James Snape made The Lawyer Hot 100 in 2010 after securing a series of public finance initiative (PFI) waste contracts for Nabarro. Snape trained in local government with Guildford Borough Council before moving to Nabarro where he focused on planning and environmental work. He has been with the firm ever since, moving through the ranks from […]
In the next decade, artificial intelligence will radically streamline the organisation and economics of law firms. Better get your strategic thinking caps on now. So where are we – where is your firm – on the spectrum between ‘business as usual’ and ‘the end of lawyers’? As the market enjoys its best spell for a […]
International arbitration cases have spiralled and venues are developing to serve the new wealth of the East. Traditional Western firms need to adapt quickly. The global economy, while still experiencing extraordinary growth, has had a turbulent decade – the 2007/08 banking crisis, debilitating recession in major economies, increased regulation in the financial sector, turmoil in […]
Move of the week Ropes & Gray has hired its first commercial litigation partner in London. Thomas Ross has joined the firm’s business and securities litigation practice as a partner from K&L Gates. Ross also has 10 years’ experience working at Slaughter and May. Ross’ practice focuses on domestic and international banking, financial services and […]
With the bank holiday weekend coming to an end, you might have spent some time playing a few board games with the family. With its focus on words Scrabble has always been one of our favourites at The Lawyer. What you might not have realised is that Mattel, who owns the trademark for the words […]
Barclays set aside an additional £800m in the first quarter of 2015 to cover investigations and litigation related to foreign exchange rigging, its Q1 results reveal. In total the bank set aside £2.1bn for potential and ongoing forex investigations – a huge majority of the funds held for all legal, competition and regulatory matters, which […]
Suspended Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Peter Gray has officially left the firm, The Lawyer understands. The Dubai partner, who was suspended by the firm in March following a ruling that he deliberately misled the High Court, is understood to have posted comments on Facebook this week confirming he and Gibson Dunn had parted ways. “We did […]
The Secretary of State has consented to judgment in the High Court challenge of his refusal of permission for 100 houses at Rolleston-on-Dove in Staffordshire. The sole reason for refusal by the Secretary of State was the emerging neighbourhood plan (NP). In a decision which sent shockwaves through the development industry last December, the Secretary […]
Karanović & Nikolić has advised Serbia Broadband on its acquisition that will make EUnet a member of United Group. SBB, which was recently acquired by the US private equity fund KKR , has acquired EUnet, the first international Internet link in Serbia. EUnet will continue to operate independently, but will offer improved service and an integrated IT-Communication solution to […]
Collyer Bristow has once again been named in eprivateclient’s 2015 top 25 law firms. The rankings are based on a survey of over 125 law firms in the UK.
Martin Warren, human resources practice group head at Eversheds, has commented on the Court of Justice decision in USDAW v Ethel Austin. Warren said: “This is good news for employers. The alternative would have resulted in the extension of collective redundancy consultation beyond large scale redundancies to include fragmented, unrelated and ad hoc redundancies. As the […]
Eversheds has announced the promotion of 22 lawyers from around its international operations to the firm’s partnership, as part of the firm’s 2015 promotions round. A further 10 lawyers have also been appointed as legal directors or equivalent. Over 50 per cent of promotions were female. The firm’s company commercial practice group promoted nine new […]