Former Boies Schiller Flexner chief and successor to law star David Boies, Natasha Harrison is to launch a law practice in London, likely rivalling her former New York-based firm. Boies Schiller has seen a raft of departures in recent months, although it continues to announce growth and expansion plans, including a potential move into a […]
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By Ed Siddons, Simon Lock – City law firms are “completely outgunning” the UK’s only complex fraud agency, raising concerns that an “imbalance of arms” is allowing some oligarchs and powerful corporations to “buy impunity”. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal that some companies under investigation have spent up to 10 times more than
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LONDON – Powered by LawFuel – Reed Smith announced today that Paulette Mastin and Paul Regan have joined its Financial Industry Group in London, bringing to the firm two highly regarded corporate trust lawyers and strengthening the firm’s market leading group representing global corporate trustees, service providers, and financial intermediaries. Mastin joins Reed Smith as
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The recently signed trade deal between the UK and New Zealand will permit UK lawyers to work more easily in New Zealand as it drives collaboration between legal regulators The Department for International Trade said the UK’FTA with New Zealand will improve business travel arrangements and allow professionals such as lawyers and architects to work abroad more easily.
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Robert Shooter, Fieldfisher’s head of Technology, Outsourcing & Privacy (‘TOP’) practice will succeed Michael Chissick as Managing Partner, effective 1 May 2022. Head of the firm’s TOP practice since 2012 and leader of the technology sector team, Rob joined Fieldfisher in 2002 and was made partner in 2006. He has been a member of the
US Big Law giant Quinn Emanuel’s UK chief Richard East has fired up – and fired back – at reports in UK legal media about recent departures from the firm, recently named as leader of the ‘Fearsome Four’ pack of the most feared law firms in the world. The row over departures related principally to
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“What was needed was not legal advice but judgement, common sense and the courage to stand up to the executive as appropriate.” Leading QC Alison Levitt has excoriated law firm FieldFisher and partner Matthew Lohn in a report over advice the law firm provided to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, (RICS) saying the firm
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We are pleased to announce we have promoted 86 associates to senior associate and introduced a new legal director role, with 44 legal directors and 2 special counsel also promoted. The legal director role is introduced in the UK, EMEA, Singapore and Latin America, and is known as of counsel in Hong Kong and special
London lawyers Mishcon de Reya, already preparing for a stock exchange float, has started a litigation funding division with Harbour Litigation Funders, one of the largest litigation funding operations in the world. A report in the FInancial Times says that Harbour is to invest £150m in the new fund which will see Mischon de Reya
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Having a law career does not mean you have to be a lawyer and now, more than ever, there are multiple opportunities for lawyers who do not seek to practice law but are looking for a law career pathway beyond getting behind a desk with a law firm. Career opportunities for those with a law
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