Personal injury (PI) powerhouse Thompsons has taken over eight-partner firm Whittles, which has offices in Leeds and Manchester. Both firms specialise in PI, trade union work and employment rights. Two of Whittles’ three equity partners, Julie Blackburn and Chris Strogen, will join Thompsons’ partnership, while David Towler will work as a consultant.
Browne Jacobson has announced fee income of £35m – its highest yet. The figure grew by 10 per cent from last year’s £31.9m. In the previous year it grew by a modest 6 per cent. In addition to growth in business services and property, there were client wins for the insurance and public sector departments, […]
The City office of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is the latest firm to ramp up its restructuring capabilities.
Ashfords has boosted its Bristol office with the appointment of commercial litigation partner Andrew Baines.
Following a three-year battle the Information Tribunal has ordered the Government to disclose previously secret records of industry lobbying by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The tribunal’s decision sets an important marker for the way that requests for lobbying materials should be treated in the future. In July 2005 Friends of the Earth wrote […]
Norton Rose has transferred a seven-strong competition team from Brussels and London to Hong Kong.
Media boutique Wiggin has added two new partners, promoting one and hiring the other from Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough.
West End-based Fladgate has acquired two-man boutique Gordon & Co to ramp up its corporate practice.
US firm Duane Morris has overhauled its litigation strategy to target seven key practice areas, including IP and insurance.
DLA Piper has scored the lead role acting for the FA Premier League in a dispute with a group of UK pubs over the broadcasting of football?matches.
Halliwells has won a role on the sale of digital media agency Greenroom Digital thanks to its contacts with financial advisers Fisher Corporate Finance.
A trio of barristers from 20 Essex Street is seeking to overturn a 2006 Court of Appeal ruling in the battle over a $55m (£27.83m) share of revenue in the oilfields of Yemen. The appeal judgment, led by Lord Justice Lawrence Collins, held that the court had the power to appoint a receiver by way […]