The UN Security Council has been asked to pressure Serbia and Montenegro into restarting effective cooperation with the UN War Crimes Tribunal on Former Yugoslavia. A letter from court president Judge Theodor Meron has attacked “extremely serious” persistent failures to help the court, such as failing to execute arrest warrants. Judge Meron warned that the […]
Linklaters has secured a leading private equity partner for its Paris office from Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Michel Frieh will join Linklaters in September, working alongside private equity partners Alain Garnier and Fabrice de la Morandiere. As first revealed by thelawyer.com/lawyernews (April 13), Frieh was known to be leaving Willkie Farr’s highly-rated Parisian office. His […]
Beachcroft Wansbroughs has recruited three new partners for its property, employment and corporate finance teams in London, Bristol and Manchester. Monica Blake joins the London commercial property team from Mishcon de Reya, Frank Morton has quit Osborne Clarke for Beachcrofts’ employment team in Bristol, and Leila Porter has been plucked from Eversheds. Blake brings property […]
South Coast firm Lester Aldridge is launching a new office in Milton Keynes with the hire of a partner from Shoosmiths. James Baird joins Lester Aldridge from Shoosmiths, where he was an associate in the Northampton asset finance team. He brings with him associates Melanie Chell and Vicky Loughnane. The hires will boost Lester Aldridge’s […]
Tim Taylor, the head of SJ Berwin’s burgeoning litigation department, has been replaced after seven years in the post by South African litigator Craig Pollack. Pollack takes the reins of a litigation department that SJ Berwin is committed to expanding. It recently hired Russian arbitration specialist David Goldberg from Kennedys, and assistant Iona Levine, a […]
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has elected a litigation partner from Kirkland & Ellis as co-chair. Marjorie Press Lindblom will co-chair the US lawyers’ pro bono civil rights group for two years and will work alongside John Skilton of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Lindblom succeeds Sullivan & Cromwell partner Stuart Meiklejohn […]
Dawsons has appointed a lateral hire of 18 months to senior partner in a bid to drive forward its private client practice.
Leading Italian firm Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners has signed an alliance with tax boutique Vitali Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati, the former ally of Clifford Chance. The deal will be signed after the association between Vitali Romagnoli, regarded as one of Italy’s leading tax boutiques, and Clifford Chance ends this month, as first reported by […]
Hopes of a sudden rise in mediation have been shattered after the Court of Appeal ruled against fining two companies that refused to consider alternative dispute resolution. In the long awaited action on the joint appeal of Halsey v Milton Keynes NHS Trust and Steel v Joy, the court laid down the principle that litigants […]
Birmingham’s St Philip’s Chambers has scooped a senior barrister from premier insolvency set 3-4 South Square. Sandra Bristoll’s move to St Philip’s is a major coup for the 142-tenant Midlands set which is growing its commercial group, led by its head of chambers, John Randall QC. Bristoll is making the leap after 14 years at […]
Computer services giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS) has reshuffled its in-house legal function following the promotion of its general counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Bruce Almquist has moved into a business role for EDS in the US and his current role of general counsel, EMEA will be assumed by UK legal director […]
Technology boutique Kemp Little has finally exchanged contracts on new premises at Cheapside after a lengthy search. The firm signed the lease yesterday (May 11) on just under 10,000 sq ft of space in Cheapside House at 138 Cheapside which the firm will move to in July after outgrowing its current Gutter Lane home. Kemp […]