It’s been a big week for local councils, regulators and the police as three heavy judgments rolled in. Two local councils’ in-house legal teams failed to extend interim injunctions that blocked the accommodation of asylum seekers in local hotels last Friday. The spotlight shone on the Met Police as the decisions made in a police […]
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Amazon has appointed a legal adviser to challenge a £900m class action brought at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, The Lawyer understands. Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has been instructed to defend the e-commerce giant against allegations of prioritising its own shopping deals over competitors at the expense of millions of consumers. The Lawyer understands that Stephen […]
Check-in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims hitting the courts and assess what they say about the litigation landscape.
It’s been a big week for local councils, regulators and the police as three heavy judgments rolled in. Two local councils’ in-house legal teams failed to extend interim injunctions that blocked the accommodation of asylum seekers in local hotels last Friday. The spotlight shone on the Met Police as the decisions made in a police […]
Welcome back to the Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to what’s happening in the world of litigation.
Amazon has appointed a legal adviser to challenge a £900m class action brought at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, The Lawyer understands. Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has been instructed to defend the e-commerce giant against allegations of prioritising its own shopping deals over competitors at the expense of millions of consumers. The Lawyer understands that Stephen […]
Check-in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims hitting the courts and assess what they say about the litigation landscape.
Freeths faces a £5.6m professional negligence claim over advice it provided to a litigation claims purchaser. Henderson & Jones is a litigation investment company that specialises in buying claims from insolvent companies and individuals. The company was launched in 2016 and according to court records, it has 40 claims in the English courts. The claim […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright’s London offices will all be under water in a few decades. This trio shares idyllic views overlooking the Thames, but they will all be submerged in the river by the year 2100 as climate change-induced sea level rises occur. And this is based on the […]
Talent churn is accelerating among the junior ranks with today’s associates more mobile than the generations before them. The concept of long-term professional loyalty is fading as Gen Z rises. These lawyers ask not what they can do for you, but what your firm can do for them. This generational shift in working attitudes is […]
Hooray, big-ticket M&A is having a mini-revival and so are the firms that make so much of their money out of it. Already in 2024, major European M&A deals to have been announced include International Paper’s £5.8bn planned acquisition of London-listed packaging company DS Smith, which trumped another offer from rival Mondi. Other significant matters […]
On Tuesday last week (9 April), the SRA sought to quell a rising tide of discontent around the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). In its most recent SQE annual report, SRA chief executive Paul Philip said the public and profession could have “confidence” in this “rigorous assessment”. That confidence was short-lived. Yesterday (15 April), Philip was […]
For one firm, the pan-Nordic dream is dead. For another, it’s just begun. Hannes Snellman’s announcement that its Stockholm and Helsinki offices will be going their separate ways later this year represented the end of a strategic gamble that started 16 years ago. Back then, its leadership bet that opening in Stockholm (2008) and Copenhagen […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made up 23 lawyers to partner globally in its smallest round for three years. Last year, the magic circle promoted 30 to partnership worldwide, with 27 making the grade in 2022. There were 22 elevations in 2021. As a result, the London set is also slightly smaller than in previous years. […]
The Lawyer‘s Christian Smith, Catrin Griffiths, Richard Simmons, Katy Dowell and Charlotte Lear are joined by College of Legal Practice CEO Giles Proctor for this emergency episode of The Lawyer Podcast as they discuss the latest Solicitors Qualification Exam debacle: marking errors that led to 175 students being incorrectly told they had failed. What went […]
Fieldfisher is bolstering its German presence with a sizeable team from local firm SKW Schwartz and a handful of other hires, in an effort to expand its media, technology and IP offerings. The firm has hired eight lawyers from SKW Schwarz including partners Martin Diesbach, Elisabeth Noltenius and Julia Schafdecker, all of whom specialise in […]
Debevoise & Plimpton is hiring from Goodwin Procter as it adds a new partner to its London investment funds team. Shawn D’Aguiar is switching to a new US firm in London eight years after joining Goodwin from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). He was part of a four-partner team move led by then funds head Michael […]
Barclays lost 44 lawyers in its legal team over 2023, almost four times the average number of leavers across the UK’s top banks. The banks with the second highest number of leavers is tied between HSBC and NatWest, with 12 lawyer exits each, according to indicative data. On the other end of the scale, Royal […]
