Annabel joined The Lawyer in May 2022 as a reporter. She primarily covers litigation and the Bar. You can follow her on both LinkedIn and Twitter.
The £70m landmark construction and cladding dispute that featured in The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2024 has finally settled, less than a month before it was due to head to trial on 7 October. Mayer Brown-repped Shepherd Construction, a UK-based construction company, was the main contractor for the Northern Quarter mixed-use development in Colindale, London. […]
33 Chancery Lane is undergoing a mass operational overhaul and rebrand, hiring its first chief executive, three new barristers and moving premises. The 19-barrister set, led by Kennedy Talbot KC, has hired Outer Temple’s practice director Sam Carter as chief executive and director of clerking to help guide the chambers through its new chapter. Carter […]
A solicitor has been fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) after appearing on an antisemitic TV show that “took the form of a wide-ranging attack” upon Mishcon de Reya. Mohammed Akunjee, who has over 30,000 followers on X, has been fined £6,500 and ordered to pay £30,000 in costs after appearing in a TV […]
Russia’s largest transport operator, FESCO, had its chance today to block the $13.8bn dispute brought by jailed Russian businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov from going to trial in England, as the case entered its fourth day in a courtroom comprising over 50 lawyers. Magomedov, represented by litigation boutique Seladore Legal, argues that an elaborate conspiracy saw his […]
Mishcon de Reya has hiked salaries for newly qualified solicitors (NQ) by 5.5 per cent to £95,000. The last time the firm raised its NQ salary was in May 2022, when it opted for an 8 per cent uplift from £83,000 to £90,000. NQs also saw a hike only six months before that in November […]
In a loss for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer client Tesco, the Supreme Court has today (12 September) favoured the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) in its appeal against the supermarket giant’s “fire and rehire“ practices. The Supreme Court hearing took place in April 2024 and saw Old Square Chambers’ Oliver Segal KC and […]
Herbert Smith Freehills kicked off its fight today in the Commercial Court to strike out a $13.8bn claim against client TPG by jailed Russian billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov, who made his fortune during Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency. HSF called upon Brick Court’s Mark Howard KC to refute the claim, which alleges that the private equity giant and […]
Morgan Lewis has made two new hires in its London office to expand its life sciences offering in disputes and corporate. The firm has hired intellectual property litigator Hiroshi Sheraton from Baker McKenzie, where he was for 10 years. Sheraton’s practice focuses on contentious patent and trademark issues, and prior to Baker McKenzie, he spent […]
A former Cooley associate is set to appear in front of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) over allegations of “stalking”. Matthew Howells was referred today (29 August) by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for “conduct which amounted to the stalking of Person A” between 31 March 2022 and 8 July 2022. The regulator added that […]
Mishcon de Reya’s borrowings have increased by more than ten fold over the 2023/24 financial year from £3.3m to £40m. The firm’s cash in the bank is £17.2m (down 10.2 per cent on the previous year’s £19.5m), meaning net debt at the firm stands at £23m. Speaking with The Lawyer, Mishcon’s chief operating officer Matt […]
For well over a decade, Clifford Chance teams in London and New York acted for the late tech entrepreneur and Autonomy founder Mike Lynch in his long-running legal wrangles with Hewlett Packard. But while Lynch secured a not guilty verdict in the US this summer, he was still awaiting the conclusion of the English litigation. […]
The Post Office has appointed a law firm to assist it with the aftermath of a data breach this summer, in which contact details of 555 Horizon claimants were mistakenly released. DAC Beachcroft is advising the company in a pre-action dispute with claimants who took the Post Office to the High Court in 2016. In […]