There can only be one topic in today’s The Lawyer Management email – Tuesday’s glittering, stellar night of awards which capped the inaugural The Lawyer Management conference. I think it’s fair to say that both the conference and the awards were widely considered as major successes, with one attendee describing the day as a “great […]
CMS has trumped BT’s real estate panel firms to take on its first real estate deal for BT, advising the telecoms giant on its plans for the UK’s tallest brick clad building in London’s Nine Elms. The firm has boosted its role on BT’s panel after being hired as a corporate adviser in 2009 (30 […]
Stone Chambers has become the latest British set to open an office in Singapore, with Andrew Moran QC spearheading the new base. Moran has relocated from London to Singapore and will be based there permanently. He will be supported by other Stone Chambers barristers locating to the region for extended periods of time, as well […]
Social networking giant Facebook has named Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s co-head of IT and data privacy, Ashlie Beringer, as its deputy general counsel. Beringer replaces former deputy Colin Stretch, who took the general counsel role over from former legal boss Ted Ullyot in July (21 June 2013). The Palo Alto-based litigation partner, who joined Gibson […]
DLA Piper has hired IP partner Horace Lam from Jones Day’s Beijing office along with a team of four lawyers. Lam will join DLA Piper’s Beijing office as a partner and the head of intellectual property in China in October. His practice focuses on intellectual property, covering a wide range of issues such as disputes, protection […]
A Manchester based law firm, and software development company, have joined forces to help educational institutions tackle the technical and legal implications of implementing new technology. Berg, and Shaping Cloud, both education specialist, will also be hosting a series of law and cloud related seminars later this year, and will offer detailed workshops early in […]
ZyLAB, leading provider of eDiscovery and information risk management solutions, today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted the company a patent for its exact and near de-duplication technology in its eDiscovery solutions and Information Risk Management platforms. Locating, deleting and removal of exact- and near-duplicates drastically reduces the volume of […]
Dr Simon Fox, a member of No5 Chambers’ clinical negligence and personal injury groups, has been shortlisted for barrister of the year at the Bristol Law Society’s 2013 Awards. The winners of the awards will be announced at the Annual Awards Dinner on 10 October 2013, which is being held at the Bristol Marriott City Centre […]
PushON has won the organic search brief for Peninsula Business Services, the leading provider of employment law and health and safety services in the UK. Headquartered in Manchester, Peninsula employs 900 people across the UK and Ireland and offers a range of businesses HR services including hronline and HR Face2Face and Health & Safety Advice. […]
Phoenix Business Solutions announces the appointment of Ben Weinberger as Chief Strategy Officer. Ben will help guide the Board and Management team to further develop the product offerings of Phoenix, as well as consolidating their message to the legal and professional services markets. Ben brings with him more than 20 years’ experience in the strategic […]
In Derek Hodd Ltd v Climate Change Capital Ltd [2013] EWHC 1665 (Ch) the defendant disputed the identity of both parties to a contract. While not technically a ‘misnomer’ case (which is where a party knows who it is to whom he wishes to refer but by mistake he attaches the wrong name to that […]
In CIMC Raffles Offshore (Singapore) Ltd & anr v Schahin Holdings SA [2013] EWCA Civ 644, 7 June 2013 the Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal in a case concerning the extent to which a guarantee still applies if the guaranteed contract has been varied so that it fundamentally differs from the original guaranteed […]