Claimants put forward their case today against BT, in what is the first class action to progress to trial since the introduction of the new collective proceedings regime. The £1.3bn class action made The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases this year. Should the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) find in the claimants’ favour, the trial will define how […]
Class action: BT in the hot seat Consumer champion Justin Le Patourel is set to take on BT in a £1.3bn claim today (29 January) on behalf of over two million UK customers in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The class action will be highly significant to the collective proceedings regime in the UK as […]
This week on Spotlight, we look at a defence side team at Clifford Chance operating in the booming securities litigation space – specifically shareholder group action claims. Members of the team are defending Serco, one of the UK Government’s most high-profile outsourcing contractors, in a claim brought by a group of investors. The case featured as one of The […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK’s litigation market. This week, what you need to know to help your in-house lawyers sleep at night, and Brown Rudnick continues its litigation expansion in London. First though, waiting for a judgment is a bit like waiting for exam results. By […]
Claimants put forward their case today against BT, in what is the first class action to progress to trial since the introduction of the new collective proceedings regime. The £1.3bn class action made The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases this year. Should the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) find in the claimants’ favour, the trial will define how […]
Class action: BT in the hot seat Consumer champion Justin Le Patourel is set to take on BT in a £1.3bn claim today (29 January) on behalf of over two million UK customers in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The class action will be highly significant to the collective proceedings regime in the UK as […]
This week on Spotlight, we look at a defence side team at Clifford Chance operating in the booming securities litigation space – specifically shareholder group action claims. Members of the team are defending Serco, one of the UK Government’s most high-profile outsourcing contractors, in a claim brought by a group of investors. The case featured as one of The […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK’s litigation market. This week, what you need to know to help your in-house lawyers sleep at night, and Brown Rudnick continues its litigation expansion in London. First though, waiting for a judgment is a bit like waiting for exam results. By […]
Russian aircraft claims grow with new major lessor The Russian aircraft claims, involving over 70 insurance disputes launched by aircraft lessors over planes held in Russia since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases for 2024, and with good reason. These mammoth claims have over £10bn […]
It’s a 90-minute train journey to London and two hours from Bristol. At £29 per sq ft, grade A office rents are a third of the average £90 per sq ft City firms pay. And it has an abundance of lawyers. Slowly but steadily, Southampton is slipping into the mid-tier consciousness as a city in […]
Talk of associates losing faith in the partnership track is nowhere to be seen at Addleshaw Goddard, which recently unveiled its largest round to date. The partnership count is currently running at 429 – up 75 per cent from the 245 it housed back in 2019. Those promotions show a firm that is bullish about […]
1 May is a big day for many in the legal industry, not just the thousands of people at Allen & Overy and Shearman who have now combined officially. Scores of lawyers become partners today after a wave of promotions, meaning that also – in the great circle of life – plenty of veterans are […]
The significance of the unstoppable growth of US-headquartered firms in London isn’t solely about jaw-dropping scale, although the size of headcount and revenue at some of these big City beasts is truly head-turning. Notably, several US firms have doubled down on their investment in London of late, and not just Paul Weiss. While the New […]
It has been over four years since the UK first went into lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s four years since the world went crazy and stocked up on toilet roll, since staff had to bundle up their laptops and work on makeshift garden furniture desks, and since most of the nation actually looked […]
Manchester United’s interim CEO and general counsel has left following another shake-up within the club’s executive ranks. Patrick Stewart served as general counsel at the club for over 18 years and stepped into the interim CEO role at the end of last year following the departure of Richard Arnold. Stewart completed his legal training at Burness and qualified in […]
Iberian firm Uría Menéndez will close in New York when its Park Avenue lease expires, after more than three decades in the US. The firm runs with a small staff in New York of just three lawyers, led by office managing partner and corporate lawyer José Félix Zaldivar. Uría Menéndez felt its US strategy would […]
Lawfront, the business backed by private equity firm Blixt Group, has made its eighth acquisition of a law firm, and its third in the last 12 months, as it continues its expansion. Manchester-headquartered full-service practice Slater Heelis is the latest to be acquired, with Farleys, Fisher Jones Greenwood and Nelsons the other large firms to […]
One of Shearman & Sterling’s London partner contingent left the firm ahead of its merger with Allen & Overy today. Leveraged finance partner Sanjeev Dhuna has not made the move to the new A&O Shearman. He joined Shearman during the firm’s hiring spree of 2021. Dhuna was previously at A&O, where he had spent the […]
Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling officially tie the knot today after a year of client discussions, integration planning and team introductions. The firm brings together nearly 4,000 lawyers, including 800 partners, with combined revenues of approximately $3.5bn. It had long been the plan of A&O’s outgoing senior partner Wim Dejonghe to develop a […]
