Practice areas

Litigators - particularly those specialising in insurance defence - will be in short supply and therefore in greater demand for H2 2015 in the New York, New Jersey area, according to Robert Half recruitment consultants. | 10yrs

US-based Quin Emanunel is cutting its summer placement intake by 80 to 90 per cent, reducing it from 50 to five or 10 students, saying that the money could be better spent and that 'many' view the time spent on the course as 'a waste of time'. | 10yrs

Wealth manager Towry has named Ashcourt Rowan's Rehana Hasan its general counsel, after the company acquired rival Ashcourt in May. | 10yrs

Mumbai and Delhi-based law firm SNG & Partners has launched its second international office in Doha and expanded its first in Singapore with the hire of associate partner Kshitij Dua. | 10yrs

Even the best-financed US law firms are aware of a looming problem: the financing of generous partner pensions, which can start at $250,000 per year in some practices. | 10yrs

Weil Gotshal & Manges has lost its head of tax in London, private funds expert Jonathan Kandel, to Kirkland & Ellis. | 10yrs

Corporate counsel behaviour - particularly a new willingness to settle and to accept calculated risks - is leading to fewer patent cases that get fought to the end and, therefore, less work for specialist boutiques, according to BTI Consulting. | 10yrs

A specialist in running happy, functional law practices who has spoken to lawyers 'across the US' has found particular problems amongst litigators who tend to share the 'sentiment that litigation is generally a lose-lose proposition'. | 10yrs

Richard Cullen, the new chair of 1,000-lawyer US and Europe firm McGuireWoods, is to represent the outgoing FIFA chair as Swiss prosecutors announce that they might decide to question him. | 10yrs

Some of the larger Texas law firms have been gradually reducing their lobbying work over the last 20 years - with a number of them focusing more on global opportunities. | 10yrs

The UK has waited a century for the major reforms that make up the Insurance Act and two other important Acts of Parliament, says BLM consultant David Hertzell. | 10yrs

Confidentiality agreements are often insufficient to overcome strong presumption of public access to judicial records in New York federal courts. | 10yrs

Insurers in the US are more likely to face class action threats - as new research from Carlton Fields Jorden Burt shows. | 10yrs

John Cush is a solicitor in the Claims, Dispute Resolution and Risk in Group Legal at Direct Line Group in the UK. | 10yrs

How is the insurance sector dealing with drones from practical and legal points of view? | 10yrs

The distinction between warranty and insurance services in Japan is far from clear - but it can be crucial for players in the market to understand the issues around it. | 10yrs

A report by Marsh, the leading global insurance broker, says the sector is willing to support the growing drone market but that laws need to be developed first. | 10yrs

Specialist insurer Beazley is extending the cover provided to non-lawyer managers in law firms in the wake of the Dewey & LeBoeuf collapse. | 10yrs

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has hired Clifford Chance aviation and shipping partner Nick Swinburne as a partner with the Transportation and Space Group. He will co-lead Milbank's London-based practice with James Cameron. | 10yrs