This week in Spotlight, we laser in on a disputes boutique whose partners are all ex-Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) lawyers. The firm in question – Seladore Legal – has a blockbuster case ongoing, in which it is bringing a $14bn dispute on behalf of a jailed Russian businessman against 22 defendants. This is the largest […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your cheat sheet to the litigation market, bringing you the week’s top litigation stories and analysis. In the bad books: The release of the Legal Services Board’s (LSB) report into the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) handling of Axiom Ince’s collapse caused a storm on Tuesday. The LSB, […]
Law in international waters raises complex questions over environmental issues, ownership and responsibility. In this week’s edition of Spotlight, we’re turning our attention to HFW’s admiralty and crisis management team, with offices across key ports and 10 master mariners aboard. The market: For HFW’s admiralty and crisis management team, a broad client base means a […]
Last summer, The Lawyer reported that Paul Hastings was on the hunt for growth in its Paris office and this year, the firm made its move in one of the French capital’s hottest markets. With white collar boutique Antonin Lévy & Associés joining Paul Hastings last month, we look at how the team sets itself […]
In the first Spotlight of the Michaelmas term, The Lawyer zeroes in on a Herbert Smith Freehills team that has defended the most carriage disputes in class actions being brought in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The market: In the late 2000s, follow-on damages actions began to increase in pace, and US law firms and […]
The Hearing is back for the new court year and, as it’s a new year, we are bringing you a fresh new format. We’ll be bringing you the week’s top stories, with all the insider goss and analysis you’d expect from the Hearing. Think of it as your “cheat sheet” to what’s going on in […]
This week on Spotlight, we laser in on ‘CMS Evidence’, the in-house litigation technology unit that the firm launched in 2018, a year into its tripartite merger with Nabarro and Olswang. The unit: CMS Evidence has seven members and the unit services many of CMS’s offices worldwide. It sells a product and expertise, which is […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, why two barristers shifting chambers symbolises the struggles small sets are facing, and as the weather (finally) looks set to improve, you might find yourself inspired to take on cricket’s most exciting new role. South Square’s big […]
A turbulent election and the upcoming Paris Olympics: there’s plenty of eyes on France this summer. As its people gear up to celebrate la Fête Nationale Française, Bastille Day, this Sunday, we turn our attention to Bredin Prat and the French disputes market. The market: With a seat of the Unified Patents Court (UPC) and […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, we break down a brutal costs decision, bring you another example of just how big competition litigation is now, and tell you which judgment of the year’s biggest cases is expected as soon as today. A costs […]
This week on Spotlight, we laser in on the mechanics of specialist energy and construction firm Fenwick Elliott. Origin: Robert Fenwick Elliott set up the firm in 1986, coming from legacy Masons. The firm began by doing only domestic contentious construction work but picked up two ICC arbitrations for the Pakistan government in the 1990s, […]
This week on Spotlight, we’re looking at the inner workings and strategy of disputes boutique Pallas Partners, which won Litigation Boutique of the Year at The Lawyer Awards earlier this month. Origin: Pallas was launched in 2022 following a high-profile split-off from Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office when Natasha Harrison, ex-deputy chair of the US […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, McDermott Will & Emery is making inroads into London’s litigation market, and arbitration numbers continue to rise. But first, are securities cases the new competition class actions? The wait goes on: Last week’s development that Serco […]
At The Lawyer Awards this week, seven teams were shortlisted for the Litigation team of the year prize. They were Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Mayer Brown, Lewis Silkin, Mishcon de Reya, TLT, and joint entries from Browne Jacobson and Bevan Brittan, and Addleshaw Goddard and McDermott Will & Emery. While Addleshaws and McDermott, and […]
Welcome to The Hearing, your weekly insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. On Tuesday evening, around 1,000 people dressed in their finery descended on London’s Park Lane for the annual The Lawyer awards. The four awards dedicated to disputes lawyers celebrated litigation’s best performances over the past year, with Mishcon de Reya, Pallas Partners, […]
This week on Spotlight, we’re taking a closer look at a rapidly expanding disputes boutique, which has followed the blueprint laid out clearly by Quinn Emanuel’s John Quinn.
This week on Spotlight, we laser in on the legal regulatory team (also known as legal professional discipline) at Kingsley Napley. The market: The Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) has widened its interests considerably in recent years. The MeToo movement has since evolved into concern about culture at law firms, anti-money laundering (AML) has become much more prominent […]