SproutIT, Legal IT Specialists, today announced it has won the contract to support 8 New Square in all aspects of IT support, consultancy and strategy. As well as a contract to provide unrivalled support services, including out of hours support as standard, SproutIT will deliver strategic solution designs to bring highly innovative and feature rich […]
Virtual Data Room, Drooms will be presenting its virtual platform namesake at this year’s Expo Real (booth C1.230). The Drooms platform assists real estate investment fund managers in meeting the reporting requirements set down in the EU’s “Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive“ (AIFMD). In accordance with those requirements, it also provides users with centralized storage […]
Mishcon de Reya has announced the appointment of a former senior Government communications adviser to the newly created role of external affairs director. Lisa Tremble, who joined Mishcon on 30 September, has more than 15 years’ experience of policy, political and media advice at the highest level of Government. Her former roles include working for […]
Professional indemnity insurance cover is a major overhead for any law firm, and many have got cheaper deals from unrated insurers. However, the collapse of several insurers has now made many firms scrabble around for cover. If they still haven’t got cover after 90 days they will have to close. The outlook is grim. Up […]
It’s always tough when the kids pack up their suitcases and fly the nest. But for Clifford Chance, this week, it’s been harder than most. It was announced yesterday that one of the magic circle firm’s rising private equity stars, Tom Evans, is to plump his feathers and take the leap to Latham & Watkins […]
DLA Piper partner Hilary Stewart-Jones is stepping down from the firm’s partnership in order to chair Playtech’s risk and compliance and remuneration committee. Prior to joining DLA’s London office in 2011 with colleague Stephen Ketteley, Stewart-Jones led the gaming practice of Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), which has been advising Playtech since 2005. In 2006 she […]
Hogan Lovells has hired a senior transfer pricing specialist from turnaround business Alvarez & Marsal in its London corporate tax team. Fabrizio Lolliri is set to join Hogan Lovells as European director of transfer pricing on 14 October. He has nine years’ transfer pricing experience, having previously worked at France Telecom as group head of […]
Hogan Lovells has hired Field Fisher Waterhouse’s (FFW) privacy and information group head Eduardo Ustaran, who is expected to serve an 18-month notice period which keeps him at FFW until May 2015. The move is a coup for Hogan Lovells, which has hired Ustaran as head of the firm’s European privacy and information practice. However […]
ABS NewLaw Solicitors is expanding its Cardiff office with 86 jobs ranging from new law graduates to experienced litigators, supported by a Welsh Government subsidy. The firm is receiving a grant of £156,690 from the Government to support the expansion plans. NewLaw chief executive Helen Molyneux said in a statement: “We’ve experienced significant growth over the […]
The ongoing Libor misselling feud between Guardian Care Homes (GCH) and Barclays is going to the Court of Appeal next week in a crucial simultaneous hearing with a case involving Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank and Ors v Unitech and Anor will be heard at the same time as Barclays Bank vs Graiseley Investments & Ors […]
The Law Society has defended its position over legal aid cuts as the wrangling over Government reductions to legal aid funding continues. In an open letter sent to solicitors today, chief executive Des Hudson urged criminal lawyers to participate in the joint survey being run by the Law Society and the MoJ, saying the Government […]
Nationwide has launched its delayed general panel review, which was originally expected to take place in early 2013. The company sent tender invitations to firms two weeks ago to fill the coveted spots on its panel following the decision to delay the process back in March (4 March 2013). This is the company’s first general […]