On June 26, Chicago-based law firm Altheimer & Gray opened its doors in the ancient Chinese city of Shanghai. It is yet another example of the firm’s continuing commitment to emerging markets. One of Chicago’s largest firms, Altheimer & Gray, founded in 1915, is noted domestically for its work in mergers and acquisitions, property development […]
Leading banking lawyer Geoffrey Wynne of Watson Farley & Williams, who left the firm last month, will be joining City firm Denton Hall in the new year. He will be a partner in its banking and financial group and will be in charge of initiatives to develop the practice. Wynne has been at Watsons since […]
A successful partner in a Home Counties legal practice has been awarded £1.1 million damages after he was knocked off his bike in a devastating accident. Robert Atkins, who was a partner in the Bedford firm of Gareth Woodfines, was seriously injured in a cycling accident in May 1990. “He has not been able to […]
Liverpool firm Weightmans is to fund the establishment of a new Chair in Negligence Law at the University of Liverpool, which will be advertised nationally and internationally. It will allow the firm access to training facilities from the faculty of law, which is an authorised provider approved by the Law Society. Weightmans senior partner Tony […]
Clifford Chance has become what is believed to be the first law firm to draw up a guide for its clients on what life under a Labour government might be like. Entitled New Labour, New Government? it has been compiled by the firm’s public policy group headed by Richard Thomas, who was appointed from the […]
Clifford Chance’s Asian project finance specialist, Tim Soutar, has transferred to the firm’s London headquarters after spending 14 years at its Hong Kong office. Soutar said he had returned to the UK for family reasons. In the future, he will have a broader role helping to co-ordinate Clifford Chance’s 100-lawyer global projects group, led by […]
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Canadian law firm Goodman Phillips & Vineberg is the latest firm to move into Singapore and has poached a Baker & McKenzie partner to head up the operation. The newly opened office is the firm’s third in Asia, which it says reflects the growing importance of the continent in a business context. It will be […]
Herbert Smith energy partner Mark Newbery is spearheading a legal attack on Stephen Littlechild, the director general of electricity regulation, on behalf of the 14 regional electricity companies (RECs) in England, Wales and Scotland. Herbert Smith was appointed to advise the RECs on implementing full competition by April 1998 in September this year. In a […]
“Robert Sayer has missed his vocation,” muttered someone during a coffee break at last week’s Law Society Council meeting. “He should have been a private detective.” Sayer’s unofficial report into Regis to council members quotes from private e-mail memos between staff at Chancery Lane as their alarm about the problems with the computer system grew. […]
I was interested to read an article in your most recent edition on a proposed project to organise bank facilities to provide barristers with a regular salary. It is good to see that someone is looking at this subject as many barristers are struggling to make ends meet. Barristers are in a very difficult position […]
I write in response to the report carried in The Lawyer (5 November) under the byline of Backstabber. While the report correctly states that the media was not permitted to attend the general meeting of the International Bar Association, which last month elected Dianna Kempe QC as secretary-general, in claiming that a “strict press exclusion […]