The combined revenue of the top 50 global firms ranked by the amount of revenue generated by their litigation practices grew by 10 per cent. Lawyer and partner headcounts rose 4.3 per cent and 2.6 per cent, respectively. Nearly 85 per cent of firms saw litigation revenue rise, with 17 firms increasing their litigation revenue […]
NEW: As the first judgments of the new court term begin to trickle through, The Lawyer has selected the need-to-know decisions from the past week. With a rundown of the latest information, along with legal line-ups, we’re here to make sure you don’t miss a thing.
Welcome to the first edition of The Hearing: your weekly insider’s guide to what’s happening in the world of litigation. Each week, The Lawyer’s Adam Mawardi and Christian Smith will bring you (during the court term) a mixture of what we’re hearing about the UK disputes market and beyond, from moves and trends to news […]
NEW: Check in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims and assess what they say about the litigation market.
US tech titan Qualcomm has added Norton Rose Fulbright as its new defence law firm to challenge a £480m group action over smartphone chips. Norton Rose Fulbright’s London antitrust and competition head, Mark Simpson, plus competition partners Helen Fairhead and Caroline Thomas have replaced former instructing partner, Quinn Emanuel’s London head of competition litigation, Kate […]
There has been a swathe of claims filed over the last week against News Group Newspapers (NGN), as the fallout of the phone hacking scandal continues. Since Monday 26 September, 140 claims have been filed against the mega media giant, which forms part of News Corporation and is the owner of titles including The Times, […]
The emotional shift from QC to KC in September shone a light on the Bar last month, with the Bar community slowly becoming accustomed to the change in title. September saw some big moves, with several at 39 Essex Chambers, 3PB further bolstering its family practice, and a silk moving to Hogarth Chambers from Three […]
In court this week is back, and The Lawyer is bringing you three of the most anticipated cases that will be hitting the commercial courts this week.
Five separate claims have been filed against commodity trading and mining giant Glencore and several members of its leadership team. One of the claims is understood to be worth approximately £500m and claimants include pension funds, equity funds, a Norwegian bank, a UAE sovereign wealth fund, the Kuwait Investment Authority and institutional investors. These cases […]
The fallout from the war in Ukraine continues to pile lawsuits upon litigation lawyers, with a particularly fast-paced arena being disputes arising from Russian sanctions. One area on the rise is litigation in the aviation sector, which has seen a vast amount of claims filed in contract disputes arising from EU sanctions that ordered aircraft […]
There has been an influx of business interruption (BI) cases filed since the Covid-19 insurance case judgment was handed down by the Supreme Court in 2021, with a lot of the new claims addressing some gaps in that conclusion. The outcome of Covid-19 played havoc on business owners, especially those having to trawl through their […]
Wiggin partner Caroline Kean has called the current defamation claims against several media outlets brought by the Nazarbayev Fund and Jusan Technologies as showing all the classic hallmarks of a SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation). The Lawyer first reported the dispute on 8 September, which involves two claims brought by the two companies, represented by […]