Spotlight: Eversheds’ sanctions team goes global

This February marked the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the single largest imposition of sanctions by the international community as a result. This week, we focus on Eversheds’ sanctions team, with over 60 lawyers handling matters worldwide. The market: Sanctions compliance is vital for any entity doing business on an international scale, […]

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Spotlight: The firm fighting for women at work

This week on Spotlight, we’re bringing you an International Women’s Day special, with employment and discrimination boutique Didlaw.  The market: The last two years have seen mass redundancies at large companies make headlines as global economic headwinds continue to see organisations face financial pressure. Proving a woman has been made redundant in a mass redundancy round […]

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Spotlight: Meet the Freshfields team defending the most class actions

As revealed exclusively by The Lawyer, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has the most defence side mandates in Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) amid a booming class actions market. We laser in on the team on call.  The market: The interchange fee collective action, brought by class representative Walter Merricks on behalf of 45.5 million UK Mastercard customers, is […]

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Spotlight: Step into the metaverse with Bird & Bird

After the excitement of new technologies such as NFTs, AI, and 5G comes the slow and arduous legal work of finding out who owns what and who’s getting paid; this is where Bird & Bird’s intellectual property team steps in. The market: Standard-essential patents (SEPs) are the bread and butter of the IP market, setting technical […]

Spotlight: Withers has a Valentine’s deal for you

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we’re feeling romantic at The Lawyer. As shops and restaurants cash in on flower sales and candlelit dinners, law firms are approaching “pre-nup season.” For this week’s Spotlight, we put Withers’ family and divorce team under the microscope. The market: “There’s always gossip in the family law world”, says […]

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Spotlight: The firm taking on rugby’s brain injuries

The annual Six Nations rugby tournament kicks off in Marseille tonight, with France taking on defending champions Ireland. So for this week on Spotlight, we look into Rylands Garth, the boutique sports firm bringing the country’s first mass claims against the governing bodies of rugby union, rugby league and football over brain injuries. The case: […]

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Spotlight: Clifford Chance lines up to defend group actions

This week on Spotlight, we look at a defence side team at Clifford Chance operating in the booming securities litigation space – specifically shareholder group action claims. Members of the team are defending Serco, one of the UK Government’s most high-profile outsourcing contractors, in a claim brought by a group of investors. The case featured as one of The […]

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Spotlight: Freeths takes on more than just the Post Office

This Friday’s Spotlight, the first of the Hilary term, features a special episode on national firm Freeths’ disputes group. The firm and its lawyers have received much attention since ITV’s portrayal of the Post Office scandal in its drama Mr Bates v the Post Office, titled after the group litigation of the same name that a Freeths […]

Unveiled: The Top 20 cases of 2024

It is a year of firsts: the first competition class action to progress to a full trial is due to be heard later this month in Justin Le Patourel v BT; the Holy See (the Catholic Church’s universal government based out of the Vatican) will appear in the English courts for what is believed to […]

Mark Davenport, Eversheds Sutherland

Disputes reshuffle: Eversheds shakes up its top team

There’s a changing of the guard in the litigation and disputes practice group at Eversheds Sutherland, as its former head gears up to retire by the end of the year.  The group encompasses four product groups: commercial dispute resolution (CDR), real estate litigation, construction litigation and financial services disputes and investigations (FSDI). Longstanding chief Paul […]

Ros Prince, Stephenson Harwood

The Litigation Tracker interview: Stephenson Harwood’s disputes chiefs on growth targets

With Stephenson Harwood operating a 50/50 split between disputes and transactional work, the firm’s co-heads of commercial litigation play a pivotal role in driving the firm towards its strategic goals. Ros Prince, who oversees Stephenson Harwood’s more generalist litigators in the realms of commercial litigation, restructuring and insolvency, asset recovery and tech disputes, took on […]

Spotlight: RBS has cemented Stewarts’ position on shareholder claims

This week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we zero in on Stewarts, one of the leading claimant side teams in the securities litigation market, specifically in the fast-growing area of shareholder group action claims. The market: The US has been launching shareholder group actions in securities litigation for some time, which seek to recover losses on behalf of investors […]