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.
Clifford Chance gains £15m in savings thanks to tech push
Clifford Chance is ramping up its focus on the use of technology to deliver services, notably via its continuous improvement programme, with investment in a wider range of business services roles and related products. Speaking to The Lawyer for this year’s UK 200: Business Services report, Clifford Chance’s global head of innovation and business change […]
Tiago Bessa speaks on eSports and legal challenges
Tiago Bessa, managing associate of the TMT practice, has been a speaker in the Lisbon Games Week (LGW) on 20 November, on “The phenomenon of eSports and legal challenges”.
Stefan Riegler to head up arbitration practice in Vienna
Stefan Riegler is to lead Wolf Theiss’s arbitration group in Vienna and further expand its multijurisdictional arbitral practice. Riegler specialises in representing companies involved in commercial legal disputes before arbitral tribunals and can look back at more than a decade of experience in this area.
The importance of compliance when appointing directors
ECJ clarifies ambiguity around EU Design Protection Exemption
By David Cullen The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has clarified the ambiguity which has surrounded the interpretation of Article 8 of the Community Design Regulation (EC) no 6/2002 (CDR); the provision which excludes from design protection those design features which are dictated solely by technical function. The ECJ’s decision in Doceram v CeramTec (C-395/16), a […]
GDPR- A door to privacy class actions suits in Ireland
By Kellie O’Flynn With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now in effect, one of the emerging considerations is whether its provisions – specifically Article 80 – open the door to ‘class action’ style privacy cases. Several European countries have already legislated for varying degrees of collective actions, particularly in the area of consumer protection, […]
New Data Protection Act 2018 allows access to court records to media
By Owen O’Sullivan, Richard Breen, Lisa Carty One of the many implications of the new Data Protection Act 2018 is that pursuant to section 159 of the Act the rules of the courts (at all levels) have been changed to allow access to court records for bona fide members of the press or broadcast media. Although the media […]
Ireland: new Coroners Bill aims to modernise the law and address maternal deaths
The Minister for Justice and Equality, Charlie Flanagan, published the Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018 on 2 August 2018 with the aim of significantly clarifying, strengthening and modernising the law relating to the reporting of deaths to coroners. The Bill, once enacted, will amend the Coroners Act 1962. The Bill allows for a wider scope of […]
Use of behavioural biometrics brings privacy issues under GDPR
By Alex Towers With cybertheft and data breaches becoming an increasingly common occurrence, the need to rapidly and accurately identify fraud has driven the development of behavioural biometrics as a means to target automated attacks and suspicious transactions. However, for the technology to function, companies must amass libraries of biometric personal data to construct profiles…
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.
Clifford Chance gains £15m in savings thanks to tech push
Clifford Chance is ramping up its focus on the use of technology to deliver services, notably via its continuous improvement programme, with investment in a wider range of business services roles and related products. Speaking to The Lawyer for this year’s UK 200: Business Services report, Clifford Chance’s global head of innovation and business change […]
Tiago Bessa speaks on eSports and legal challenges
Tiago Bessa, managing associate of the TMT practice, has been a speaker in the Lisbon Games Week (LGW) on 20 November, on “The phenomenon of eSports and legal challenges”.
Stefan Riegler to head up arbitration practice in Vienna
Stefan Riegler is to lead Wolf Theiss’s arbitration group in Vienna and further expand its multijurisdictional arbitral practice. Riegler specialises in representing companies involved in commercial legal disputes before arbitral tribunals and can look back at more than a decade of experience in this area.
Clifford Chance boosts Germany with White & Case M&A hire
Clifford Chance has hired White & Case corporate M&A partner Markus Stephanblome into the firm’s German practice and will join the firm next month.
Stephanblome will join the partnership in the firm’s Frankfurt office after a transitional three years for Clifford Chance’s German corporate practice.
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Slaughter and Pay: £100k for NQs
Slaughter and May has increased its salary for newly-qualified solicitors to £100,000, following the lead of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance. The change means NQs will receive a minimum of £100,000, including bonus, which is a 20 per cent increase on the £83,000 that Slaughters previously set at the end of 2018. The salary […]
Fieldfisher’s five-year expansion strategy yields double-digit revenue gains
Fieldfisher has posted a 17 per cent increase in annual revenue for 2018/2019, closing a year punctuated with numerous lateral hires and an expansive international strategy. The firm generated a total of £242m from £207m over 2018/19, when it surpassed the £200m barrier for the first time. Profit per equity partner increased by 7 per […]
BPP Law School goes up for sale again
BPP Law School has been put up for sale by its parent company, it is being reported. Founded in 1992, it was acquired by Apollo Global for £368m in 2009. Apollo has kept hold of it for the past decade, taking it through a period of radical change in which BPP eventually secured university status, […]
Weil Gotshal targets Deloitte Legal for Warsaw team hire
The Warsaw office of Weil Gotshal & Manges has brought in a new tax team from the legal unit of Deloitte Legal, as speculation mounts over the fate of the US firm’s CEE office. A team led by tax partner Leszek Tokarski, including tax specialists Maciej Kostrzewski and Artur Ciechomski, joined the US firm’s Warsaw premises […]
A&O’s consulting arm hires 3VB’s sole female silk
The only female silk at 3 Verulam Buildings is leaving the set to join Allen & Overy Consulting on a part-time basis. Catherine Gibaud QC will leave 3VB to join A&O Consulting as a senior adviser to CEO Sally Dewar and her team. A&O Consulting advises clients on issues relating to governance, corporate purpose and […]
The Lawyer Awards shortlist 2019: the in-housers in the running for GC of the Year
General counsel of the year has become a particularly competitive field at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers. Each of the finalists has made enormous impact in their work. Mohaimin Chowdhury, general counsel and company secretary of Gatehouse Bank, has been involved in the transformation of the Shariah-compliant bank’s activities in the last 18 […]