This week on Spotlight, we check out the aviation disputes team at Morgan Lewis & Bockius as it brings a large number of operator policy claims against insurers in the mammoth Russian aviation litigation, which featured in The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2024. The market: Aviation is both an extremely international and consistently high-value industry. An issue […]
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we’re feeling romantic at The Lawyer. As shops and restaurants cash in on flower sales and candlelit dinners, law firms are approaching “pre-nup season.” For this week’s Spotlight, we put Withers’ family and divorce team under the microscope. The market: “There’s always gossip in the family law world”, says […]
The annual Six Nations rugby tournament kicks off in Marseille tonight, with France taking on defending champions Ireland. So for this week on Spotlight, we look into Rylands Garth, the boutique sports firm bringing the country’s first mass claims against the governing bodies of rugby union, rugby league and football over brain injuries. The case: […]
This week on Spotlight, we look at a defence side team at Clifford Chance operating in the booming securities litigation space – specifically shareholder group action claims. Members of the team are defending Serco, one of the UK Government’s most high-profile outsourcing contractors, in a claim brought by a group of investors. The case featured as one of The […]
This Friday’s Spotlight, the first of the Hilary term, features a special episode on national firm Freeths’ disputes group. The firm and its lawyers have received much attention since ITV’s portrayal of the Post Office scandal in its drama Mr Bates v the Post Office, titled after the group litigation of the same name that a Freeths […]
Christmas is a giving time of year, so this week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we’re focusing on Winckworth Sherwood’s charities practice. How the firm is structured means that 60 to 70 lawyers work on charity matters at any given time due to its substantial ecclesiastical, property (including social housing) and education practice groups, so it’s […]
In this Friday’s Spotlight feature, we study Hamlins’ media disputes practice group. Earlier this week, the claimant-side team secured public apologies and substantial damages for several high-profile victims of unlawful information gathering by News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of The Sun and the now defunct News of the World. The market: Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPPs), legal actions […]
COP28 kicked off yesterday, so with minds on global climate change, this week’s Spotlight feature will examine a practice area a little more local to the UK: Leigh Day’s environment team, which is no stranger to disputes with public bodies as it fights for environmental standards in the UK. The market: Greenwashing is top on […]
This week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we laser in on Forsters‘ property litigation group, one of the firm’s fastest-growing teams. Earlier this year, the group secured a win in the Supreme Court against Tate Modern for its clients, residents of nearby luxury apartments, in a high-profile dispute over Tate’s viewing platform. The market: Property litigation is an exciting area to […]
This week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we explore Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Mass Claims Unit (MCU). Offering a novel take on how to handle this ever-growing part of the European disputes market, the magic circle firm wants to be a one-stop shop for the largest mass claims and tap into previously unexplored talent pools. The […]
With six lawyers in London dedicated to pro bono, Hogan Lovells takes on matters ranging from coroner inquests, human trafficking compensation and war crime claims. The market: Hogan Lovells isn’t alone in putting forward teams of lawyers to take on pro bono matters. Clients are demanding to know what their external advisers are doing in […]
This week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we examine Fieldfisher’s young commercial crime team comprising “blood and guts” crime lawyers and civil fraud specialists as they bolster their reputation in this highly active space. The market: It’s an exciting time to be a commercial crime lawyer. The new director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Nick Ephgrave is […]