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Brick Court Chambers investigating ‘potential cyber incident’
Top commercial set said to have been targeted by Medusa cyber gang
Hausfeld doubles down on antitrust with hires in London, Germany
Joanna Christoforou joins from Morgan Lewis & Bockius’s London office as René Galle moves over in Hamburg from A&O Shearman
McDermott swoops for MoFo leveraged finance duo in London
Partners Chris Kandel and John Burge join as US firm continues London hiring spree
Perkins Coie debuts in London with former White & Case PE leader
Ian Bagshaw joins alongside five more lawyers to bring US firm’s tech-focused practice to European market
Matrix boosts antitrust practice with competition law specialist from St. John’s Chambers
Ex-Burges Salmon partner Matthew O’Regan is the latest former solicitor to join Matrix’s competition team
Judicial Appointments Commission names trio of new commissioners
Old Bailey judge Angela Rafferty KC appointed alongside in-house solicitor Nicolina Andall and leading public junior Tom Cross to select future judges
Cleary Gottlieb adds private equity lawyers from Kirkland, Travers Smith in London recruitment drive
Debt finance partner Alexander van der Gaag joins from Kirkland as counsel Joanna Roberts moves over from Travers Smith
Quinn Emanuel ups London NQ pay to £180k
Litigation heavyweight matches Gibson Dunn’s market-topping NQ rate as it ups associate salaries across the board
Squire Patton Boggs adds partners across UK from four firms
Transatlantic firm boosts finance, litigation, environmental and tax bench with hires from rivals including Eversheds Sutherland and PwC
Leveraging intranets as a knowledge management tool – part one
In this first in a three part series on how legal teams can use intranets for knowledge management, 3Kites consultant Anthony Olisa explains why getting the content right is critical
McDermott Will & Emery refreshes London leadership team
Aymen Mahmoud to replace Hamid Yunis as London managing partner, with Graham White named senior partner
Willkie Farr launches in Dallas with Haynes and Boone private equity team
Partners Tom Tippetts, Brandon McCoy and Chase Proctor join from Texan firm as four Willkie private equity partners relocate
‘London a priority’ – Davis Polk secures Paul Hastings finance co-head
Luke McDougall joins as Wall Street firm moves to build out UK leveraged finance bench
The Post Office scandal’s far-reaching impact on litigation funding
Third-party funding’s role helping to expose a widespread miscarriage of justice has put it under unprecedented political scrutiny, report Ben Rigby and John Malpas
Gillard and Goldsmith join speaker line-up for London International Disputes Week
Former Australian prime minister and UK secretary general will discuss state-related dispute resolution at June event
Herbert Smith Freehills launches global digital legal delivery practice
Four hundred-strong practice brings together alternative legal services and tech teams
‘A platform like no other’ – A&O Shearman goes live
Transatlantic merger creates global giant with nearly 4,000 lawyers and $3.5bn revenue
GSK sues Pfizer and BioNTech over Covid-19 vaccine technology
UK pharmaceutical firm enters the fray in the battle over mRNA technology used to develop blockbuster vaccines
Kennedys promotes more women than men to partnership for third year
Number of promotions dips to 17 from 20 last year as partnership grows to 349
Quinn Emanuel and Clifford Chance advise as IBM’s high-stakes court battle with Swiss software company begins
Nine week trial in London’s Technology and Construction Court could impact EU’s Software Directive