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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Landmark ruling upheld as DWF loses data breach appeal for Morrisons
DWF has lost its appeal for Morrisons in the High Court today, as it was ruled that the supermarket is legally responsible for an enormous data breach affecting over 100,00 employees. Three senior judges, including the Master of the Rolls, upheld the original decision against the supermarket, issued in December 2017. In what was the UK’s first data protection class […]
Bakers chair Rawlinson to take temporary leave due to exhaustion
Baker McKenzie chair Paul Rawlinson is to take a step back from day-to-day management of the firm “in response to medical issues caused by exhaustion”. The firm announced today that executive member Jaime Trujillo will serve as the firm’s acting chair for the interim. Trujillo is Bakers’ current Latin American chair and is an M&A lawyer […]
Ashurst sets “ambitious” set of new diversity goals
Women will account for a third of Ashurst‘s global partnership by 2022 if the firm manages to achieve its new set of diversity goals. The target is one of three to be set by the firm in which the firm outlines that 33 per cent of its partnership will be female within the next three […]
Clifford Chance called in as French Connection seeks new buyer
As retailers continue to feel the pressure on the High Street, French Connection has brought in Clifford Chance to advise it on a potential sale after years of declining revenues in tough trading conditions. The fashion retailer announced at the beginning of the month that it was “reviewing all strategic options”, having been hit with a […]
NFU Mutual cuts three firms from panel
The National Farmers Union’s (NFU) insurance arm has cut its panel firms from seven to four, with DWF among those winning a place. DWF has been added to the line-up for NFU Mutual, while DAC Beachcroft has retained its place. The two other firms on the roster are Scottish-based BTO Solicitors and Belfast-headquartered John McKee […]
Slaughters unveils next stage of three-year innovation plan
Slaughter and May has implemented a new training pilot as part of its three-year innovation strategy.