Dentons has moved swiftly to name its successor as European litigation head, after its former group leader spearheaded an eight-lawyer defection to Italian firm Chiomenti. Rome-based Roberto Fabio Lipari will take the reins to lead the firm’s disputes team across Continental Europe and Central Asia. Lipari joined Dentons five years ago as a partner, having […]
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 […]
The Stewarts-repped London International Exhibition (ExCel) Centre has successfully seen off an appeal by insurers over its Covid-19 business interruption claim. The case, which was one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2023 and Top 10 Appeals of 2024, concerned whether pandemic lockdowns entitled the Centre to claim £16m under the disease occurring “at […]
A judge has part-sided with DWF in Qatar after the firm brought a claim against a client over unpaid fees. DWF’s Qatar branch took consulting company Roland Berger to court in the Qatar Financial Centre, claiming it was owed QAR 766,380 (£158,947) by its client. The firm was employed to draft and define a mandate […]
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. […]
Cooley has expanded its commercial litigation practice with a hire from Bird & Bird. Bryony Hurst joins the US tech-renowned firm having previously been a partner in the dispute resolution team at Bird & Bird in London. Hurst spent over a decade at her previous firm and was promoted to partner back in 2017. Speaking […]
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 […]
RPC is set to defend Google in another class action launched against it in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) over alleged anti-competitive practices regarding its UK Google Play Store. Geradin Partners has launched the £1.04bn claim on behalf of class representative and competition law expert Professor Barry Rodger, who represents UK Android app developers. Rodger […]
The Post Office paid out a quarter of a billion pounds in legal fees in relation to the Horizon IT scandal, The Lawyer can reveal. A Freedom of Information request made by The Lawyer to the Post Office has revealed £256.9m was paid to 15 law firms and two barristers’ chambers between September 2014 and […]
Two former directors of retailer BHS have been found liable for over £110m in a judgment handed down yesterday (19 August) by Mr Justice Leech at the High Court. This comes as part of one of the largest insolvency litigation set pieces that went to trial through the end of last year and the beginning […]
BCLP is set to defend International Distribution Services (IDS), Royal Mail’s parent group, from an £878.5m class action in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The claim, backed by litigation funder Asertis, was officially filed on 29 May by Lewis Silkin on behalf of 290,477 retail customers, marking Lewis Silkin’s first foray into the opt-out class […]