In brief: LCD focuses on judgment enforcement
The Lord Chancellor’s Department has published a consultation paper on the enforcement of civil court judgments. The paper aims to open up the debate on how enforcement might be made more effective.
The Lord Chancellor’s Department has published a consultation paper on the enforcement of civil court judgments. The paper aims to open up the debate on how enforcement might be made more effective.
The way in which the Paris-based World Cup organising committee, the CFO, distributed tickets could be held to be discriminatory, according to the Paris Civil Court. But the 31 MEPs who brought the action against the CFO, represented by Clifford Chance, failed on a technicality last week. The French judge ruled that the case was […]
Wilde Sapte has been approached by three big six accountancy firms and three “perfectly credible law firm suitors” since its talks with Andersens failed, according to managing partner Steve Blakeley. Blakeley e-mailed all his staff last week to reassure them. He said: “Now the Andersen deal is over it might be easy for us to […]
Big six firm KPMG has called for the scrapping of juries in serious fraud trials and said that arguments for retaining them could be put “forward by defence lawyers rather than members of the public”. The Home Office is currently undertaking a consultation exercise on whether juries should be retained for fraud trials. John Ellison, […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of all the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this edition, litigators have been moving en masse in Paris this year and we take a look into one of the bigger moves; Denmark’s Plesner passed the psychologically impactful DKK1bn mark for the first […]
Forsters has hired a team from Winckworth Sherwood, including former senior partner and head of employment Jo Keddie. Joining on 2 April, Keddie will lead its employment and partnerships practice. She will move with colleagues Danielle Crawford and Daniel Parker, who will join the team as counsel and senior associate, respectively. Forsters said that the […]
Ward McKimm, Shearman & Sterling’s European and Middle East regional managing partner, is leaving the firm less than two months before its Allen & Overy tie-up goes live. A statement from Shearman and McKimm read: “Shearman & Sterling and Ward McKimm jointly confirm that, after a nearly-30 year career as a leading high-yield and leveraged […]
Ex-Albanian Prime Minister challenges Home Office The Special Immigration Appeals Commission will today (18 March) hear the former President and Prime Minister of Albania’s bid to overturn a 2022 Home Office decision to bar him from the UK. The hearing, which is featured as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2024, is expected to […]
Paul Weiss is continuing its London office expansion, hiring another private equity partner from Clifford Chance. Oliver Marcuse is set to join the US firm, just months after former magic circle colleague Chris Sullivan made the same move. Marcuse was promoted to the firm’s partnership in 2022, having spent his career at Clifford Chance. Secondments […]
This report contains: an analysis of the Scottish legal market as a whole, covering key locations and sectors the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the country analysis of the Scottish independent firms’ efficiency
This report contains: a look at the profitability and growth of Quinn Emanuel’s London office since its opening in 2008 an analysis of Quinn’s bench strength and how it weighs up against competitors an overview of Quinn’s practice in London
This report contains: The Lawyer‘s new global elite index which ranks firms on four key financial metrics analysis of the magic circle firms’ growth trajectories in the US insights from industry experts on firms poised for global dominance in the next decade detailed analysis of the magic circles practice area performance using data from The […]
This report contains: An overview of judgements heard at a selection of courts in Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong during 2023.
This report contains: An overview of claims heard at a selection of courts in the UK during 2023
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Search vacanciesDemand for partner laterals in London is at an all-time high. A recent report by Edwards Gibson reveals a staggering 101 partner moves in the first two months of 2024 alone. This marks a 7 per cent surge from last year’s figures and a 9 per cent increase over the five and 10-year averages. Despite […]
It was one year ago that the news broke about the sudden liberalisation of the Indian legal market. Excitement was cautious and few expected anything drastic, but it was a crucial first step in the market opening up. It’s been on plenty of firms’ minds since, as was illustrated by Osborne Clarke’s hire of Charles […]
As The Lawyer prepares to analyse the annual performance of US firms in the UK market, we can reflect on a transformative year. At the start of 2023, Milbank secured its deal with Dickson Minto’s London office, while Shearman and Allen & Overy weren’t even a thing. Paul Weiss also had no English law capability. […]
The Dutch legal market is uber conservative; it has witnessed little by way of disruption to force the kind of sweeping changes seen here in London. Amsterdam is not the city where firms can rack up mega fees; big-ticket M&A work is not done there as often as it is here. That said, if you’ve […]
With the financial year-end fast approaching, partners are under pressure to get clients to settle their bills. Cashflow is a top concern with costs rising, just shaving a few days from the lock-up total can boost the cash pot. Some firms manage this spectacularly well. Analysis on the March City Signal channel of The Lawyer […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of all the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this edition, litigators have been moving en masse in Paris this year and we take a look into one of the bigger moves; Denmark’s Plesner passed the psychologically impactful DKK1bn mark for the first […]
Forsters has hired a team from Winckworth Sherwood, including former senior partner and head of employment Jo Keddie. Joining on 2 April, Keddie will lead its employment and partnerships practice. She will move with colleagues Danielle Crawford and Daniel Parker, who will join the team as counsel and senior associate, respectively. Forsters said that the […]
Ward McKimm, Shearman & Sterling’s European and Middle East regional managing partner, is leaving the firm less than two months before its Allen & Overy tie-up goes live. A statement from Shearman and McKimm read: “Shearman & Sterling and Ward McKimm jointly confirm that, after a nearly-30 year career as a leading high-yield and leveraged […]
Ex-Albanian Prime Minister challenges Home Office The Special Immigration Appeals Commission will today (18 March) hear the former President and Prime Minister of Albania’s bid to overturn a 2022 Home Office decision to bar him from the UK. The hearing, which is featured as one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2024, is expected to […]
Paul Weiss is continuing its London office expansion, hiring another private equity partner from Clifford Chance. Oliver Marcuse is set to join the US firm, just months after former magic circle colleague Chris Sullivan made the same move. Marcuse was promoted to the firm’s partnership in 2022, having spent his career at Clifford Chance. Secondments […]
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