Tom Baker

A year since its much-touted launch, Fieldfisher’s alternative legal services platform Condor has agreed a partnership with pioneering legal outsourcer…

Tom Baker

City firm Lewis Silkin is to follow in the footsteps of Simmons & Simmons, Covington & Burling and Pinsent Masons…

Tom Baker

A resounding indication of the impact funders are having on the disputes market, Burford Capital has unveiled impressive financial results…

Tom Baker

With the profession rocking from multiple allegations of sexual harassment against law firm partners recently, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)…

Tom Baker

Disputes funder Burford Capital is launching a separate insurance company to cover clients’ adverse costs risk, while Fieldfisher’s consumer-led litigation…

Tom Baker

Howard Kennedy and one of its former partners have been sanctioned for providing a client with a prohibited banking facility,…

Tom Baker

In an announcement that will do little to bridge the long-running divide between the firm’s transactional and contentious branches, Herbert…

Tom Baker

US players Hunton & Williams and Andrews Kurth Kenyon have given the green light to a merger that will create…

Tom Baker

It has been the question raised over wine by many seasoned litigators for months now: what’s going on at Enyo…

Tom Baker

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) today (21 February) announced that much-touted banking litigator Damien Byrne Hill will be replacing Mark Shillito…

Tom Baker

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has enhanced its US antitrust bench with the hire of veteran Eric Mahr from the Department of…

Tom Baker

It was a prized scalp. In December, Clifford Chance (CC) became the first Magic Circle player to fall foul of…

Tom Baker

The train puns were inevitable, but it took longer than expected. Towards the end of my conversation with the general…

Tom Baker

Arbitrators dominate solicitor appointments amid creation of 119 new silks as Latham does double Red Lion Chambers and Garden Court…

Tom Baker

Pride before a fall. Everything was going well when the world’s first listed law firm, Slater and Gordon, announced another…

Tom Baker

It has been the question raised over wine by many seasoned litigators for months now: what’s going on at Enyo…

Tom Baker

A standout performance in Europe helped Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) boost global revenues by 11% in 2016/17, according to the…

Tom Baker

Former Sidley Austin partner Matthew Cahill, who was accused of tax offences, has had all charges against him dropped after…

Tom Baker

DLA Piper and Addleshaw Goddard have won roles advising on the sale of part of recently-collapsed Carillion’s business while Watson…

Tom Baker

There was good news and bad news yesterday (7 Feb) for disputes shop Leigh Day, first announcing an ambitious equal…