Disputes

Four partners join in New York alongside eight further lawyers; together the team has tried more than 200 cases | 3mos

Firms are acting for claimants against BHP in one of the largest group actions in English legal history | 3mos

CAT grants collective proceedings order amid claims that US tech giant abused its dominant position in relation to its iCloud storage product | 3mos

Professor Loukas Mistelis joins as an arbitration partner, marking another high-profile exit from Clyde & Co | 3mos

Incoming team includes partner Charlotte Bijlani, who joins as co-head of its UAE disputes practice | 3mos

Two women and an Asian judge among appointees as Sir Richard Snowden joins Supreme Court | 3mos

Renowned practitioner Gary Born, WilmerHale’s global arbitration chair, joins with four more partners across London, Washington DC and New York | 3mos

One year on, review co-chair Dr John Sorabji and Nicholas Bacon KC have decried inertia over their recommendations, reports Ben Rigby | 3mos

Norton Rose Fulbright’s midyear litigation pulse survey highlights greater disputes exposure for energy, healthcare, tech and finance companies | 3mos

Walter Merricks hails ‘total victory’ as High Court dismisses funder’s challenge to distribution of £200m settlement | 3mos

Jessica Lee brings crypto and blockchain expertise to firm’s London disputes bench | 3mos

Insurance heavyweight ups revenue 9.1% as it eyes becoming a billion-dollar law firm by 2030 | 3mos

Juan Carlos Varela joins as office managing partner and chair of Seyfarth’s Latin America practice alongside two other Venezuelan-American attorneys | 3mos

Paul Brehony joins as UK firm ramps up international work with office launches and alliances across the Middle East, Asia, Australia and the Americas | 3mos

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 | 3mos

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 | 3mos

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 | 3mos

Deep-sea mining and commercial space activity may fuel rise in geopolitical disputes | 3mos

Fieldfisher raids Clyde & Co but loses partner to BCLP, while Clyde & Co restocks from Womble Bond Dickinson | 3mos