Winston poaches Akin Gump partner to boost City office
The London office of US firm Winston & Strawn has continued its recent growth spurt with the hire of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld arbitration partner Michael Stepek.
Irwin Mitchell profits plummet 25% after Thomas Eggar merger
Irwin Mitchell’s profit before tax has fallen by more than 25 per cent, from £16.7m to £12.4m last year.
Exclusive: Schillings picks up celebrity threesome case from Carter Ruck
Celebrity threesome couple ‘PJS’ and ‘YMA’ have dropped their lawyers Carter Ruck in favour of Schillings, just months after the firm helped secure a Supreme Court ruling that upheld their controversial privacy injunction.
Mishcon scales back New York office after review
Mishcon de Reya has scaled back its New York office following a review of its US operations.
Restrictive covenants: case suggests need for regular reviews
Competition: Altice fined €124.5m for ‘gun jumping’
By Marco Hickey A fine of €124.5m has been imposed on Altice by the European Commission for breaching EU merger control rules by implementing its acquisition of PT Portugal before the transaction had been cleared by the Commission…
Rejecting settlement offers led to an adverse costs award
By Sean Barrett and Shane Neville A party to proceedings may make an offer to settle the dispute in “open correspondence” for tactical purposes, which will result in a shift in the costs risk of litigation. In O’Reilly v Neville & Ors, costs were awarded against the Plaintiffs, the O’Reillys, following their rejection of an […]
Trade secrets: Retailers don’t get left on the shelf
By Aideen Burke, Peter Bolger and Jeanne Kelly The EU Trade Secrets Directive (EU 2016/943) (the “Directive”) clarifies and strengthens the current protection available to trade secrets in Ireland. Trade secrets may be of particular relevance to retailers, who can often have commercially valuable information and materials which are not otherwise protectable by traditional forms […]
GDPR in Ireland: Key steps for employers
By Aoife Bradley and Jennifer O’Neill The GDPR substantially increases the obligations and responsibilities on organisations and businesses in relation to how they collect, use and protect personal data. All employers are data controllers and data processors in respect of the personal data of their employees. Employers should take some key preparatory steps to ensure […]
Ireland: Employment law legislative update, 1 February to 19 April 2018
By Aoife Bradley and Roisin Lawler In this edition of our regular update on legislative developments in employment law, we discuss a number of proposals for new legislation, including Private Members’ Bills, on subjects as diverse as the impact of extreme weather on employees to the protection of maternity leave for members of both houses […]
Winston poaches Akin Gump partner to boost City office
The London office of US firm Winston & Strawn has continued its recent growth spurt with the hire of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld arbitration partner Michael Stepek.
Irwin Mitchell profits plummet 25% after Thomas Eggar merger
Irwin Mitchell’s profit before tax has fallen by more than 25 per cent, from £16.7m to £12.4m last year.
Exclusive: Schillings picks up celebrity threesome case from Carter Ruck
Celebrity threesome couple ‘PJS’ and ‘YMA’ have dropped their lawyers Carter Ruck in favour of Schillings, just months after the firm helped secure a Supreme Court ruling that upheld their controversial privacy injunction.
Mishcon scales back New York office after review
Mishcon de Reya has scaled back its New York office following a review of its US operations.
Uber instructs Hogan Lovells on TfL judicial review
Uber has turned to Hogan Lovells once again to mount a judicial review of Transport for London’s (TfL) new rules for private hire cars.
Knights boots up for IPO with tech transformation
Knights, which this month announced its intention to become the fifth publicly listed UK law firm, has hired the European IT director at Procter & Gamble to oversee a “technology transformation” as part of the listing. Richard King will join Knights on 1 July as a non-executive director to lead the business’ tech overhaul. Knights’ […]
DAC set to exit “miserable dungeon” with move to Cannon Street
DAC Beachcroft‘s search for its new London office is coming to an end as the firm is understood to have put in an offer for floors of the Walbrook Building near Bank station, The Lawyer can reveal. The firm kicked off its search for a new office last September, instructing commercial estate agents Knight Frank to find […]
Dentons-backed ‘Space Camp’ unveils six new startups
Six European startups have been chosen to join the first round of a SpaceTech startup accelerator backed by Dentons. The nine-week programme called ‘Space Camp’ is being hosted in Dentons’ London HQ and is sponsored by the global firm. The scheme was established by spacetech-focused venture capital fund Seraphim Capital, which claimed that it had […]
Gender pay gap: Freshfields and Slaughters bow to pressure on partner figures as A&O refuses to budge
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have released belatedly their gender pay gap for partners, while Allen & Overy (A&O) has been called out for “refusing to comply” with MPs’ requests for the data. The publication of results follows a long-running inquiry by the UK Government’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee into the […]
Hogan Lovells slashes 54 roles in London as redundancy programme enters final stage
Hogan Lovells has confirmed that 54 people have so far been affected by its London redundancy programme, as the consultation period nears its final stage. The restructuring operation was announced in September 2017, with the firm announcing that 90 roles would be cut or moved to low cost centres. This was made up of 78 […]
City firms gear up to defend Heathrow from new runway challenge
DAC Beachcroft looks set to launch a challenge against the Department for Transport (DfT) after submitting a 21-page document highlighting “serious errors” in the DfT’s plans to build a third runway at Heathrow airport. DAC partner and head of planning Christopher Stanwell is representing Heathrow Hub, which proposes an extension to the existing Northern runway […]