A second partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s disputes team has left the firm after an internal investigation. Tom Snelling has left the firm, having been made a partner at Freshfields in 2010. He has been involved in a range of cases while at the magic circle firm, including acting for former tobacco manufacturer Gallaher on […]
Fieldfisher has lost another female partner, this time from its white collar practice, following a spate of similar exits in the past few months. Partner and barrister Francesca Titus is set to join the London office of US outfit McGuireWoods. Titus spent four years at Fieldfisher, where she focused on corporate criminal law, investigations and […]
Business tycoon Philip Day has failed in a bid to make his former solicitors at Womble Bond Dickinson stump up the bill for his £450,000 fine imposed in 2017 by the Crown Court. Day was accused of causing the unauthorised cutting down of 43 trees and subsequent construction of a vehicle track in Cumbria. Criminal […]
The risks to legal services posed by the spread of Covid 19 were highlighted last week when international law firm Baker McKenzie closed its London office after a staff member was thought to have been at risk of contracting the new coronavirus. Many office-based lawyers have been able to work from home, but how will an impending pandemic affect the conduct of litigation?
By Guy Wilkes Financial service firms cannot wait for the outcome of the leave negotiations before putting their restructuring plans into effect After the initial excitement and panic following the referendum result lawyers were quick to reassure their clients that nothing had changed overnight. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) similarly sought to reassure people that […]
A second partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s disputes team has left the firm after an internal investigation. Tom Snelling has left the firm, having been made a partner at Freshfields in 2010. He has been involved in a range of cases while at the magic circle firm, including acting for former tobacco manufacturer Gallaher on […]
Fieldfisher has lost another female partner, this time from its white collar practice, following a spate of similar exits in the past few months. Partner and barrister Francesca Titus is set to join the London office of US outfit McGuireWoods. Titus spent four years at Fieldfisher, where she focused on corporate criminal law, investigations and […]
Business tycoon Philip Day has failed in a bid to make his former solicitors at Womble Bond Dickinson stump up the bill for his £450,000 fine imposed in 2017 by the Crown Court. Day was accused of causing the unauthorised cutting down of 43 trees and subsequent construction of a vehicle track in Cumbria. Criminal […]
The risks to legal services posed by the spread of Covid 19 were highlighted last week when international law firm Baker McKenzie closed its London office after a staff member was thought to have been at risk of contracting the new coronavirus. Many office-based lawyers have been able to work from home, but how will an impending pandemic affect the conduct of litigation?
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Despite two successful convictions in the Unaoil bribery case, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) will now conduct an internal review after its head Lisa Osofsky was criticised by the judge over dealings with an intermediary. In a ruling made public on Monday, Judge Martin Beddoe rebuked Osofsky for making herself vulnerable to flattery during the […]
The Serious Fraud Office has fined security company G4S £44m, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) bringing a six-year investigation to an end. The fine will see G4S avoid prosecution for overcharging the Ministry of Justice for the electronic tagging of offenders. The SFO said G4S had accepted responsibility for three counts of fraud that […]
Dentons has launched a managed legal services offering to take on low to medium complexity work for in-house legal teams. Developed as an extension of a client’s in-house team, the firm says the new offering will allow for significant cost savings to clients and free up the workload of their in-house legal department, by assisting […]
Covington & Burling has received a successful outcome in a long-running dispute arising out of Ukraine. The firm and Hogan Lovells were defending a pair of oligarchs in a dispute brought by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s client Avonwick Holdings, in a case that featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases 2019. British Virgin Islands-based […]
Travel operator Fleetway has called in PwC as it fell into administration yesterday, with Eversheds Sutherland appointed to assist the Big Four giant. The company’s collapse was brought on by cash flow pressures amid Covid-19, a scenario many travel companies are also facing as fewer holidaymakers book overseas trips. Fleetway, which employs around 62 employees, […]
Hogan Lovells’ new CEO Miguel Zaldivar wants to seize corporate footing in London and target growth in practice areas like privacy and cybersecurity, as well as trade. Zaldivar, who officially became the firm’s CEO on 1 July, told The Lawyer that there now needs to be a shift in how the firm is perceived, particularly […]
