Vinson boosts partner numbers with three made up in London
Vinson & Elkins has announced one of its largest ever promotion rounds in London, with three lawyers being made up.
Exclusive: Pinsents could bill over £140m from public sector panel
Pinsent Masons could add over £140m to its top line by winning work from the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) new panel, The Lawyer can reveal.
Wolf Theiss continues support for Women’s Entrepreneurship Foundation
Wolf Theiss has completed its first year of partnership with the Women’s Entrepreneurship Foundation (Fundacja Przedsiębiorczości Kobiet) and Black Swan Fund in Poland and announced plans for closer cooperation as part of the international law firm’s commitment to supporting development and social capital among women. During the first year of the collaborative effort with the […]
1
Bates Wells Braithwaite to launch charities hub in ex-KWM space
Bates Wells Braithwaite (BWB) is to take on extra space in 10 Queen Street Place, which it will use to create a ‘charities hub.’ The new hub will open in spring 2018 and occupy 4,000 sq ft of space on the first floor of the office. The floor in question was formerly occupied by King […]
Ireland: High Court injunction prevents appointment of receiver over Dublin pub
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…
Vinson boosts partner numbers with three made up in London
Vinson & Elkins has announced one of its largest ever promotion rounds in London, with three lawyers being made up.
Exclusive: Pinsents could bill over £140m from public sector panel
Pinsent Masons could add over £140m to its top line by winning work from the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) new panel, The Lawyer can reveal.
Wolf Theiss continues support for Women’s Entrepreneurship Foundation
Wolf Theiss has completed its first year of partnership with the Women’s Entrepreneurship Foundation (Fundacja Przedsiębiorczości Kobiet) and Black Swan Fund in Poland and announced plans for closer cooperation as part of the international law firm’s commitment to supporting development and social capital among women. During the first year of the collaborative effort with the […]
1
Bates Wells Braithwaite to launch charities hub in ex-KWM space
Bates Wells Braithwaite (BWB) is to take on extra space in 10 Queen Street Place, which it will use to create a ‘charities hub.’ The new hub will open in spring 2018 and occupy 4,000 sq ft of space on the first floor of the office. The floor in question was formerly occupied by King […]
The investment bank GC on a mission to tackle Africa
Africa: the final legal frontier. The mission? To explore new economic markets, seeking new investment opportunities and partnerships – to boldly go where no lawyer wanted to go before.
Recruit legal talent
Get your role in front of over 300,000 legal professionals when you advertise with The Lawyer. Our team of experts provide bespoke solutions to help solve all your recruitment challenges.
Find out more
The speed read: why KWM still draws in the readers, private equity moves and legal ops innovation
“No-one’s interested in KWM any more,” we’re confidently told by, er… lots of former KWM partners. This comes as news to us, as our analysis of what happened to the trainees who had to be rescued from the smoking ruins of King & Wood Mallesons’ UK operation is our most-read article of the month to […]
WFW reveals half-year results as management duo extend their reign
Watson Farley & Williams has re-elected its co-managing partners for a further five years, with the firm also revealing its half-year results for 2018/19. London-based Chris Lowe and Hamburg’s Lothar Wegener first took up the post in 2014 and will now increase their reign by five years taking them until 2024. Lowe said: “We are energised […]
2018 was dominated by #MeToo: it’s unedifying to see seven City firms trying to pretend it never happened
When Deloitte announced it had fired 20 partners over a four-year period for inappropriate behaviour it was praised on all sides for its open approach. The biggest City law firms, however, are trying to close down the discussion, but The Lawyer isn’t going to collude with them in their efforts to duck the biggest issue […]
Sidley Austin stays loyal to Chicago in partner promotions
Sidley Austin has announced its partner promotions for the New Year, making up 30 partners worldwide. While this is a big increase on the 19 partners elected last year, the firm stayed cautious in London, promoting just one. Lyndsey Laverack will become a partner in the M&A and private equity group in London. She has been […]
Tech start-up gets cash injection from Clifford Chance and Latham
Reynen Court, the platform claiming to be a “one-stop” tech solution for the legal industry, has completed its first series A investment round, attracting cash from two of its biggest law firm backers. The heavyweight firms joined Prins H LLC, an investment vehicle set up by the platform’s founder and CEO Andrew Klein to provide […]
Shearman jumps on infrastructure PE bandwagon with Bakers hires
Baker McKenzie infrastructure PE duo Tim Sheddick and Katie Hicks have joined Shearman & Sterling in London, the latest in a series of moves to US firms in this space. Sheddick has been with Bakers since 1999 and was made a partner in 2006. One of his key clients is Macquarie, which he advised in […]