Litigation

Caroline Hill

For marketing teams at the family bar it’s been a tough wait but at last the Law Commission has issued its…

Legal Business

The highly complex Royal Bank of Scotland 2008 rights issue litigation has seen Bird & Bird’s dispute resolution head Steven Baker…

Joanna Goodman

Big data has been hailed as the next big thing to hit legal tech and has already become a force…

Legal Business

Latest QC promotions round the largest in three years In stark contrast with the recent decline in the number of…

Legal Business

In stark contrast with the recent decline in the number of Queen’s Counsel (QC) appointments, the latest round announced today (19…

Sarah Downey

In a move emphasising the increasing efforts of the Serious Fraud Office to overhaul its image, the body announced on…

Legal Business

Morgan Lewis has boosted its London white collar crime capability with the hire of Irwin Mitchell’s head of regulatory and…

Sarah Downey

Financial institutions report multibillion-dollar effects of post-crisis costs Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank have become the latest major financial institutions…

Jaishree Kalia

Latest exits add to departures of two partners from City headquarters The expiry of Clyde & Co’s three-year post-merger partner lock-in…

Legal Business

The Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO’s) somewhat fraught efforts to redefine itself by focusing on higher profile, higher risk complex fraud,…

Legal Business

In a statement rushed out late yesterday (27 January) to soften the blow of its official results announcement next month,…

Legal Business

Following months of protests from the criminal Bar including the resignation of a number of barristers from the Bar Standards…

Legal Business

The expiry of Clyde & Co’s three year post-merger partner lock-in appeared to pass almost unnoticed last April but the top…

Legal Business

Former Stewarts Law partner Andrew Shaw has failed to entirely clear his name in the High Court, which has ordered that the…

Legal Business

Herbert Smith Freehills has today (9 January) announced the hire of Tom Leech QC, who has left Maitland Chambers to…

Caroline Hill

Having launched in Hong Kong last summer, Addleshaw Goddard has forged ahead with a number of developments in the region…

Legal Business

Following a year of protests over legal aid cuts and court reforms from a profession better known for its quiet…

Legal Business

As third-party funders enjoy robust growth within a buoyant disputes climate, Legal Business assesses current attitudes towards litigation’s controversial bankrollers.…

Jaishree Kalia

One of the strongest intellectual property firms in the US, Washington DC-based Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, has launched…

Francesca Fanshawe

Having secured not one but two successive major joint ventures with Admiral and then the AA, Lyons Davidson is undoubtedly the envy…