In our long experience any occasion is enlivened and enriched by the presence of a barrister or two It’s been the week of our annual Hot 100 photoshoot at Chez Lawyer, so we’ve had the privilege of some of the country’s top advocates rolling in one by one and entertaining us with their anecdotes for […]
A barrister with one of the largest sets in the UK is to be appointed Queen’s Counsel in February. Nageena Khalique is head of the public law group at No5, and her appointment takes the number of silks at the set to 28. She is also head of inquests, public inquiries and the coronial law […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has successfully defended a negligence claim brought against Sotheby’s in which the auction house was accused of failing to notice that a work of art could have been painted by the Italian artist Caravaggio. The painting, depicting the same scene as Caravaggio’s ‘The Cardsharps’, was sold by claimant Lancelot Thwaytes through Sotheby’s […]
No5 Chambers barrister S Chelvan was an invited participant of an expert roundtable on credibility assessment in asylum procedures in Budapest on 14 and 15 January. With experts gathered from around the world, including from Canada and New Zealand, the participants discussed legal/doctrinal issues and key concepts, in addition to credibility considerations and the asylum […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has appointed Chris Oglethorpe as its new director of human resources. Oglethorpe joins from The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he held various senior positions, including HR director of a new £1.5bn bank, Williams & Glyn. David Fennell, chief executive at Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co said that Oglethorpe ‘brings extensive […]
Clyde & Co has grown 90.2 per cent from £192m to £365.1m between the 2009/10 and 2013/14 financial years, and according to senior partner James Burns is targeting revenue of more than £400m for the current financial year. In today’s leadership interview Burns reflects on his first year in command, making diversification the buzzword of […]
Cooley’s London launch dominated the top 10 stories of last week, but silk announcements and the unveiling of Stonewall’s top 100 gay-friendly employers also featured. Last Friday (9 January) we exclusively broke the news that US tech giant Cooley was finally launching its London office with the hire of partners from Edwards Wildman and Morrison […]
It has been just over a year since James Burns took over as senior partner at Clyde & Co, succeeding Michael Payton who stood down to become chairman after 28 years at the helm. While many of the headlines coming out of Clydes since Burns’ appointment have been internationally focused, he says one of the […]
The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Cartels and Criminal Group has launched a recruitment campaign to hire in-house lawyers. According to a statement, the objective is to hire “a number of talented individuals across a range of specialisms in intelligence, civil cartel enforcement and digital forensics”. To highlight the campaign, the organisation produced a number […]
Earlier this week DAC Beachcroft (DACB) announced it had signed an exclusive alliance with Madrid-based Muñoz Arribas Abogados in a further bid to boost its insurance and health practices in Spain and Latin America. The firm already has an established Madrid office and has more recently established practices in Bogotá (20 March 2013), Mexico City […]
Bates Wells Braithwaite (BWB) has moved into the first floor of King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) office space, shrinking its square footage as a result of going open plan. BWB has taken over space in the first floor from KWM, which is continuing its operations in the same building at 10 Queen Street by the […]
I should really take C to C London, in Mayfair, just so that I can say it, but it isn’t to be. J has suggested a trip to C for V, as her birthday treat V, who likes C, is evidently a regular, such is the fawning and schmoozing she receives from the maître d’. […]