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Quinn Emanuel boosts London litigation bench with Milbank partner hire

William Charles’s arrival follows the hire of Andrew Savage from McDermott in November

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Hogan Lovells elevates 28 to partnership ahead of Cadwalader merger

Promotions round matches 2025 and 2024’s 28-strong partner classes

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Humphries Kerstetter boosts ranks with partner hire from Clifford Chance

Matthew Scully joins London disputes boutique alongside experienced former senior clerk Stephen Penson

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Latham adds trio of real estate finance partners from A&O Shearman in London

Team includes A&O’s global real estate finance head David Oppenheimer

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Disputes firm Hausfeld promotes five to partner in 2026 promotions round

Latest intake matches last year’s round, though the number of female promotions falls by half to two

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Trio of senior disputes partners depart firms to practise as independent arbitrators

A&O Shearman, White & Case and Orrick have all parted company with seasoned practitioners

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Doughty Street silk becomes Bar Council chair as battle lines are drawn up over UK jury reform

Kirsty Brimelow KC succeeds Barbara Mills KC as UK and Ireland’s ‘Four Bars’ unite to oppose plan to curtail juries

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Ex-Law Society president I. Stephanie Boyce and Linklaters’ Paul Lewis recognised in New Year Honours

First woman of colour to lead society and Linklaters’ global managing partner among array of lawyers and judges to receive awards

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Campaign for Greener Arbitrations appoints new co-chairs

Laura Halonen and Andrew Mackenzie succeed Christine Falcicchio and Cherine Foty, who have led the CGA since 2020

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Clifford Chance elects Adams for second term as global managing partner

Charles Adams will begin his second term at the start of May next year

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‘So many common threads’ - the architects of the $1.75bn Winston Taylor merger on the rationale for their deal

Winston & Strawn’s Stephen D’Amore and Taylor Wessing UK’s Shane Gleghorn explain why they have pinned their firms’ destinies together

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Law Society and Bar Council push back on UK anti-money laundering reforms

Reforms ‘fly in the face of the government’s own growth agenda’, claims society president Mark Evans

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UK Supreme Court restores CAT judgment in £2.7bn FX cartel case

Landmark ruling is a significant moment for the UK’s collective actions regime

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‘Genuinely novel’: McDermott partner proposes arbitration clause to strengthen enforcement of cross-border judgments

Hilton Mervis has devised a mechanism allowing unpaid court judgments to be converted into arbitral awards

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Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader unveil $3.6bn merger deal

'Largest law firm combination in history' ends speculation about future direction of New York-based Cadwalader

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