US firm Sedgwick to close after string of partner exits
US firm Sedgwick is to cease trading early next year in a move that will affect over 80 partners, including six in London.
Historic England hands panel spots to 10 firms as roster triples
City and regional firms have won roles on Historic England’s enlarged 10-firm roster of legal advisers.
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Clients: Business services staff shouldn’t handle our relationships
Clients surveyed by The Lawyer have said they would be “very unhappy” to have a business services professional rather than a lawyer as the main point of contact at their external law firm, new research has revealed. One client’s response was particularly vehement: “Absolutely terrible idea. Having to go through someone who doesn’t really understand […]
Pinsent Masons celebrates International Men’s Day for first time
Pinsent Masons is celebrating International Men’s Day for the first time this year. The firm will mark the occasion with a conference next week for 50 male year 10 and 11 students from its partner schools, who are statistically less likely to achieve their potential at school than their female peers. The firm’s family support network […]
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Breaking Bad tenancies
In the 2018 county court case of Vanezis & Vanezis v Ozkoc and others the claimant landlords failed in their claim for possession of a café premises for breaches of covenant in the lease arising from, amongst others, the defendant tenant’s criminal conviction for conspiracy to supply class A drugs…
Inheritance tax: time to think again?
In 1726, Daniel Defoe published a satirical portrayal of the devil’s achievements up to that time. In encouraging the notion that he had a cloven foot, Satan had become so successful in the popular imagination that there was nothing: “not the Man in the Moon, not the GroaningBoard, not the speaking of Fryar Bacon’s Brazen […]
‘Class action’ filed in the UK against members of the truck manufacturers’ cartel
On 29 June 2018, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (the “CAT”), a specialist court, announced the filing of an application to commence collective proceedings against a cartel of manufacturers who for 14 years conspired to fix the price of almost all European trucks…
Online but divorced from reality
By Philippa Dolan No one denies that simplifying the divorce process to make it easier, faster, cheaper and more understandable is a laudable aim. Much has been made of the billion pounds that is apparently being invested in an overall reform programme to ‘modernise the courts and tribunal service’, part of which is being spent […]
Family Court still has teeth: The Hart v Hart case
Mrs Hart was disappointed with her financial settlement. She appealed to the Court of Appeal but the appeal was rejected. Her team had argued that the High Court Judge had not punished Mr Hart for his refusal to be straight about his finances and had based her settlement on the sum that he did disclose, […]
US firm Sedgwick to close after string of partner exits
US firm Sedgwick is to cease trading early next year in a move that will affect over 80 partners, including six in London.
Historic England hands panel spots to 10 firms as roster triples
City and regional firms have won roles on Historic England’s enlarged 10-firm roster of legal advisers.
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Clients: Business services staff shouldn’t handle our relationships
Clients surveyed by The Lawyer have said they would be “very unhappy” to have a business services professional rather than a lawyer as the main point of contact at their external law firm, new research has revealed. One client’s response was particularly vehement: “Absolutely terrible idea. Having to go through someone who doesn’t really understand […]
Pinsent Masons celebrates International Men’s Day for first time
Pinsent Masons is celebrating International Men’s Day for the first time this year. The firm will mark the occasion with a conference next week for 50 male year 10 and 11 students from its partner schools, who are statistically less likely to achieve their potential at school than their female peers. The firm’s family support network […]
TPG ramps up panel process as first stage nears completion
New details are emerging with regards to TPG’s ongoing panel process – one of the only private equity houses to launch such a global tender.
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29 lawyers over two months: Dechert nets largest group hire from Quinn Emanuel
Dechert has completed the mass hire of 29 lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s product liability team in the US. The group has been joining since the end of May, after the arrival of Quinn’s product liability co-chairs Sheila Birnbaum and Mark Cheffo. The pair made the move with fellow partner Douglas Fleming, another […]
Freshfields and HSF to pocket £45m in fees for Comcast’s Sky bid
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Davis Polk & Wardwell and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) are set to pick up nearly £45m in fees for their work in the high-profile bidding war for Sky between Comcast and 21st Century Fox. The figures are printed in a formal offer document published by Comcast, which yesterday revealed it would be scrapping its […]
TalkTalk legal head joins AA as its new GC
TalkTalk’s Nadia Hoosen is the breakdown cover provider’s new general counsel
Dechert recruits Middle East duo from King & Spalding
Dechert has hired its first lateral partner in Dubai for over 18 months, after taking on two real estate lawyers from its US rival King & Spalding. King & Spalding partner Stephen Kelly is joining Dechert. He will be joined by counsel Sarah Mahood who joins as a national partner. Prior to King & Spalding, […]
Freshfields partner swaps private practice for the Bar
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer restructuring partner Nick Segal is switching private practice for the Bar, taking on a new role at Erskine Chambers. Segal is set to join the chambers as a barrister in September, after he has been successfully admitted to the Bar. Segal joined Freshfields in 2006 on his return to the UK from […]
DAC posts double-digit growth across the board with record PEP figure
DAC Beachcroft has posted a strong set of results for the 2017/18 financial year, showing double-digit growth in turnover and profit as well as posting a record-high in profit per equity partner (PEP) of £530,000. An 11 per cent increase in turnover from 2016/17 saw the firm rise from £207m to £230m, while a 21 per […]