Christmas is a giving time of year, so this week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we’re focusing on Winckworth Sherwood’s charities practice. How the firm is structured means that 60 to 70 lawyers work on charity matters at any given time due to its substantial ecclesiastical, property (including social housing) and education practice groups, so it’s […]
Welcome to your last edition of The Hearing for 2023. As we wind down to Christmas, we hope you have enjoyed The Lawyer’s coverage of the UK’s litigation market this year. We will be back when the court term starts in the second week of January, but for now, please enjoy three tales to tell at […]
Tesla files first UK patent claim Electric car manufacturer Tesla has hit tech company Interdigital with a part 7 patents and registered designs claim. Tesla produces electric vehicles, with its Model Y SUV topping the global charts of best-selling electric cars in both 2022 and 2023. Interdigital develops video and wireless technology used in mobile […]
There’s a changing of the guard in the litigation and disputes practice group at Eversheds Sutherland, as its former head gears up to retire by the end of the year. The group encompasses four product groups: commercial dispute resolution (CDR), real estate litigation, construction litigation and financial services disputes and investigations (FSDI). Longstanding chief Paul […]
Christmas is a giving time of year, so this week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we’re focusing on Winckworth Sherwood’s charities practice. How the firm is structured means that 60 to 70 lawyers work on charity matters at any given time due to its substantial ecclesiastical, property (including social housing) and education practice groups, so it’s […]
Welcome to your last edition of The Hearing for 2023. As we wind down to Christmas, we hope you have enjoyed The Lawyer’s coverage of the UK’s litigation market this year. We will be back when the court term starts in the second week of January, but for now, please enjoy three tales to tell at […]
Tesla files first UK patent claim Electric car manufacturer Tesla has hit tech company Interdigital with a part 7 patents and registered designs claim. Tesla produces electric vehicles, with its Model Y SUV topping the global charts of best-selling electric cars in both 2022 and 2023. Interdigital develops video and wireless technology used in mobile […]
There’s a changing of the guard in the litigation and disputes practice group at Eversheds Sutherland, as its former head gears up to retire by the end of the year. The group encompasses four product groups: commercial dispute resolution (CDR), real estate litigation, construction litigation and financial services disputes and investigations (FSDI). Longstanding chief Paul […]
Pharmaceutical giants close in on CMA for closing oral arguments Pfizer and Flynn Pharma are back in court this week for an appeal of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decision last July regarding the supply of phenytoin sodium capsules in the UK. The CMA found that Flynn Pharma infringed the Chapter II prohibition of […]
In-house lawyers are contending with major resourcing issues that is preventing them from doing their job effectively. This is the conclusion of major new research from alternative legal provider, Axiom, which found the in-house market stacked with challenges. In the wake of the Post Office Horizon Public Inquiry, which has put the reputation of the […]
The scene: A US firm boardroom, somewhere not in New York*. Big Cheese (furiously): ‘We’re not growing fast enough. What have you got?’ Smaller Cheese (panicking): Private equity! That’s the thing! Kirkland! Paul Weiss!’ Big Cheese: ‘Do whatever it takes. And do it now.’ Smaller Cheese: ‘Leave it with me. We’ll hire big in London. […]
Some US firms in London tend to get all the headlines, and as you know who they are, we won’t bother namechecking them again. But there are others, a tad more under the radar, that have had a barnstorming year in 2023 and whose time in the limelight is now. Such as Willkie Farr & […]
The latest newly-qualified (NQ) salary rise from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer still managed to raise interest last week, despite the fact enormous pay hikes are the new normal these days and that even £150,000 isn’t unusual any more (as of last week, Quinn’s £180,000 tops the market alongside Gibson Dunn). But it is still significant because […]
European firms see more value in having a physical office in the Square Mile than they do in the Big Apple. Last week, Spanish firm Uría Menéndez became the latest to shut up shop in New York, having been there for 30 years. Uría was the final member of Slaughter and May’s fabled Best Friends […]
Litigation boutique Candey has opened an office in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), marking the firm’s crossover into the offshore legal market. The firm is among a handful of firms that practise both BVI law and English law, with several of its lawyers already able to practise there, including partner Lisa Walmisley and BVI legal […]
Womble Bond Dickinson, which defended the Post Office in the high-profile group litigation brought by the sub-postmasters, is in line to receive £178,000 from its former client as it provides evidence to the Horizon inquiry. According to public documents, Womble Bond Dickinson entered into a contract worth £178,000 with the Post Office for the provision […]
Former White & Case partner Ian Bagshaw is launching the London office of Perkins Coie, along with five of his ex-colleagues. Bagshaw will become managing partner of Perkins Coie in London, a firm whose only offices outside the US are in Taipei and Beijing. The plan is to focus on what Perkins Coie is good […]
In a rare opportunity for the City’s top chief technology officers (CTOs) to sit at a roundtable breakfast and discuss cloud technology. The Lawyer was joined by leading UK Microsoft expert Cloud Direct on 26 March 2024 to host an industry-specific discussion that would address the gaps in knowledge and share challenges with the technological […]
Portugal’s Abreu Advogados fell short of hitting the €50m revenue mark for the first time in its history after revenue surged by almost a fifth in last year. The firm’s top-line grew to €49.7m (£42.8m) from the previous year’s €41.7m. Managing partner Inês Sequeira Mendes praised the firm’s growth, but poured cold water on any […]
