Oh the larks of public school. Ashurst‘s UK partner in Madrid Stephen Fox is nicknamed El Zorro. Even better, the firm also has a Spanish partner called Gonzalo Jiménez-Blanco. They call him Jimmy White.
Pillsbury offloads insurance litigation team ahead of merger
Merging US firms Pillsbury Winthrop and Shaw Pitman have made their first bold move to offload unwanted practices sending a 20-lawyer insurance litigation team to Hunton & Williams. The group of four partners, one counsel and fifteen associates are led by Walter Andrews and Lon Berk, who will join Hunton & Williams’ Northern Virginia office. […]