Collyer Bristow’s employment team invites you to a breakfast seminar on how to manage, resolve and settle problematic disciplinary and grievance issues with your staff and minimise the risk of litigation. It will take place on Wednesday 18 November.
Clyde & Co has continued to boost its international arbitration team after picking up Berwin Leighton Paisner arbitration head Richard Power. Power has been a partner in BLP for five years and has been as the firm’s co-head of international arbitration and head of energy disputes since December last year. He joins Clydes as a […]
Three of the UK’s biggest banks have settled with US regulators for around $900m (£585m) over foreign-exchange rigging, paving the way for a raft of forex litigation in the London High Court. Five banks settled with regulators on Thursday (22 October) formalising agreements to pay multimillion-dollar sums to victims of manipulated forex trading. Barclays has […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has adopted artificial intelligence (AI) into its business in an attempt to boost efficiency and improve the morale of its lawyers. However, the firm’s head of legal risk consultancy Matthew Whalley believes this is only the beginning of how law firms can use AI. BLP has begun using AI software known […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has signed a permanent lease for its global services centre in Manchester, with staff to move out of Arndale House in early 2017. The magic circle firm has leased 80,000 sq ft of space in new build One New Bailey in Spinningfields. Rents on the building are understood to be around £33 […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has adopted artificial intelligence (AI) into its business in an attempt to boost efficiency and improve the morale of its lawyers. However, the firm’s head of legal risk consultancy Matthew Whalley believes this is only the beginning of how law firms can use AI. BLP has begun using AI software known […]
When Debevoise & Plimpton hired UK attorney general Peter Goldsmith QC in 2007 as its European head of litigation, some in the market raised eyebrows at the move. Eight years on Goldsmith, now in charge of Debevoise’s London office, says the firm is thriving. Goldsmith and fellow London partner Richard Ward took on the roles […]
The number of barristers authorised as entities by the bar regulator has more than doubled to 33 since the initial wave of approvals in April. The Bar Standards Board (BSB) began accepting applications from barristers to become entities – BSB-regulated businesses – at the start of this year. Four QCs are now among the list […]
A duo of female barristers have been elevated to the High Court including 2 Hare Court’s Bobbie Cheema-Grubb QC, who becomes the UK’s first female Asian High Court judge. Circuit judge Juliet Mary May QC has also been made up, replacing Mr Justice Akenhead who will retire on 3 December aged 66. Cheema-Grubb is replacing […]
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, DLA Piper’s former South African ally, has added six new partners in its finance and employment teams including three banking directors from Norton Rose Fulbright. The director, or partner-level, appointments follow the hires of tax directors Dries Hoek and Mark Linington from Linklaters ally Webber Wentzel in September. The firm has hired […]
US firm Fragomen is set to open its second UK office in Sheffield in an attempt to move closer to clients while reducing its costs. Fragomen is taking 12,000sq ft of space within Saville House, which is situated in the heart of Sheffield city centre. The firm plans to create 100 new roles in the […]
Ashurst is appointing legal project managers across all practice areas in London and Sydney, four years after the firm recruited a project management team of for its banking and finance groups. The rollout involves the recruitment of six project managers in Ashurst’s London and Sydney offices, working across all departments such as corporate, litigation, energy […]