Burness partner Philip Rodney has successfully defended the former snooker world champion John Higgins of allegations of match fixing, originally made by the News of the World (NoW).
Connaught, the property and environmental services group that has appointed administrators in the largest company administration since Woolworths, has turned to Jones Day to guide it through the process.
White & Case has expanded its international trainee solicitor secondment programme to its Beijing office.
Addleshaw Goddard has continued to hire into its London banking practice with the recent addition of a former DLA Piper partner.
Addleshaw Goddard has continued to hire into its London banking practice with a recent addition from DLA Piper.
Fountain Court deputy senior clerk Vince Plant is to join rival set Devereux Chambers as head of clerking services.
Hundreds of foreign qualified lawyers could be prevented from being able to practise law in England and Wales due to an administrative blunder on the new Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS).
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has unveiled the new co-heads of its global antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice.
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has named new heads for its offices in London and New York.
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The Clifford Chance senior partner contest sprung into life last week, with three partners having now put themselves forward as potential replacements for incumbent Stuart Popham.
Addleshaw Goddard and Eversheds have been dropped from RSA’s UK legal panel following the insurance company’s revamp of its roster of external advisers.
As we approach the October renewals period for solicitors’ professional indemnity (PI) insurance, smaller law firms face a perfect storm.
Eversheds has continued to expand its Hong Kong offering with the hire of former Slaughter and May litigation partner Mark Yeadon.
This year The Lawyer introduced a new metric to its annual basket of law firm financial health indicators. For many equity partners it is the key one.
Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) is putting Latin America at the heart of its strategy with a formal association with São Paolo boutique insurance law firm JBO Advocacia.
Regional development agency One North East has abandoned its formal panel review process in favour of using a more informal list.
Dechert is looking at launching in Frankfurt following the arrival of alternative investment funds specialist Achim Pütz from SJ Berwin.
Offshore firm Walkers has taken three partners from Irish firm Matheson Ormsby Prentice (MOP) as it gears up to launch a new office in Dublin.
Stephenson Harwood has further bolstered its real estate offering with two lateral partner hires in the department.