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September 10, 2024
Paul Hastings Taps Capital Markets Pro From Davis Polk
Paul Hastings LLP has hired a prominent capital markets transactions expert as a partner at its London office as it looks to boost its global practice, which it has identified as a priority.
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September 10, 2024
Womble Bond Dickinson To Merge With Lewis Roca
Womble Bond Dickinson said Tuesday that its U.S. business is merging with regional law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP at the start of the new year, the third law firm merger to be announced in the last week.
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September 17, 2024
Cooley Hires Team For Emerging Companies And VC Practice
Cooley LLP said Tuesday that it has recruited the head of Taylor Wessing LLP's emerging companies and venture capital practice, one of three partner hires as it seeks to boost its transactional ability in London, part of a broader plan for growth in the English capital.
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September 09, 2024
Clifford Chance Adds Latham Capital Markets Atty In Houston
Clifford Chance LLP is expanding its capital markets team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Latham & Watkins LLP energy and infrastructure expert as a partner in its Houston office.
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September 09, 2024
UPC Names New Chief Of Patent Arbitration Service
The Unified Patent Court said Monday it has appointed Slovenia's former minister of justice to head up its dedicated patent mediation and arbitration arm.
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September 09, 2024
Flint Bishop Snaps Up Recoveries Team From Walker Morris
Central English law firm Flint Bishop Ltd. announced on Monday that it has expanded into Leeds by acquiring Walker Morris LLP's entire volume banking and finance recoveries division, a deal that is part of a strategy to boost its national presence.
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September 09, 2024
Freshfields Sets 20% Social Mobility Target For Trainees
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP said Monday that it will recruit at least 20% of its trainee solicitors from a working class background in the next two years, as the legal sector continues to strive to become less elitist.
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September 09, 2024
Barrister Loses Disability Claim Over Judge Role Rejection
A barrister who applied to become a deputy district judge and recorder has lost his disability discrimination claim against the judge-appointing body after an employment tribunal found he should have known he was not eligible.
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September 13, 2024
WilmerHale, Hanotiau Duo Launch New Arbitration Boutique
Two international arbitrators from WilmerHale and Hanotiau & van den Berg have left their previous firms after near-20-year stints to set up their own boutique practice.
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September 06, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Rockfire Capital sue its former director, Liam Kavanagh, after he was accused of cheating cash-strapped Thurrock Council out of £150 million ($197 million), FedEx launch a claim against an Israeli supply chain business, and a legal dispute between steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta and a former colleague. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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September 06, 2024
Travers Smith Names Elmore As New Head Of Funds
Travers Smith LLP said Friday that it has appointed Jeremy Elmore as its new head of funds, as the firm looks to continue building its practice following partner exits in 2023.
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September 06, 2024
New Law Allows UK Lawyers To Register In Greece
Greek lawmakers have passed new legislation that enables U.K.-qualified lawyers to practice in the country under their home title, a move that helps to safeguard their interests after Brexit.
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September 06, 2024
A&O Shearman To Cut Partner Numbers By 10%
A&O Shearman said Friday that it is cutting its global partnership by approximately 10% as the newly merged firm plows ahead with cost-cutting measures and seeks benefits from its transatlantic tie-up.
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September 06, 2024
Ex-Akin Lawyer Can't Sue Wikipedia For Defamation In UK
A London court prevented a former Akin lawyer on Friday from suing the organizer of Wikipedia for libel, ruling that England is not the right forum for the claim because it turns on his criminal conviction in Switzerland.
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September 05, 2024
Rosenblatt Beats Ex-Partner's Race Discrimination Claims
A former Rosenblatt Ltd. partner has lost his race bias claims against the firm as an employment judge ruled that he had waited too long to sue over a former CEO's use of a racial slur at a work dinner.
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September 05, 2024
The Law Firms That Made Millions Representing ENRC
City law firms earned more than $67.8 million defending ENRC and its executives against the Serious Fraud Office’s decadelong criminal corruption and bribery probe. Here, Law360 looks into the firms, more than two dozen of them, whose expenses the SFO might have to cover.
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September 05, 2024
Notary Authorizing Russian Sale Doesn't Breach Sanctions
A notary does not breach European Union sanctions on Russia when they authenticate the sale of a property owned by a Russian firm, because they act as an independent holder of a public office, an EU court ruled Thursday.
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September 05, 2024
Lawyer Fined For Sending COVID Threat Letters To Schools
A solicitor who sent hundreds of threats of legal action to schools in an attempt to stop them implementing measures against the COVID-19 pandemic was fined £2,500 ($3,290) by a tribunal Thursday.
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September 05, 2024
Buchanan Ingersoll COO Jumps To Faegre Drinker
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has hired a chief operating officer who previously held that role at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, the firm said Thursday.
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September 12, 2024
Squire Patton Hires Disputes Pro From Eversheds Sutherland
Squire Patton Boggs LLP has said that a former trainee who specializes in commercial disputes has returned to the firm as a partner in its office in Birmingham, as it continues to expand its litigation practice across the U.K.
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September 05, 2024
UK Screen Directors Tap Ex-Disney GC To Seek Royalties
One year ago this month, Peter Wiley walked away from his job as chief international counsel for the Walt Disney Co., saying he wanted to "take a short break." And he did.
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September 05, 2024
Irish Law Firm Dillon Eustace Hires Innovation Director
Dublin, Ireland-based international law firm Dillon Eustace has hired a director of innovation and legal technology with more than 20 years of experience in technology at law firms, corporations and the public sector.
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September 05, 2024
Ex-Ashurst IT Worker Barred After Stealing Firm Laptops
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has banned a former Ashurst LLP information technology employee from working in the legal profession, finding that he sold two laptops stolen from the firm.
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September 05, 2024
Ex-Capsticks Partner Accused Of Hiding Costs From Client
A former housing partner at Capsticks Solicitors LLP must face a disciplinary tribunal for allegedly concealing an error he made during court proceedings that meant a client was required to pay costs to an opponent, the Solicitors Regulation Authority has said.
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September 12, 2024
Bird & Bird Recruits M&A Partner In Frankfurt Amid Growth
Bird & Bird LLP has hired a business expert as a partner in Frankfurt as the firm bolsters its growing corporate practice internationally, with a keen eye on its new office in Japan.