Disputes

Renowned practitioner Gary Born, WilmerHale’s global arbitration chair, joins with four more partners across London, Washington DC and New York | 2mos

One year on, review co-chair Dr John Sorabji and Nicholas Bacon KC have decried inertia over their recommendations, reports Ben Rigby | 2mos

Norton Rose Fulbright’s midyear litigation pulse survey highlights greater disputes exposure for energy, healthcare, tech and finance companies | 2mos

Walter Merricks hails ‘total victory’ as High Court dismisses funder’s challenge to distribution of £200m settlement | 2mos

Jessica Lee brings crypto and blockchain expertise to firm’s London disputes bench | 2mos

Insurance heavyweight ups revenue 9.1% as it eyes becoming a billion-dollar law firm by 2030 | 2mos

Juan Carlos Varela joins as office managing partner and chair of Seyfarth’s Latin America practice alongside two other Venezuelan-American attorneys | 2mos

Paul Brehony joins as UK firm ramps up international work with office launches and alliances across the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the Americas | 2mos

LIDW26’s main conference saw business and consumer representatives clash over UK class actions, while senior lawyers and policymakers called for a stronger defence of the rules-based international order | 2mos

Litigation heavyweight hands out 5% salary increase to all London associates having matched Milbank’s new pay grades for its junior US lawyers earlier this week | 2mos

Lord Neuberger, Toby Landau KC and Karyl Nairn KC all used their International Arbitration Day keynotes to argue that reform is needed to preserve confidence in a successful system on a lively opening day | 2mos

Deep-sea mining and commercial space activity may fuel rise in geopolitical disputes | 2mos

Fieldfisher raids Clyde & Co but loses partner to BCLP, while Clyde & Co restocks from Womble Bond Dickinson | 2mos

Tie-up of Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing’s UK-led business completed today, creating firm with 1,400 lawyers and £1.2bn in revenue | 2mos

As London International Disputes Week returns, it offers the London Court of International Arbitration a chance to show what institutional renewal looks like in practice, writes Ben Rigby | 2mos

George Burn joins CMS’s London practice as London International Disputes Week opens with International Arbitration Day | 2mos

Sébastien Bonnard joins with three team members as transatlantic firm bolsters arbitration bench ahead of Cadwalader merger | 2mos

Move follows last month’s addition of a former Allen & Gledhill counsel in its Singapore group practice | 2mos

Ex-Willkie Farr associate co-founded company which participated in A&O Shearman’s accelerator programme | 2mos