For a while now legal business soothsayers have been forecasting an increase in fee disputes between solicitor and client. The news that ENRC is contesting an extremely high proportion (almost 70 per cent, or £11m) of Dechert’s £16m legal bill might be the result of a freak storm, but equally it could portend a deeper […]
Norton Rose Fulbright has axed 30 jobs across its Australian offices, in a move that took effect earlier this month (14 November). A total of 12 fee earners and 18 support staff were affected, but the firm is yet to disclose which offices and practice areas are involved. The firm said the raft of redundancies […]
Addleshaw Goddard’s Manchester-based Transaction Services Team (TST) celebrated its third anniversary last week, with the firm saying it is now ahead of its target of delivering 10 per cent of its work through the TST by 2015. The firm claims to have completed more than 3,000 matters using the TST over the past three years, […]
Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, today announced it has appointed Stuart Clarke as Director of Investigation Services. Clarke will be responsible globally for developing the Nuix Investigator product suite and collaborating with customers and partners to ensure Nuix software helps them improve the way they conduct digital investigations. Clarke is highly experienced […]
A basic where to start and what to consider for European legal professionals Themis Solutions Inc., the creator of Clio, a Cloud-based case management platform for SME sized legal practices, has released a new whitepaper to provide guidelines for European legal firms that are considering a Cloud Practice Management platform. The Clio whitepaper, ‘European Cloud […]
LexisNexis® Enterprise Solutions (www.lexisnexis-es.co.uk), a leading provider of technology solutions for legal and professional services firms, today announced that Attorneys at law Borenius, one of the largest corporate law firms in Finland, has selected Lexis® InterAction® as the organisation’s customer relationship management solution to derive and harness the relationship intelligence that exists in the firm […]
No global merger ever comes together without a few hiccups. The hard work – or integration as it is known – can only start when the lawyers are officially brought together under a united brand. With the rush of merger activity the legal sector has seen in recent years it was inevitable that there would […]
The London office of US firm Locke Lord has snagged its second headline restructuring in under a month, with the mandate from rugby league club London Broncos to advise on its administration. Restructuring partner David Grant, banking and finance partner Stephen Finch, and associates Marc Abrahams and James Helliwell yesterday filed a notice of intention to […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has seen the majority of the legacy Freehills Singapore team exit the Singapore office a year after the firms merged, with former Freehills Singapore managing partner John Dick the latest to quit the office. Singapore is the only jurisdiction where both legacy firms had an office. Following the October 2012 merger, […]
Leeds-based Walker Morris is closing its 48-strong personal injury department, blaming “continuing turmoil” in the personal injury (PI) market. The move comes just days after Lyons Davidson announced a 50-strong redundancy round, blaming the changes on the effects of the Jackson reforms, which were introduced in April (18 November 2013 ). Walker Morris said changes caused by the […]
London set Wilberforce Chambers has appointed XXIV Old Buildings’ practice director Nicholas Luckman as its incoming practice director. Luckman will replace longstanding senior clerk Declan Redmond, who is leaving to lead the clerking team at Keating Chambers (7 October 2013). Redmond’s departure for Keating came as a shock to the London bar as he had […]
Former Harbotte & Lewis managing partner Lawrence Abramson has left Fladgate to join Keystone Law. Abramson, who joined Fladgate in June 2010, is a litigation partner specialising in the music, television, film, publishing and sports industries (15 June 2010). During his time at Harbottle he was drafted in by News International, owner of the defunct […]