Election 2024: The Labour lawyers vying for your vote
A DAC Beachcroft associate, a Hausfeld partner and a Matrix barrister are among those lawyers hoping to be newly elected for Labour in the election on 4 July.
A DAC Beachcroft associate, a Hausfeld partner and a Matrix barrister are among those lawyers hoping to be newly elected for Labour in the election on 4 July.
Last week’s move of Cahill leveraged finance partner Jonathan Brownson along with two of his colleagues to Latham & Watkins highlights an issue facing several US 50 firms: How to grow. Helpfully, possibly even serendipitously, it comes courtesy of a firm that isn’t even in the US 50. And therein lies the point. Cahill at […]
Latham & Watkins is set to lose two teams in Germany, hitting the firm’s restructuring and equity capital markets capabilities in Hamburg and Frankfurt. The Lawyer understands that a two-partner restructuring team will leave to join Willkie, while a separate two-partner team is joining White & Case strengthening the latter’s equity capital markets practice. White & […]
The total cost for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) has already seen an increase of 11 per cent in the first two years of its rollout…and that’s just the exam fees. Firms and candidates alike are bemoaning the hidden costs the SQE can bring on top of the price of the exam and law school. Law school historically […]
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Linklaters is rolling out mandatory training on generative AI (genAI) for staff worldwide in a bid to encourage usage, better support clients and save employee time. The initiative is one of many spearheaded by Linklaters’ head of client tech and AI Shilpa Bhandarkar, who was promoted to partner just last month. The training was created […]
The general counsel of British clothing retailer Ted Baker has shared a heartfelt post on social media supporting her team, who are looking for new roles after the business fell into administration in early March. General counsel Alison Beveridge said: “As we near the end of the administration of Ted Baker, the upcoming sale to […]
Travers Smith is spinning out its artificial intelligence (AI) division into a separate entity, enabling products to be sold to external companies. Known as Jylo, it will operate independently from the firm, led by Travers’ director of legal technology Shawn Curran as its CEO. Curran is moving his team into new digs in Shoreditch. At […]
Freshfields has been appointed as the lead law firm acting on the administration of online car company Cazoo. Advising joint administrators Matthew Mawhinney and David Soden from Teneo Financial Advisory, the magic circle finds itself sorting out the collapse of one of its longstanding retail clients. It was announced this week that the retailer had […]
Claimants, defendants and funders will be expected to engage with a new review into how disputes are backed by third-parties, amid concerns over rising costs caused by delay tactics in litigation.
SRA files new claim over Axiom Ince collapse The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has filed a new matter with the courts. Listed on the public filing system against the former boss of collapsed firm Axiom Ince, Pragnesh Modhwadia, the suit is listed as a Part 8 miscellaneous matter, which usually seeks the court’s decision on […]
Mammoth Glencore securities litigation goes for first CMC Hundreds of claimants participate in five separate matters, with representation from Stewarts, Pallas Partners, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, BCLP and Fox Williams. The Glencore group action is a mammoth case, due to go before the Business and Property Courts for a three-day CMC beginning tomorrow (21 […]
A long-running negligence claim launched by an ex-KPMG Singapore partner against Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has taken a new turn after inconsistencies were alleged against a key witness of the firm. The claimant in the proceedings is KPMG’s ex-head of restructuring, Graham Martin, who instructed HSF in 2017 to challenge a worldwide freezing order brought […]
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