Halliwell Landau has posted its highest-ever turnover for the last financial year after revenue grew by 12.7 per cent to £40m. Last year the firm reported gross of £35.5m. Halliwell also announced nine new internal partnership promotions, focused mainly in insurance and insurance litigation with one intellectual property lawyer gaining equity. However at the same […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has snagged Parisian banking star Jonathan Nabarro as the former Ashurst partner joins the magic circle firm today (May 10). Nabarro surprised the Paris legal market back in March when it emerged that he was preparing to leave Ashurst. Although a number of firms has attempted to recruit the banking partner, […]
Increasing numbers of lawyers are braving hostilities in Iraq as reports emerged last week of US firm Bryan Cave sending an SAS-backed mission to the country’s southern cities. Bryan Cave has sent partner David Pfeiffer, a Middle East transaction specialist, to scout southern Iraq as a prelude to establishing an office there. Pfeiffer hopes the […]
Blunders by court listings officers have been blamed for one of the largest existing Customs & Excise trials being delayed by an incredible eight months. The defendants, who are charged with the illegal importation of 699 kilos of cocaine, have been imprisoned awaiting trial for hundreds of days beyond the normal 164-day custody time limit. […]
Barclaycard’s Rachel Harris is to quit her post as general counsel and go on temporary secondment at Northamptonshire Council to develop her business skills. The Barclays Bank subsidiary is currently recruiting her successor. Harris, who has developed a fearsome reputation among Barclaycard’s external legal advisers, will remain on Barclays’ payroll. It is thought that when […]
Schillings is set to reap in excess of £1m in fees after the House of Lords delivered its landmark judgment in favour of Naomi Campbell against the Daily Mirror. The House of Lords ruled for Campbell last Thursday (6 May) by a margin of three judges to two, reinstating the High Court’s decision to award […]
Food giant Heinz has raided DuPont’s respected in-house team for the appointment of its new European general counsel Janice Leiper. Leiper was a senior in-house lawyer at DuPont, which she joined when the conglomerate acquired her former company Conoco in 1981, which at the time was the largest merger in corporate history. Leiper was DuPont’s […]
Boots is slashing lawyers and support staff from its in-house legal team as part of the pharmacy retailer’s radical drive to streamline its head office. The retailer has offered voluntary redundancy to a number of its lawyers, paralegals and secretaries. Both the legal services division, which deals with personal injury and employment matters, and the […]
Clifford Chance has signed an exclusive alliance with Italian tax boutique Maisto e Associati, after news that its former tie-up with tax firm Vitali Romagnoli Piccardi will end this month. The magic circle giant signed the deal with five-partner Maisto last Wednesday (5 May). Led by Guglielmo Maisto, the tax firm is regarded as one […]
Workload up, pay down; securing counsel is more difficult than ever, says LSC and DCA report
Maxwell Batley has launched a specialist motorsport business unit as part of a wider move to target particular business sectors. The unit is headed by litigation partner Ian Timlin, and includes corporate partner Fraser McColl and emp-loyment partner Philip Wood. Timlin has been involved in the motorsport industry for some time and his clients include […]
Hill Taylor Dickinson’s maritime insurance department has been hit with the loss of another key partner, this time to Richards Butler. Chris Zavos’ move to Richards Butler follows the departure of insurance partners Tim Taylor and Patrick Foss from Hill Taylor a year ago to Barlow Lyde & Gilbert’s small but burgeoning shipping department. The […]