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Burness chair helps snooker's Higgins quash match-fixing claims

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - 9 hours 5 min ago
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Philip Rodney has successfully defended the former snooker world champion John Higgins of allegations of match fixing, originally made by the News of the World (NoW).

Jones Day advises as Connaught calls in the administrators

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - 10 hours 33 min ago
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 launches Beijing seat for trainees

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - 14 hours 22 min ago
White & Case has expanded its international trainee solicitor secondment programme to its Beijing office.

Addleshaws bulks up City banking team former DLA partner

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 17:50
Addleshaw Goddard has continued to hire into its London banking practice with the recent addition of a former DLA Piper partner.

Addleshaws bulks up City banking team with DLA hire

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 17:50
Addleshaw Goddard has continued to hire into its London banking practice with a recent addition from DLA Piper.

Fountain Court clerk becomes head of clerking at Devereux

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 16:05
Fountain Court deputy senior clerk Vince Plant is to join rival set Devereux Chambers as head of clerking services.

Blunder excludes Indian lawyers from QLTS

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 14:57
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 names co-heads of global competition practice

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 14:25
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has unveiled the new co-heads of its global antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice.

Cuatrecasas unveils new office heads for London and New York

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Tue, 09/07/2010 - 11:04
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has named new heads for its offices in London and New York.

UK 200 financials laid bare in pivotal year for profession

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
Beyond PEP: magic circle and silver circle firms extend the gap on every profit metric

German contender enters CC senior partner race

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
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.

National duo lose RSA panel places

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
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.

Misrepresentation should make firms’ insurance void

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
As we approach the October renewals period for solicitors’ professional ­indemnity (PI) insurance, smaller law firms face a perfect storm.

Eversheds pursues HK growth with hire

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
Eversheds has continued to expand its Hong Kong offering with the hire of former Slaughter and May litigation partner Mark Yeadon.

How many days to profit? Sackers first to break even

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
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.

DAC targets Brazil with insurance firm link-up

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
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.

One North East scraps traditional panel in favour of reduced roster

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
Regional development agency One North East has abandoned its formal panel review process in favour of using a more informal list.

Dechert arrival puts Frankfurt in the frame

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
Dechert is looking at launching in Frankfurt ­following the arrival of ­alternative investment funds specialist Achim Pütz from SJ Berwin.

Walkers raids MOP for three partners to facilitate launch of Dublin outpost

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Sun, 09/05/2010 - 01:00
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 turns to Travers and Wragges for real estate hires

Latest Headlines from The Lawyer - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 16:50
Stephenson Harwood has further bolstered its real estate offering with two lateral partner hires in the department.