Dentons has elected another legacy Salans partner as its new European CEO after a partner vote, seven months after its tripartite merger went live. Dentons’ co-chair of European corporate, head of Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) and Warsaw managing partner Tomasz Dabrowski will take over from Dariusz Oleszczuk as CEO when the latter’s term ends […]
Television cameras have been granted access to the Court of Appeal after a near 90-year ban on filming was lifted. Broadcasters will be allowed to film the legal arguments and the final judgment in criminal and civil cases at the Court of Appeal from today (31 October). Victims, witnesses, defendants and jurors will not be filmed. […]
US firms are shacking up like there’s no tomorrow. Should the UK legal market be bothered? You don’t need to be a market anorak to know that law firm mergers are on the rise. According to legal consultancy Altman Weil there have been 58 combinations between US firms so far this year, compared to 60 […]
A US court has ruled in favour of Proskauer Rose and Dewey & LeBoeuf after counsel for collapsed brokerage MF Global objected to the “excessive” fees submitted by the firms. In a filing submitted last week Jones Day’s Los Angeles-based restructuring partner Bruce Bennett, who is advising MF Global, objected to the legal fees submitted by the two […]
Gourmet burger chain Byron Hamburgers, advised by Freshfields and Travers Smith, was sold last week to private equity group Hutton Collins, advised by Dickson Minto. It’s all go in the restaurant world: to find out which lawyers have been gobbling up the deals, see our stories below. Macfarlanes and SJ Berwin on either side of […]
Hiscox has become the latest financial institution to cut its panel, with the insurer slashing its claims roster from 45 to 13. Berrymans Lace Mawer, Browne Jacobson, Clyde & Co, DWF Fishburns and Kennedys are among the 13 firms to secure places on the reduced UK claims panel. They will be monitored to ensure they […]
A welter of legal action could tumble out of Adobe’s admission yesterday that it had suffered a far greater breach of data security in a cyber attack earlier this month, leading technology lawyers warn. The California-based software multinational acknowledged that data from some 38 million users had been compromised, far more than the 2.9 million […]
DLA Piper’s former Australia chairman and country managing partner Tony Holland is leaving the firm to join Gilbert + Tobin (G+T) as a partner. Based in Melbourne, Holland has also been DLA Piper’s Asia Pacific banking and finance head. Today (31 October) is his last day at DLA Piper. He first joined the firm in […]
Bond Dickinson and Blackstone Chambers kicked off the first stage of a judicial review process for supermarket giant Sainsbury’s, marking the latest stage in battle with rival Tesco. Sainsbury’s is aiming to take the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to court after it rejected it’s complaint about rival Tesco’s ‘Price Promise’ campaign. Bond Dickinson client relationship […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Luxembourg firm Molitor has hired Chan Park as a partner in its corporate practice. Park joins the firm from D.Law, where he was counsel. Central & Eastern Europe Georgeta Gavriloiu has joined the Bucharest office of Austrian firm Schoenherr as […]
For many non-UK litigators the fact that two barristers from the same set can find themselves competing in court is quite simply odd. What about the barrister who scores a Supreme Court win against the Government on the same day as defending it against a full-scale legal attack by the media? Step forward Landmark Chambers’ […]
DLA Piper’s Wilmington office has received the Christopher J Battaglia Memorial Award, which was presented at the Delaware State Bar Association’s annual pro bono awards on 24 October. The award is named after lawyer and community advocate Christopher Battaglia and is given to law firms with the highest employee participation in the United Way Delaware Campaign, […]