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Firms including Eversheds Sutherland and Shakespeare Martineau have won spots on a slimmed-down public sector panel valued at £49m. The Crescent Purchasing Consortium’s (CPC) new legal services framework provides a comprehensive set of services for the education sector. The purpose of the framework is to allow efficient and easy access to legal services at reduced […]
Burges Salmon has won a £9.8m contract to advise on the UK Government’s upcoming inquiry into Covid-19. The firm made it onto the Crown Commercial Service’s general advice panel at the end of last year, putting it in a prime position to be considered for the work. It will advise alongside Fieldfisher on certain aspects […]
The UK Government’s Department for Transport has finalised its new rail panel, with appointments for the likes of Dentons and Osborne Clarke.
Gowling WLG has launched a series of internal initiatives for staff buying Commonwealth Games tickets in a bid to engage them in one of the firm’s key public service mandates. The firm won the principal advisory role for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games three years ago following a tender process for the mandate. Gowling, which […]
Public housing authority Homes England has kicked off its first panel review for four years, inviting firms to pitch for £47m worth of business. The new amount sees the value of this panel increase by more than half, rising 56 per cent from its current £30m value. This marks the first time in eight years […]
On a June day in 2022, The Lawyer visited several of Warsaw’s top international firms to see how this apparently thriving market is holding up four months after the launch of a war on its neighbour, Ukraine. What impact has the dramatic events of the past few months had on the city, its legal services […]
The criminal system is not a thought in most people’s minds until that day comes when you get a call from your child at university, who’s got caught with drugs on them. Or when you get home after a day at the office to find someone has broken in and stolen from you. Perhaps you […]
John Quinn talks leadership changes, global expansion and why Quinn Emanuel drafts talent like the NFL
Chambers across the Inns are considering how to publicise judgments after the Master of the Rolls, Mr Justice Vos, warned embargo-breaks could see sets being held in contempt of court. The Lawyer understands that many are actively tightening up their internal and external communication policies following a stern warning from Mr Justice Vos back in […]
When the Conservative MP Bob Seely told the House of Commons that the legal system had become “corrupted” by “amoral” lawyers acting for Russian oligarch clients, it was not surprising that the President of the Law Society launched a robust defence of the profession: “It’s the job of solicitors to represent their clients, whoever they […]
Earlier this year, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s London office faced an unexpected and upsetting tragedy: the sudden death of one of its junior lawyers. In reaction to the associate’s passing, whom The Lawyer has chosen not to name, the US firm quickly introduced in-person counselling plus further remote follow-up sessions with an external chartered […]
As individual lawyers are being named in the Commons over advice provided to oligarch clients, scrutiny around London’s role as a hub for privacy and libel disputes grows increasingly intense. Last month the Supreme Court decided to dismiss Bloomberg’s appeal against a claim brought over the misuse of private information. The case concerned an article […]
Many in the City feared that IPO activity would stall after Brexit. For high growth technology companies seeking investment, a listing in Germany or Amsterdam seemed more appealing. However, not to be outdone, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) last year revealed a series of rule changes for the listing regime, in what was welcome news […]
Earlier this month The Lawyer revealed its Top 20 Cases of 2022, featuring a whole host of cases set for trial. However, there’s also plenty of action to be had in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, involving the likes of New Look, SKAT and Picturehouse Cinemas. Here are The Lawyer’s top 10 appeals of […]
The Pension Protection Fund has finalised its panel review, with six firms being appointed to the roster, including two new ones. CMS and Addleshaw Goddard are the two additions to the list. Other firms that were selected previously served on its 2017 panel, including Gowling WLG, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells and Osborne Clarke. The […]
A legal panel offering discounted rates to over 220 public bodies has been extended, with three firms being added onto the roster. The EM Lawshare Framework, valued at £70m, has added DWF, Capsticks and Trowers & Hamlins to its list of legal partners for the next four years. They join the seven existing firms on […]
A scorecard evaluating four law firms involved in a UK Government mandate has been disclosed in public records. An award letter seen by The Lawyer for a £1.5m contract around the rail reform programme laid bare the score attributed by the Department for Transport to Ashurst, Addleshaw Goddard, Eversheds Sutherland and Linklaters as part of […]
Fourteen firms have been told they have secured places on the UK Government’s general advice roster, after a last-minute challenge meant the announcement was delayed. Womble Bond Dickinson has now withdrawn its claim against the UK Government, in which it had contested the final line-up of the roster. A Part 7 claim had been filed […]
Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have lost their spots on one of the UK Government’s main legal panels, as the new roster becomes public. The three firms have been staples of the finance and complex panel for years, a roster of law firms that advise on corporate finance to UK Government departments and […]
Womble Bond Dickinson has filed a claim against the UK Government over the result of its legal advice panel, The Lawyer has learned. It is understood that the firm is contesting the final line-up of the roster. Sources told The Lawyer that the firm has fallen off the list, with its challenge resulting in the […]
TLT is setting up a public inquiries team that will be led by a senior lawyer who joins from the Government Legal Department (GLD). Zaqia Rashid is moving to the UK firm as a partner, with her arrival forming part of TLT’s growing ambition to land more mandates from the UK Government. Her move follows […]
The Department of International Trade has injected an additional £15m into its upcoming aerospace and defence legal panel, bringing its value up to £40m. The department is running the tender process to firm up external legal advisers for the roster on behalf of the UK Export Finance (UKEF), the governmental export trading agency. In January, […]
The UK Government has re-appointed Clifford Chance as its legal adviser for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, with the value of the firm’s mandate rising by a third. The magic circle firm was selected last year by the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy department to help the governmental taskforce overseeing manufacturing centres and the distribution of […]
Hogan Lovells has won a £1m contract to advise the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the financial consequences of the gas supply crisis. The transatlantic firm will help BEIS with legal support in relation to the hurdles faced by UK gas suppliers, which are likely to require Government response in coming months […]
TLT, McDermott Will & Emery and Canadian firm Borden Ladner Gervais have won a competition within the UK Government trade panel to advise on a spate of post-Brexit transatlantic commercial agreements. The contract is valued at £7m, with a term of 36 months and one optional 12-month extension. Last January, the three firms won a […]
Historic England has appointed four firms to its £2m panel. Bevan Brittan and Trowers & Hamlins have won a place on the public body’s new panel, while Burges Salmon and Womble Bond Dickinson have been reappointed. The previous panel was made up of ten firms, with Shoosmiths, Freeths and Sharpe Pritchard among those losing a […]
