Legal and commercial specialists are offering different definitions of Building Information Model (BIM) Level 2, according to The Winfield Rock Report, developed in association with the UK BIM Alliance. Launched at the BIM Show Live on Wednesday 28 February 2018, the report was conducted by BIM legal specialists May Winfield, Senior Legal Counsel at ENGIE Services Ltd and Gowling WLG senior […]
White & Case has replaced traditional phone conversations with internal videoconferencing in a push to increase connectivity around its London office, The Lawyer has learned.
Over 85 per cent of lawyers who have witnessed or suffered sexual harassment did not report it, data gathered by The Lawyer reveals. The survey, which collected 1,000 responses from the legal industry, shows that over a third of lawyers have witnessed sexual harassment in the workplace. Almost half (49.1 per cent) of survey respondents […]
Valiant Bank Ltd. has acquired a stake in the start-up company AgentSelly Ltd. and made additional capital available to its further growth. AgentSelly Ltd. operates the platform www.agentselly.ch through which homeowners can efficiently sell their properties. To date, the company had operated a similar platform under the URL www.fidesso.ch. Together, the three founders of AgentSelly Ltd. remain the […]
The Property Alliance Group (PAG) has had its appeal against the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) dismissed in the protracted £30m Libor battle
Legal and commercial specialists are offering different definitions of Building Information Model (BIM) Level 2, according to The Winfield Rock Report, developed in association with the UK BIM Alliance. Launched at the BIM Show Live on Wednesday 28 February 2018, the report was conducted by BIM legal specialists May Winfield, Senior Legal Counsel at ENGIE Services Ltd and Gowling WLG senior […]
White & Case has replaced traditional phone conversations with internal videoconferencing in a push to increase connectivity around its London office, The Lawyer has learned.
Over 85 per cent of lawyers who have witnessed or suffered sexual harassment did not report it, data gathered by The Lawyer reveals. The survey, which collected 1,000 responses from the legal industry, shows that over a third of lawyers have witnessed sexual harassment in the workplace. Almost half (49.1 per cent) of survey respondents […]
Valiant Bank Ltd. has acquired a stake in the start-up company AgentSelly Ltd. and made additional capital available to its further growth. AgentSelly Ltd. operates the platform www.agentselly.ch through which homeowners can efficiently sell their properties. To date, the company had operated a similar platform under the URL www.fidesso.ch. Together, the three founders of AgentSelly Ltd. remain the […]
Clifford Chance has added two new names to its global leadership team with partners from Washington and Hong Kong bolstering the lineup.
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DAC Beachcroft continues its Spanish expansion, as it gains a 20-lawyer team in Madrid from local firm Asjusa Abogados. The firm has integrated its Spanish office with lawyers joining from Asjusa, a boutique insurance and civil responsibility firm – specialising in Spanish healthcare law. Three partners and 20 lawyers – specialising in professional liability and […]
Eversheds Sutherland is to roll out a new programme to help lawyers maximise their output by learning how to respond to pressure in the same way elite athletes do. The programme, called ‘sustainable peak performance’, will be led by the firm’s managing partner Keith Froud. Starting in the spring, it will consist of workshops held […]
DLA Piper has taken a lead role in the administration of the latest retail company in the UK to fall into administration. Partner Barney Smedley from the firm’s Leeds office is leading a team acting for KPMG, which was appointed as administrators for Beales following a court hearing yesterday. The Bournemouth-based department store started facing […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (CMS) has been mulling a move into Sweden through merger talks with a local firm, The Lawyer can reveal. CMS is understood to be in talks with Stockholm-based firm Törngren Magnell, which was founded in 2006 by partners Peter Törngren and Viktor Magnell. It has just under 20 partners. If the […]
Transferwise has hired the chief legal officer of rival money app Monzo as its new general counsel, ending a seven-month search to fill the position. The currency transfer service has found its next general counsel in Dean Nash, who has spearheaded the legal strategy of digital bank Monzo for more than three years. In 2019, […]
The head of Mayer Brown’s Brussels office is to join German firm Noerr next month. Jens Peter Schmidt has been the managing partner of Mayer Brown’s Brussels office since 2014, and a partner at the firm since 2001 when he joined from Shearman & Sterling. He will join Noerr’s partnership on 15 February. The partner’s […]
