This week for The Lawyer’s Spotlight feature, we want to draw your attention to the world of construction and engineering disputes at Mayer Brown. The firm’s London litigation team, which houses 40 lawyers in construction and engineering, has been busy bringing a landmark cladding claim this year, which was featured as one of The Lawyer’s top […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, Quinn Emanuel returns to growth (in a big way), and a couple of in-house litigators come in from the cold. But first, if you want something done, get Alan Bates to do it… Litigation funders get the […]
Blake Morgan in the hot seat Hampshire-based firm Warner Goodman is bringing a Part 7 claim against Blake Morgan. Filed as a claim against solicitors and barristers in the Business and Property Courts, the matter is bought on behalf of an individual. The nature of the claim is unclear, but this is not the only […]
Motorola takes on Chinese radio manufacturer Chinese radio manufacturer Hytera will apply to stay a $150m judgment obtained by Motorola Solutions this Friday (19 January), pending a decision on Hytera’s appeal in the US Court of Appeals. In 2008, Hytera hired three senior engineers from Motorola who stole confidential documents and source code from Motorola […]
This week for The Lawyer’s Spotlight feature, we want to draw your attention to the world of construction and engineering disputes at Mayer Brown. The firm’s London litigation team, which houses 40 lawyers in construction and engineering, has been busy bringing a landmark cladding claim this year, which was featured as one of The Lawyer’s top […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, Quinn Emanuel returns to growth (in a big way), and a couple of in-house litigators come in from the cold. But first, if you want something done, get Alan Bates to do it… Litigation funders get the […]
Blake Morgan in the hot seat Hampshire-based firm Warner Goodman is bringing a Part 7 claim against Blake Morgan. Filed as a claim against solicitors and barristers in the Business and Property Courts, the matter is bought on behalf of an individual. The nature of the claim is unclear, but this is not the only […]
Motorola takes on Chinese radio manufacturer Chinese radio manufacturer Hytera will apply to stay a $150m judgment obtained by Motorola Solutions this Friday (19 January), pending a decision on Hytera’s appeal in the US Court of Appeals. In 2008, Hytera hired three senior engineers from Motorola who stole confidential documents and source code from Motorola […]
This Friday’s Spotlight, the first of the Hilary term, features a special episode on national firm Freeths’ disputes group. The firm and its lawyers have received much attention since ITV’s portrayal of the Post Office scandal in its drama Mr Bates v the Post Office, titled after the group litigation of the same name that a Freeths […]
The latest newly-qualified (NQ) salary rise from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer still managed to raise interest last week, despite the fact enormous pay hikes are the new normal these days and that even £150,000 isn’t unusual any more (as of last week, Quinn’s £180,000 tops the market alongside Gibson Dunn). But it is still significant because […]
European firms see more value in having a physical office in the Square Mile than they do in the Big Apple. Last week, Spanish firm Uría Menéndez became the latest to shut up shop in New York, having been there for 30 years. Uría was the final member of Slaughter and May’s fabled Best Friends […]
Thanks to Paul Weiss, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis (but mainly Paul Weiss), Linklaters has a few empty chairs at Silk Street. One way a firm can replenish its ranks is through lateral hiring – enter Travers Smith corporate partner Richard Spedding – or internal promotions. Last month, a total of 14 lawyers were made up […]
Paul Weiss’ UK spending spree is far from over. Just a year ago, this firm was small fry among the US City titans. Cue an audacious carve-out of some of Kirkland & Ellis’ superstars last summer and everything changed. That initial raid (which included debt finance heavyweight Neel Sachdev and corporate star Roger Johnson) was […]
In October 2018, the journalist and critic of the Saudi Arabian regime Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The international reaction was swift. Dozens of major organisations, including HSBC, Ford and JP Morgan Chase, dropped out of the planned “Davos in the Desert” Saudi investment summit. “We are going […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has lost its UK head of competition, a year and a half after he joined the firm. Lambros Kilaniotis left the firm in April, having joined Quinn from RPC (where he was head of competition) in January 2023 to co-head Quinn’s UK competition practice with partner Kate Vernon. In a […]
The latest episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now. Last week, all eyes were on A&O Shearman, a union hailing Big Law and its future. But in this week’s episode, we consider why so many solicitors are pursuing another future: opening their own firm. A survey from Censuswide on behalf of Harbour Litigation Funding […]
Hill Dickinson has secured another team hire, taking a group of six from Clyde & Co in Newcastle. Shipping partner Stephen Mackin has made the move along with five other colleagues. Mackin joined Clyde & Co in 2017, before which he spent nearly 25 years at Eversheds Sutherland. A former seafarer himself, Mackin specialises in […]
A senior member of Travers Smith’s corporate group has left for Linklaters, after a string of departures from both firms. Richard Spedding has left the firm for Linklaters after 25 years at Travers, making partner in 2003. Working in M&A and equity capital markets, Spedding was also an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for five […]
NatWest’s general counsel – and Linklaters’ former managing partner – Gideon Moore has left the bank after two years, making way for a new chief. Moore has been replaced by NatWest’s litigation general counsel Will Luker. He has worked at the bank since 2003, became litigation general counsel in 2010 and subsequently managed and integrated […]
