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Fieldfisher, Clyde & Co and BCLP jostle for senior arbitration talent with interconnected London hires

Fieldfisher raids Clyde & Co but loses partner to BCLP, while Clyde & Co restocks from Womble Bond Dickinson

1 Jun 2026

CMS strengthens arbitration practice with London partner hire from BCLP

George Burn joins CMS’s London practice as London International Disputes Week opens with International Arbitration Day

31 May 2026

BCLP, Taylor Wessing secure real estate-related hires in London

Private equity partner Claibourne Harrison joins BCLP, while tax lawyer Gemma Grunewald joins Taylor Wessing

6 Mar 2026

Top commercial lawyers to debate merits of cost shifting

Debate overseen by Mr Justice Picken will ask whether reform would increase access to justice

21 Oct 2025

Top executives from A&O Shearman, Baker McKenzie, Gibson Dunn and White & Case to speak at Law Firm Marketing Summit

London conference chaired by BCLP’s Alessandra Almeida Jones will address growth in ‘Age of Chaos’

3 Oct 2025

CMS adds team of seven ex-BCLP lawyers in Hong Kong and one in Singapore

Hires follow BCLP’s decision to pull out of Asia earlier this year

18 Aug 2025

BCLP adds London partners from A&O Shearman, Taylor Wessing

Legacy Shearman & Sterling’s London tax head Simon Letherman joins as corporate finance specialist Lerika Le Grange moves over from Taylor Wessing

14 May 2025

BCLP launches redundancy consultation

Transatlantic firm to cut around 8% of business services staff globally

2 May 2025

Who won Women & Diversity in Law Awards 2025 – and why

Details of all the winning entries in this year’s awards

10 Apr 2025

BCLP to close in Hong Kong and Singapore as it plans Asia ‘wind-down’

Firm says it will continue to service its clients’ Asia needs through associate firm network

28 Mar 2025

UK Arbitration Act receives royal assent to legal sector approval

Members of arbitration community welcome new law which aims to bring 1996 act up to date

25 Feb 2025

Hogan Lovells hires two BCLP partners to strengthen London competition class action team

Hire of Edward Coulson and Andrew Leitch prompted by surge in number of competition claims

18 Feb 2025

BCLP to enter Saudi Arabia’s hot legal market with two offices

Transatlantic firm hires two partners from local boutique to open bases in Riyadh and Al-Khobar

6 Feb 2025

BCLP hires former Seattle Mayor to head firm’s US white collar practice

Ex-DoJ lawyer and Quinn Emanuel partner Jenny Durkan will be based in Seattle and Washington DC

30 Oct 2024

Top legal marketing and BD figures to explore trust building at London summit

Law Firm Marketing Summit will take place at RSA House on 15 October

4 Oct 2024

Norton Rose Fulbright hires 12-strong investigations team from BCLP in the US

Group includes four partners and will be spread across firm’s St. Louis and Denver offices

12 Jun 2024

BCLP absorbs 12-lawyer Seattle litigation boutique Harrigan Leyh Farmer & Thomsen

New arrivals include Timothy Leyh, Randall Thomsen and Tyler Farmer, with Farmer co-leading BCLP’s Seattle office

2 Apr 2024

UK government pledges law to boost litigation funding’s role in ‘David and Goliath’ class actions

Lord Chancellor says legislation will reverse impact of Supreme Court’s PACCAR ruling

4 Mar 2024

Arnold & Porter adds six partner team across US from BCLP

Multi-practice team joins across Chicago, Denver and New York

6 Feb 2024

BCLP appoints corporate specialist as next UK managing partner

Jinal Shah will take over from senior partner-elect Segun Osuntokun in January

22 Nov 2023