Every year, The Lawyer publishes its Top 20 cases of the coming 12 months based on a variety of metrics. The headline QCs and partners regularly take the headlines, but the juniors can go unheralded. In this series, we’re looking back at the juniors whose cases three years ago paved the way for their careers to flourish. […]
Watson Farley & Williams’ disputes head is leaving for McDermott Will & Emery, as the US firm states its ambitions to expand its litigation team in the City. Andrew Savage has led WFW’s disputes practice for more than a decade, joining the partnership in 2004 having arrived at the firm fours years earlier from legacy […]
The courts are back this week following the Easter recess, with two of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases coming to the fore. Addleshaw Goddard will be acting for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the UK’s biggest pharmaceutical company, in its defence of over 100 claims brought under a group litigation order. The claims related to GSK’s antidepressant drug […]
A busy week at the High Court is headlined by Deutsche Bank’s protracted claim against Unitech Global which originally made The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2014. The case kicked off as a Libor dispute and was expected to set precedents over whether companies can avoid paying back debts based on manipulated rates. Deutsche Bank’s […]
It is a busy week in the High Court, as Clifford Chance defends Deutsche Bank in an €800m claim while Linklaters acts for Glencore in a separate matter.
Every year, The Lawyer publishes its Top 20 cases of the coming 12 months based on a variety of metrics. The headline QCs and partners regularly take the headlines, but the juniors can go unheralded. In this series, we’re looking back at the juniors whose cases three years ago paved the way for their careers to flourish. […]
Watson Farley & Williams’ disputes head is leaving for McDermott Will & Emery, as the US firm states its ambitions to expand its litigation team in the City. Andrew Savage has led WFW’s disputes practice for more than a decade, joining the partnership in 2004 having arrived at the firm fours years earlier from legacy […]
The courts are back this week following the Easter recess, with two of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases coming to the fore. Addleshaw Goddard will be acting for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the UK’s biggest pharmaceutical company, in its defence of over 100 claims brought under a group litigation order. The claims related to GSK’s antidepressant drug […]
A busy week at the High Court is headlined by Deutsche Bank’s protracted claim against Unitech Global which originally made The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2014. The case kicked off as a Libor dispute and was expected to set precedents over whether companies can avoid paying back debts based on manipulated rates. Deutsche Bank’s […]
Clifford Chance and Eversheds Sutherland raked in £9m on the momentous £1.5bn sale of thousands of Network Rail’s railway arches. The firms jointly advised Network Rail in the sale process, known as Project Condor. The National Audit Office posted today that the transaction cost £35m overall, meaning nearly a quarter of the sum was spent […]
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 […]
It seems that one of the chief attributes of managing partners is wild optimism. You can’t move for law firm leaders committing their firms to hardcore five-year targets – particularly in the upper mid-tier, where we’re hearing of plans to double or even triple revenues by the end of the decade. We’d like some of […]
BT has further shrunk its panel for the third review in a row having appointed a total of 11 firms to its roster. The panel will run for three years and includes 10 firms that have been reappointed from 2020. Those continuing their relationship with BT after the latest review are the likes of Allen […]
Dentons has promoted 12 lawyers to partner in the UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) this year, including nine partners in London. Of the remaining three promotions, two were made in Glasgow and one was made in Abu Dhabi. Most of the promotions have been made in the projects team, with Claudia Thomas and Graham […]
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 […]
