A heavily public law-focused week sees the UK Government fighting off three massive claims related to transport, pharmaceuticals and human rights. The battle over how Heathrow Airport gained permission to build a new runway has made national news, particularly after it edged out its South London counterpart Gatwick Airport to the the chagrin of campaigners […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang was the big winner in the courts last week, fending off a professional negligence claim against it within days of the case coming to court. As for another one of last week’s entries, the Eurotunnel dispute settled on the evening before it was scheduled for its four-day hearing. Freshfields Bruckhaus […]
Was it the half-term effect? Last week saw a series of substantial judgments handed down. Clifford Chance, Brick Court, Wilberforce, RPC and Watson Farley & Williams all secured favourable decisions, while it was more a week to forget for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, DLA Piper, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Covington & Burling. This week […]
With the first half-term of the year already upon us, there comes the inevitable pause in the courts. Yet while the caseload has temporarily diminished, the intrigue involved in them has not. One of this year’s most complex and bizarre Top 20 cases of 2019 kicks off on Monday for a 12-week Commercial Court hearing. […]
A heavily public law-focused week sees the UK Government fighting off three massive claims related to transport, pharmaceuticals and human rights. The battle over how Heathrow Airport gained permission to build a new runway has made national news, particularly after it edged out its South London counterpart Gatwick Airport to the the chagrin of campaigners […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang was the big winner in the courts last week, fending off a professional negligence claim against it within days of the case coming to court. As for another one of last week’s entries, the Eurotunnel dispute settled on the evening before it was scheduled for its four-day hearing. Freshfields Bruckhaus […]
Was it the half-term effect? Last week saw a series of substantial judgments handed down. Clifford Chance, Brick Court, Wilberforce, RPC and Watson Farley & Williams all secured favourable decisions, while it was more a week to forget for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, DLA Piper, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Covington & Burling. This week […]
With the first half-term of the year already upon us, there comes the inevitable pause in the courts. Yet while the caseload has temporarily diminished, the intrigue involved in them has not. One of this year’s most complex and bizarre Top 20 cases of 2019 kicks off on Monday for a 12-week Commercial Court hearing. […]
Jonathan Jones QC recently acted for a severely brain injured child who received in excess of £26.5 million pounds in settlement of his claim. The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered a hypoglycaemic attack when only a few days old. Unfortunately, there was a delay in diagnosing and treating his hypoglycaemia and […]
Barclays’ legal team was once among the most influential in the UK. That power has diminished over the last decade, yet the banking giant still packs a punch when it comes to talent management. Some 40 lawyers are understood to have left Barclays in the UK last year. There are cost-cutting measures at play here, […]
Keystone Law, the poster child for the platform firm, is likely to break the psychologically important £100m revenue barrier in 2025. The success of this firm has spawned a new market, which is challenging traditional firms on the talent front. More than 3,500 lawyers now work across a variety of fee-sharing outfits, research from Atlas […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright’s London offices will all be under water in a few decades. This trio shares idyllic views overlooking the Thames, but they will all be submerged in the river by the year 2100 as climate change-induced sea level rises occur. And this is based on the […]
Talent churn is accelerating among the junior ranks with today’s associates more mobile than the generations before them. The concept of long-term professional loyalty is fading as Gen Z rises. These lawyers ask not what they can do for you, but what your firm can do for them. This generational shift in working attitudes is […]
Hooray, big-ticket M&A is having a mini-revival and so are the firms that make so much of their money out of it. Already in 2024, major European M&A deals to have been announced include International Paper’s £5.8bn planned acquisition of London-listed packaging company DS Smith, which trumped another offer from rival Mondi. Other significant matters […]
Frustrated Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) candidates are calling on the SRA to increase accessibility to the appeals process after a results error saw 175 candidates mistakenly told they had failed their exams. On Monday last week, the SRA announced that 175 candidates who sat SQE1 in January and were told they had failed on 14 […]
The administrators of collapsed firm Axiom Ince have filed a creditors’ bankruptcy petition against its former boss. Filed at the end of last week, the petition will seek to force Pragnesh Modhwadia’s bankruptcy, The Lawyer understands, applying to the court for his assets to be taken and sold to pay debts to the administrators. Pinsent Masons […]
Partnership promotions are continuing apace, with three City firms announcing a fresh new set of partners for 2024. Addleshaw Goddard has bumped up 26 lawyers this promotions round, which is the largest number of lawyers to make partner in one go in the firm’s history. The international firm’s partner count now stands at 429. Nine […]
Cooley is set to defend LGBTQ+ social networking and dating app Grindr in a High Court class action launched by Austen Hays, a new collective actions firm owned by Gateley. The claim alleges that Grindr is in breach of UK data protection laws for sharing sensitive data with third parties for commercial purposes without their […]
Norway’s Sands has suffered one of the largest mass defections in its history after six partners left to join Big Five firm Wiersholm in Trondheim. The hires bolster Wiersholm in a range of the firm’s key sectors, including marine law, renewables, technology, real estate and tax. The firm has committed to further growth over the […]
