons & Simmons has hired a three-partner team from Dewey & LeBoeuf in Frankfurt.
Simmons bolsters Frankfurt with Haarmann hire

7-Aug-2009

Simmons & Simmons has hired Haarmann founding partner Jan Wildberger to bulk up its Frankfurt office.
Simmons cites market turbulence as it trims Abu Dhabi and Dubai

20-Jan-2012

Simmons & Simmons has made lawyers and support staff in its Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices redundant in response to what it terms “ongoing market conditions in the Middle East”.
Simmons confirms hire of five-partner BLP team

26-May-2011

Simmons & Simmons has confirmed that it has hired a five-partner finance team from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP).
Simmons continues partner raid on BLP

13-Mar-2012

Simmons & Simmons has hired a real estate partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) – its seventh partner hire from BLP in less than a year.
Simmons ends seven-year fight for Masri debt

16-Nov-2011

After securing a judgment in favour of a client many litigators are left with the daunting prospect of enforcing the decision.
Simmons expands core sector focus as part of three-year plan

28-Mar-2012

Simmons & Simmons is adding asset management and investment funds to its list of core sectors as the firm prepares to embark on its latest three-year business plan.
Simmons' former Lisbon alliance firm finds new merger partner

4-Aug-2010

Simmons & Simmons’ former Portugal partner firm SRS Advogados has merged with litigation boutique Soares Machado & Associados.
Simmons goes live with outsourcing project

16-Oct-2009

Simmons & Simmons has launched an innovative legal process outsourcing (LPO) scheme, six months after pinpointing LPO as a key part of its strategy.
Simmons hires King & Wood partner for Beijing launch

17-Jun-2010

Simmons & Simmons has appointed a partner to lead the development of its new Beijing office. Davis Wang joins from Chinese firm King & Wood, where he was a partner.
Simmons hires partner for depleted Paris office

6-Apr-2011

Simmons & Simmons has begun to rebuild its depleted Paris office with the hire of Landwell & Associés partner Michèle Anahory.
Simmons hires Travers partner for green push

3-Mar-2010

Simmons & Simmons has hired Travers Smith environment and planning partner Steven McNab to lead its London environment practice.
Simmons in the pink with Stonewall success

11-Jan-2012

For the fourth year running Simmons & Simmons has been ranked as the most gay-friendly firm in the UK by Stonewall and has added to its glory by becoming the first law firm to make it into the top 10 in the LGB charity’s Top 100 Employers List (see story).
Simmons loses four partners, 17 lawyers to DLA Piper

25-Mar-2010

DLA Piper has raided Simmons & Simmons’ Rome office for a 17-lawyer team, including four partners.
Simmons makes sixth partner hire from BLP in a year

2-Dec-2011

Simmons & Simmons has hired a corporate insurance partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) – its sixth hire from the firm this year.
Simmons named Stonewall's top gay friendly law firm

13-Jan-2010

Simmons & Simmons is the most gay friendly law firm, according to research published today by lesbian, gay and bisexual lobby organisation Stonewall.
Simmons' NQ retention rate dives to 59 per cent

16-Aug-2011

Simmons & Simmons’ newly qualified retention rate has plummeted to just 59 per cent.
Simmons' partner numbers fell in 2010-11, LLP accounts reveal

22-Nov-2011

Simmons & Simmons’ first-ever LLP accounts have revealed that the number of equity partners at the firm fell by 8 per cent during the 2010-11 financial year.
Simmons' PEP drops 20 per cent, turnover remains stagnant

15-Jul-2009

Simmons & Simmons has been hit by a 19.6 per cent drop in average profit per equity partner (PEP) after seeing four consecutive years of growth.
Simmons posts drops in turnover and PEP after 'challenging' year

7-Jul-2011

Simmons & Simmons has seen both turnover and average profit per equity partner (PEP) dip for the second year running, as the firm reveals its 2010-11 year-end figures.
Simmons' profits up 24 per cent at half-year point

25-Nov-2011
Simmons promotes 10 to partner, eight in London

1-May-2012

Simmons & Simmons has made up 10 lawyers to partner in its annual round of promotions.
Simmons promotes eight to partnership

29-Jun-2010

Simmons & Simmons has promoted eight lawyers to its partnership, six of whom are based outside the UK.
Simmons promotes four to partnership

16-Jun-2009

Simmons & Simmons has promoted four new associates to its partnership, representing a drop of almost 80 per cent on last year’s bumper crop.
Simmons ramps up in Saudi via alliance as firm beefs up with promos

5-May-2011

Simmons & Simmons has formed an alliance with Saudi Arabia firm Hammad Al-Mehdar & Co. The news coincides with six new partners in London as part of Simmons’ 13-strong annual promotions round.
Simmons ranks in Stonewall's gay-friendly employers top 10

11-Jan-2012

Simmons & Simmons has held onto its title as the most gay-friendly law firm for the fourth year running in LGB charity Stonewall’s employer rankings.
Simmons represents ex-Olympus chief in Employment Tribunal case

1-Mar-2012

Simmons & Simmons is advising former Olympus president Michael Woodford, who was sacked after blowing the whistle on dubious deals at the company, as he takes his case to the London Employment Tribunal.
Simmons retains crown as Stonewall's most gay-friendly firm

12-Jan-2011

Simmons & Simmons was named the most gay-friendly law firm for the second-year running by LGB charity Stonewall as the legal sector makes strides on LGB issues.
Simmons seals CoA victory in ongoing Buncefield saga

5-Mar-2010

Simmons & Simmons has been handed a major victory by the Court of Appeal, which ruled that oil company Shell could pursue a claim against French oil group Total for loss of profits spiralling out of the Buncefield disaster.
Simmons to open low-cost Bristol base

3-Apr-2012

Simmons & Simmons is to open an office in Bristol in a bid to slash its fee rates.
Simmons to shut Padua after Gianni raid

14-Jun-2010

Simmons & Simmons will close its Padua office as three partners and 12 associates depart for Italian firm Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners.
Simmons' turnover falls during first half of 2010-11

26-Nov-2010

Simmons & Simmons has posted a three per cent drop in income for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year.
Simon Cowell calls in Matrix silk against Britain's Got Talent claimant

23-Jul-2010

Matrix Chambers has been instructed by both co-respondents in a £2.5m employment tribunal claim brought by a Britain’s Got Talent contestant against Simon Cowell and the show’s production company, FremantleMedia.
Simon Singh’s Bogus Journey

23-Feb-2010

A Court of Appeal hearing takes place today in a libel case. The time estimate is just one day; the appeal is only of a preliminary ruling of the High Court; there are no Magic Circle law firms involved – indeed, the defence and appeal are being case managed by an assistant solicitor; and the respective parties are neither financial institutions nor multinational corporations.
Simons Muirhead takes over Edge Group's legal function

9-Aug-2011

Investment and advisory boutique Edge Group has moved its legal team to media law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton in a move that has seen the former cease to offer legal services.
Simpson and SullCrom take lead roles on Microsoft's $8.5bn Skype bid

10-May-2011

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Sullivan & Cromwell have scored top roles in Microsoft Corporation’s $8.5bn (£5.2bn) acquisition of Skype Global.
Simpson Thacher makes up 12 in bumper promotion round

29-Nov-2011

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is the latest US firm to announce the promotion of 10 corporate lawyers and two litigators. The appointments will take effect on 1 January 2012.
Simpson Thacher prepares KKR for IPO spree

3-Aug-2009

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is understood to be advising long-standing client Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (KKR) on the flotation of portfolio company Avago Technologies on the New York Stock Exchange.
Simpson Thacher raids Linklaters, Freshfields to launch Hong Kong law practice

3-May-2011

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is set to launch a Hong Kong law practice later this year with a particular emphasis on capital markets and M&A.
Simpson Thacher to launch in Houston with Vinson hire

11-Apr-2011

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is to launch an office in the US oil and gas capital Houston later this year with a partner from Vinson & Elkins, The Lawyer can exclusively reveal.
Simpson, Cravath, Bredin Prat scoop top roles on KKR listing

21-Jul-2009

Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, Cravath Swaine & Moore and Bredin Prat have scored lead roles advising on Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’ (KKR) merger with KKR Private Equity Investors (KPE).
Singapore firm RHT adds two partners to litigation practice

24-Oct-2011

Taylor Wessing’s Singapore alliance firm RHT has hired two partners from rival Singaporean firms to bolster its litigation and dispute resolution practice.
Singapore goes Singaporous for international firms

16-Feb-2012

Singapore has relaxed its restrictions on foreign law firms entering the chewing gum-free city state in a bid to become more competitive.
Singapore office war

27-Sep-2011

Big news: Addleshaw Goddard has found “a fantastic office in a great location” in which to house its planned Singapore practice.
Singapore to allow mergers between foreign and local firms

15-Feb-2012

Singapore’s parliament has passed amendments to its Legal Profession Act that will pave the way for foreign firms to merge with local firms and make it easier for foreign QCs to appear in Singapore courts.
Singapore's Temasek appoints its first general counsel

4-Apr-2012

Temasek Holdings, an investment company owned by the government of Singapore, has appointed Lee Theng Kiat as president and general counsel, the first holder of the legal head role.
Singh when you're winning

7-Apr-2010

When Bryan Cave associate Robert Dougans was first introduced to Simon Singh by an in-house lawyer in May 2008, he never thought that together they would become the poster boys for a campaign against British libel laws.
Singh when you're winning

29-Jul-2011

Several vacant seats were left on the High Court bench following the elevation of five justices to the Court of Appeal earlier this month (see story). Today, the Queen gave her seal of approval for five High Court bench appointments (see story).
Singing the wrong tune?

10-Sep-2010

It might not have evil dwarves, tubercular heroines or parapet death dives, but the spat between the Royal Opera House (ROH) and a blogger has its own histrionics.
Single minded

2-Jun-2010

Equal representation at management level in transatlantic combinations is a symbolic, but important, indicator of the so-called merger of equals
Singles bar

21-Apr-2010

“I used to be a barrister meself,” as erstwhile Fast Show pub bore Archie might once have said. “30 years, man and boy. ’Ardest game in the world, barristering…”
Sink or swim for Irwin Mitchell

20-Apr-2011

The Legal Services Act has been the menacing presence on the collective horizon of the City’s law firms for a good few years.
Sit back and relax

4-Nov-2009

Perhaps it is because the set sits outside the Inns of Court or maybe because of the non-commercial nature of the work its members are involved in, but Doughty Street Chambers has an atmosphere that is decidedly more relaxed than many of its commercial peers.
Situation vacant

4-Apr-2012

As job applications go, this one seems almost mundanely standard. A CV, succinct covering letter and two examples of how you’ve worked well either on your own or as part of a team to reach a relevant goal.
Six firms clinch places on North East NHS joint panel

25-Nov-2009

Six firms have won places on an NHS joint procurement initiative for the North east of England.
Six Luther tax lawyers launch boutique in Düsseldorf

23-Jun-2011

Carsten Bödecker and Carsten Ernst have left German independent Luther to start a tax practice in Düsseldorf.
Six partners quit Dewey for NY's Sutherland Asbill & Brennan

26-Mar-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has seen a further six partners leave the firm, with a team of insurance and tax lawyers quitting to join Sutherland Asbill & Brennan in New York.
Six QCs selected to probe need for UK Bill of Rights

21-Mar-2011

The Government has selected six heavyweight silks to sit on an independent commission to examine whether there is a need for a UK Bill of Rights.
SJ Berwin

16-Dec-2011

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SJ Berwin adds GTM partner to City energy team

3-Jan-2012

SJ Berwin has moved to bolster its energy practice with the hire of a senior City lawyer from Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) as part of the recruitment of four partners across Europe.
SJ Berwin adds to structured finance team with Sidley hire

13-Oct-2011

SJ Berwin has expanded its finance team with a hire from Sidley Austin.
SJ Berwin and Mayer Brown in talks over £900m tie-up

22-May-2012

SJ Berwin has held exploratory talks with US firm Mayer Brown with a view to joining forces to create a £900m business.
SJ Berwin and Proskauer Rose: the talks are over

12-Nov-2010

SJ Berwin and Proskauer Rose have called off their merger talks, more than six months after negotiations began.
SJ Berwin and Slaughters act on Anthony Bolton's China fund IPO

4-Mar-2010

SJ Berwin and Slaughter and May have landed mandates on the listing of the Fidelity China Special Situations investment trust, the new launch from veteran fund manager Anthony Bolton.
SJ Berwin and Travers act on Zimbabwean AIM deal

25-Aug-2010

SJ Berwin and Travers Smith have bagged roles on the AIM listing of Zimbabwean investment company Masawara.
SJ Berwin begins to rebuild real estate with Shepherds hire

7-Jul-2011

SJ Berwin has re-hired real estate partner Michael Scott after he had an 18-month stint at Scottish firm Shepherd & Wedderburn.
SJ Berwin bolsters depleted funds team with four partner promotions

26-Sep-2011

SJ Berwin has made up four funds partners to plug the gap left following the exit of partners Nigel van Zyl and Oliver Rochman to Proskauer Rose.
SJ Berwin bolsters Frankfurt tax practice as ex-partner rejoins

24-Oct-2011

SJ Berwin Germany has re-hired a partner who left the firm three years ago to establish his own tax boutique.
SJ Berwin brings forward finish line in two-horse senior partner race

14-Mar-2012

SJ Berwin has brought forward the result of its senior partner election to tomorrow because only two candidates are running.
SJ Berwin changes focus with Hong Kong launch

23-Mar-2009

SJ Berwin has hired Dewey & LeBoeuf’s joint Hong Kong chief to spearhead the launch of its first Asian office.
SJ Berwin dangles Asia MP role as recruitment carrot

21-Feb-2012

SJ Berwin has decided to retire its Asia managing partner position temporarily and hold it back to lure in a senior hire in the region.
SJ Berwin defections continue as Taylor Wessing hires corporate partner

8-Dec-2010

Taylor Wessing has hired SJ Berwin partner Tandeep Minhas to its financial institutions and markets group.
SJ Berwin favours London in depleted promotions round

30-Apr-2012

SJ Berwin has added five associates to its partnership, including four in London, in a round of promotions that is significantly smaller than last year’s.
SJ Berwin fills Angel's non-exec role with ex-UBS banker

2-Apr-2012

SJ Berwin has appointed a former senior UBS banker as a non-executive director in a move to replace Tony Angel following his departure to DLA Piper.
SJ Berwin hands senior partner mandate to competition head Kon

15-Mar-2012

SJ Berwin EU and competition head Stephen Kon has won the race to be the firm’s next senior partner, defeating litigation partner Hilton Mervis in a two-man contest.
SJ Berwin hands structured finance practice to newly promoted partner

16-Nov-2009

SJ Berwin has promoted associate Vanessa Therrode to partner so she can head the firm’s structured finance practice.
SJ Berwin litigator enters senior partner election race

16-Feb-2012

SJ Berwin litigation partner Hilton Mervis has decided to have a second stab at winning a managerial role by standing against favourite Stephen Kon in the firm’s upcoming senior partner vote.
SJ Berwin loses corporate partner from Frankfurt

1-Dec-2009

SJ Berwin’s German practice has lost its second corporate partner since May following the departure of private equity specialist Jürg Windt.
SJ Berwin loses duo of funds partners to Proskauer

27-Jul-2011

Up-and-coming funds star Nigel van Zyl has quit SJ Berwin for the City firm’s former merger suitor Proskauer Rose, bringing fellow funds partner Oliver Rochman with him.
SJ Berwin makes real estate promotion after defections to Irwin Mitchell

3-Dec-2010

SJ Berwin has promoted a real estate associate to partner outside of its regular promotions round following the loss of four partners from the group to Irwin Mitchell in the autumn.
SJ Berwin managing partner to stand down ahead of potential merger

10-Aug-2010

SJ Berwin managing partner Ralph Cohen is to stand down from the role in the autumn, 18 months before the end of his term was due to end.
SJ Berwin names corporate partner Day as next leader

22-Oct-2010

SJ Berwin has elected Rob Day as its new managing partner after he beat fellow corporate partner Perry Yam in the second round of voting.
SJ Berwin on the hunt for new senior partner as Blake steps down

3-Feb-2012

SJ Berwin senior partner Jonathan Blake has decided not to stand for re-election, with competition head Stephen Kon tipped as his replacement.
SJ Berwin partners vote on governance shake-up in wake of failed merger

10-Dec-2010

SJ Berwin partners are today voting on changes to the firm’s governance as part of new managing partner Rob Day’s push to improve communication at the firm.
SJ Berwin posts flat revenues at half-year stage

23-Nov-2011

SJ Berwin has announced static turnover for the first half of the 2010-11 financial year, with total fees billed coming in at £84m, the same figure as last year.
SJ Berwin promotes eight to partnership

6-May-2011

SJ Berwin has made up eight new partners in its 2011 promotions round, one more than last year’s figure.
SJ Berwin promotes five London partners in seven-strong round

20-Apr-2010

SJ Berwin has made up seven new partners, an increase of one on last year’s number that has halted a run of two years of falling promotion numbers.
SJ Berwin pursues merger with Proskauer after Orrick talks break down

6-May-2010

SJ Berwin is in talks with Proskauer Rose over a potential merger, a senior source at the City firm has confirmed.
SJ Berwin returns to Greenberg Traurig Maher for second partner hire

11-Jan-2012

SJ Berwin is set to make a further addition to its energy and infrastructure practice with the hire of Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) partner Stuart Jordan.
SJ Berwin starts quarterly partner distributions after 12-month freeze

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SJ Berwin has restarted its profit distribution payments, having not paid out the quarterly windfall to its partnership for more than a year.
SJ Berwin to rewrite partnership deed to include cross-selling

20-Feb-2012

SJ Berwin is set to vote on major changes to its partnership deed under which members’ rumuneration will better reflect their ability to refer work across the firm.
SJ Berwin turns to Gibson Dunn for litigation hire

4-Mar-2010

SJ Berwin has bulked up its litigation practice with the hire of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Rachel Couter.
SJ Berwin unveils new-look partnership board

20-Jan-2011

SJ Berwin has introduced a clutch of new partners to its revamped partnership board following firmwide elections for the posts.
SJ Berwin welcomes six to partnership

22-Apr-2009

SJ Berwin has made up six new partners, with the number of promotions at the firm dropping for the second consecutive year. The firm promoted eight in 2008, down from a record 16 in 2007.
SJ Berwindy city tie-up with Mayer Brown

22-May-2012

Two months after The Lawyer reported that SJ Berwin senior partner Stephen Kon was putting international expansion at the heart of the firm’s strategy, we can reveal that the firm is holding exploratory talks with US firm Mayer Brown.
SJ Ber-winning

21-Feb-2012

Happy times at SJ Berwin.
SJ Berwin's Asia head defects to SNR Denton

6-Dec-2011

SNR Denton has strengthened its Hong Kong office with the addition of SJ Berwin’s Asia managing partner and the creation of a new Asia Pacific director of operations role.
SJ Berwin's competition head ditches Milbank defection plans

14-Jul-2011

SJ Berwin has persuaded its EU and competition head Stephen Kon to stay at the firm after he handed in his resignation last month to join Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
SJ Berwin's Hong Kong blip

7-Dec-2011

In 2004 Denton Wilde Sapte fled Asia so fast that Kim Kardashian would scarcely have had time to get married, get divorced and cry her heart out to a camera crew.
SJ Berwin's international growth continues with Shanghai launch

30-Oct-2009

SJ Berwin has launched its second Asian office, setting up a base in the Chinese city of Shanghai.
SJ Berwin's PEP plummets 50 per cent

29-Jul-2009

Average profits per equity partner (PEP) at SJ Berwin halved during the last financial year, dropping from £801,000 at the end of 2007-08 to £410,000.
SJ Bye-Bye

11-Aug-2010

In retrospect, Ralph Cohen might reflect that the best way for a managing partner to convince his firm that his heart is still in the job probably isn’t to go off on a sabbatical during a period when profits are being slashed in half.
SJB loving Angel instead

11-Mar-2011

It couldn’t get a Rose so SJ Berwin has got itself an Angel instead.
Skadden and A&O snare latest billion-dollar energy deal

22-Feb-2011

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Allen & Overy have taken the lead roles on a $1bn energy deal in Africa.
Skadden City partner tasked with rebuilding Hong Kong after Kirkland raid

22-Aug-2011

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom will relocate London-based corporate partner John Adebiyi to its Hong Kong office following a three-partner raid by Kirkland & Ellis earlier this month.
Skadden cuts 2010 associate intake by half

26-Aug-2009

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is to halve the size of its summer associate intake for 2010 after pushing back the start dates of its 2009 cohort.
Skadden hires three-partner team from O'Melveny in US

13-May-2009

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has hired a three partner team from O’Melveny & Myers in Washington DC.
Skadden kicks off City funds team with Macfarlanes hire

21-Sep-2011

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is launching a City funds practice with the hire of partner Stephen Sims from Macfarlanes.
Skadden loses third partner in a week

20-May-2009

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has lost its third partner in a week, with restructuring partner Jan Baker defecting to Latham & Watkins.
Skadden promotes two to London partnership

2-Apr-2009

US firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has promoted two City associates to its partnership.
Skadden scoops Weil's McCahill for restructuring boost

4-Jan-2012

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has turned to a US rival Weil Gotshal & Manges for a London restructuring hire, scooping partner Dominic McCahill.
Skadden suffers rare partner loss as duo defects to Kirkland

19-May-2009

Kirkland & Ellis has hired a Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partner duo in its New York office.
Skadden turns to Shearman for double Frankfurt hire

6-Feb-2012

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has raided Shearman & Sterling for a double partner hire in Frankfurt, including European capital markets head Stephan Hutter.
Skylarking

14-May-2010

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Project Skylark.
Sky's not the limit for Murdoch & co

3-Mar-2011

Rupert Murdoch’s empire state of mind was helped today when culture secretary Jeremy Hunt gave the all clear for his News Corporation to scoop up the remaining shares of BSkyB.
Sky's the limit

27-Jan-2010

Mr Justice Ramsey proved he is worth his High Court salary this week when he produced a whopping 463-page judgment in the matter of BSkyB v EDS
Slaughter and May best friend De Brauw to launch in Singapore

27-Apr-2012

Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has unveiled plans to launch an office in Singapore this September, its fifth foreign office.
Slaughter and May helps BA secure OFT fine reduction

19-Apr-2012

A team of lawyers from Slaughter and May has successfully convinced the OFT to halve a price-fixing fine imposed on British Airways (BA).
Slaughter and May leads on Santander acquisition of RBS branches

3-Aug-2010

Slaughter and May and Linklaters are advising on Santander’s purchase of 318 high street branches from the Royal Bank of Scotland, mainly in the north west of England.
Slaughter and May looks East in two-strong promotions round

30-Mar-2012

Slaughter and May has announced a drop in its partner promotions for this year, with two associates joining the ranks.
Slaughter and May’s scorched earth tactics pay off

5-May-2010

The bitterly fought dispute between Digicel and Cable & Wireless (C&W) was finally laid to rest at the end of last month (23 April) with the High Court ordering claimants Digicel to pay the defendant’s multi-million pound legal fees.
Slaughter and May's China best friend expands into Guangzhou

21-Sep-2011

Slaughter and May’s Chinese best friend Jun He has expanded its presence in Southern China by opening an office in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province.
Slaughtered pay

30-Oct-2009

It’s Friday, it’s pay day (hallelujah) and things are, apparently, getting better. Then up pops Slaughters to say it’s slashed its annual bonus for lawyers from 10 per cent of annual salary to 5 per cent
Slaughters advises on another Arsenal transfer

23-Aug-2011

Arsenal Football Club has turned to Slaughter and May once again for the transfer of midfield player Samir Nasri to Manchester City.
Slaughters advises Premier on Oilexco acquisition

25-Mar-2009

Premier Oil has agreed to buy Oilexco North Sea for $505m (£344m), rescuing it from administration and leading to mandates for Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith and Slaughter and May.
Slaughters and Linklaters lag in first-half M&A tables

1-Jul-2011

Slaughter and May and Linklaters have seen sizeable drops in their share of the UK M&A market, according to figures for the first half of 2011.
Slaughters' best friends lead French supermarket spin off

3-Mar-2011

Slaughter and May’s European best friends Bredin Prat, Uría Menéndez and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo have scooped key roles on the multi-billion euro disposal of the property arm of French supermarket giant Carrefour.
Slaughters' buddy Bredin Prat adds judge to public law practice

9-Jun-2011

Slaughter and May’s French best friend Bredin Prat has hired a judge of the French supreme court to develop its public law practice.
Slaughters closes applications from non-law grads

19-Mar-2009

Slaughter and May has closed training contract applications to non-law students early while those studying law still have time to apply for a place on the firm’s 2011-12 intake.
Slaughters competition head quits for Competition Commission role

14-May-2009

Slaughter and May’s head of competition Malcolm Nicholson has left the firm to join the Competition Commission.
Slaughters corporate partner becomes Royal Mail's interim GC

14-Apr-2011

Slaughter and May corporate partner Jeff Triggs has been appointed as interim general counsel at Royal Mail Group following the departure of legal head Doug Evans.
Slaughters freezes associate pay bands at 2011-12 levels

30-Apr-2012

Slaughter and May has kept the majority of its associate pay bands steady at last year’s levels, with the magic circle firm announcing a slight increase in the pay taken home by associates with two years’ post-qualification experience (PQE).
Slaughters freezes salaries at 2008-09 levels

2-Apr-2009

Slaughter and May has frozen staff salaries at this year’s levels, following similar moves by Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Slaughters halves fee-earner bonus, maintains support staff payment

30-Oct-2009

Slaughter and May has halved its annual bonus for fee-earners, while maintaining bonuses for non-fee-earners at the same level as last year.
Slaughters ignores core practices as two gain partnership

26-Mar-2009

Slaughter and May has made up just two new partners in the annual promotions round, half the number it promoted last year.
Slaughters launches scheme to help state-school kids' social mobility

8-Mar-2012

Slaughter and May has teamed up with an inner-city school in a bid to help give students a better chance of winning places at top universities.
Slaughters makes up one City partner in two-strong round

18-Mar-2010

Slaughter and May has made up two new partners for the second year running, with just one of the two based in its London head office.
Slaughters nets £33m from Treasury since Northern Rock crisis

4-Dec-2009

Slaughter and May has pulled in £32.9m worth of fees from the Treasury since 2007, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report.
Slaughters on standby to advise on BA rights issue

13-Jul-2009

Slaughter and May looks set to advise long-standing client British Airways (BA) on an anticipated £500m rights issue.
Slaughters partner named as member of influential Higgs group

4-Feb-2010

Slaughter and May corporate partner Nilufer von Bismarck has been included in the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators’ (ICSA) Higgs review steering group.
Slaughters partner takes on GC role at Asset Protection Agency

21-Dec-2010

Slaughter and May corporate partner Lucy Wylde has landed a permanent role as general counsel for HM Treasury’s Asset Protection Agency (APA).
Slaughters pockets £9.4m in Rock Government fees

20-Mar-2009

Slaughter and May earned £9.4m in fees from the collapse and nationalisation of Northern Rock, it was revealed today.
Slaughters prepares to close Paris office

2-Oct-2009

Slaughter and May is gearing up to close its Paris office in April next year.
Slaughters pushes associate salaries up 2 per cent

5-May-2011

Slaughter and May has increased associate salaries by an average of 2 per cent following its bi-annual pay review.
Slaughters reappoints management ahead of White retirement

11-May-2012

Slaughter and May executive partner Graham White is set to retire next year, with the news coming as the City firm announces that its top management team has been re-appointed for a further three years.
Slaughters revamps partnership board and names two new practice heads

31-Mar-2011

Slaughter and May has named new heads of its financing and tax practice streams and appointed five new members to its partnership board.
Slaughters slashes trainee bonuses and freezes associate salaries

31-Oct-2011

Slaughter and May has cut the size of the bonus it pays to trainees as part of a salary review that sees associate pay rates frozen.
Slaughters to review Aussie relationships if Links-AAR alliance goes live

30-Mar-2012

Slaughter and May is preparing to overhaul its relationships with Australian firms if Linklaters goes ahead with an exclusive alliance with local leader Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR).
Slaughters welcomes five to partnership, three in corporate

24-Mar-2011

Slaughter and May has made its biggest round of promotions for four years, making up five partners in its City base.
Slaughters: litigation talks

1-Sep-2010

Slaughter and May dispute resolution head Richard Clark strongly refutes any suggestion that his group is the poorer relation of the firm’s stellar corporate practice.
Slim shake-up

10-Mar-2010

Olswang is shaping up to be a trailblazer for the post-Clementi world.
Smedley finds legal regulation "unfit for purpose"

26-Mar-2009

The regulation of the legal profession is in need of urgent modernisation, a Law Society report has found.
Smiles all round as Slaughters and Wachtell lead on Colgate deal

25-Mar-2011

Slaughter and May and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz secured the lead M&A roles on Colgate-Palmolive’s €672m (£590m) acquisition of the Sanex personal care brand from consumer products giant Unilever.
Snow business like Snow business

7-Jan-2010

There’s nothing like the soft crunch of freshly fallen snow underfoot.
Snow direction home

2-Dec-2010

While City lawyers across the frozen tundra of the Hertfordshire commuter belt were facing up to a second day of ’working from home’, the snow has been hitting our friends in the north even harder.
Snow joke for panel lawyers

5-Apr-2012

The last time a high street bank slashed its conveyancing panel, one objector launched a Government e-petition.
SNR Denton Abu Dhabi partner takes charge of Kuwait office

20-Mar-2012

SNR Denton has named Abu Dhabi partner Stuart Cavet as managing partner of its Kuwait office, replacing David Pfeiffer, who resigned from the firm in October.
SNR Denton adds Dechert lawyer to City financial services team

19-Dec-2011

SNR Denton has given its London financial services and funds team a boost with the addition of a hire from Dechert.
SNR Denton adds Linklaters partner to London finance team

9-Jan-2012

SNR Denton has added to its banking and finance team in London with a Linklaters partner as the firm continues to expand its practice globally.
SNR Denton adds restructuring partner from Dickie Dees

11-Oct-2011

SNR Denton has hired a restructuring partner from Dickinson Dees as the firm continues to scour the market for senior lawyers.
SNR Denton advises KPMG on Pontin's administration

15-Nov-2010

SNR Denton has bagged a key role advising on the administration of holiday camp company Pontin’s.
SNR Denton advises Qatar on successful Fifa World Cup bid

6-Dec-2010

SNR Denton has claimed a starring role acting for Qatar on its successful bid to host the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
SNR Denton and Macfarlanes prepare for Formula 1 branding battle

17-Jan-2011

A legal battle over who has the rights to use the Lotus brand in Formula 1 racing will hit the High Court next week.
SNR Denton chief tells partners to hold their nerve after 35 per cent slump in UK PEP

30-Jun-2011

Average profit per equity partner (PEP) at SNR Denton’s UK LLP fell by 35.6 per cent in the last financial year, dropping from £360,000 to £232,000.
SNR Denton co-CEO Morris steps down to focus on integration

28-Feb-2011

SNR Denton co-chief executive Howard Morris has relinquished his post to concentrate on integrating the recently merged firm.
SNR Denton hires Freddie Mac GC as global funds head

15-Jul-2011

SNR Denton has appointed Robert Bostrom, formerly general counsel of scandal-rocked American corporation Freddie Mac, as the new co-head of its global financial institutions and funds sector.
SNR Denton hires IMF assistant GC in regulatory boost

15-Jun-2011

SNR Denton has hired the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) assistant general counsel to bolster its public policy and regulation group.
SNR Denton lifts the cup

6-Dec-2010

SNR Denton probably thought it had its work cut out when it won the mandate to advise Qatar on its attempt to bring the World Cup to the Arab world for the first time.
SNR Denton loses 10-strong Paris team to Hughes Hubbard

31-Jan-2012

A 10-lawyer team, including a former managing partner, is leaving SNR Denton’s Paris office to join US firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed.
SNR Denton loses funds co-chief to Norton Rose

29-Jun-2011

Norton Rose has hired SNR Denton’s financial institutions and funds co-head as part of an asset-based lending push.
SNR Denton names Milton Keynes head as UK managing partner

10-Nov-2010

Newly merged SNR Denton has appointed a managing partner for the UK, with Milton Keynes head Brandon Ransley will take up the role.
SNR Denton names projects partner as UK chief exec

17-Mar-2011

SNR Denton has shaken up its UK LLP leadership team, with partner Matthew Jones named as chief executive.
SNR Denton posts 40 per cent drop in profit for 2010-11

7-Feb-2012

SNR Denton’s UK LLP accounts show profit at the group fell from £37.9m to £22.5m in 2010-11.
SNR Denton posts revenue rise for first half of 2011-12

28-Nov-2011

SNR Denton has announced its global financial results for the first half of the 2011-12 financial year, with the firm posting revenue of £317.2m.
SNR Denton prepares for New Orleans launch

13-Feb-2012

SNR Denton will launch a New Orleans office on 1 March, with the new base focusing on energy-related work.
SNR Denton seals alliance with Portuguese firm, adds 10 firms to Africa network

23-Feb-2011

SNR Denton has added 10 firms to its Africa network, bringing its total number of tie-ups in the continent to 21.
SNR Denton signs up Hammonds' Hong Kong arm for local launch

4-Jan-2011

SNR Denton has launched in Hong Kong with the assimilation of a new member firm that was previously the Hong Kong office of Squire Sanders Hammonds legacy firm Hammonds.
SNR Denton to move to single CEO after three years

2-Jun-2010

SNR Denton will abolish the joint chief executive position within three years of the anticipated merger between Denton Wilde Sapte and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, with Dentons CEO Howard Morris indicating that he could step aside.
SNR Denton trims Paris as strategic review takes off

16-Dec-2011

A team of three partners and six associates is set to leave SNR Denton’s Paris office as the firm pushes forward with its interim strategic review.
SNR Denton welcomes eight new partners to UK LLP

20-Apr-2011

The UK LLP of SNR Denton has made up eight partners in its annual round of promotions.
SNR Denton wins £600k bribery case against former India head

16-Apr-2012

The High Court has ordered SNR Denton’s former India head to repay her old firm and its insurers almost £600,000, which they lost as a result of her involvement in a bribery scandal.
SNR Denton: The Movie

27-May-2010

First there was the humble wedding video. Next came the somewhat less innocent age of the celebrity sex tape. Now, with transatlantic tie-ups the sujet du jour for the ambitious law firm, high command at the newly monikered SNR Denton give us ’Merger: The Movie’.
SNR Denton's Paris dent

16-Dec-2011

The news that Linklaters was taking a long hard look at its partnership set off endless speculation over which other firms might be doing the same.
SNR Denton's US business grows profit and revenue in 2011

3-Feb-2012

SNR Denton has posted positive results in the US side of the business on all the key metrics for the 2011 financial year.
So you think you're a partner?

1-Feb-2012

Defining exactly what a partner is has become increasingly difficult in recent years, particularly since LLP status gained acceptance among law firms.
Social climbing in the magic circle

4-Apr-2011

Social mobility - essentially, making poor people a little bit richer - is not something that has always been high on the list of law firms’ priorities.
Social Media and Financial Services – time to open up?

15-Dec-2011

Many financial services companies are now coming to the view that although there are legal and regulatory risks associated with enabling employees to blog freely and engage with social media networks, such risks are outweighed by the corresponding commercial opportunities.
Sodexo finalises panel with places for nine firms

8-Sep-2009

Food and facilities management company Sodexo has completed a three-month panel review, with nine firms winning places on the new roster.
So-fa no good

28-Apr-2010

There was much trumpeting outside the Royal Courts of Justice last week after Mr Justice MacDuff approved plans for a compensation fund for victims of the toxic sofas scandal.
Solicitors face two years in prison for ignoring Legal Ombudsman

15-Nov-2011

The High Court will impose fines and prison sentences on lawyers who fail to comply with the orders of the Legal Ombudsman (LeO), it has been warned.
Solicitors from Hell founder loses defamation case

22-Jul-2011

The founder of consumer website Solicitors from Hell has lost another defamation case in the High Court, with Mr Justice Tugendhat ordering him to pay £10,000 to Marlow firm Gabbitas Robins.
Solicitors from Hell owner launches £1m defamation claim against Law Soc CEO

2-Sep-2011

The fight between the Law Society and Solicitors from Hell website owner Rick Kordowski has taken a further twist with Kordowski launching a defamation claim against Law Society chief executive Des Hudson.
Solicitors from Hell owner's defamation bid was 'abuse of court process'

21-Oct-2011

Mr Justice Tugendhat has dismissed a £1m defamation claim launched against Law Society chief executive Des Hudson by Solicitors from Hell owner Rick Kordowksi, branding the bid “an abuse of the court process”.
Solicitors from Hell website forced offline

16-Nov-2011

Solicitors from Hell founder Rick Kordowski has given up his legal battle against the Law Society after Mr Justice Tugendhat granted the body injunctive relief and ordered the site to be taken offline.
Some election questions

5-May-2010

With the prospect of a Tory-led administration becoming ever more likely, lawyers are starting to ask questions about legal life under a new government.
Somewhere under the rainbow

14-Aug-2009

Two rounds of redundancies, one miserly promotions round and the most garish reception in the City.
South Devon firms combine to create regional powerhouse

27-Sep-2011

South Devon firm Hooper & Wollen is set to merge with its regional rival Harold Michelmore next week (3 October).
South Korea's Lee International joins MSI Global Alliance

9-Nov-2011

MSI Global Alliance, an international association of 250 independent accounting and law firms, has added South Korean law firm Lee International to its membership.
South Square installs new chambers director, loses silk to BLP

27-Oct-2011

Gray’s Inn set South Square has appointed Ron Barclay-Smith as chambers director following the departure of chief executive Caoilionn Hurley.
Spaghetti Eastern

25-Sep-2009

As we speak, Allen & Overy partner David Wootton is being sworn in as Sheriff of London - an ancient role dating back to the 7th century (see story).
Spain's Broseta installs government lawyer as litigation head

21-Jul-2011

Spanish firm Broseta Abogados has hired a state lawyer to head its insolvency and litigation department.
Spain's Gómez-Acebo & Pombo mourns death of two partners

28-Mar-2011

Spanish firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo is mourning the death of two of its partners within a week.
Spain's Gómez-Acebo & Pombo sees turnover fall in 2011

17-Feb-2012

Spain’s fourth-largest firm, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo, has posted a drop in turnover for the 2011 financial year, reporting a fall of 7.7 per cent to €62.8m from €68m in 2010.
Spanish 5-aside

11-Nov-2009

It’s started. The slow drip of lawyer departures that goes hand-in-hand with the run up to a merger seems to be kicking off at Lovells.
Speaking in tongues

23-Feb-2012

Sometimes austerity measures just don’t work.
Specialisation – benefit or burden?

8-Nov-2011

…Almost from the moment a lawyer hatches from the chrysalis of their training contract they will specialise. A butterfly is born, but one that feeds on a very narrow diet.
Speechly Bircham dragged into private investigation row

24-May-2012

Speechly Bircham has moved to clarify its relationship with a private investigation agency after the law firm was mentioned in connection with an investigation about payments to police officers.
Speechly Bircham promotes four to partner

15-Apr-2011

Speechly Bircham has announced it will promote four lawyers to its partnership this year, increasing its partner headcount to 90.
Speechly bolsters restructuring practice with double partner hire

4-Nov-2011

Speechly Bircham has become the latest firm to benefit from the Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert merger, picking up restructuring partner Rupert Connell from BLG.
Speechly expands overseas with Luxembourg and Zurich launches

1-Jun-2011

Speechly Bircham is to launch its first international offices, opening in Luxembourg and Zurich at the end of a year that saw turnover grow by 2 per cent.
Speechly in advanced talks with Campbell Hooper

13-May-2009

Speechly Bircham is in the final stages of negotiating its takeover of 23-partner West End firm Campbell Hooper.
Speechly in clover

19-Oct-2010

Ahead of the impending apocalypse that is tomorrow’s comprehensive spending review, how about a bit of good news?
Speechly LLPs reveal strong year following Campbell Hooper merger

19-Oct-2010

The impact of Speechly Bircham’s merger with London outfit Campbell Hooper last year helped boost turnover by 28 per cent, the firm’s annual LLP accounts reveal.
Speechlys follows merger with 30 per cent hike in financials

7-Jun-2010

Speechly Bircham has posted a 29 per cent increase in both turnover and average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009-10 financial year.
Spilling a few beans

28-Aug-2009

Cobbetts has not been known for its transparency of late.
Spoonful of Sugar for CC

31-Jan-2011

As Schrödinger may well have speculated, the lines between fiction and reality have become increasingly blurred in the nebulous confusion of post-post-postmodern society.
Spreading its wings

14-Jul-2009

Bird & Bird’s year-end results, published today (see story), show the benefits of a long-term investment strategy.
Spy games

8-Oct-2010

Plenty of Westminster news today, what with Milli Vanilli doing his eenie-meenie-minnie-mo bit to pick his shadow cabinet.
Squammonds advises Deloitte as Oddbins enters administration

6-Apr-2011

Squire Sanders Hammonds has landed a key role advising on the administration of collapsed wine retailer Oddbins.
Squammonds is born

9-Nov-2010

So the respective partnerships at Hammonds and Squire Sanders have made it legal and voted overwhelmingly in favour of their merger (see story)
Squammonds promotes seven UK lawyers in 18-strong round

17-Mar-2011

Squire Sanders Hammonds has announced its first round of partnership promotions since the merger between Hammonds and Squire Sanders & Dempsey in January 2011, promoting 18 lawyers.
Squaring up in the Magic Circle

8-Jul-2010

This year’s reporting season looks like being a doozie. What with Lovells’ final ever appearance as a UK firm, LG’s comical 63 per cent PEP increase and the now unveiled reality of Halliwells’ plummeting (and ultimately terminal) turnover, there’s no shortage of fun.
Squire promotes three UK lawyers in 17-strong round

13-Mar-2012

Squire Sanders has announced the promotion of 17 lawyers to its partnership ranks, with three UK lawyers making the cut.
Squire Sanders announces new line-up to global leadership

25-Jan-2012

Squire Sanders has named Stephen Mahon as the new managing partner of its US LLP as the same time to adding a partner each from London and Paris to its global board.
Squire Sanders bulks up in Frankfurt with couple of Bryan Cave lawyers

8-Nov-2011

Squire Sanders & Dempsey is expanding its Frankfurt office with the hire of two lawyers from Bryan Cave.
Squire Sanders' City litigation head quits for Edwards Angell

18-Oct-2010

The head of Squire Sanders’ London litigation practice has left to join the City base of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
Squire Sanders hires duo of DLA Piper construction partners

27-Feb-2012

Squire Sanders is poised to hire two construction partners from DLA Piper’s Birmingham office, one of whom is the group head for EMEA.
Squire Sanders joins US firms’ Korea race

7-Mar-2012

Squire Sanders has applied to open an office in Seoul after the Korean Ministry of Justice officially started accepting US firms’ applications yesterday.
Squire Sanders launches in Singapore with Bryan Cave hires

16-Feb-2012

Squire Sanders is to launch an office in Singapore after hiring three partners from US rival Bryan Cave in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Squire Sanders launches international shipping team in London

22-Feb-2012

Squire Sanders is to launch a shipping team in London following the hire of three partners.
Squire Sanders partners vote in favour of Aussie tie-up

18-Aug-2011

Squire Sanders & Dempsey’s global partnership has given the green light to its proposed merger with the majority of Minter Ellison’s Perth office in Western Australia.
Squire Sanders scoops Minter Ellison office for Perth launch

5-Aug-2011

Squire Sanders & Dempsey is on the verge of opening in Australia, after revealing it is in the final stages of merger talks with the Perth office of Australia’s Minter Ellison.
Squire Sanders set for Singapore launch with licence approval

11-Apr-2012

Squire Sanders has secured a licence from Singapore’s Attorney-General’s Chambers for its launch in the Lion City.
Squire Sanders turns to Wragges for Brum corporate hire

15-Aug-2011

Squire Sanders Hammonds has bolstered its Birmingham corporate offering with the hire of Edward Dawes from Wragge & Co.
SRA closes Manchester firm over "suspected dishonesty"

12-Mar-2010

Manchester-based firm Consumer Credit Litigation Solicitors (CCLS) has been shut down by the SRA because of “suspected dishonesty”.
SRA delays force Parabis to defer Duke Street investment

19-Mar-2012

Insurance firm Parabis has been forced to delay its ABS deal with private equity house Duke Street because the SRA is struggling to cope with the flow of post Legal Services Act applications.
SRA hands litigation panel places to five firms

3-Mar-2010

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has appointed five firms to a newly created litigation panel.
SRA head: We need to treat solicitors as adults

16-Mar-2010

Plant outlines priorities for change; corporate regulation group to be based in the City
SRA hits back at 'incompetence' claims

19-Mar-2012

The SRA has sought to defend claims it is failing to move quickly enough to regulate alternative business structures (ABS), stating it will not compromise a duty of care to rush through applications.
SRA investigates Giambrone Law partners over advice on Italian property deals

30-Jan-2012

A trio of partners from Italian firm Giambrone Law, which is acting for a number of individuals affected by the Costa Concordia ferry disaster, is under investigation by the SRA.
SRA names Cardiff firm as latest ABS

24-Apr-2012

Cardiff solicitors’ firm NewLaw Legal Limited has become the latest organisation to be licensed as an alternative business structure.
SRA names Herbies consultant as next chair

22-Jun-2009

Herbert Smith consultant Charles Plant has been appointed as the next chair of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) board.
SRA names members of revamped board

18-Aug-2009

The new members of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) board have been announced, two months after TheLawyer.com revealed that there was ill feeling between the SRA and the Law Society over the appointments process.
SRA probes solicitors' handling of Hackgate

22-Jul-2011

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has launched a formal investigation into the role played by solicitors in the News International phone-hacking scandal.
SRA sees in threes

31-May-2011

As any worldly, streetwise and plugged-in punter knows, if something looks too good to be true it probably is.
SRA to consult on scrapping of single PI insurance renewal date

29-Oct-2010

The single renewal date for solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance (PII) should be binned to help drive down rates, a report commissioned the Solicitors Regulation Authority has concluded.
SRA to cut 80 jobs in preparation for ABSs

15-Feb-2011

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is slashing its staff headcount ahead of the introduction of alternative business structures (ABSs), cutting numbers from 640 to 560.
SRA to establish first regulatory panel

23-Sep-2009

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is looking to establish its first-ever roster of external regulatory advisers and is currently asking firms to tender for places.
SRA to pilot post-Hunt regulatory regime

5-Oct-2009

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has joined up with a raft of City firms to pilot a new approach to City law firm regulation.
SRA to scrap last-chance insurance option

14-Apr-2011

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is to scrap the assigned risks pool, the insurer of last resort for firms which is available to firms which fail to secure professional indemnity (PI) cover on the open market.
SRA unveils firms on disciplinary panel

2-Jun-2009

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has appointed 16 firms to its revamped disciplinary proceedings panel.
St Johns Buildings targets publicly funded work with three-way merger

12-Jan-2011

Manchester set St Johns Buildings (SJB) is set to merge with Sheffield’s Paradise Chambers and Liverpool-based India Buildings Chambers.
St Paul's seeks Winckworth Sherwood's advice over Occupy LSX camp

28-Oct-2011

Winckworth Sherwood is at the forefront of St Paul’s Cathedral’s legal attempts to resolve the stand-off with anti-capitalist protestors occupying space outside the church.
St Philips barrister resigns to stand for BNP in general election

25-Mar-2010

A tax barrister at Birmingham’s St Philips Chambers who went to the same Cambridge University college as British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin has resigned from the set so he can fight a seat for the party at the upcoming general election.
St Philips Chambers latest to create chief exec role

15-Jun-2009

Birmingham-based St Philips Chambers is the latest set to create a chief executive position after appointing bar consultant Chris Owen to the role.
Stakes raised at DLA Piper

1-Mar-2012

As we report today, the storm clouds over private investments made by partners at DLA Piper - including Sir Nigel Knowles - show no sign of blowing away soon.
Standard Bank Offshore turns to Mourant Ozannes for legal chief

18-Jan-2011

Standard Bank Offshore has appointed Mourant Ozannes senior associate Lionel Woodward as its first legal head.
Standard Chartered's global panel unchanged after review

31-Mar-2011

Standard Chartered Bank has reappointed all six law firms on its international legal roster after the two-year panel came to an end.
Stars of the unreasonably priced bar

2-Sep-2010

Some say it was created in an underground lab by a spurned barrister armed with a test tube, a lock of Sydney Carton’s wig and a collection of Perry Mason DVDs.
Staying a while

14-Oct-2009

While many chambers are on the hunt for new chief executives, one set is refusing to change it strategic direction, preferring instead to build on the successes of the past.
Staying afloat

20-Apr-2010

Given all the uncertainty around at the moment, what with the recession (remember that?), this prediction-proof election and the prospect of a volcanic apocalypse on the horizon, you might think that partners would start acting like rich fellas on the Titanic.
Staying positive

12-Oct-2009

Offshore lawyers are used to their business focus being the butt of criticism and boldly dismiss this as political rhetoric.
Staying strong

20-Nov-2009

All good things must come to an end. Slaughter and May has had a lucrative stranglehold on the Government’s banking advisory mandates seemingly since the beginning of time… Or since 2007 (Year Zero) at least.
Steeles wins spots on Sussex consortium panel

5-Mar-2010

London and Norwich firm Steeles Law has won places on seven out of 14 Sussex Councils’ Consortium panels alongside Eversheds, Pinsent Masons and Shoosmiths.
Steep competition

8-Jun-2009

While many onshore firms are still waiting for a litigation boom to kick off, the offshore world is a step ahead and vying for position as the leading offshore litigation centres.
Stephen J Doggett: Baker & McKenzie

9-May-2011

What time do you start work each day? 8.45am.
Stephenson Harwood acts on Piramal deal after Ashurst corporate hire

24-May-2010

Stephenson Harwood corporate partner Andrew Edge has scored his first major deal since moving from Ashurst earlier this year after advising India’s Piramal Healthcare on the $3.7bn (£2.57bn) sale of its pharmaceutical unit to Abbott Laboratories.
Stephenson Harwood beats budget with £100m in turnover

11-May-2011

Stephenson Harwood has broken the £100m turnover barrier for the first time after posting a 16 per cent revenue increase for the 2010-11 financial year.
Stephenson Harwood beats Eversheds to £3bn waste procurement project

12-Mar-2012

Stephenson Harwood has taken the rare step of announcing that it has beaten Eversheds to a mandate after a “robust” competitive tender process with a pitch whose “quality and cost” impressed the client.
Stephenson Harwood builds up with Nabarro hire

4-Jan-2012

Stephenson Harwood has further boosted its real estate practice with the hire of Nabarro partner James Trundle.
Stephenson Harwood gains new China partners from 2Birds and Bakers

8-Dec-2011

Stephenson Harwood has strengthened its China corporate practice by hiring a new partner each for its Hong Kong and Shanghai offices from Bird & Bird and Baker & McKenzie respectively.
Stephenson Harwood joins majority as LLP

30-Mar-2012

Stephenson Harwood partners have approved the firm’s plans to convert to a limited liability partnership (LLP).
Stephenson Harwood makes another partner hire from Ashurst

26-Sep-2011

Stephenson Harwood has turned to Ashurst again for a City hire, snatching employee incentives partner Barbara Allen.
Stephenson Harwood prepares to launch in Dubai

23-Apr-2012

Stephenson Harwood is preparing the ground to launch an office in Dubai as part of its continuing international strategy.
Stephenson Harwood reinforces construction practice in Hong Kong

2-Nov-2011

Stephenson Harwood has turned to US firm Blank Rome for the hire of a Hong Kong construction and dispute resolution partner.
Stephenson Harwood seals tie-up with Indonesia's Christian Teo Purwono

28-Nov-2011

Stephenson Harwood is set to launch on the ground in Indonesia through a tie-up with local firm Christian Teo Purwono & Partners.
Stephenson Harwood sets date for LLP move as ex-chief quits for Cleary

9-Mar-2012

Stephenson Harwood is set for a vote on its conversion to a limited liability partnership (LLP) on 28 March, with a result expected to be announced the following day.
Stephenson Harwood snares Weil Gotshal's London energy head

13-Jul-2011

Stephenson Harwood has scooped Weil Gotshal & Manges energy and renewables head Andrew McLean for its corporate practice.
Stephenson Harwood turns to Travers and Wragges for real estate hires

3-Sep-2010

Stephenson Harwood has further bolstered its real estate offering with two lateral partner hires in the department.
Stephenson Harwood uses Facebook to serve court claim

21-Feb-2012

The High Court has given permission for a claim to be served via Facebook in what is believed to be a first for a commercial case.
Stephenson Harwood welcomes three to partner ranks

30-Apr-2012

Stephenson Harwood has announced three new partners as part of its annual promotions round, a slight decrease on last year’s count of four.
Stephenson Harwood's revenue jumps 16 per cent

17-Nov-2010

Stephenson Harwood has posted a 16.6 per cent revenue increase as it becomes the latest firm to report its half-year figures.
Stephenson Harwood's turnover breaks £90m mark after 8 per cent rise

22-Jun-2010

Stephenson Harwood has seen turnover top the £90m mark for the first time following an 8 per cent increase in revenues in the 2009-10 financial year.
Steptoe enters Asia via Beijing launch

2-Mar-2010

Steptoe & Johnson has launched its first office in Asia, opening an outpost in Beijing.
Stewart, Bickerton battle for Clifford Chance London MP job

14-Oct-2009

Clifford Chance London finance head Mark Stewart and London capital markets chief David Bickerton are set to go head-to-head in a battle to become the firm’s next City chief.
Stewarts Law bolsters employment team with hire of RJW partner

11-Jan-2012

Litigation firm Stewarts Law has further expanded its employment practice through the appointment of Russell Jones & Walker partner Arpita Dutt.
Stewarts Law to launch offices in New York and Delaware

17-Apr-2012

Litigation boutique Stewarts Law is set to launch a US practice, with offices in New York and Delaware.
Stibbe hires Loyens tax partner for nascent Luxembourg office

7-Apr-2011

Stibbe has filled in a gap in its Luxembourg office with the hire of tax partner Ayzo van Eysinga from Loyens & Loeff.
Stockholm office of Hamilton Advokatbyrå merges with Nilsson

1-Oct-2010

Swedish firm Hamilton Advokatbyrå has split from its regional offices and merged with another Stockholm firm, Nilsson & Co, after the Lehman Brothers collapse forced the firm to rethink its niche practice.
Stones have rolled

5-Aug-2009

It was entirely fitting that one of the last cases heard in the House of Lords was one which could redefine the litigation industry.
Stop Press! The Leveson Inquiry and Self-regulated Media

22-Nov-2011

The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press is now in full swing. The outcome of the Inquiry is unlikely to be unveiled until well into thenew year, but a recent hearing provided insights into where the Inquiry is going.
Straw dogs

28-Jun-2011

So, ladies and gentlemen, we turn this afternoon to the conjugation of referral fees, thus: We are operating within the current framework. You are drumming up business. They indulge in shabby practices.
Strike Action: An Autumn of Discontent?

19-Sep-2011

2009-2010 witnessed a series of highly publicised strikes, on a scale unprecedented since the 1980s. In many cases, proposed industrial action became the subject of fiercely contested High Court litigation. However, this may prove to have been merely an appetiser for what lies ahead.
Striking oil at 'Sheds

25-May-2011

Here’s a nice bit of repositioning. Eversheds is doing its best to shake off its ’national law firm’ tag by doing something rather strategic in the Middle East (see story).
Strip bare or fixed share?

27-Apr-2012

The employee/self-employed distinction is a tricky one at times.
Stuck in the middle with LG

5-Mar-2012

For law firms, the mid-market is no place to be at the moment.
Students turn away from the law as uni applications drop across the board

25-Oct-2011

The largest fall in university applications in more than 30 years has seen the number of candidates applying to study law drop by a record 5.2 per cent, according to figures released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).
Succession planning

12-Oct-2011

Just two years after opening its doors for the first time, the Supreme Court is on the hunt for a new president.
Sue Ives: Berwin Leighton Paisner

28-Jan-2011

What time do you start work each day? 8.30am, but the BlackBerry is on from about 6am.
Sue Stephens: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

7-Jan-2011

What time do you start work each day? My colleagues think I am mad as I am in the gym at 6am. I am at my desk around 8am.
Suffolk Council launches staff welfare inquiry after death of legal head

19-Apr-2011

An independent inquiry has been launched into staff welfare in Suffolk County Council’s legal department following the death of acting legal head David White.
Suffolk legal chief committed suicide in wake of cost-cutting pressure

1-Sep-2011

An inquest into the death of Suffolk County Council’s former head of legal services David White has found he took his own life while under intense pressure from cutbacks at the local authority.
Suffolk legal chief's death was not result of bullying

5-Jul-2011

An investigation by Suffolk County Council has cleared its chief executive of bullying allegations relating to the death of its head of legal services.
SullCrom promotes one London partner in eight-strong round

7-Dec-2010

Sullivan & Cromwell has made up one City associate in an eight-strong global partnership promotion round.
SullCrom raids Simmons for white-collar crime star

24-May-2011

Sullivan & Cromwell has recruited Simmons & Simmons partner Louise Delahunty in a coup for its white-collar crime practice.
SullCrom's City sweetener

28-Oct-2010

There’s now a tricky choice facing the young, ambitious teenager with plans to do his or her folks proud and go into one of the professions.
Sullivan & Cromwell announces US-led promotions

29-Nov-2011

Sullivan & Cromwell has made up five lawyers to partner – four in the US and one in Paris - in its January round of promotions.
Sullivan & Cromwell matches Cravath Wall Street bonuses

9-Dec-2011

The US bonus season has begun gearing up, with Sullivan & Cromwell not only confirming it will match those announced by Cravath Swaine & Moore last month - and paid today (9 December) - but also confirming it will once again offer associates spring bonuses next year.
Sullivan revamps European management team

1-Jul-2011

Sullivan & Cromwell has revamped its European management, appointing one London managing partner in place of the current two.
Sumption QC wins Supreme Court ruling for Harrow Council

9-Feb-2011

The Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by Harrow London Borough Council (LBC) and ruled that it is entitled to run its own insurance mutual without first putting the contract out to tender.
Sumption quits race for seat in Supreme Court

9-Dec-2009

Brick Court’s Jonathan Sumption QC has withdrawn his application to join the Supreme Court.
Sumption to lead last-ditch Norris extradition hearing at Supreme Court

27-Nov-2009

Nine Supreme Court Justices to hear Norris case on Monday
Sumption win for Competition Commission will force BAA to sell two airports

13-Oct-2010

Brick Court Chambers’ Jonathan Sumption QC has won a major Court of Appeal (CoA) victory for the Competition Commission in a ruling that will force BAA to sell off two of its UK airports.
Sumption, Wilson confirmed as new Supreme Court justices

4-May-2011

The Supreme Court has confirmed the appointment of Jonathan Sumption QC as one of two new justices for the UK’s highest court.
Sumption: A love Supreme

4-May-2011

The worst kept secret since it emerged that Milli Vanilli may not be as musically gifted as it first appeared is finally out of the bag.
Sumption's Supreme Court elevation delayed by oligarch case

6-Apr-2011

Brick Court silk Jonathan Sumption QC is to act as lead counsel for Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich in his legal showdown with rival Boris Berezovsky, delaying his expected appointment to the Supreme Court.
Super branding

20-Mar-2012

It’s that time of the year when the Centre for Brand Analysis publishes its annual list of Superbrands.
Super Cooper

16-Feb-2010

When it comes to hiring somebody to fill the role of strategy director at one of the world’s largest outsourcing companies - CPA Global - you can’t really get more strategic than bringing on board Leah Cooper (see story).
Super Cooper and the Battle of St Paul's

1-Nov-2011

St Paul’s Cathedral has called on a higher power to help sort out its stand-off with anti-capitalist protestors. No, not Him - Winckworth Sherwood.
Supreme Court goes against insurers in Trigger litigation ruling

28-Mar-2012

Insurers could be forced to pay out hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation after the Supreme Court ruled against them in a landmark ruling affecting thousands of asbestos victims.
Supreme Court hears solicitor's age claim

17-Jan-2012

The Supreme Court has convened five of the country’s most senior judges to hear a landmark case over the social justifications that can be used to justify retiring a partner.
Supreme Court on hunt for 'exceptional' candidates to succeed Phillips SCJ as president

2-Apr-2012

The Supreme Court has began the hunt for a new president, with incumbent Lord Phillips set to retire on 30 September.
Supreme Court overturns CoA ruling in Reynolds defence case

21-Mar-2012

The Supreme Court has unanimously endorsed the use of the Reynolds defence, the right to claim a defence of public interest, in media cases.
Supreme Court overturns CoA's Pretty Polly hearing loss ruling

13-Apr-2011

The Supreme Court has refused to endorse a Court of Appeal (CoA) ruling on noise induced hearing loss, blocking the progression of what lawyers believe could have been thousands of hearing loss claims.
Supreme Court pays tribute to judge Lord Rodger

27-Jun-2011

The Supreme Court has paid tribute to Supreme Court justice Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, who has passed away after a short illness.
Supreme Court prepares to rule in Seldon age discrimination case

20-Apr-2012

The Supreme Court will next week (25 April) decide what justifications a partnership can use to retire a partner when it hands down judgment in Seldon v Clarkson Write & Jakes (CWJ).
Supreme Court president backs move away from traditional courtroom attire

21-Nov-2011

The president of the Supreme Court Lord Phillips has said that counsel appearing before the court may by agreement ditch traditional courtroom dress.
Supreme Court refuses further appeal in Baby P sacking case

2-Aug-2011

The Supreme Court has refused Haringey Council permission to appeal an earlier decision that found the authority’s former director of children’s services was unlawfully dismissed.
Supreme Court rejects damages bid in Atomic Veterans case

14-Mar-2012

Silks from Henderson Chambers and 4 New Square have helped the Government win a limitation judgment against a group of ex-servicemen in the ‘Atomic Veterans’ case.
Supreme Court rejects Seldon age discrimination case

25-Apr-2012

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by lawyer Lesley Seldon, who challenged his firm’s right to retire him at the age of 65.
Supreme Court rules in Lehman client money case

29-Feb-2012

The Supreme Court has ruled that hedge funds whose client money was not properly ring fenced when Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE) went into administration will have access to monies deposited in the UK division of the failed bank.
Supreme Court rules that expert witness immunity should be removed

30-Mar-2011

Hill Dickinson partner Paul Walton and Crown Office Row’s Roger ter Haar QC have been handed a major victory by the Supreme Court after it ruled that expert witnesses should not be immune from suit for breach of duty.
Supreme Court ruling to see former MPs stand trial over expenses claims

10-Nov-2010

The Supreme Court has ruled that three former Labour MPs must face a criminal trial over their expenses claims.
Supreme Court to have final say in Birmingham equal pay case

12-Apr-2012

The Supreme Court will decide whether the High Court has jurisdiction to hear equal pay claims after giving Birmingham City Council permission to appeal a Court of Appeal (CoA) ruling.
Supreme Court to rule in BBC Freedom of Information case

14-Feb-2012

The Supreme Court will tomorrow decide whether the BBC is obliged to publish a report on its Middle Eastern coverage under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act.
Supreme Court upholds CoA Lehman ruling using 200-year-old insolvency law

27-Jul-2011

A seven-strong panel of Supreme Court justices has dismissed an attempt by the trustees of Lehman Brothers to recoup £61m from noteholders, by upholding an insolvency law principle that has existed for 200 years.
Supreme Court upholds county ruling in cohabitation case

9-Nov-2011

The Supreme Court has today restored a county court judgment that supports a court’s right to decide the ’fairest’ way of dividing property when cohabiting couples split up.
Supreme Court win for BBC in FOI case

15-Feb-2012

The Supreme Court has ruled that the BBC is not required to publish details of its Middle Eastern reporting policy under the Freedom of Information Act.
Supreme issues

28-Oct-2009

The Supreme Court yesterday (27 October) assembled the country’s leading judges to decide whether to uphold a Court of Appeal decision that found that a Jewish school contravenes UK race discrimination laws and should therefore revise its admissions policy.
Supreme Justice?

4-May-2011

With the Prime Minister David Cameron becoming increasingly vocal about judicial behaviour you might expect the country’s leading judges wanting to step out of the limelight.
Supreme renovations

16-Sep-2009

“Here Justice sits and lifts her steady scale within the Abbey’s sight and Parliament’s but independent of them both.” The words of former poet laureate Andrew Motion are engraved on the stone benches that grace the entrance to the Supreme Court in Parliament Square, and they are fittingly grand.
Susie Barber: Minter Ellison

10-Sep-2010

If you could introduce one law, what would it be and why?An immigration law, so that more Kiwis can get British Passports.
Sweden's Magnusson eyes pan-Baltic reach with Helsinki launch

16-Feb-2011

Swedish firm Magnusson is set to open an office in Finland with six new partners, as the firm moves closer to its goal of total regional coverage.
Sweden's Magnusson to launch Tallinn base

28-Mar-2012

Swedish firm Magnusson has hired a duo of Estonian partners to continue its expansion into the Baltic region.
Sweden's Vinge calls time on London presence

5-Nov-2009

Swedish firm Vinge has closed its London office after deciding not to renew the lease on its New Bond Street office after it expired on 19 October.
Sweden's Vinge names new managing partner

27-Jan-2012

Swedish independent Vinge has appointed finance partner Maria-Pia Hope as its new managing partner.
Sweden's Vinge taps Howrey for Brussels competition partner

1-Dec-2010

Swedish firm Vinge has boosted its Brussels office with a competition lawyer from Howrey, two months after four partners left the US firm’s Belgium base.
Sweeting: Clifford Chance is not "driven solely by profits"

4-Nov-2010

Clifford Chance has elected finance partner Malcolm Sweeting as its new senior partner.
Switzerland's Froriep Renggli names new managing partner

2-Feb-2012

Swiss firm Froriep Renggli has elected banking and finance partner Catrina Luchsinger Gähwiler as managing partner.
Switzerland's Lachenal and Meyerlustenberger seal merger

26-Mar-2012

Swiss firms Lachenal & LeFort and Meyerlustenberger have merged to create an 85-lawyer outfit with offices across the country.
Switzerland's Pestalozzi revamps its management team

14-Dec-2011

Swiss firm Pestalozzi has elected a new management team, with litigation head Michael Kramer and financial services head Urs Klöti taking over as chair and managing partner respectively.
Take a Chance

16-Jul-2009

We keep trying not to write too much about Linklaters, honest. But the magic circle firm just keeps turning up the heat on its rivals.
Taking juries seriously

5-Dec-2011

Today’s Telegraph reports that a juror is to be charged in respect of internet research. The allegation is that Theodora Dallas – a lecturer – used the internet to look up details of a defendant in a trial on which she sat as a juror.
Taking photographs at Braehead Shopping Centre

14-Oct-2011

So what actually did happen at Braehead shopping centre just a week ago today? And what should we make of the extraordinary media storm that then followed? Was it all just because a man took an innocent photograph of his daughter only to be confronted by police under anti-terrorist powers?
Tall stories

22-Jul-2009

What’s 591 ft tall, has 40 floors and looks like a big fat vegetable?
Tartan troubles

6-Apr-2010

There’s a bit of a riot going on in Scotland and it’s all to do with alternative business structures (ABSs).
Tass Patsalides: Kennedys

4-Mar-2011

What time do you start work each day? I get up at 6am and am generally in the office between 9 and 9.30am
Taxing times

12-Jul-2010

The Government recently published details of its bank tax initiative. Louise Higginbottom and Judy Harrison look at the issues associated with such a levy and how it could impact on the UK economy
Taxing times for Lovells

7-Aug-2009

It’s not the grooviest area of law, but one firm will be thanking its lucky stars for the tax department this week.
Taylor Hampton advises as NightJack launches action against The Times

13-Apr-2012

Taylor Hampton partner Mark Lewis and consultant Patrick Daulby are representing hacked NightJack blogger Detective Constable Richard Horton in legal action against The Times.
Taylor Vinters in Singapore alliance

22-Jul-2010

Cambridge law firm Taylor Vinters has formed a second alliance with a Singapore law firm, in order to handle commercial and corporate transactions.
Taylor Wessing adds Orrick partner to finance team

9-Jan-2012

Taylor Wessing has boosted its finance practice with the hire of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe partner Elisabeth Gaunt.
Taylor Wessing adds Speechly Bircham partner to data protection practice

3-Jan-2012

Taylor Wessing has beefed up its data protection practice with the hire of Vinod Bange as a partner from Speechly Bircham.
Taylor Wessing admits Singapore alliance firm to network

9-Mar-2012

Taylor Wessing’s Singaporean strategic alliance firm RHT will join the UK firm’s international network and change its name to RHTLaw Taylor Wessing, effective from 16 March.
Taylor Wessing bulks up hotel team with Edwin Coe hire

11-Oct-2011

Taylor Wessing has hired Edwin Coe’s hotels and hospitality head Ronald Graham as it aims to strengthen its hotels group.
Taylor Wessing elects new senior partner as Winter's term ends

17-Nov-2011

Taylor Wessing has elected real estate partner Adam Marks as senior partner to replace Martin Winter, who has stood down after six years at the helm.
Taylor Wessing eyes £5m windfall from sale of due diligence division

3-Feb-2012

Taylor Wessing is planning to spin off its in-house due diligence division in a deal that could raise £5m for the firm.
Taylor Wessing eyes CEE expansion with local merger

4-May-2012

Taylor Wessing is expanding into Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) through a merger with Austrian-headquartered ENWC.
Taylor Wessing launches LGBT property network

12-Oct-2011

Taylor Wessing has launched a network for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people working in the property industry.
Taylor Wessing launches Polish venture

30-Apr-2009

Taylor Wessing has launched a strategic alliance with Polish practice BSJP following a longstanding informal relationship with the firm. Through the formal alliance Taylor Wessing now has corporate, banking and finance, real estate and infrastructure, IP and technology capabilities on the ground in Poland.
Taylor Wessing loses Frankfurt partner to local firm

10-Jan-2012

German independent Schalast & Partner has boosted its corporate team with the hire of Taylor Wessing partner Jürgen Heilbock.
Taylor Wessing mourns 91-year-old proofreader Reg Frary

16-Feb-2011

Taylor Wessing proofreader Reg Frary passed away last week at the age of 91 after more than 20 years at the City firm.
Taylor Wessing offers staff chance to buy extra holidays

21-Apr-2009

Taylor Wessing has unveiled a package of measures in response to the economic slump, including offering all employees an extra two weeks of holiday in return for a 3.85 per cent reduction in salary.
Taylor Wessing PEP drops by a third as turnover inches ahead

7-Jul-2009

Taylor Wessing has announced a fall in average profit per equity partner (PEP) of 29 per cent for the 2008-09 financial year.
Taylor Wessing picks up FFW trademark partner

7-Sep-2011

Taylor Wessing has bolstered its trademarks, copyright and media team with the hire of trademark specialist France Delord as partner.
Taylor Wessing promotes 12 in depleted round

17-May-2010

Taylor Wessing has made up 12 associates to its partnership, with just two in London, in a reduced round of partner promotions.
Taylor Wessing promotes 17 to the partnership

31-Jul-2009

Taylor Wessing has defied the economic slump by promoting 17 associates to its partnership, as many as Clifford Chance.
Taylor Wessing revenue 15 per cent down at half year

2-Dec-2009

Taylor Wessing claims it is on track to hit its financial targets for 2009-10 despite posting half-year figures showing a 15 per cent downturn.
Taylor Wessing revs up corporate with Brawn GP deal

26-Nov-2009

Taylor Wessing has bagged the mandate to act for Brawn GP on the Formula 1 team’s acquisition by Mercedes Benz parent company Daimler AG.
Taylor Wessing seals alliance with Singapore's RHT Law

31-Aug-2011

Taylor Wessing has signed an alliance with Singapore firm RHT Law as part of the City firm’s expansion project in Asia.
Taylor Wessing shakes up management as new partners take up roles

9-May-2012

Taylor Wessing has revamped its management team in a bid to see younger partners take on more responsibility at the firm.
Taylor Wessing takes anti-gay law case to ECHR

6-Feb-2012

Taylor Wessing has taken on its first case since signing up to the Human Dignity Trust’s legal panel, representing two men arrested in Turkish-controlled Cyprus under a law that criminalized gay sex.
Taylor Wessing thaws out associate pay freeze

16-Aug-2011

Taylor Wessing is bolstering its associate pay by around 2 per cent.
Taylor Wessing turns to SJ Berwin and Squire Sanders for IP hires

17-May-2011

Taylor Wessing has looked to rival firms SJ Berwin and Squire Sanders Hammonds as it continues the expansion of its IP practice.
Taylor Wessing unveils alternative to outsourcing

20-Apr-2011

Taylor Wessing has launched a new division offering automated data mining, due diligence and contract management services to its clients, as an alternative to outsourcing.
Taylor Wessing’s Singapore buddy RHT Law joins Interlex

28-Sep-2011

Taylor Wessing’s Singapore ally RHT Law has joined global law firm association Interlex Group as its exclusive Singapore member.
Taylor Wessing's Eyles re-elected on back of revenue jump

21-May-2012

Taylor Wessing UK managing partner Tim Eyles has been re-elected for a second term as the firm revealed a double-digit revenue increase for 2011-2012.
Taylor Wessing's highest-earning UK partner took home £703,000 in 2010-11

25-Jan-2012

Taylor Wessing’s top-earning UK partner raked in more than £703,000 in 2010-11, 20 per cent more than the highest paid partner got in 2009-10.
Taylor Wessing's revenues rise 4 per cent in first half of 2010-11

25-Nov-2010

Taylor Wessing has seen revenues nudge past the £80m point after the firm grew by four per cent for the first six months of the financial year.
Taylor Wessing's Singapore sling

31-Aug-2011

First it was Australia. Then came Casablanca. But Singapore is now flavour of the month when it comes to office openings.
Team moves – why do women partners stay put?

22-Nov-2011

It struck me just yesterday (over a very nice lunch with some female headhunter friends) that of the various partner team moves we have advised on over the last year or so, absolutely none of the teams were led by women partners and only about a third even included women at all.
Team of Withers litigators quits to launch City office for Australia's Lipman Karas

13-Mar-2012

Australian litigation boutique Lipman Karas is set to launch an office in London after taking a team of lawyers from Withers.
Telefónica O2 UK names new legal chief

1-Jun-2010

Telefónica O2 UK has restructured its senior in-house legal team, promoting Ed Smith to head of the group.
Televising the revolution

8-Sep-2011

Louise Restell argues the case for letting cameras into court
Tell me why I don't like Tuesdays

25-Jan-2011

Readers of a certain age will already be familiar with the concept.
Tell me why I don't like Tuesdays

25-Jan-2011

Readers of a certain age will already be familiar with the concept.
Ten firms win spots on BNP Paribas's revamped global panel

13-Jan-2012

BNP Paribas has revamped its roster of external advisers with 10 firms understood to have made the grade.
Ten firms win spots on panel serving 300 sporting bodies

3-Apr-2012

Ten law firms have been picked for the inaugural legal panel serving 300 national governing bodies of sport.
Ten-lawyer funds team defects from Walkers to Maples

30-Mar-2012

Maples and Calder has raided offshore rival Walkers for a 10-strong investment funds team that includes seven partners.
Terra Firma GC succeeds Hands as chief executive

18-Mar-2009

Terra Firma general counsel Tim Pryce has taken over from Guy Hands as chief executive of the private equity group.
Testing times

13-Oct-2010

Law firms have earned themselves a reputation for occasionally being a little behind the times.
Texas hold 'em?

6-Jul-2011

Should the English courts interfere with an arbitration that began outside its jurisdiction?
Thank heaven for the Law Society

16-Nov-2011

The nightmare is finally over. Or at least that’s how lawyers will be seeing it.
Thank you Marco Pierre White

28-Oct-2009

The celebrity chef has served up a case that allows for more puns than is surely healthy on a Wednesday afternoon.
Thaw blimey, A&O

11-May-2011

As any fool knows, refreezing poultry that has been taken out of the icebox in anticipation of a nice Sunday nosh isn’t the best idea.
The “what”, the “so what” and the “now what”

10-Oct-2011

One of my colleagues uses a line regularly when we are assessing how to turn a nice warm, fluffy idea into something that has some colder edges and a little more recognisable reality about it…
The Addleshaws revolt

23-May-2011

If there’s one thing that our friends in the North are famed for, it’s plain speaking.
The age old question – retiring partners

25-Apr-2012

In spite of the long-awaited decision in Seldon, firms will still have to give very careful consideration to any retirement age they choose to rely upon, says Susanne Foster
The Apprentice analysed...

8-Jun-2009

The last episode of The Apprentice saw a gang of former contestants return to help Kate and Yasmina with their final task - to design and market a new brand of chocolates.
The Bar

17-Sep-2010

Leading sets have been busy gearing up for a whole new series of challenges, varying from law firms seducing the best talent to making the most of the opportunities presented by the Legal Services Act.
The Belgians are coming!

20-Jan-2012

In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ’Belgium’ was considered the rudest word in the universe, though no one could quite remember why.
The Big Questions….Employment Rights

19-Oct-2011

Wouldn’t it be good if employment rights were simple: fair and reasonable treatment for people who apply for work and also people at work?
The BNP barrister

26-Mar-2010

What a complex world we live in.
The Budget 2012

21-Mar-2012

As Chancellor George Osborne delivers his third Budget, lawyers give their response to his changes
The business of risk

15-Mar-2010

For sale: one law firm, only slightly used.
The Capacities of Tony Baldry, a Barrister and MP

17-Mar-2010

Our tale begins on 28 February 2010, where the Independent on Sunday published the following apology to Tony Baldry, a barrister and also a Conservative MP:
The Chinese are coming

13-Feb-2012

Zhonglun W&D, the first Chinese law firm to launch in London, has lost its entire City team to rival firm Zhong Lun (see story).
The Co-operative: good with more than food

28-Mar-2012

The Co-operative has become the first consumer brand to be granted an ABS licence in what is either the legal industry’s second big bang, or first barbarians at the gate moment. Or possibly both.
The cost of justice

11-Jan-2010

Today the year kicks off properly - the combination of snow and New Year hangovers ensured that last week was fairly quiet.
The crime-fighting FSA

5-Aug-2009

It’s not easy to uphold the law in the mean streets of the Square Mile.
The defame game

15-Mar-2011

Those good, honest folk who populate the nation’s newsrooms will be throwing their trilbies in the air in triumph this afternoon after the MoJ published its long-awaited draft Defamation Bill (see story).
The DLA-ly Mail

Online

Is there anything that gets the juices pumping more than a hard-fought general election campaign? Well, yes plenty of things actually.
The Drift at Heron Tower

31-Oct-2011

Everything about Heron Tower is big. From its lofty status as the tallest building in London - at least for the moment - to the giant fish tank flanking an entire wall of its lobby.
The East Wing

22-Sep-2009

Linklaters has made a bit of a habit of spinning off offices it no longer sees as central to its strategy. Eastern Europe, where the firm’s offices in Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest and Prague broke away to form independent firm Kinstellar, is a case in point.
The end of an era for Pannone

25-May-2010

Joy Kingsley is leaving Pannone, the Manchester firm she has helped run for the last 15 years, for local rival JMW Solicitors.
The ex-Hogan Lovells partner facing jail

27-Mar-2012

One of the biggest stories of the legal market last year received a modicum of closure today as disgraced former Hogan Lovells partner Christopher Grierson pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud at Southwark Crown Court (see story).
The fame game

12-Jan-2010

It looks like Keira Knightley, Cristiano Ronaldo and Nicolas Cage are going to have to find another pit bull to keep details of their private lives out of the grubby mitts (from rummaging through bins) of the gutter press following Schillings partner Simon Smith’s shock exit from the firm.
The firm that ate Australia

19-Aug-2010

In the 1970s, during the much-neglected golden era for Australian cinema, a shamefully overlooked classic called The Cars That Ate Paris hit our screens.
The force is not with Sumption

27-Jul-2011

Theirs was an epic battle with consequences of galactic proportions.
The Fresh princes

7-Sep-2010

Freshfields is becoming a byword for running a tight ship, as revealed in The Lawyer UK 200 yesterday.
The Gilbert Scott

26-Sep-2011

Don’t think of it as a hotel restaurant. Think of it as a piece of fine tailoring…
The Golden child

13-Nov-2009

Nominations have now closed for the role to fill David Gold’s shoes as Herbert Smith’s top dog.
The Gospel according to Eversheds

13-Dec-2010

What with the X Factor, Pret’s seasonal sandwiches and those perfume ads starring the cutesy girl next door off of Amelie, it’s very easy to forget that Christmas is in fact all about the birth of a small child in the manger.
The happy few

8-Jun-2011

Watson Farley & Williams has become the latest UK firm to post a healthy jump in turnover, with revenue up 11 per cent on the previous financial year to £88.8m (see story).
The Hendy-man can

11-Nov-2009

When he stood down as head of Old Square chambers in April John Hendy QC was hoping his workload would lighten slightly.
The Indian summer

16-Oct-2009

Selling legal outsourcing to clients is easy. Selling it to your own staff is a different matter.
The ins and the outs

5-Feb-2010

Ashurst has obviously heard those rumours circulating about in-house lawyers being fed up with their greater job security and ability to leave the office at 5.30.
The Italian jobs

14-Sep-2009

Like its prime minister, Italy’s legal market is a law unto itself. Countless broken tie-ups between UK and local firms have only served to strengthen the notion that the Italian market is notoriously difficult to crack.
The Italian's job

23-May-2012

When Bonelli Erede Pappalardo partner Andrea Carlevaris becomes the secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court of Arbitration in September, he will be the first Italian to take up the role.
The law is far too important to be left to lawyers

7-Nov-2011

Working with lawyers when you aren’t one is a tricky business. I did it for four years and I now feel as if I could do anything. It’s not that I didn’t like any of them, many were actually good company and I even socialised with some
The Lawyer Award winners

23-Jun-2010

Whatever else is happening in the UK legal market today, one thing is certain: there are a few sore heads around the City right now.
The Lawyer Awards 2010: Winners

23-Jun-2010

Editor’s Award for Outstanding AchievementSponsored by Cavanagh Wealth Management Winner: Sir Geoffrey Vos
The Lawyer Awards 2010: Winners!

23-Jun-2010

The stars of the legal industry were out in force last night as The Lawyer Awards 2010 took place at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.
The Lawyer Awards 2011: Winners

22-Jun-2011

Banking and Finance Team of the Year
The Lawyer Awards Previous Winners: Law Firm of the Year

25-Jan-2011

Law Firm of The Year 2010: Berwin Leighton PaisnerLaw Firm of The Year 2009: Norton RoseLaw Firm of The Year 2008: ...
The Lawyer Awards: Norton Rose, Blackstone Chambers walk away with top trophies

22-Jun-2011

Norton Rose scooped the top prize at last night’s The Lawyer Awards when it was crowned Law Firm of the Year.
The Lawyer Eats: Bistro Bruno Loubet

13-Sep-2011

Gutsy and ballsy. Not me, but the food at Bistro Bruno Loubet, smack in the heart of Clerkenwell.
The Lawyer Eats: Oyster Shed

14-Feb-2012

Brecher managing partner Nicky Richmond tries out Geronimo Inns’ Oyster Shed on the City’s Angel Lane
The Lawyer European Awards 2010 - Travel Information

26-Aug-2010

For information on travel to / from Berlin, airport transfers and directions to the Hotel Adlon Kempinski, please click on the links below:
The Lawyer European Awards 2010: WINNERS

24-Sep-2010

Salans was last night crowned European Law Firm of the Year in The Lawyer’s second annual European Awards ceremony.
The Lawyer European Awards 2011: WINNERS

29-Sep-2011

Iberian firm Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira was last night named European Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer’s third annual European Awards.
The Lawyer European Awards and Conference Photo Gallery

25-Oct-2011
The Lawyer European Awards Photo Reel 2010

15-Oct-2010
The Lawyer European Awards Shortlist

31-Jul-2009

The inaugural The Lawyer European Awards ceremony is fast approaching and we can now reveal the firms and partners that have made the shortlist.
The Lawyer European Awards Shortlist 2011

28-Jun-2011

Law Firm of the Year: Austria
The Lawyer European Law Leaders Conference - Travel Information

26-Aug-2010

For information on travel to / from Berlin, airport transfers and directions to the Hotel Adlon Kempinski, please click on the links below:
The Lawyer European100 2012

26-Apr-2012

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The Lawyer Funds Summit 2012: Highlights

16-Dec-2011

Regulation was top of the diverse agenda at The Lawyer’s recent funds summit in Brussels.
The Lawyer HR Awards 2010

10-Feb-2010

Best graduate trainee recruitment campaignSponsored by The College of Law
The Lawyer HR Awards 2011 - WINNERS

9-Feb-2011

Most effective internal communicationSponsored by HR in Law
The Lawyer Summit 2010 Programme

13-May-2010

This year’s Summit theme mirrors the business anxieties and potential opportunities we are all facing:
The Lawyer Workplace & Diversity awards: WINNERS

8-Feb-2012

Last night saw the presentation of The Lawyer’s Workplace & Diversity Awards at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, the ceremony recognising those firms with outstanding records in retaining and rewarding their talent.
The lawyer, the BBC and the Freedom of Information Act.

15-Feb-2012

The determination of lawyer Stephen Sugar and his widow Fiona Paveley to force the BBC to reveal details of the 2004 Balen Report into its Middle East reporting has meant that this case has been before the courts at least 10 times - discounting judicial review attempts.
The lawyer, the BBC and the Freedom of Information Act.

15-Feb-2012

The Supreme Court today brought to an end the long-running battle between lawyer Stephen Sugar and the BBC over whether it is obliged, under the Freedom of Information Act, to release an internal report on its coverage of Israeli/Palestinian relations (see blog). It is not.
The Lehman collapse: David Morley's view

15-Sep-2009

Allen & Overy senior partner David Morley recalls how the fallout from Lehman Brother’s collapse impacted on the firm.
The Lehman collapse: James Bateson's view

15-Sep-2009

Norton Rose financial institutions head James Bateson’s wedding anniversary was interrupted by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Here he shares his memories of the day.
The Lehman collapse: Kevin O'Shea's view

15-Sep-2009

Allen & Overy’s US managing partner Kevin O’Shea looks back on the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The Lehman collapse: Stephen Lloyd's view

15-Sep-2009

Ashurst corporate head Stephen Lloyd lists his memories of the day Lehman Brothers collapsed.
The Lehman collapse: Steve Davis's view

16-Sep-2009

Looking back on the Lehman crisis Dewey & LeBoeuf chairman Steve Davis says that the years of law firms providing students with guaranteed big salaries to pay off their student debts were as much a bubble as anything seen in the US housing market.
The Lehman collapse: the banking sector analysed

15-Sep-2009

Before the collapse of Lehman Brothers banking teams were holding their own, but since then they are united in their battle to stay on top.
The Lehman collapse: Tony Bugg's view

15-Sep-2009

Linklaters partner Tony Bugg, who was part of the team instructed by Lehman Brothers administrator Tony Lomas at PricewaterhouseCoopers, recalls the events leading up to and immediately following the bank’s collapse.
The magic circle's motions

6-Jul-2011

Idly dabbling in classical physics as we do on a Wednesday, we note with pleasure that both David Childs and Wim Dejonghe are embracing Newton’s First Law with gusto.
The MBA – an essential tool for ambitious lawyers or just an expensive luxury?

26-Oct-2011

The greater emphasis on risk management and compliance and the potential for the development of new Alternative Business Structures (ABSs) that the Legal Services Act has introduced is likely to have a significant effect on legal services in England and Wales. In particular, it is likely to focus lawyers’ minds on how they manage the practices they work within in a more effective and disciplined way.
The Midlands: The new Middle East

14-Jun-2011

Bespoke and cost effective. No, A Suit That Fits isn’t opening yet another store (although, it probably is); this, dear readers, is the banner under which Trowers & Hamlins is opening in Birmingham.
The missing Link

22-Sep-2010

The news that Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s former chairman Bob Link has quit the firm is unlikely to have too many people weeping in the street (see story).
The nationals aren't so grand

13-Jun-2011

And they’re off…Today saw the first of the top ten UK firms post their financial figures and it was underwhelming, to say the least. DLA Piper | posted a 1 per cent rise globally (including the non financially integrated US arm) while Eversheds’ turnover was flat.
The New Data Protection Regulation – An Opportunity Missed

27-Jan-2012

On Wednesday 25 January we saw the European Commission’s proposal for updating the European Union’s data protection regime in the form of a new Data Protection Regulation.
The new Denning

23-Jul-2009

David Neuberger’s trajectory from Law Lord to Master of the Rolls mimics both Lord Woolf and Lord Denning (see story).
The only way is Ilford

22-Aug-2011

Beleaguered despot and natty dresser Colonel Gaddafi has not had a fantastic weekend.
The Paradigm of Employment Law

30-Mar-2012

The IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee and the IBA Discrimination Law Committee conference, titled the Paradigm of Employment Law, started in New York this week.
The partnership and the pea

14-Dec-2009

There is one real stand-out story of the past month and its concerns a new-look Maples and Calder.
The pointlessness of a law degree

17-Feb-2012

What is a law degree for? What is the point of the LLB? Well, if one wants to be a law academic, it is a useful way to start.
The race is on

19-Aug-2009

Litigators have been waiting in the wings for a while for their boom time. The former Lord Chancellor Charlie Falconer appeared to have fired the starting gun for the upswing when he announced last September that the collapse of Lehman Brothers would trigger an explosion of mega-litigation. In hindsight Falconer’s crystal ball gazing now looks a little off the mark.
The Retail Maze

2-Dec-2011

The performance of prime retail areas such as London’s Bond Street stands in contrast to the rising vacancies and falling investment that characterises regional high streets across Britain. The widening differentiation between retail locations is creating a tiered retail market.
The Rib Room

30-Nov-2011

The Rib Room sounds like some feminist gathering place, which is an odd choice for The Lawyer to send a male lawyer, seeing as how our profession is so notoriously sexist.
The saga continues...

19-Jan-2012

If you thought the furore surrounding the News of the World (NoW) phone-hacking claims had died down, you were wrong.
The Savoy Grill

24-Oct-2011

Offered the Savoy Grill to review, I jumped at it. I was thinking about the Savoy of old, of course, a place of legend. A grown up sort of a place, somewhere you might be taken by your kindly uncle, up from the country to visit his stockbroker and who would repair afterwards to his club, for a snifter and a snooze. If you lived in a 1950’s film that is.
The Secret Service

10-Aug-2009

Should offshore jurisdictions band together to combat the barrage of political rhetoric haunting their shores? Walkers’ global managing partner Grant Stein certainly thinks so.
The Square

7-Dec-2011

I am meeting Bill Hughes, the Managing Director of Legal and General Property, at The Square in Bruton Street-the beating heart of Hedgefundshire. This is the land of Juicy Couture, Jack Barclay’s Bentley dealership and Stella McCartney.
The tangled web we weave - should firms check an employee's online presence?

8-Mar-2012

Legal blogger Ashley Connick asks whether law firms have the right to check out potential employees’ online profiles
The Times They Are A-Blamin'

26-Apr-2012

Being told that your behaviour has appalled even Rupert Murdoch must be one of the most singularly unnerving experiences imaginable - second only to being told you hold sexist views by the Daily Mail.
The Times They Are A'changin'

3-Nov-2009

Like the great Bob Dylan, Linklaters has gone electric. Hear us out…
The toxic law firm

18-Apr-2012

The recession has, whether law firms realise it yet or not, created an environment in many UK firms that is mildly hostile to its individual partners.
The trainees left without a job

22-Jul-2010

Sometimes a geographical accident can make difference to your entire life.
The Twitter “Bomb Hoax” case: worse than we thought?

2-Mar-2010

An apparent bomb hoax should be taken seriously. But the charging and prosecution of Paul Chambers for making an ill-conceived joke on Twitter raises serious issues for anyone interested in social media and the role of criminal law; for Paul Chambers was not charged or prosecuted – at least not directly - for making a bomb hoax at all.
The Twitter Joke Trial and the Lawyers

30-Sep-2010

The prosecution and conviction of Paul Chambers for his exasperated but light-hearted tweet is an absurdity.
The UEFA financial fair play regulations - is the playing field being levelled?

25-Oct-2011

At a meeting of the Kings Sport Network in Manchester on 17 November, an assembly of almost 90 external advisors alongside in house counsel from some of the UK’s largest Football Clubs indicated that despite worthy intentions, UEFA’s new ‘break even’ rules may not succeed.
The UK is already open for business

22-Feb-2012

Former defence secretary Liam Fox is wrong to call for deregulation of the UK labour market; it’s already deregulated enough, says Paul Callaghan
The UK millionaires' club

15-Aug-2011

After months of chasing figures and crunching numbers The Lawyer today reveals the stats that say the most about the UK’s Top 100 law firms.
The UK’s Top Legal Tweeters in October 2011: A personal view

7-Oct-2011

Who are the top legal Twitter accounts? Well, one instructive way of answering – which also has limitations - is to look at who has the most followers.
The unspoken tyranny at law firms

10-Oct-2011

You can stop laughing now. Yes, I have been asked to write a regular blog. Who’d want to listen to me you may well ask? Well, I have been musing on why, given that I’m not a legal household name, I have been given this opportunity.
The upper crust

11-Apr-2012

Society has a curious ambivalence towards elitism at the moment.
The US of A&O

9-May-2012

US firms: they take our jobs, they take our partners, they take our associates. Just ask Clifford Chance, SJ Berwin, Freshfields and Salans.
The wish list

29-Jul-2009

How many defamation judges does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one, because that’s all there is on the bench.
The Workplace and Diversity Awards Shortlist

2-Dec-2011

Award for excellence in training
There might be giants

23-Jun-2011

As all your mythographer friends will tell you, giants are strong, violent and associated with primeval chaos and beanstalks.
Thinking about the NightJack story

19-Apr-2012

Why the journalist who outed the NightJack blogger should not be made a scapegoat
Thirteen firms win spots on Qatari Diar's inaugural panel

22-Mar-2012

Allen & Overy, Eversheds, Nabarro and Norton Rose are among 13 firms appointed to Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company’s first-ever legal panel.
Thirteen opt to defer Dentons training contracts

27-May-2009

Thirteen future Denton Wilde Sapte trainees have taken up the firm’s offer of a payment of up to £10,000 to defer for 12 months.
Thirty Six by Nigel Mendham at Dukes

23-Nov-2011

Before last week there were three things I knew about Dukes Hotel – that Ian Fleming enjoyed martinis there, shaken not stirred, that a charming surgeon client of mine uses it as a London bolt hole and that an army-boy friend spent his wedding night there after a beau monde St James’s ceremony.
Thomas Eggar revamps management as first female head takes the helm

2-Apr-2012

Thomas Eggar partners have elected litigation head Victoria Brackett as the firm’s first-ever female managing partner while also revamping its overall management function.
Thomas Eggar's new private client chief vows to attract work to regions

14-Apr-2010

Thomas Eggar has appointed Richard Jordan to replace Patricia Woolgar as head of its private client group.
Thompsons Solicitors crowned most diverse in BSN’s latest league table

17-Dec-2009

The proportion of ethnic minority partners at the UK’s largest firms has remained broadly static over the last year, although there are still proportionately far fewer ethnic minority partners than there are trainees.
Thomson Reuters enters LPO market with Pangea 3 acquisition

19-Nov-2010

Thomson Reuters has acquired one of India’s largest pure play legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies Pangea3
Thorpe LJ slates counsel in civil partnership settlement appeal

29-Mar-2012

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has overturned a first instance decision to award an actor £1.7m following the break-up of his civil partnership to a City analyst.
Thought, provoked

23-Mar-2011

As George Osborne dazzles the nation with his devilishly cunning plans for how to prompt economic growth, cut costs, tackle inflation and improve healthcare provisions for captive polar bears all at the same time, it would be unsurprising if he hadn’t sought a bit of counsel.
Three partners leave Halliwells to launch Manchester office for Plexus

9-Nov-2009

Plexus Law has hired a three-partner insurance liability team from Halliwells to launch an office in Manchester.
Tiger Woods' UK lawyer quits Schillings

12-Jan-2010

Schillings partner Simon Smith has left the media boutique weeks after winning a controversial injunction on behalf of golfer Tiger Woods.
Time to equitise your HR director

15-Mar-2012

At a time when most law firms are looking at how they can reduce the size of their equity partnerships, restrict entry to the equity and make sure that as few equity partners as possible are in a position where they are doing no fee-earning work, what I am about to do may seem odd, if not borderline insane.
'tis the season...

3-Dec-2010

As anyone who has cracked open the first three days of their Simpsons advent calendar will testify, Christmas is fast approaching.
TLT eschews conduct code to bag trainees ahead of September deadline

13-Aug-2009

Bristol-based TLT Solicitors has defended its controversial decision to offer training contracts to applicants ahead of the usual 1 September deadline.
TLT hires Halliwells litigation duo for nascent City office

28-Jun-2010

TLT has swooped for Halliwells finance litigation partners David Pacey and Richard Clayton as the fallout from the Manchester firm’s move into administration continues.
To arbitrate

9-Apr-2009

The advantages of arbitration in a global business environment cannot be ignored, argues Essam Al Tamimi
To boldly go

4-Feb-2010

Forget the return of corporate - it’s all about rows these days. Well, it is if you’re at Bingham or Freshfields.
To guarantee or not to guarantee? An invalid question

25-Nov-2011

After much deliberation the Court of Appeal has decided that a contractual requirement for an outgoing tenant’s guarantor to guarantee an assignee’s liability is invalid. Phew, all clear on that now? Probably not, but what does this all mean for the property industry and its lawyers?
To Russia with love

15-Apr-2010

t’s relocation, relocation, relocation time over at Clifford Chance as a trio of top partners pack their bags for pastures new.
Tobacco companies drop judicial review proceedings over display ban

25-Jan-2012

Four leading tobacco manufacturers have dropped their judicial review bid against the Government’s plan to introduce a display ban on tobacco products.
Tods Murray bolts on private client boutique

23-Jan-2012

Scottish firm Tods Murray has absorbed two-partner private client firm Fyfe Ireland.
Tom Gone

13-Jul-2011

Today’s news is dominated by the Fleet Street-related saga of mysterious dealings at the heart of one of the UK’s best-known national institutions.
Tom Harkus: SNR Denton

1-Oct-2010

If you could introduce one law, what would it be and why? A four-day week. We got the balance wrong somewhere.
Tonucci picks up Grimaldi partner as Milan chief

9-Feb-2012

Tonucci & Partners has become the first firm to announce the hire of a partner from Clifford Chance’s former Italian ally Grimaldi e Associati, which dissolved in December.
Top firms losing out to upstarts in social media sphere

3-Aug-2011

Many of the UK’s leading law firms are failing to make full use of marketing and networking opportunities available through social media, setting them apart from more recent entrants to the legal market.
Top firms reject candidates with 'working class accents'

21-Dec-2010

The UK’s top law firms are rejecting well-qualified candidates because their accents are too ’working class’, according to a new study.
Top libel judge Eady makes way for Tugendhat

15-Sep-2010

Mr Justice Eady, the country’s most senior libel judge, has been replaced as the head of the Queen’s Bench jury and non-jury lists by Mr Justice Tugendhat.
Top of the BLP tree

11-Jan-2011

Over at Berwin Leighton Paisner, the drinks are on… well, someone.
Top of the PEPS

19-Aug-2009

In September The Lawyer will publish the UK 200 Annual Report 2009, the definitive guide to the finances of the UK’s largest law firms. But with the financial reporting season now in full swing, the Top of the PEPS will keep you up to date with the results as they happen.
Top of the Peps 2010

13-Jul-2010

See how your firm has done in comparison with your rivals in this most turbulent of financial years
Top of the Pophams

29-Mar-2011

So, one of the biggest names in law exits stage left.
Top Russian firms unite to advance rule of corporate law

14-Sep-2011

A collection of Russian firms have jointly founded a non-profit partnership in a bid to advance the development of corporate law in the country.
Top UK law firms unite to launch social mobility scheme

14-Sep-2011

First profession-wide work experience scheme unveiled as 23 top firms sign up
Top-earning Nabarro partner took home £484,000 in 2010-11

26-Jan-2012

Nabarro’s top-earning partner got £484,000 in the 2010-11 financial year, down 4 per cent from £505,000 in 2009-10.
Tory minister admits new court interpreter system is 'unacceptable'

2-Mar-2012

The parliamentary under-secretary of state for prisons and youth justice has admitted that the Government’s new court interpreter system is “unacceptable”.
Total eclipse of the heart

10-Mar-2010

Over the last year London has become notorious as the destination of choice for libel tourists, almost eclipsing its reputation as the divorce capital of the world. After all, aside from Katie and Peter, celebrity divorce court battles have been thin on the ground in the past 12 months.
Total litigation

9-Dec-2009

The much anticipated litigation explosion barely mustered a whimper in 2009, but 2010 is shaping up to be a vintage year for litigators.
TPG turns to Cravath for hire of general counsel

9-Jun-2010

Cravath Swaine & Moore corporate partner Ronald Cami has joined private equity house TPG Capital as general counsel.
Tracey Green, Hogan Lovells

27-Jun-2011

What is the most unusual Christmas present that you have received from a colleague? A solar-powered blue tit.
Trafigura fee day

2-Mar-2011

The senior costs judge, Chief Master Hurst, has ordered Leigh Day to cut the 100 per cent success fee it charged for bringing a group action against oil company Trafigura to 58 per cent.
Train in vain?

14-Apr-2011

Anyone out there fancy being a lawyer? You couldn’t pick an easier time, apparently.
Transport for London launches review of legal panel

20-Apr-2012

A raft of firms are vying for places on Transport for London’s (TfL) legal panel, as the local government body carries out its first review in five years.
Travers advises on launch of Metro Bank

5-Aug-2010

Travers Smith has landed a prime role in the establishment of the first high street bank in the UK for more than 100 years.
Travers' highest earner got £1.3m profit share in 2010-11, LLPs reveal

4-Apr-2012

Travers Smith’s highest-earning partner made just over £1.3m in the 2010-11 financial year, the firm’s latest accounts show.
Travers latest to turn up heat

9-Jul-2010

Today is the hottest day of the year, apparently. And it isn’t just the mercury that’s rising. PEP is once again on the march northwards at some firms.
Travers looks to expand US ties as current buddies grow in City

9-Mar-2012

Travers Smith is reviewing its relationships with US firms in response to its current best friends expanding their London presence.
Travers makes up part-time partner in latest promos round

12-May-2011

Travers Smith has made up a part-time partner for the first time as part of a five-strong promotion round.
Travers offers trainees £10,000 to defer

27-Mar-2009

Travers Smith has emerged as the most generous law firm so far in relation to deferring trainee solicitor start dates.
Travers partners see profit shares dip after year of flat revenues

8-Jul-2011

Travers Smith has announced its preliminary financial results for the 2010-11 financial year, with average profit per equity partner (PEP) falling 8 per cent from £705,000 to £650,000.
Travers shuns corporate in promotions round

22-May-2009

M&A specialist Travers Smith has ignored its largest practice area in the annual promotions round.
Travers Smith and Macfarlanes lead on Collins Stewart deal

21-Dec-2011

Macfarlanes and Travers Smith have won roles on the long-awaited takeover of London mid-cap stockbroker Collins Stewart Hawkpoint by Canadian bank Canaccord Financial.
Travers Smith names employment head Lilley as next chief

28-May-2009

Travers Smith has named a successor to managing partner Chris Carroll, handing the firm’s leadership to head of employment Andrew Lilley.
Travers Smith sees PEP soar 53 per cent to £705,000

9-Jul-2010

Travers Smith has staged a stunning financial recovery, with revenues projected to be £72m for the 2009-10 financial year.
Travers Smith welcomes eight to partnership

16-May-2012

Travers Smith has announced an increased promotions round this year, with eight associates, including one part-time lawyer, stepping up to the partnership.
Travers' super team

22-Jun-2011

For some firms the litigation surge has provided the opportunity to reposition in the market. Recognising Travers Smith’s ability to do just that, last night The Lawyerawarded the firm the Litigation Team of the Year gong at its annual awards ceremony.
Travers welcomes four new partners in promos round

12-May-2010

Travers Smith has promoted four lawyers to its partnership for the third year running.
Trevor Soames latest partner to quit Howrey

20-Jan-2011

Howrey’s Brussels head and global antitrust co-chair Trevor Soames has become the latest partner to quit the firm.
Trial and error

22-Oct-2009

In the case of ex-Guantanámo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, the Government could learn a lot from the actions of the judges that it opposes, says Clare Algar
Trial by jury

2-Jun-2010

Once considered to be a bastion of British justice, it appears that trial by jury in libel cases has fallen out of vogue and could soon be stopped altogether.
Trigger happy

28-Mar-2012

The Supreme Court has today established that all employers’ liability (EL) insurance cover is triggered at the point of exposure to toxic materials that cause the asbestos-related disease mesothelioma rather than when the disease starts to develop.
Trinity appoints SNR Denton partner as private equity head

23-Mar-2011

Niche corporate firm Trinity International has expanded its team by appointing SNR Denton partner Hugh Naylor as head of private equity.
Trio do battle for Camerons senior partner role as Lane is knocked out

22-Mar-2011

CMS Cameron McKenna’s head of regulated industries Robert Lane has been eliminated from the firm’s senior partner elections.
Trio of Baltic firms team up to become regional player

7-Dec-2011

Three firms from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have come together to create a new pan-Baltic brand with over 40 lawyers.
Trio of firms advise on sale of US Embassy in London

4-Nov-2009

The US State Department has signed a deal to sell its UK Embassy at Grosvenor Square with Herbert Smith, Maples Teesdale and Lovells bagging key roles.
Trio of firms benefit from final BLG exodus on day of Clydes merger

1-Nov-2011

Edwards Wildman, Hogan Lovells and SNR Denton have all hired partners from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) as the firm today merges with Clyde & Co.
Trio of firms seal £855m Singapore Sports Hub PPP

26-Aug-2010

Ashurst, Hogan Lovells and Norton Rose secured leading roles on the financial close of the S$1.8bn (£855m) Singapore Sports Hub PPP.
Trio of firms win role on creation of currency trading platform

12-Nov-2009

Clifford Chance, Denton Wilde Sapte and Simmons & Simmons have acted on the creation of a new exchange-traded currency (ETC) platform.
Trio of firms win spots on Halfords' first-ever panel

7-Jul-2011

UK firms DWF, Foot Anstey and Pinsent Masons have scored places on Halfords’ first panel of external legal advisers following a competitive procurement process.
Trio of London boroughs merge legal services as part of spending squeeze

9-Feb-2011

Three London boroughs have announced their plans to merge back office functions, including legal services, in a move designed to generate £35m of savings by 2014.
Trio of partners do battle for Linklaters' senior partner role

10-Mar-2011

Three partners are set to compete to replace Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne after the magic circle firm’s international board reduced its original five-strong long list.
Trio of partners prepare to battle for Herbies senior partner role

13-Nov-2009

Herbert Smith’s CIS head has joined the race to become the firm’s next senior partner, meaning three candidates will now fight it out for the role.
Trio of Paul Hastings partners return to Hunton & Williams

20-May-2010

Three former Hunton & Williams partners have returned to the firm from its US rival Paul Hastings.
Trio of Payne Hicks partners form spin-off private client boutique

20-May-2010

Three Payne Hicks Beach private client partners will leave the firm next month to set up a boutique private client practice.
Trio of top City firms advise on £1.5bn Gatwick sell-off

21-Oct-2009

Allen & Overy (A&O), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have advised on the sale of Gatwick Airport, Britain’s second-busiest airport.
Trio of UK firms win places on United Drug's legal roster

22-Nov-2011

DAC Beachcroft, Eversheds and Pinsent Masons have joined two Irish firms on healthcare supplier United Drug’s first legal panel.
Trio of US firms advise on BP's disposal of Pan American Energy

29-Nov-2010

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Baker & McKenzie and Sullivan & Cromwell have won the prize mandates on the sale of BP’s stake in its Argentinian joint venture, Pan American Energy.
Trowers bulks up newly merged Egypt base with hire from Eversheds' Saudi sponsor

13-Jan-2011

Trowers & Hamlins has merged with its alliance partner in Egypt and further expanded in Cairo with the hire of an office head from Eversheds’ Saudi Arabia sponsor firm.
Trowers lays off 17 in London

16-Apr-2009

Trowers & Hamlins has made 17 members of staff redundant in its London office, following a third consultation at the firm. This brings the total number of redundancies at the firm to 28.
Trowers makes up 11 to partner, seven in London

27-Mar-2012

Trowers & Hamlins has made up 11 partners in its annual round of promotions, with seven of the new members based in London.
Trowers names new UAE chief for embattled Middle East practice

6-Sep-2011

Trowers & Hamlins has named Bahrain partner Abdullah Mutawi as the new head of its United Arab Emirates practice in a strategic effort to reassert its presence in the Middle East.
Trowers promotes four to partner

30-Mar-2010

Trowers & Hamlins has promoted four lawyers to partner across its global offices.
Trowers promotions rise by 75 per cent

25-Mar-2009
Trowers pulls out of Riyadh as sole lawyer defects to alliance firm

23-Feb-2012

Trowers & Hamlins has been forced to terminate its exclusive alliance in Riyadh after its last associate in the city jumped ship to the firm’s local ally.
Trowers sees PEP fall 20 per cent in 2010-11

18-Jul-2011

Trowers & Hamlins has recorded a 20 per cent drop in average profit per equity partner (PEP) and a 12 per cent drop in revenue for the 2010-11 financial year.
Trowers slashes benefits for Middle East lawyers

2-Apr-2009

Trowers & Hamlins has cut benefits for its Middle East staff, potentially reducing individual employees’ disposable income by thousands of pounds.
Trowers spreads its UK wings with Birmingham branch

14-Jun-2011

Trowers & Hamlins is set to open a new office in Birmingham, with a focus on providing low-cost legal services to the affordable housing sector.
Trowers to become Slaughters' neighbour with Bunhill Row move

21-Jul-2011

Trowers & Hamlins is moving its London headquarters from Tower Hill to 3 Bunhill Row next year, a site previously occupied as a secondary office by Linklaters.
Trucking giant Eddie Stobart enters legal market with barristers business

18-May-2012

Transport company Eddie Stobart lorries has launched a legal service that promises to connect businesses to barristers without having to go through a solicitor.
Tugendhat J redefines meaning of defamation

16-Jun-2010

Mr Justice Tugendhat today raised the bar for defamation claims in a High Court ruling that found the definition of defamation must include a qualification or threshold of seriousness.
Tugendhat J refuses to lift order on Fred Goodwin's affair

9-Jun-2011

Matrix Chambers’ Hugh Tomlinson QC has won a partial High Court victory for the woman said to have had an affair with RBS CEO Sir Fred Goodwin, after Mr Justice Tugendhat refused to lift the order banning publication of her name but did permit publication of her occupation.
Tugendhat J rejects bid to refer Goodwin privacy case to attorney general

27-May-2011

The High Court has refused to refer to the Attorney General a contempt of court action against Associated Newspapers brought by the woman alleged to have had an affair with Fred Goodwin.
Tugendhat J slams conduct of Giggs, Thomas and News Group

2-Mar-2012

The country’s most senior media judge Mr Justice Tugendhat has criticised Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs, the woman he allegedly had an affair with Imogen Thomas and News Group Newspapers (NGN) for their conduct in their legal wrangling over a tabloid story about the alleged affair.
Tugendhat J slams Solicitors from Hell creator for 'abusing court process'

5-Apr-2011

The country’s leading defamation judge Mr Justice Tugendhat has upheld a defamation claim against the ‘Solicitors from Hell’ website and told its creator Rick Kordowski he abused court process.
Tulkinghorn: The swot team

6-Apr-2009

CMS Cameron McKenna associates sent to brush up on their skills at Goethe University in Frankfurt received more than they bargained for, Tulkinghorn hears.
Turbervilles sues former associate over missing client money

19-Apr-2012

A law firm is suing one of its former employees for allegedly siphoning off almost £140,000 from its client account.
Turkey's Bener bolsters litigation team with Yapi Kredi Sigorta hire

3-Jan-2012

Turkish independent Bener Law Office has appointed its ninth partner, promoting Sezai Sur to be head of litigation.
Turkish DLAight

23-Feb-2010

The importance of the BRIC economies as potential revenue-generators is something that expansionist firms such as DLA Piper picked up on long ago, launching offices and associations as local regulations would allow.
Turkish firm Bener acquires local rival Küçük

2-Dec-2011

Turkey’s Bener Law Office has acquired local four-lawyer litigation boutique Küçük & Küçük Law Firm.
Turner report recommends extra FSA enforcement over bank failures

12-Dec-2011

Directors of failed banks should be held accountable for their actions according to the long-awaited report into the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in 2008.
Turnover and PEP both up at Latham & Watkins

16-Feb-2012

Latham & Watkins has posted an 11.6 per cent rise in total turnover along with a 14.1 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2011 financial year.
Turnover and PEP down at Nabarro

29-Jun-2010

Nabarro has posted a 10 per cent drop in turnover alongside a double-digit fall in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2009-10 financial year.
Turnover and PEP up at Holland & Knight

15-Feb-2012

Turnover rose 3 per cent at Holland & Knight last year from $552m to $568m while average profit per equity partner (PEP) jumped 11 per cent, from $802,000 to $890,000.
Turnover and PEP up at Lewis Silkin

16-Jul-2010

Lewis Silkin has posted a marginal increase in turnover for the 2009-10 financial year, with revenue rising 1.5 per cent from £31.2m to £31.7m.
Turnover and PEP up at Macfarlanes

8-Jul-2011

Macfarlanes has posted is financial results for the 2010-11 financial year, with turnover increasing 2.5 per cent from £92.4m to £94.7m.
Turnover and PEP up at Watson Farley

8-Jun-2011

Watson Farley & Williams saw turnover grow by 11 per cent over the 2010-11 financial year with average profit per equity partner (PEP) rising by 2.2 per cent.
Turnover and profit down at Kaye Scholer

1-Feb-2012

Kaye Scholer has posted drops in both total revenue and average profit for the 2011 financial year.
Turnover and profit up at Taylor Wessing

26-May-2011

Taylor Wessing has posted an eight per cent increase in global revenue, citing Dubai and China as large sources of growth.
Turnover at Freshfields fell 4 per cent in 2010-11, LLPs reveal

18-Jan-2012

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s turnover dropped nearly 4 per cent in the 2010-11 financial year, audited figures show.
Turnover down at Olswang despite strong European showing

10-Nov-2010

Olswang has posted a slight drop in fee income for the 2010-11 half year.
Turnover down, PEP up at Taylor Wessing

24-Jun-2010

Taylor Wessing has seen its global turnover fall by 5.3 per cent at the 2009-10 year-end, from £188m a year ago to £178m.
Turnover nudges up 2 per cent at Field Fisher

25-May-2011

Field Fisher Waterhouse has posted a modest increase in turnover of two per cent for the 2010-11 financial year.
Turnover nudges up 2 per cent at Olswang

19-May-2011

Olswang has seen a slight rise in revenue for the 2010-11 financial year, with turnover up 2 per cent to £92.6m.
Turnover nudges up at Newcastle's Dickinson Dees

16-May-2012

Dickinson Dees has announced turnover of £46.1m and total remuneration of £12.1m for the 2011-12 financial year.
Turnover rise sees Eversheds post half-year figure of £184m

14-Nov-2011

Eversheds has posted a near 7 per cent rise in turnover at the half-year stage, with revenue sitting at £184.1m.
Turnover up 5.5 per cent at Sidley's London base

15-Mar-2012

Revenue growth at Sidley Austin’s City office appears to be mirroring the firm’s global performance, with last year’s revenue rising by 5.5 per cent.
Turnover up at 2Birds as PEP remains flat

6-Jul-2011

Bird & Bird grew total revenue by 6 per cent during 2010-11 to £214.6m from £201.8m while average profit per equity partner (PEP) remained virtually flat at £467,000.
Turnover up at Germany's Heuking Kühn

21-Feb-2012

German independent Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has posted strong financial results for a second successive year, with turnover up 8.5 per cent between 2010 and 2011.
TV star Thomas innocent of football blackmail, High Court hears

15-Dec-2011

Mr Justice Eady’s decision to grant an injunction to “well-known footballer” CTB on the basis he was blackmailed by reality television star Imogen Thomas was called into question today in an unusual High Court hearing.
Tweet you in court

16-Jan-2012

Last month, the Lord Chief Justice delivered guidance clearing the way for Tweeting from Court.
Twelve lawyers follow SJ Berwin real estate chief to Irwin Mitchell

9-Nov-2010

SJ Berwin has seen a further 12 lawyers from its real estate team follow former practice leader Jon Vivian to Irwin Mitchell.
Twitter libel case gifts roles to QCs from One Brick Court and Ely Place

6-Mar-2012

Silks from One Brick Court and Ely Place Chambers are going head-to-head in a libel claim that has been launched in response to a Twitter posting.
Twitter ye not, Norton Rose

12-Jan-2011

“Yeah well, sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand,” Paul Newman once said.
Two City lawyers get the nod as Edwards Angell promotes five

12-Jan-2011

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has promoted two partners in London in a five-strong annual promotions round.
Two elevated to Macfarlanes partnership

1-May-2009

Macfarlanes has responded to the gloomy economic climate by cutting annual partner promotions to two. Last year the firm made up five associates in the debt finance, corporate tax, property and litigation groups. (27 March 2008).
Two ex-Edwards Wildman partners launch legal action against firm and managing partner

20-Jan-2012

Two former partners at US firm Edwards Wildman Palmer are suing the firm and its managing partner Walter Reed in relation to the alleged fallout of a romantic affair.
Two heads are better than one

11-Aug-2010

The judge in charge of the Commercial Court, Mrs Justice Gloster, has set a new precedent in the High Court by sitting alongside Mr Justice Mann of the Chancery Court and jointly giving directions in the £2bn legal battle between Russian oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich.
Two left in Camerons senior partner race

24-Mar-2011

The senior partner election at CMS Cameron McKenna will go to a third round after no overall winner was declared following a vote yesterday.
Two Linklaters partners defect to Indian best friend Talwar Thakore

6-Nov-2009

Two partners from Linklaters have resigned to join its Indian best friend firm Talwar Thakore & Associates (TTA) as equity partners.
Two Milbank lawyers quit for Orrick a year after joining

3-Oct-2011

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired two of the group of five finance partners who joined Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy from Latham & Watkins only a year ago.
Two more partners leave Mayer Brown London

3-Jun-2009

Mayer Brown has suffered two more departures from its London office with a corporate partner and an environment partner both choosing to leave the firm.
Two more partners quit Dewey, head to DLA Piper in NYC

4-Apr-2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost a further two partners, with New York corporate duo John Altorelli and Alexander Fraser leaving to join DLA Piper.
Two wheels good...

30-Jul-2010

Haven’t you heard? Everyone in London is doing a Johnson and getting on their bike.
TwoBirds turns to SJ Berwin for Italy partner hire

18-Feb-2010

Bird & Bird has strengthened its Italian corporate group with the hire of a partner from SJ Berwin in Milan.
TwoBirds: 2 birds

15-Apr-2011

Well, here’s the good news first: after Ashurst’s latest promotions round, announced yesterday, meant that only two of its last 33 newly promoted lawyers are of the fairer sex (see story), Bird & Bird has gone the other way.
Two-horse managing partner race at SJ Berwin as Mervis is eliminated

18-Oct-2010

There are only two candidates left in the race to become the next SJ Berwin managing partner after litigation partner Hilton Mervis was eliminated in the first round of voting.
Two-horse senior partner race at Herbies as Parkes pulls out

16-Dec-2009

Tim Parkes has dropped out of the contest to become Herbert Smith senior partner after the first round of voting.
UAE's Fichte & Co bolster practice with two hires

3-May-2012

UAE shipping boutique Fichte & Co Legal Consultancy has made a duo of senior hires in a bid to diversify its practice.
UCL seals second victory in London Universties Mooting Shield

19-Mar-2009

University College London (UCL) proved that it is the top dog in mooting after securing a second consecutive victory in the London Universities Mooting Shield (LUMS).
UK associates lose out as DWS, Watson Farley favour overseas promotions

28-Apr-2009

Denton Wilde Sapte has made six new appointments to the partnership, half of the total promoted at the firm last year. The majority are based in emerging markets.
UK boutique merges with America's McGuireWoods

25-Mar-2009

London-based boutique Grundberg Mocatta Rakison (GMR) has merged with US firm McGuireWoods with the UK arm set to trade under the name McGuireWoods London.
UK’s top firms fail to increase female equity partner figures

14-Sep-2011

Exclusive Magic circle numbers static over five years; Simmons worst performer, Ashurst most improved
UK's most senior judge to retire at end of legal year

11-Oct-2011

Supreme Court president Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers has announced he is to retire at the end of the current legal year.
UK-US extradition arrangements - a balanced act?

27-Oct-2011

On 21 October 2011 the report of the panel headed by Sir Scott Baker tasked with reviewing the UK’s extradition arrangements was made public. The remit of that review included the much asked question – whether the UK-US extradition treaty is unbalanced?
ULR Additions to appeal legal expense insurance case

29-Nov-2011

Legal expenses insurance (LEI) provider ULR Additions is to appeal a High Court ruling over whether LEI providers should pay the fees of off-panel solicitors who have been instructed by policyholders.
Uncivil partnership

27-Apr-2010

Another day, another set of disappointed associates…
Under pressure

13-Aug-2009

Do you remember when you always left your door unlocked and you could always find a bobby on the beat?
United London councils unveil first legal panel

13-Oct-2009

Sixteen firms have won places on the first London Boroughs Legal Alliance (LBLA) panel ahead of its official launch on Thursday (15 October).
Unreal-estate redundancies

10-Sep-2009

Things were looking up at the beginning of this week. Not only was the autumnal atmosphere lightened by a day of scorching sunshine, but two big deals launched in the shape of Kraft’s bid | for Cadbury’s and the T-Mobile-Orange tie-up.
Unsettling times for News Group

19-Jan-2012

The Rolls Building will later today host the parties in the ongoing phone-hacking cases for a pre-trial hearing.
Unveiling the reforms

17-Nov-2010

The call from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) came at the last minute on Monday morning.
Up up and away

8-Apr-2010

The merger of the decade has finally been cleared for take-off with the news that BA and Iberia have sealed the deal on their £4bn mid-air love-in (see story).
Ups and downs

22-Apr-2009

The magic circle’s greatest rivals - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters - may have reacted to the credit crunch in very different ways, but they have been similarly pessimistic in the annual promotions round.
Uría beefs up Portugal with local tie-up

24-Feb-2010

Uría Menéndez has expanded in Portugal through a bolt-on with local law firm Proença de Carvalho & Associados.
Uría ditches co-managing partner roles in favour of UK model

29-Dec-2010

Uría Menéndez has created a new management structure, phasing out the dual managing partner roles common to many Spanish firms in favour of an ’Anglo-Saxon style’ model.
Uría Menéndez mourns death of founding partner Iglesias Prada

17-Mar-2011

Slaughter and May best friend Uría Menéndez has announced the death of one of its founders, Juan Luis Iglesias Prada.
Uría scoops plum role on Bankia float

29-Jul-2011

Spanish firm Uría Menéndez has advised banking conglomerate Bankia on an IPO totaling €3bn (£2.6bn).
US employment firm Littler Mendelson launches in Mexico

20-Dec-2011

US employment and labour boutique Littler Mendelson has joined forces with a group of 25 attorneys to launch two offices in Mexico.
US firm bosses in spat over billing

18-Mar-2009

A row over the future of the billable hour has erupted between two of the highest-profile law firm leaders in the US.
US firm Goldberg Segalla hires ex-BLG reinsurance head for City launch

14-Mar-2012

US firm Goldberg Segalla is to launch in London next month after hiring reinsurance heavyweight Clive O’Connell.
US firm Katten Muchin opens in Shanghai

23-Feb-2012

Chicago-based law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman has opened an office in Shanghai. It is the firm’s first Asia office and second international base following London.
US firm Sidley hires Linklaters partner for City team

21-Feb-2012

Sidley Austin has hired Linklaters partner Stephen Blackshaw for its City corporate practice.
US firms likely to eclipse UK players in race to conquer Indian market

18-Mar-2010

Lower fees and exclusive tie-ups mean US firms could steal a march on their UK counterparts when it comes to gaining a firm footing in the Indian market.
US firms take the pain with the gain

9-Mar-2012

What do drink, drugs and BlackBerrys have in common with US firms’ London expansion?
US firms to up charge-out rates by 6 per cent in new year

3-Dec-2009

US law firms are preparing to increase their billing rates by as much as 6 per cent in 2010, despite widespread predictions of rate freezes.
US litigators and the City

11-May-2010

There are some highly acquisitive US litigation firms out there right now.
US senator moots LSA-style investment for American firms

10-Mar-2011

A bill aimed at allowing external investment in US law firms was tabled this week in North Carolina.
US sentencing of insider dealing offences: a trend the FSA will follow?

19-Oct-2011

On Thursday 13 October, Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the Galleon hedge fund, received a record sentence in the US of 11 years in prison for insider dealing. US prosecutors had sought a sentence of 25 years. Rajaratnam was also fined $10m and ordered to pay restitution of $50m.
ValidSoft taps 2Birds to fill general counsel role

1-Feb-2011

Counterfraud company ValidSoft has gone to its external adviser Bird & Bird to hire its first-ever general counsel.
Vanhulle named as new global tax chief at Linklaters

24-Jan-2011

Linklaters has named Brussels head of tax Henk Vanhulle as its new global tax chief.
Veale Wasbrough in merger talks with Vizards Tweedie for London launch

10-Jul-2009

Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough has taken its first steps into the London market by seeking a tie-up with 17 -partner City firm Vizards Tweedie.
Veale Wasbrough loses 'Basil Fawlty' discrimination claims for RCGP

21-Mar-2012

Veale Wasbrough Vizards associate Michael Hasley has unsuccessfully defended the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) against a claim of sexual harassment and discrimination from a former employee.
Vietnam's YKVN launches in Singapore with DLA swoop

19-Jan-2011

Vietnamese firm YKVN has taken a partner from DLA Piper to launch its new office in Singapore.
Village QC convinces court that Pickles' housing move was unlawful

10-Nov-2010

Mr Justice Sales has ruled that moves to scrap housing targets in England are unlawful, handing a High Court defeat to Treasury Devil James Eadie QC.
Vince Cable's employment reforms will 'put pressure' on arbitration service

23-Nov-2011

Employment lawyers have generally welcomed business secretary Vince Cable’s new employment law measures but are sceptical about areas such as the reform of the tribunal system.
Vince Gray: Pinsent Masons

25-Feb-2011

What time do you start work each day? That depends which office I am in. I live a nomadic existence travelling, principally to London.
Vinson & Elkins and Machado Meyer advise on $5.16bn Sinopec deal

30-Mar-2012

Vinson & Elkins and Brazilian law firm Machado, Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados have advised Sinopec on acquiring a 30 per cent stake in the Brazilian unit of Portuguese oil company Galp Energia for $5.16bn (£3.24bn).
Vinson advises Sinopec on £1.9bn takeover of Canada's Daylight

20-Oct-2011

Bennett Jones, Blake Cassels & Graydon and Vinson & Elkins took leading roles on Sinopec’s £1.88bn takeover of Canada’s Daylight Energy.
Vinson names new Middle East head as incumbent moves to City

8-Jun-2011

Vinson & Elkins has appointed a new Middle East managing partner to succeed Lewis Jones.
Vinson plays Texas grow 'em

9-Jun-2011

Yee haw, times sure are good at Vinson & Elkins right now.
Vinson rejigs management as Dilg steps down

7-Sep-2011

Vinson & Elkins is soon to have a new chairman and managing partner in the shape of Mark Kelly and Scott Wulfe respectively.
Vinson taps White & Case for Middle East hire

25-Jan-2010

Vinson & Elkins has hired White & Case capital markets partner Sami Al-Louzi to further develop its Middle East practice.
Vinson turns to O'Melveny and Dewey for trio of hires

24-Feb-2011

Vinson & Elkins has boosted its international M&A and energy practices with the hire of three partners, who join from O’Melveny & Myers and Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Virgin Media promotes deputy GC as Hall announces retirement

6-Jan-2011

Virgin Media general counsel Bryan Hall has retired from the company after six years in the role and will return to his native US.
Virgin Money hires new cosec as director of legal resigns

7-May-2012

Virgin Money has appointed a new deputy company secretary following the decision by incumbent director of legal and company secretary Jasan Fitzpatrick to take a career break.
Virgin turns to IBM to fill associate GC role

8-Dec-2009

Virgin Media has hired IBM in-house lawyer Toni Vitale as an assistant general counsel.
Vodafone brings in DLA Piper, Olswang for new-look panel

13-Sep-2011

DLA Piper and Olswang have won new appointments to Vodafone’s revamped panel of legal advisors, with Linklaters retaining its role as the telecoms giant’s main corporate counsel.
Vodafone names former Reuters legal chief as next GC

21-Jan-2010

Vodafone Group has appointed a new general counsel to replace Stephen Scott, who is to retire after 30 years with the phone company.
Volvo asks Hausfeld to chase Pilkington for price-fixing losses

2-Aug-2010

Hausfeld has launched a High Court claim against Pilkington Group on behalf of motoring giant Volvo, almost three years after the car glass manufacturer was fined for price fixing.
Vos J incredulous as 11 firms file 50 more phone-hacking claims

23-Apr-2012

Mr Justice Vos has described the number of firms clambering on board the phone-hacking juggernaut as “unbelievable”, as 11 firms have filed further claims on behalf of celebrities allegedly targeted by the News of the World.
Vos J threatens phone-hacking firms with group litigation order as costs spiral

19-Mar-2012

High Court judge Mr Justice Vos has ordered firms involved in the wave of phone-hacking cases to find a more efficient method of working or risk their clients being forced into a group litigation order [GLO] represented by a single firm.
Vos J to oversee claims relating to News of the World phone-hacking scandal

17-Mar-2011

The Chancellor of the High Court Sir Andrew Morritt has assigned Mr Justice Vos to case manage claims relating to phone-hacking enquiries against the Metropolitan Police.
Walker Morris bulks up renewables team with former Eversheds partner

24-Oct-2011

Leeds firm Walker Morris has appointed former Eversheds partner Stephen Cirell as a consultant to its renewables, energy and resources team.
Walker Morris chair steps down amid management overhaul

20-Apr-2010

Walker Morris’s long-term chairman is to stand down from the role next month prompting a major shake-up of the firm’s management structure.
Walker Morris hires Hammonds' commercial disputes head

30-Jul-2010

Leeds-based Walker Morris has poached the head of Hammonds’ commercial dispute resolution team in Leeds.
Walker Morris litigation executive convicted of defrauding firm of £11,000

14-Sep-2011

A former Walker Morris litigation executive has been sentenced to a nine-month suspended jail term after she stole more than £11,000 from the firm.
Walkers chairman to retire after one year in role

9-Dec-2011

Grant Stein, the chairman of offshore firm Walkers, has announced his retirement, just six months after taking up the role.
Walkers names new Hong Kong boss as funds chief joins Asian office

16-Dec-2011

Offshore firm Walkers has appointed a new managing partner for its Hong Kong office while boosting its presence in the region with the relocation of its global funds head.
Walkers raids MOP for imminent Dublin launch

26-Aug-2010

Offshore firm Walkers is set to launch an office in Dublin, taking three partners from Irish firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice (MOP).
Walkers to boost Ireland ranks by 25 by close of year

29-Nov-2010

Offshore firm Walkers is expanding its nascent presence in Ireland and is on track to create a further 25 jobs in Dublin by the end of 2010.
Walkers to focus solely on law after sale of fiduciary arm

6-Mar-2012

Offshore firm Walkers is selling its fiduciary business, Walkers Management Services (WMS), to trust company Intertrust in a bid to focus exclusively on law.
Walkers welcomes eight to partnership

5-Jul-2011

Offshore firm Walkers has made up eight lawyers to partner with a focus on investment funds and corporate work.
Walkers: Dublin up

27-Aug-2010

With a conservative estimate putting the percentage of City lawyers currently sunning themselves in St Tropez, Florida and the Tuscan hills at around 96, it’s time for the offshore firms to take centre stage.
War of the roses

3-Aug-2011

“This is a case about Yorkshire pride, in more ways than one,” so says Mr Justice Arnold in the opening line of a decision handed down last week (22 July) over who has the right to use a white rose symbol.
Ward Hadaway boosts environment team with Cobbetts hire

9-Mar-2011

Newcastle firm Ward Hadaway has poached Cobbetts’ regulatory chief Kirsty Gomersal.
Ward Hadaway expands partnership with six Newcastle promotions

20-Apr-2011

Newcastle firm Ward Hadaway has added six to its partner ranks in this year’s promotions round.
Ward Hadaway hires ports expert for Leeds office

23-Aug-2010

Ward Hadaway has hired Schofield Sweeney commercial and competition partner Andrew Finfer to bolster its Leeds office.
Ward Hadaway hires Watson Burton commercial partner

26-Jul-2011

Newcastle firm Ward Hadaway has turned to arch rival Watson Burton for the hire of commercial partner Mark Whitehead.
Warner bothers at Freshfields

2-Feb-2011

You don’t need suspicious minds to think there’s something going on in the finance group over at Freshfields after Presley ’The King’ Warner left the Fleet Street office feeling more like heartbreak hotel (see story).
Watson Burton chief stands down ahead of move to Muckle

1-Apr-2010

Watson Burton senior partner Robert Langley has resigned from the firm’s partnership ahead of a move to North East rivals Muckle.
Watson Burton in redundancy talks with 75

24-Mar-2009

Newcastle-headquartered Watson Burton has commenced a second round of redundancy talks that could see up to 75 people leave the firm.
Watson Burton loses real estate head to client Bellway

15-Feb-2011

Watson Burton real estate chief Simon Scougall has left the firm to join long-term client Bellway
Watson Burton partners inject cash to open up equity

12-Nov-2009

Watson Burton’s senior equity partners have injected over £1m into the firm to enable more junior partners to enter the equity ranks.
Watson Burton senior partner relinquishes management duties

12-Jun-2009

Watson Burton senior partner Rob Langley given up his managerial responsibilities as the firm finalises its tier-one equity structure.
Watson Farley & Williams in four-partner hiring spree

6-May-2010

Watson Farley & Williams has hired four new partners in its London office, including the head of Charles Russell’s competition and regulatory group.
Watson Farley & Williams raids Lovells for Spanish launch

11-Nov-2009

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has launched in Spain through recruiting a five-lawyer team from Lovells with a particular focus on renewables.
Watson Farley finalises Hong Kong launch plan

17-Feb-2012

Watson Farley & Williams has recruited a partner from Goodwin Procter in Hong Kong as it finalises its plan to open an office in the city.
Watson Farley launches joint venture with Singapore's Asia Practice

11-Oct-2011

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has established a joint venture in Singapore that will see 15 partners and more than 30 legal staff working under the banner of Watson Farley & Williams Asia Practice.
Watson Farley posts 9 per cent revenue rise

8-Jun-2010

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has broken through the £80m revenue barrier, after posting growth of 9 per cent.
Watson Farley promotes nine to partnership

30-Apr-2012

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has promoted nine lawyers to its partnership, its highest number of partnership promotions in four years.
Watson Farley raids Reed Smith for aviation finance team

8-Dec-2010

Watson Farley & Williams has hired an aviation finance team including two partners from Reed Smith.
Watson Farley taps BLP for asset finance duo

5-Oct-2011

Watson Farley & Williams has hired two asset finance lawyers from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) in a bid to boost its core practice.
Watson Farley to pay bonus after strong set of financials

10-Jun-2010

Watson Farley & Williams is to award a one-off bonus to all its staff after the firm surpassed its budget for the 2009-10 financial year.
Watson Farley turns to SNR Denton for planning launch

6-Oct-2011

Watson Farley & Williams is set to launch a planning practice in London after hiring a lawyer from SNR Denton.
Watson Farley welcomes two to partnership

27-Apr-2010

Watson Farley & Williams has promoted two lawyers to its partnership, both of whom are based outside the UK.
Watson Farley's top earner pocketed £1.2m in last financial year

4-Feb-2010

Watson Farley & Williams’ (WFW) highest paid partner took home £1.2m in the last financial year, twice the amount made by the firm’s best paid partner in 2007-08, who earned £620,000.
Watson Farley's turnover hits £73.5m in 2008-09

11-Jun-2009

Watson Farley & Williams saw turnover rise 25 per cent in the 2008-09 financial year, buoyed by the depreciation of sterling during this period.
We can work it out

13-Jan-2010

When is a litigation not a litigation? When the opposing sides agree to work together to find a resolution to the matter in hand.
We Hart Lovells

29-Oct-2009

So it’s going to happen. As we report today, management teams from both Lovells and Hogan & Hartson have unanimously backed the firms’ proposed merger.
Wealth defence

17-Jun-2010

Those accused of serious financial crimes are finding themselves at a disadvantage, with the system conspiring to leave them without adequate funds for a robust defence. By Anthony Barnfather
Wealth service

13-May-2011

If any poorly informed juniors think it’s been eerily quite in the corridors of Farrers, Manches and Withers this past week, the fact that The Lawyer is holding its private wealth summit among the silicon opulence of Monaco could have something to do with it.
Webster Dixon the panel beater

3-Nov-2011

Faced with sweeping reforms across the legal expenses market, insurers are keen to keep their costs down.
Webster Dixon wins legal expense insurance case

3-Nov-2011

Legal expense insurers cannot use cost as the sole basis for refusing to underwrite fees for policyholders who use non-panel solicitors, the High Court has ruled.
Wedding stress

11-Apr-2011

It is a truth universally acknowledged that bank holidays are, categorically, Good Things.
Week Eight: The Apprentice analysed...

14-May-2009

Week 8 of The Apprentice and the wannabes were Margate bound. The task? To revamp the town’s image so it can become a tourist hotspot once again.
Week Eleven: The Apprentice analysed...

4-Jun-2009

In the penultimate episode of The Apprentice the candidates were put through four gruelling interviews with the aim of uncovering any CV-related skeletons in their work history closets.
Week Five: The Apprentice analysed...

23-Apr-2009

Five weeks into his search for an apprentice and Sir Alan challenged the teams to devise a brand, packaging, and TV advert for his new breakfast cereal, and present it to a team of advertising experts.
Week Four: The Apprentice analysed...

16-Apr-2009

Week four of The Apprentice and this week the teams were lathering up to the cosmetics industry. Sir Alan set the teams the task of creating original and natural body care products to market and sell in central London.
Week Nine: The Apprentice analysed...

21-May-2009

Week 9 on The Apprentice and the candidates had to sell baby accessories at a trade show in London’s Earl’s Court.
Week one: The Apprentice analysed...

26-Mar-2009

He’s back. Sir Alan and his wannabe apprentices returned to our screens last night for some back-to-basics style business. And who was first to get the chop? Law graduate Anita Shah.
Week Seven: The Apprentice analysed...

7-May-2009

Week seven into The Apprentice and Sir Alan tested the sales skills of the wannnabe apprentices challenging them select two products to sell to local retailers in Liverpool. How did they do? Our employment lawyer panel moonlighting as TV critics give their judgment.
Week Six: The Apprentice analysed...

30-Apr-2009

There’s a rumour going round that Ben Clarke was offered a scholarship to Sandhurst. After this week’s episode, it’s hard to see what more any military academy could teach him about dodging bullets.
Week Ten: The Apprentice analysed...

27-May-2009

Things are hotting up on The Apprentice with Sir Alan putting the remaining wannabes under intense pressure.
Week Three: The Apprentice analysed...

9-Apr-2009

Week three of The Apprentice and this week the teams were getting into the fitness business. Sir Alan set the team the task of inventing and marketing a new piece of gym equipment.
Week Two: The Apprentice analysed...

2-Apr-2009

Week two of The Apprentice and this week the teams are ‘treating’ City lawyers to a networking lunch. It all went horribly wrong and the canapés produced looked more like a five-year-old’s cooking project. Here four employment lawyers discuss the legal issues in this week’s episode.
Weerasinghing anymore?

4-Apr-2012

What do you do when your global chief decides to join one of your biggest clients? Wail? Rejoice? Make a cup of coffee?
Weightmans and Mace & Jones agree terms of merger

22-Mar-2011

North West firm Weightmans has agreed merger terms with Mace & Jones just weeks after announcing that it would acquire Vizards Wyeth’s insurance team.
Weightmans begins merger talks with Mace & Jones and Vizards Wyeth

7-Jan-2011

North West firm Weightmans is in merger talks with Mace & Jones and Vizards Wyeth.
Weightmans bucked 2009-10 staff-cuts trend, LLPs reveal

20-Jan-2011

North West firm Weightmans increased its headcount by 10 per cent in the last full financial year as rivals slashed their staff numbers.
Weightmans confirms acquisition of Vizards Wyeth's insurance practice

8-Mar-2011

North West firm Weightmans has confirmed that its plan to acquire Vizards Wyeth’s insurance team will go ahead.
Weightmans' empire building

8-Mar-2011

Two months after the news first broke (see story), Weightmans has finally confirmed its acquisition of Vizards Wyeth’s insurance team (see story).
Weightmans hires RBS lawyer as policy development chief

10-Mar-2011

Weightmans has boosted its insurance practice with the hire of an RBS director to fill the new role of head of policy development.
Weightmans reelects managing partner as turnover rises to £56.2m

13-May-2010

Weightmans managing partner Patrick Gaul has been reelected for another term as the firm posts turnover growth of eight per cent for the last financial year.
Weightmans sees small turnover hike at end of acquisitive year

10-May-2011

North West firm Weightmans has unveiled a 3.2 per cent rise in turnover at the 2010-2011 year end, up from £56.2m to £58m.
Weightmans sees turnover rise seven per cent at half-year stage

2-Nov-2010

North West firm Weightmans has revealed a seven per cent increase in turnover for the first six months of the 2010-11 financial year compared with the same period last year.
Weightmans sees turnover rocket after expansive year

9-May-2012

North-West firm Weightmans has posted a 32.5 per cent rise in turnover from £58.2m to £77.1m at the year end.
Weightmans staggers promos round as merger talks continue

14-Jan-2011

Weightmans has made a series of promotions to its associate and fixed-share partner ranks as merger talks with target firms progress.
Weightmans, Eversheds add to shipping teams

23-Sep-2010

Weightmans has turned to Hill Dickinson to hire its lead marine and transit team partner Phil James.
Weil and Ropes lead on Sanofi's £12bn Genzyme acquisition

17-Feb-2011

A quartet of international firms has scooped lead roles as French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis finalised its $20.1bn (£12.47bn) acquisition of US company Genzyme.
Weil and SJ Berwin advise on Duke Street's disposal of Xafinity

1-Feb-2010

Weil Gotshal & Manges has bagged a role advising Advent International on the £190m acquisition of pension and employment benefit group Xafinity from Duke Street Capital.
Weil be OK

15-Jul-2010

According to some, nearly a fifth of Britons live below the poverty line. Thankfully, those statistics received a timely nudge in the right direction today with Weil Gotshal’s announcement that its draconian salary freeze is over.
Weil boxing clever

26-Jan-2011

“I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told.”
Weil Gotshal advises on $2bn Showtime Arabia merger

13-Jul-2009

Weil Gotshal & Manges and Linklaters have landed lead roles on a major $2bn (£1.2bn) Middle East media merger.
Weil Gotshal builds up City banking practice with Linklaters hire

31-May-2011

Weil Gotshal & Manges has raided Linklaters’ City office for the hire of banking partner Stephen Lucas.
Weil Gotshal bulks up City restructuring team with Jones Day hire

26-Jan-2011

Weil Gotshal & Manges has raided Jones Day’s London office to hire restructuring partner Adam Plainer to lead its own restructuring practice.
Weil Gotshal cuts 79 US support jobs

4-Jun-2009

Weil Gotshal & Manges has laid off 79 support staff across its US offices due to the pressures of the economic downturn.
Weil Gotshal cuts US internships and defers start dates

27-Mar-2009

Weil Gotshal & Manges has become the latest American law firm to slash its US associate programme and defer the start dates of its incoming associates in response to the global economic slump.
Weil Gotshal lands first BC Partners fundraising since hiring CC team

23-Feb-2012

Weil Gotshal & Manges’ new City funds team has snatched a role for private equity giant BC Partners on its $8.6bn (£5.5bn) fundraising, one of the firm’s first major funds mandates since its four-partner raid on Clifford Chance last year.
Weil Gotshal London hires A&O tax partner

25-Aug-2009

Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired an Allen & Overy tax partner to bulk up its London office.
Weil Gotshal makes up three in lean promotions round

1-Dec-2009

Partner promotions at Weil Gotshal & Manges have decreased for the second year running.
Weil Gotshal reinstates London associate lockstep

15-Jul-2010

Weil Gotshal & Manges has become the latest firm to lift its salary freeze for London-based associates.
Weil Gotshal swoops for second Jones Day restructuring hire

7-Sep-2011

Weil, Gotshal & Manges has added Jones Day restructuring partner Paul Bromfield to its London office.
Weil Gotshal taps Gide for Paris finance partner

16-Dec-2011

Weil Gotshal & Manges has bolstered its Paris practice with the hire of Gide Loyrette Nouel partner David Malamed.
Weil hires Willkie’s Faugérolas for Paris corporate push

31-Jan-2011

Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired corporate big-hitter Laurent Faugérolas from Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s Paris office.
Weil posts 8 per cent rise in profit for 2011

7-Feb-2012

Weil Gotshal & Manges has posted its year-end financials for 2011 that reveal for modest top line growth, with all key metrics ahead of where they were in 2009.
Weil, CC and Uria act on ONO refinancing

18-May-2010

Weil Gotshal & Manges, Clifford Chance and Uria Menendez have claimed leading roles on Spanish telecoms operator ONO’s €3.5bn (£3bn) refinancing package.
Weil's Schwartz closes trio of high yield deals

7-Dec-2009

Weil Gotshal & Manges’ London capital markets partner Peter Schwartz has scored lead roles advising on a trio of international high-yield bonds.
Welsh Government unveils slimmed-down panel

8-Feb-2012

Five law firms have been re-appointed to the Welsh Government’s legal panel but three firms have lost their places.
Welsh Rugby Union hires FA man as legal chief

4-Aug-2010

The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) has named former FA senior solicitor Rhodri Lewis as its head of legal affairs.
We're all meerkats now: comparison websites for legal services

29-Nov-2011

So Solicitors from Hell has had to shut up shop and slink back into the shadows. Lawyers up and down the land can breath a sigh of relief, at least until the next aggrieved client feels strongly enough to set up Hell is Solicitors or Solicitors can go to Hell or some other variation on the words ‘hell’ and ‘solicitors’.
West End firm Brecher promotes three to partnership

31-Mar-2011

Property specialist Brecher has made up three partners in its annual promotions.
West Yorks councils predict £1.6m annual saving from joint panel

10-Aug-2011

Five West Yorkshire councils have signed an agreement to create a joint legal services framework with the aim of saving about £1.6m a year across the five authorities.
WFW launches Spanish tax practice with PwC hire

11-Mar-2011

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has launched a tax practice in Spain after hiring a lawyer from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
WFW welcomes six to partnership ranks

18-Apr-2011

Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has appointed six new partners in its annual round of promotions, bringing the total number of partners at the firm to 110.
What a bonus

11-Mar-2010

Only a few of the non-partners at Addleshaws may get a bonus this year. But that’s a big improvement on last year, when none of them got the payment (see story).
What a difference a year makes

9-Dec-2009

In January, litigators were salivating at the prospect of a litigation tsunami. By February, those hopes had been dashed as clients resisted costly court room battles.
What defines a legal victory?

23-Sep-2009

Oil company Trafigura’s media lawyers at Carter Ruck have been busy issuing libel writs defending the company against allegations relating to a major litigation that it settled last week.
What difference will a Day make?

1-Nov-2010

There are jobs, there are big jobs, and then there’s the job of managing partner at SJ Berwin.
What happened next to Christopher Grierson

6-Dec-2011

We all love a bit of closure.
What is the key difference working in-house and in a law firm...?

25-Nov-2011

This is a pretty important question if you are contemplating a move from one to the other; or trying to make sense of the feelings you have now that you have taken that leap…and just as important if you are simply trying to forge a decent working relationship between lawyers in-house and externally.
What is the magic number?

18-Mar-2010

The magic circle’s days are numbered. Clients think the concept allows partners to charge a premium - a fact corroborated by revelations of the amount already paid out to Linklaters on the Lehman administration.
What makes a great lawyer?

24-Oct-2011

The essence of becoming a great lawyer is realising that it isn’t about you.
What Maurice and Mike did next

22-Oct-2009

So the secret’s out. As we reveal today, Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz are joining elite Boston firm Ropes & Gray to set up its London operation - something that will come as a surprise to those observers who had predicted that the pair would join Paul Maher’s firm Greenberg Traurig Maher, launched earlier this year (see story).
What next for Halliwells?

25-Jun-2010

Halliwells has filed for administration today (see story). The news will come as little surprise to some given the problems that have beset the Manchester firm over the last two years.
What should we do about Executive Pay?

10-Nov-2011

A recent Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) discussion paper on executive remuneration highlights that the median total remuneration of FTSE100 CEOs has risen from an average of £1m to £4.2m for the period 1998-2010, continuing an upward trajectory at a time when many are finding it hard to make ends meet.
What to do with Simmons

10-Jan-2011

The Lawyer today assesses the legacy of Mark Dawkins of Simmons & Simmons, as he prepares to stand down as the firm’s managing partner (see story).
What would Ken Barlow think?

19-Mar-2010

When Tracy Barlow was jailed for bludgeoning her boyfriend Charlie Stubbs to death, who did the Coronation Street scriptwriters turn to for advice on her sentencing?
Whatever happened to the Cherie Booth sentencing case?

10-Jun-2010

The Cherie Booth sentencing remarks had the makings of a great “Bad Law” news story.
When disclosure gets dangerous

14-Mar-2012

Herbert Smith is on the naughty step again. The litigation juggernaut just got a ticking-off in a pre-trial hearing in a high-profile battle between the Barclay brothers and Irish property tycoon Patrick McKillen over control of some London’s top hotels.
When I'm 65

30-Sep-2009

Dinah Rose QC has done it again, this time scoring a victory for the Government that will mean the UK’s default retirement age (DRA) will stay at 65 (see story). For now at least.
When Links attacks

22-Mar-2011

Sparta was founded on the fight principle. Video games are founded on the fight principle. The law is founded on the fight principle, despite the advent of that namby-pamby ’dispute resolution’ malarkey.
Where is the common-sense guide to civilised separation?

27-Jan-2012

People a lot more concerned with etiquette than I am will breathe a sigh of relief now that Debrett’s has produced a guide to civilised separation, which apparently includes such gems of advice as: “Don’t be vindictive: it may be tempting to throw your husband’s vintage wine down the loo or shred his best suit, but judges will take a dim view of this behaviour. Hold your head high and retain the civilised high ground.”
Where's LeBoeuf?

16-Apr-2012

It was looking like a pretty safe bet that the biggest law firm stories this year were going to be about mergers.
Which one of these are you?

22-Mar-2012

The SRA wants to put you in a ’compliance category’. Which one describes you?
While you were away...

31-Aug-2010

T.S. Eliot may not have much enjoyed April’s proclivity for mixing root and rain, but for news hungry types August is certainly the cruellest month.
Whistle blown on new Pompey owner

4-Sep-2009

It was a takeover saga with more twists and turns than a Ronaldo stepover, and more drama than a Millwall away day at West Ham.
White & Case adds Salans partner to Paris team

15-Feb-2012

White & Case has moved to strengthen its Paris white collar crime team with the hire of Salans partner Ludovic Malgrain.
White & Case adds two City lawyers to revamped partnership committee

11-Oct-2011

White & Case has appointed a new partnership committee, with two places for London-based partners for the first time.
White & Case and Sumption lose Norris extradition battle

24-Feb-2010

White & Case has lost its long running battle with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) over the extradition of businessman Ian Norris.
White & Case boosts London partnership with Skadden hire

3-Mar-2010

White & Case has boosted its London financial restructuring and insolvency practice with the hire of a senior lawyer from Skadden.
White & Case boosts Tokyo office with double Paul Hastings hire

8-Feb-2011

White & Case has hired two partners in Japan from fellow US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker.
White & Case bulks up Moscow with Clifford Chance hire

6-May-2010

White & Case has poached M&A partner Andrei Dontsov from Clifford Chance in Moscow.
White & Case bulks up Moscow with two hires and one relocation

13-Oct-2011

White & Case has bulked up its Russian presence with the addition of three new partners.
White & Case exodus continues as global IT head quits

24-Feb-2010

White & Case has lost another partner, with the chair of the firm’s global IT practice group understood to have resigned.
White & Case exodus continues as Latham snares eight more partners

1-Feb-2010

Another eight partners have resigned from across White & Case’s global network to join US rival Latham & Watkins.
White & Case funds partner quits for DLA Piper in New York

12-Mar-2012

White & Case is set to lose a second member of its City funds practice, with global securitisation head Richard Reilly joining DLA Piper in the US.
White & Case gains Czech litigation team with local acquisition

24-Mar-2011

White & Case has taken on board the bulk of Czech independent firm Horák & Chvosta in a significant hire for its Prague office.
White & Case hands Verrier second term at the helm

9-Jun-2011

White & Case has re-elected its global chairman Hugh Verrier for a second four-year term after he stood unopposed for the position.
White & Case helps draft Kazakh restructuring laws

21-Aug-2009

White & Case has scored a lead role advising the Kazakhstan government on the creation of new restructuring laws in the country.
White & Case hires Gide partner for Paris base

7-Apr-2011

White & Case has continued the flurry of lateral partner hires in Paris by appointing Gide Loyrette Nouel corporate and regulatory partner Hugues Mathez.
White & Case hires SJ Berwin co-arbitration head for Moscow push

1-Jul-2010

SJ Berwin’s co-head of arbitration David Goldberg is set to join White & Case’s London office next month.
White & Case joins CC and Links on £3.5bn gas pipeline project

17-Mar-2010

Clifford Chance, Linklaters and White & Case took on leading roles on the recently closed €3.9bn (£3.53bn) first phase project financing of the 1,220km Nord Stream gas pipeline.
White & Case London chief wins seat on global board

11-Sep-2009

White & Case London head Oliver Brettle has been appointed to the firm’s executive committee, replacing New York partner Dimitrios Drivas.
White & Case looks to rebuild with five partner promotions

9-Mar-2010

White & Case has made up five new partners in an attempt to plug gaps created by a wave of recent defections.
White & Case loses another partner as A&O swoops in New York

15-Feb-2010

White & Case has suffered another partner departure with a lawyer in its New York office jumping ship to Allen & Overy (A&O).
White & Case loses restructuring partner to Ashurst

10-Aug-2009

Ashurst has hired restructuring partner Dan Hamilton from White & Case to strengthen the team in its London office.
White & Case makes up six City partners in 21-strong global round

30-Nov-2011

US firm White & Case has made up six lawyers to partner in London as part of a global promotions round that has seen 21 make the grade.
White & Case makes up six City partners in 33-strong round

8-Dec-2009

White & Case London has received three times as many partners in this year’s promotions round when compared to last year.
White & Case partner quits ahead of cull

27-Mar-2009

White & Case UBS relationship partner Rachel Hatfield has left the firm after becoming disaffected with its strategy.
White & Case partner set to join Morgan Stanley

14-Mar-2012

White & Case London-based partner Mark Glengarry is set to join Morgan Stanley as a managing director in its investment banking division.
White & Case prepares for Qatar launch

28-Jul-2009

White & Case is to launch a Qatar office, which will be the firm’s third outpost in the Middle East.
White & Case puts partner billing in the spotlight

2-Mar-2012

White & Case is set to crack down on partner performance by stepping up its emphasis on partners hitting billable hours targets.
White & Case relaunches in Milan with pair of Latham hires

29-Jul-2011

White & Case is to re-open its Milan office as it turns the tables on traditional foe Latham & Watkins with the hire of two of its London partners.
White & Case revamps executive committee

21-Sep-2011

White & Case has unveiled a new executive committee, the four-member board tasked with the day-to-day running of the firm.
White & Case revamps global pro bono offering

6-Mar-2012

White & Case, the first US firm to establish a full-time pro bono operation in London, has reshuffled its offering leading to the exit of European pro bono coordinator Felicity Kirk.
White & Case sees small drops in turnover and PEP

17-Feb-2011

White & Case has reported declines in both global revenue and average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2010 calendar year.
White & Case sees turnover rise and PEP fall in 2011

1-Mar-2012

White & Case has posted a 4 per cent rise in turnover for 2011 as global profit per equity partner (PEP) dropped by 5 per cent.
White & Case sends London partner to head Singapore arbitration practice

14-Jan-2010

White & Case has launched an international arbitration practice in Singapore with a team of four lawyers.
White & Case signs up new Saudi sponsor as part of Middle East push

4-Nov-2010

White & Case has moved to rebuild its Middle East practice by agreeing an alliance with Saudi Arabian lawyer Dr Waleed Al-Nuwaiser.
White & Case third quarter distributions drop 29 per cent

16-Sep-2009

White & Case partners’ quarterly profit distributions for the third quarter of this year have fallen 30 per cent on the same period last year, with the total pool dropping from $35m (£21.2m) to $25m (£15.2m).
White & Case turns to Jones Day for hire of Shanghai head

10-Oct-2011

White & Case has hired partner Alex Zhang from Jones Day to head its Shanghai office and China corporate and M&A practice.
White & Case turns to Linklaters for City energy partner

28-Mar-2011

White & Case has continued its London investment with the capture of Linklaters project finance partner Caroline Miller Smith.
White & Case turns to Salans for hire of Romanian corporate chief

14-Apr-2010

White & Case has raided Salans for its new head of corporate and competition in Bucharest.
White & Case's final Middle East head jumps ship to Latham

5-Feb-2010

The last remaining head of White & Case’s Middle East office has resigned and is understood to be moving over to Latham & Watkins, The Lawyer can reveal.
White & Case's quick turnaround

15-Dec-2010

It was good while it lasted, anyway.
Who Dares wins?

16-Jun-2011

Deidre Dare, the former Allen & Overy associate who sued her firm after being fired for refusing to stop publishing her online erotic novel, is back in the news (see story).
Who wants to be a millionaire?

9-Jul-2009

This exclusive club had nine members last year, including some of the most prestigious names in the profession.
Who wants to be a millionaire?

5-Jul-2011

What a day. First, Clifford Chance is back in the game after revealing its 2010-11 financial results.
Who's the Vos?

17-Mar-2011

In the inimitable words of Primal Scream: Together, we’ve got power.
Why are lawyers hated?

23-Dec-2011

Sitting there, as you scrape the bottom of any barrel, are the lawyers.
Why it can be okay for lawyers to just say no

10-Oct-2011

Whenever we hire an outhouse lawyer into our in-house team, I watch for about 3 months whilst the new hire tries to accomplish everything on their to do list day after day, despite good natured warnings from me and the rest of the team that it is neither necessary nor possible to do.
Why the bar really is a meritocracy

27-Oct-2011

I have the utmost sympathy with @Dusty_Cobweb author of ’Access Denied’. The hunt for pupillage is a miserable time, but that really is no excuse for continuing to peddle the easy myths about how you can only succeed in getting a pupillage at the bar if you are white, male, middle-class, went to public school, Oxford, Cambridge, have lots of money, blah blah blah.
Why the Government is wrong about shared parenting legislation

12-Mar-2012

I can really sum it up in two words: ’access’ and ’custody’.
Why won’t the Lib Dems defend legal aid?

20-Sep-2011

Louise Restell urges Lib Dem ministers to stand up to the Tories to defend legal aid…
Wiggin boosts TV team with hires from Reed Smith, Walt Disney

4-Aug-2011

Media specialist Wiggin has bolstered its film and television offering with the hire of a Reed Smith partner and a senior in-house lawyer from Walt Disney Pictures.
Wiggin helps Hollywood studios defeat BT in copyright case

28-Jul-2011

The High Court has granted an injunction to six major Hollywood studios that will force British Telecom (BT) to stop its internet users from accessing a website that infringes copyright.
Wiggin promotes COO to chief exec in preparation for ABS conversion

25-Jan-2012

Media boutique Wiggin has appointed John Banister as its first non-lawyer chief executive and admitted him to the partnership.
Wikborg Rein hires Qatar Gas GC for City office

24-Jan-2012

Norwegian firm Wikborg Rein has recruited the general counsel of the Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat) as a partner in its London office.
Wilberforce IP barrister quits for partnership at Powell Gilbert

21-Apr-2010

High flying Wilberforce Chambers barrister Anna Carboni is to leave the set to join IP boutique Powell Gilbert.
Wilberforce silk fails to win over Supreme Court in pensions case

27-Jul-2011

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to redraft pensions legislation after defeat in a key pensions case in the Supreme Court this morning.
Will the Government listen to one of their own on legal aid?

10-Oct-2011

In the debate surrounding the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill there has recently been a glimmer of hope that some of the government may in fact be listening to the serious concerns about the impact of the proposals, namely the Attorney-General Dominic Grieve, who has recently been reported to be prepared to intervene on the issue (
Will you be my Salans-tine?

15-Feb-2012

Is Valentine’s Day to blame for the current rash of pash in the market?
Willkie Farr continues upward revenue trend

10-Feb-2012

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has posted a 3 per cent rise in total revenue for the 2011 financial year with a similar increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP).
Willkie Farr hires Clifford Chance aerospace chief for Frankfurt base

11-Oct-2011

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has picked up Clifford Chance’s global aerospace and defence head in a boost for its Frankfurt corporate team.
Willkie Farr swoops on 12-partner Dewey corporate team

19-Mar-2012

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has hired a 12-strong team of transactional and regulatory lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf.
Willkie Farr turns to Kaye Scholer for restructuring partner duo

25-May-2010

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has strengthened its bankruptcy and restructuring department with the hire of heavy-hitting Kaye Scholer partner Margot Schonholtz.
Willkie launches UK bribery practice with Herbies hire

9-May-2011

Willkie Farr has launched a UK anti-bribery practice with the hire of Herbert Smith partner Peter Burrell, the US firm’s first English solicitor recruit in London.
Wilma Duitman: Macfarlanes

17-Jun-2011

What is the most unusual Christmas present that you have received from a colleague? I was once given a Japanese embroidered handkerchief, but never really found a purpose for it.
WilmerHale confirms successors to 'the two Bills'

22-Nov-2010

US firm WilmerHale today announced that Susan Murley and Robert Novick will take over as co-managing partners at the start of 2012.
WilmerHale hires Kingsley Napley's Pollard for white-collar push

16-Nov-2011

US firm WilmerHale has bolstered its London investigations and criminal litigation practice with the hire of Kingsley Napley big-hitter Stephen Pollard.
WilmerHale records 3 per cent profit and revenue rise

9-Feb-2012

WilmerHale has posted increases on its key financial metrics for 2011 in a year characterised by new co-managing partner Bob Novick as “solid”.
WilmerHale sees PEP rise as turnover nudges up

26-Jan-2011

WilmerHale has posted a 17 per cent increase in average profit per equity partner (PEP) for the 2010 financial year, with the sum rising from $1.13m to $1.33m.
Wilson SCJ highlights importance of collaborative family law

1-Dec-2011

Supreme Court Justice Lord Wilson has reaffirmed his commitment to collaborative family law and other non-court methods while slamming the Government’s plans to cut legal aid, which he called a “false economy”.
Wilson Sonsini ends two-year slump with highest earnings since 2007

17-Feb-2012

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has posted its highest earnings since 2007, with gross revenue rising from $531m (£337.1m) to $549m after two years of falling revenues.
Wilson Sonsini hires Milbank lawyer for Hong Kong launch

23-Aug-2010

US firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is set to launch an office in Hong Kong after poaching a lawyer from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.
Wilson Sonsini launches in Brussels with Hunton raid

20-Sep-2011

Hunton & Williams has lost a team of lawyers headed by its Brussels managing partner to technology powerhouse Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, as the West Coast firm opens its first office in Europe.
Wilson Sonsini profit up but revenue drops 6 per cent

10-Feb-2010

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has released its end of year financial figures for 2009, revealing an almost 6 per cent drop in revenue but a small rise in partner profits.
Wilsons promotes two to partnership following London launch

13-May-2009

Wilsons has made up two new partners in its annual promotion round, less than a month after unveiling a new London office.
Win for Pinsents strikes blow to ongoing professional negligence claim

27-Jan-2012

A firm’s retainer cannot be transferred to another firm should the initial firm be taken over, the High Court has ruled in an ongoing professional negligence case currently being pursued against Pinsent Masons.
Winckworth Sherwood opens in Manchester after raid on Field Fisher Waterhouse

4-May-2011

Winckworth Sherwood is to launch a base in Manchester after raiding Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) for partners Karen Cooksley and Colette McCormack.
Wind of change

17-Jul-2009

For a firm with such a fusty reputation, there’s a lot going on at Burges Salmon.
Winners and losers

10-Feb-2010

Norton Rose has deservedly won plaudits for its radical Flex scheme, its part-time working programme that staved off firm-wide redundancies.
Winston & Strawn turns to Norton Rose for Moscow hire

10-Feb-2012

US firm Winston & Strawn has hired Norton Rose finance partner Andrei Yakovlev to strengthen its Russian practice.
Winston hires four-partner team from Nixon Peabody in New York

3-Nov-2009

Winston & Strawn has bulked up its New York private equity practice by hiring a team of four partners from Nixon Peabody.
Winston opens Houston base with 40-lawyer Howrey team

18-Mar-2011

Winston & Strawn has opened an office in Houston with the hire of 40 intellectual property and commercial litigation lawyers from failed firm Howrey.
Winston turns to Cadwalader to fill Beijing chief role

21-Oct-2010

Winston & Strawn has poached three corporate lawyers, including new Beijing managing partner Jem Li, from US rival Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft.
Wirral firm broken up after entering administration

24-Sep-2009

Wirral-based firm Lees Lloyd Whitley (LLW) has gone into administration after it ceased trading at the end of last week.
With a little help from my Eversheds

17-Nov-2010

The Beatles, if you believe everything you sing along to, never cared too much for money. Money, you see, couldn’t buy the Fab Four love.
Withers' bid to take client money dispute to Supreme Court rejected

11-Apr-2012

Withers has been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court a dispute brought against it over client money.
Withers bolsters Milan with corporate hire

4-May-2011

Withers has hired a partner from Italian independent CBA Studio Legale as it bolsters its Milan office.
Withers bulks up corporate crime with Crowell hire

16-Apr-2012

Withers has appointed Crowell & Moring partner Gerallt Owen to the newly created position of international regulatory and corporate crime head.
Withers faces Commons investigation over email to MP

14-Jan-2010

Withers is facing a House of Commons investigation after an MP accused the firm of undermining parliamentary privilege.
Withers faces renewed claim from Marco Pierre White

28-Oct-2009

Withers is to face a renewed court claim from celebrity chef Marco Pierre White after the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that the firm must answer the case.
Withers is latest firm to announce plans for Singapore launch

17-Feb-2012

Withers has confirmed that it will launch an office in Singapore, its second in Asia, to meet the growing demand from high-net-worth individuals for tax and trust advice in South East Asia.
Withers loses client money battle in appeal court

8-Dec-2011

The Court of Appeal has upheld an appeal by Langbar International against Withers in a battle over client money.
Withers' loss is London's gain

13-Mar-2012

Strewth mate. London’s credentials as one of the disputes and fraud centres of the world has just ratcheted up - a little - thanks to the launch of Aussie litigation boutique Lipman Karas.
Withers names New York partner as first Asia senior partner

6-Oct-2009

Withers has appointed Joe Field to the newly created role of Asia senior partner and has sent two associates from London to be based in Hong Kong.
Withers posts 64 per cent profit rise on back of static turnover

14-Jul-2010

Withers has reported a 64 per cent rise in profitability for the 2009-10 financial year while turnover slid slightly to £92.7m.
Withers scores High Court victory in Keydata founder's JR against FSA

11-Oct-2011

Withers has won a judicial review case against the FSA after the High Court ruled that an email exchange between the firm’s client Stewart Ford and his former lawyers at Irwin Mitchell should be bound by legal privilege.
Withers signs Asian wealth tie-up as precursor to Shanghai launch

1-Sep-2010

Withers has put Asian expansion at the centre of its strategy after announcing a tie-up with Chinese financial services advisory firm BeA-asia.
Withers to launch Hong Kong law practice with hire of family team

7-Oct-2010

Withers has expanded its Hong Kong offering with the addition of an international family team led by partner Sharon Ser.
Without Prejudice

12-Aug-2011

Analysis of the law relating to the riots, a review of a number of important human rights cases and the further developments on the #Hackedoff campaign.
WithoutPrejudice 20 podcast: ABS and disruptives – Judicial advocacy assessment – Sun arrests – value of legal blogging

17-Feb-2012

On the panel tonight are regulars, Carl Gardner and David Allen Green and our guests Cat Griffiths, Editor of The Lawyer and Nichola Higgins, a practising barrister and former Chair of The Young Barristers Committee.
Wolf Theiss acts on Facebook defamation case against Austrian press

5-Oct-2010

Austrian firm Wolf Theiss is advising a Slovakian student in a defamation case against three Viennese newspapers after her photo was mistakenly used in a story about a murdered prostitute.
Wolf Theiss bolsters Vienna with O'Melveny hire

4-Mar-2010

Austrian firm Wolf Theiss has strengthened its Vienna competition team with the hire of a counsel from O’Melveny & Myers’ Brussels office.
Wolf Theiss names new Kiev head as incumbent relocates to Vienna

1-Feb-2011

Wolf Theiss has appointed Taras Dumych to replace Gennady Khareyn as managing partner of its Kiev office.
Wolf Theiss replaces managing partner role with three-person board

16-Dec-2010

Wolf Theiss has replaced its managing partner with a three-member management board as the firm looks to Poland for the next stage of its expansion in Central and Eastern Europe.
Wolf Theiss turns to Canada's Borden Ladner for hire of tax head

29-Nov-2011

Austrian firm Wolf Theiss has hired an experienced Canadian tax lawyer to head its tax practice.
Wolfgang Puck CUT

15-Jan-2012

Al Pacino and Robert de Nero hung out at Spagos (with its signature salmon and caviar piazza) and still hang out at The Cut at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles. Wolfgang Puck, proprietor of these A List Haunts and external caterer to the Obama White House, has now opened a modern American steak house at the Dorchester Collection’s elite hotel, 45 Park Lane.
Women in law

28-Jan-2010

The Lawyer has spent long hours painstakingly researching the female composition of the top 50 UK firms.
Women's hour

8-Mar-2010

As women across the globe celebrate International Women’s Day, female lawyers in Saudi Arabia are embracing a proposed legal change that will enable them to practise for the first time. But, as Bander Alnogaithan, founder of Riyadh firm The Law Office of Bander Alnogaithan, points, the road to professional equality will be a long one.
Working party appointed to implement Jackson reforms

19-Aug-2011

A City lawyer, a trade union lawyer and an insurance claims manager have all been appointed to the Civil Justice Council’s working party on the implementation of Lord Justice Jackson’s civil justice reforms.
Worth the Weightmans?

14-Jan-2011

Congratulations are due to the five Weightmans associates today celebrating their ascension to the hallowed ranks of the firm’s fixed-share partnership (see story).
Would you consider an in-house role?

11-Apr-2012

Last week The Lawyer published a front-page photo of a female lawyer with the eye-catching headline that ’65 per cent of you want to be her’.
Wragges adds Manches partner to real estate team

26-Apr-2012

Wragge & Co has hired Manches’ Thames Valley projects head as a partner in its real estate team.
Wragges cut £6m of costs in 2009-10, LLP results reveal

4-Nov-2010

Wragge & Co managed to strip out £6m of costs over the 2009-10 financial year as a result of a £4m reduction in staff costs.
Wragges ends promos hiatus with three new partners

6-Mar-2012

Wragge & Co has ended its partner promotions freeze by making up three new members in 2012.
Wragges exploits local relationship for Dubai launch

6-Sep-2011

Wragge & Co is to launch in Dubai after expanding its relationship with local lawyer Mohamed Al Mehairi with whom it launched in Abu Dhabi last year.
Wragges' highest earner took £734,000 profit share in 2010-11

11-Jan-2012

Wragge & Co’s highest paid partner was awarded £734,000 in the 2010-11 financial year, up 65 per cent from £444,000 in the previous financial year.
Wragges' Middle East plan takes shape with Abu Dhabi launch

2-Dec-2010

Wragge & Co has opened in Abu Dhabi two years after The Lawyer first reported the firm’s plans to launch there.
Wragges ordered to pay £7.65m to compensate for negligent advice

12-Apr-2011

The High Court has ordered Wragge & Co to pay £7.65m to former client Amalgamated Metal Corporation (AMC) for negligently failing to advise it on how to deal with a group litigation order (GLO) against HMRC.
Wragges posts 15 per cent revenue rise in first half

8-Nov-2010

Wragge & Co has posted a double-digit turnover rise for the first six months of this financial year and forecasts similar levels of growth for the full year.
Wragges posts 28 per cent profit hike for 2010-11

6-Jul-2011

Wragge & Co’s net profit rose by almost 28 per cent to £38.8m in the 2010-11 financial year, while average profit per equity partner (PEP) jumped 18 per cent to £325,000.
Wragges promotes just one in this year's round

8-Apr-2009

Wragge & Co has made up just one lawyer to its partnership this year, a fall from last year’s total of nine.
Wragges returns to growth as turnover jumps 16 per cent

10-May-2011

Wragge & Co has posted a 16 per cent rise in turnover for the 2010-11 financial year, growing from £96.2m to £112m.
Wragges sees dip in first-half turnover

11-Nov-2009

Wragge & Co has experienced a slight drop in turnover for the first six months of the 2009-10 financial year.
Wragges taps Eversheds for three-lawyer Paris team

7-Apr-2011

Wragge & Co has hired a three-lawyer employment team from Eversheds in Paris.
Wragges to cut 85 more jobs as a result of turnover slump

10-Jun-2009

Wragge & Co has launched a second redundancy consultation after its turnover dropped 17 per cent in the 2008-09 financial year.
Wright Hassall launches sports management business

21-Feb-2012

Midlands firm Wright Hassall has launched a sports management arm for professional athletes and snared an Aston Villa player as its first client.
Yahoo! Europe's legal chief takes up new role at CBS Outdoor International

8-Mar-2011

The head of internet giant Yahoo! Sarl’s legal operations Grainne Brankin is leaving the company to join CBS Outdoor International (CBSOI).
Yanks a million

12-Apr-2010

The good thing about this recession is that, deep and long as it may be, at least it’s egalitarian.
York Chambers set for merger with Newcastle's Broad Chare Chambers

10-Nov-2011

Consolidation of the regional bar is continuing with the announcement that two North East sets are to merge.
Yorkshire's Gordons marks 11 years of revenue growth with 9% hike

1-May-2012

Yorkshire firm Gordons has become the first to announce financial results for the 2011-12 financial year, recording growth of 8.6 per cent.
You're worth it

26-May-2010

Lord Justice Jacob has spoken out against the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) ruling in high-profile ’smell-alike’ case, L’Oréal v Bellure.
Yukos v Russia: Be careful with the big stick

27-Sep-2011

On 20th September the European Court of Human Rights handed down its judgment in OAO Neftyanaya Kompaniya Yukos v Russia, holding Russia guilty of three violations of the Convention in the conduct of part of its highly publicised battle with the former oil giant Yukos and its former owner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

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