DLA Piper insurance litigation partner David Murphy has left the firm to join US-firm Sedgwick in London. Murphy formally left DLA Piper on 31 December and was admitted to Sedgwick’s partnership on 1 January, his first day in the office is tomorrow (10 January). Sedgwick will have five partners in London including Murphy, whose focus […]
Clifford Chance has entered into an association with Indonesian firm Linda Widyati & Partners (LWP) in a further bid to cement its presence in the Asia Pacific. The firm, which has been advising on Indonesian matters from its hubs in Singapore and Hong Kong for over 30 years, has relocated M&A chief Jeroen Koster from […]
The top of equity has plummeted from £278,000 to £162,000 at Morgan Cole with the top earner taking home 40 per cent less than last year, according to the firm’s latest LLP accounts. The partner with the lowest stake in the equity also saw their profit share dive from £206,000 to £135,000 in 2012/13, a […]
No5 Chambers barrister Robin Rowland will speak at Jordan’s Family Law Update 2014, which will be held in Birmingham on 5 February and in Cardiff on 26 February. The Family Law Update 2014 provides three expert speakers who give updates on the latest case-law developments, procedural changes and a range of current topics.
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 unveiled a number of significant changes to the system for regulating works to listed buildings in England. The government has now published for consultation the draft regulations by which three of the key changes will be brought into force on 6 April 2014. These are heritage partnership agreements; […]
With the arrival of the new year, several legal novelties have come into force in Croatia. The most important is the new law on oil and the oil derivatives market, which stipulates that the price of fuel will now be defined by the market instead of the state. With amendments to the Consumer Credit Act, […]
Prioritisation and globalisation drive higher fine totals from fewer investigations. Although the record-breaking fines of 2012 proved to be a tough act to follow, the era of aggressive antitrust enforcement continued in 2013. While fewer new investigations emerged this past year, authorities nonetheless imposed record-level penalties. It was a year defined primarily by the substantial […]
In a much anticipated letter response, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially declined the opportunity to administratively determine whether foods containing bio-engineered ingredients may be labelled as ‘natural’, ‘all natural’ or ‘100 per cent natural’ and, more generally, declined the opportunity to define ‘natural’ in the context of food labelling. The issue stems […]
Back in 2011, Walker Morris reported on the High Court cases of Brown-Quinn v Equity and Pine v DAS, which recognised the right of a holder of before-the-event legal expenses insurance to choose its own legal adviser, in accordance with Regulation 6 of the Insurance Companies (Legal Expenses Insurance) Regulations 1990. The European Court of […]
Bryan Cave has promoted nine lawyers to the partnership, with litigator Robert Dougans becoming the only London-based lawyer to join the partnership. Dougans rose to fame in 2009 when he became a poster boy for freedom of speech campaigners. At the time he was instructed to act for science writer Simon Singh in defence of […]
Happy New Year! Or maybe that should be a Gallic Bonne Année, because European legal news in this first week of 2014 has focused almost exclusively on the Paris market. No fewer than three firms have made significant lateral hires – and others are also recruiting – while the trend for boutiques continues, with a […]
Hans Forssell and Göran Johansson from Eversheds Stockholm represented claimants AB SEB Trygg Liv in a dispute in the Swedish Supreme Court against defendants Skadeförsäkring AB and Länsförsäkringar Sak. In the dispute, SEB Trygg Liv claimed compensation from the defendants under mandatory liability insurances of an insurance broker written by them. The issue at stake in the Supreme […]