Ask the experts: What your clients need to know about e-discovery
Q: How would you characterise current sentiment and appetite among your clients for using the latest technology when it comes to e-discovery?
Moves: Mishcon hires Clydes private client partner
Mishcon de Reya has hired Clyde & Co private client partner Martin Davies. Davies was at Clydes for six years and was also responsible for liaising with the firm’s Middle East practice. Prior to joining Clydes he was head of the international team at Howard Kennedy for a decade.
The long read: Managing partners talk lawyering after Brexit
When the UK woke up to Brexit on 24 June many of the country’s lawyers had already been fielding calls throughout a long and sleepless night from clients worried about the potential impact on their businesses. A procession of firms including Clifford Chance, Dechert, Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons had launched hotlines or were operating […]
Germany: Bonn appetites
At The Lawyer’s 2016 European Awards, Flick Gocke Schaumburg (FGS) took the title of German law firm of the year, fighting off stiff competition from the likes of Gleiss Lutz, Hengeler Mueller and 2015 champion Noerr.
Bonnington Plastics legal chief: ‘How I run a UK team from Australia’
Aidan Parsons is now living the dream over in Australia. But in spite of the geographical distance, he is still thoroughly in tune with the latest developments at Nottingham-headquartered Bonnington Plastics, working with the team in a consultancy capacity.
Can Ireland cope with the Brexodus?
A month on from the Brexit vote and Prime Minister Theresa May appears to have brought a little calm to the wounded markets. The leaders of Germany and France may be no more enamoured with the idea of the UK exiting the EU than nearly half of our citizens are, but May’s meetings with them […]
Planning for the post-Brexit legal world
On the morning of June 24th this year everything changed. Despite many predictions to the contrary, the people of Britain voted decisively to leave the European Union, and the political and economic landscape will never be the same again.