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Bracher Rawlins acted for cable TV home-shopping provider Virtual Precincts on taking a total of £500
Bracher Rawlins acted for cable TV home-shopping provider Virtual Precincts on taking a total of £500
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Leeds firm Ian Brill & Co, which acted for a man who sold his house without his wife’s knowledge, is liable to the Bristol & West Building Society for breach of warranty of authority. Lords Justice Staughton, Waller and Waite upheld a Leeds District Registry decision. The ruling […]
Harris v Mears – QBD 10 April 1997 Claimant: Gemma Harris, 1Incident: Road traffic accident Injuries: Claimant seven-years-old when insurance underwriter father, who was bringing her up as a single parent, was killed in motorway accident. Father was 31 at the time of his death and had a promising career with a major insurance company. […]
McKenna & Co has become the first UK law firm to advise on introducing electricity competition to a US state. A 13-strong team from McKennas’ offices in London, Washington, and Hong Kong, which was headed by Fiona Woolf, spent 10 weeks in a specially rented office in San Francisco advising on the intro- duction of […]
A wave of cash calls could be triggered following guidance from HM Revenue & Customs on the tax status of fixed-share partners. Managing partners told The Lawyer that the new Salaried Members Rules Guidance, published just days before the Spring Budget, would cause “headaches” and “confusion” for firms already contending with basis period reforms. One […]
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 […]
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 vacanciesClyde & Co’s recent UK growth strategy has been quite clear – pick up teams from sluggish firms and use them to fill practice gaps. This was evident in its 2022 merger with BLM. According to Clydes’ most recent Companies House filings, it paid just £11m for its former UK rival, an acquisition which bolstered […]
Demand 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 […]
A wave of cash calls could be triggered following guidance from HM Revenue & Customs on the tax status of fixed-share partners. Managing partners told The Lawyer that the new Salaried Members Rules Guidance, published just days before the Spring Budget, would cause “headaches” and “confusion” for firms already contending with basis period reforms. One […]
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 […]
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