Maria joined The Lawyer in November 2021 as a reporter. She primarily covers litigation and the Bar. She tweets @TheLawyerMaria
Ashurst has an ambitious plan for its disputes practice. “There’s an opportunity to increase the size of our team and make a real impact on the market. We’ve got a strategic plan to do that,” Tom Connor, Ashurst’s co-division head of disputes, investigations and advisory, tells The Lawyer. Over the last financial year, Ashurst’s global […]
With Stephenson Harwood operating a 50/50 split between disputes and transactional work, the firm’s co-heads of commercial litigation play a pivotal role in driving the firm towards its strategic goals. Ros Prince, who oversees Stephenson Harwood’s more generalist litigators in the realms of commercial litigation, restructuring and insolvency, asset recovery and tech disputes, took on […]
RPC’s head of financial markets disputes Simon Hart believes the firm is one of the few full-service operations in the City that have a clear run against the largest investment banks. The firm, with its heritage in insurance, has tried to diversify over the years by positioning itself in a more commercial space. While insurance […]
Luxury hotels and European designers embroiled in IP wars Bristows and Gowling WLG have been named as the firms going head to head in an IP battle between two European leather goods brands. Belgium luxury leather designer Delvaux Créateur, represented by Bristows, has issued a suit in the Intellectual Property and Enterprise Court again the […]
A disputes partner has departed Allen & Overy after 18 months, just days after the firm voted to merge with US firm Shearman & Sterling. Andy McGregor is joining Enyo Law having been hired by the magic circle firm in January 2022. Before that he spent over a decade at RPC, where he built expertise in […]
The litigation to hold former directors of Carillion accountable for the collapse of the construction company has settled just days before its due to appear in court. The case was initially brought against eight former directors but only seven made it to The Lawyer’s top cases of 2023 line-up in January after Zafar Khan, who […]
EU targets convicted fraudster in English High Court The European Union represented by the European Research Executive Agency has filed a lawsuit to the English High Court against a convicted fraudster and his company. The executive agency has instructed boutique firm Bexley Beaumont to file a miscellaneous claim against Wind Technologies Ltd and Ehsan Abdi-Jalebi. Back […]
A former associate of Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has been struck off the Roll of Solicitors after he was convicted of several child sex offences. The lawyer, whose named was anonymised in a judgment released by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT), was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 2009. The SDT named him ‘AH’ to […]
Axiom Ince, the firm closed earlier this week by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, has told a court hearing that its former boss instructed new counsel just yesterday in a case brought against him. Both sides were in court before Mrs Justice Bacon this morning for an interim applications hearing. Axiom Ince sought the continuation of […]
Welcome back after three months of court recess for the summer. While the courts were on a break for the summer, there were still claims filed to the system. Here were some of the notable cases. Eversheds sued by Uni over student digs contracts The University For The Creative Arts called on Farrer & Co […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has intervened into the 14 offices across England and Wales belonging to Axiom Ince, following the news that the firm is seeking an administrator. The SRA’s intervention will prohibit the firm from operating. The SRA will take possession of all documents and papers held by the firm and take possession […]
Axiom Ince, which bought troubled firms Ince and Plexus earlier this year, has asked the High Court to appoint administrators. Axiom Ince, previously known as Axiom DWFM, instructed Devonshires Solicitors partner Jim Varley to file a notice of intention to appoint an administrator today. It is understood that the firm had to cease trading as […]