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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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The City 50: Did you make the cut?
The rise of the American firms is made clear in the City 50 – The Lawyer’s first ever snapshot of the London-only revenues of US and UK firms.
Hogan Lovells appoints new German head as part of management reshuffle
Hogan Lovells has announced a management shake-up in Germany, with a newly created managing partner role to oversee all of the firm’s German offices. Current Munich office managing partner Stefan Schuppert has been appointed as managing partner of Germany, presiding over the firm’s four offices in Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich. An intellectual property lawyer, Schuppert […]
Rosenblatt builds on IPO with new litigation funding arm
Rosenblatt has announced details of its financial performance, four months after its initial public offering (IPO) went live. The financial results see Rosenblatt’s revenue total £3m in the eight-week period ending 30 June 2018, in what CEO Nicola Foulston describes as a “good, strong start to life as a public company”. That is up 15 per […]
UK top 100 crack £24bn in record year for revenue
Eversheds Sutherland is the biggest revenue riser in the UK 200 chart following last year’s merger.
Mayer Brown fills tax gap with new partner hire
Mayer Brown has added former Nabarro partner Simon Rose to its tax practice in London, nearly a year after the departure of its lead City partner to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Rose joins Mayer Brown as its third tax partner in London. He started his career at SJ Berwin in 1994, working there until leaving to […]
Addleshaws parts ways with Scottish private client practice after team defection
Over a year into its Scottish merger, Addleshaw Goddard has lost a ten-strong private client team to independent firm Morton Fraser. The head of Addleshaw’s private client team in Edinburgh, Gregor Mitchell, will move across to Morton Fraser, alongside legal director Euan Fleming and a team of eight consultants, solicitors, paralegals and executive assistants. The defection comes […]