A defamation claim brought by a Shakespeare Martineau client against Wiggin-repped Steve Coogan and film studios Pathé and Baby Cow productions has succeeded in its preliminary trial over Coogan’s Richard III film, The Lost King. Judge Lewis handed down judgment today (14 June), ruling on what, under common law, “a hypothetical reasonable viewer” would understand […]
EasyGroup founder and chairman Stelios Haji-Ioannou has called out chancery judges in a statement released today (13 June) after Justice Bacon ruled against the company in a claim brought against cosmetics company Beauty Perfectionists in the High Court. He has already stated his intention to appeal the ruling. Haji-Ioannou said: “We have found that there […]
Sidley Austin has increased its base pay for newly-qualified (NQ) solicitors for the second time this year from £166,500 to £175,000. The pay increase will come into force from 1st July and is also understood to involve rises across the board for associates. Trainee solicitors will see a pay rise too, with first-year trainees moving […]
Macfarlanes has restocked its corporate crime and investigations team with a hire from Herbert Smith Freehills. Brian Spiro will join the UK firm as a senior adviser. He has been a partner at HSF for nearly seven years, spending the majority of his career at BCL Solicitors and Simons Muirhead & Burton. He trained at […]
A seven-lawyer real estate team led by one of Linklaters’ longest-serving partners in Stockholm has left the firm to join a local player. Longstanding real estate partner Magnus Lidman retired from the Linklaters partnership earlier this year, but has re-emerged as the star name among this group leaving to join Sweden’s Gernandt & Danielsson (G&D). […]
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A generational schism could tip the Scottish Independents (UK 200 firms ranked 101-200) market into a mass restructuring phase because too few lawyers are retiring from the partnership. Succession planning is a top concern for a growing number of Independents, but in Scotland the matter is on the verge of critical with firms also confronted […]
Will you make partner quicker at the firm at which you trained? If you’re at Travers Smith at least, the answer is yes. Data collected by The Lawyer on the firm’s last 10 promotions rounds shows that Travers-trained lawyers made partner over a year earlier on average than those who moved from other firms. Of the […]
TLT’s expansion into Birmingham provides a textbook example of how to quickly build critical mass in a new city, while at the same time upsetting the local competition. The target for TLT in Birmingham has been Shoosmiths, a local stalwart that back in 2021 shifted its attention to London. Shoosmiths has made 44 hires in […]
American firms in London have seen a sharp slowdown in their City headcount growth rate, according to The Lawyer’s latest US 50 report. After the last five years saw the US firms reliably adding some 300 to 800 lawyers to their ranks annually, 2023 brought on all of 22 additional lawyers to the overall mix. […]
Multiple firms have been involved in some way in the Post Office scandal, acting either for the company itself, the claimants or the UK Government. With the treatment of hundreds of sub-postmasters recognised as one of the UK’s greatest miscarriages of justice, any work tied to the scandal has the potential to become controversial. This […]
Danish firm Horten is undertaking a thorough internal review following the release of a TV documentary series that engulfed the firm in scandal and resulted in the dismissal of a key partner. The firm published a statement last week saying that insolvency partner Nicolai Dyhr had left the firm with immediate effect and that it […]
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by the Republic of Argentina over a €1.3bn payment sought by a group of bondholders, which bailed the country out in 2005. The matter featured in The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2022. An appeal was launched by Argentina, represented by Sullivan & Cromwell, which intended […]
King & Spalding has raided US rival Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft for a four-strong partner team in London. Four partners are making the move, alongside one special counsel who will join as partner. On the funds finance side, partners Samantha Hutchinson, Mathan Navaratnam, Nathan Parker and special counsel James Hoggett will join. Partner Sukhvir Basran […]
Yesterday (11 June) the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s investigation into the Post Office took a new turn as it filed a part 8 claim before the Business List of the High Court. The Lawyer understands the filing is an application for a section 44BB order from the Court, which orders an entity not regulated by the […]
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