A former DoJ deputy assistant attorney general who specialises in government investigations has returned to King & Spalding in the US capital.

A pair of lawyers has moved from Mishcon de Reya to Charles Russell Speechlys in Singapore, bringing litigation, arbitration and corporate crime experience.

Boston-headquartered Charles River Associates, an economic and management consulting firm, has made a key hire in Laura Hardin, an analyst and forensic accountant specialising in international arbitration, who will join the company as a vice-president. Boston-headquartered Charles River Associates, an economic and management consulting firm, has made a key hire in Laura Hardin, an analyst […]

The UK government has named business executive Lord David Currie as its choice to lead the new Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the unified antitrust watchdog formed by the merger of the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission which comes as part of the UK’s sweeping competition reforms. In his new position, Lord Currie […]

In February the ten-year marriage between Ericsson and Sony came to an end, with Sony buying out its erstwhile partner in their Sony Ericsson joint venture to form Sony Mobile, a Swedish-based subsidiary. Fraser Allan talks to the firm's general counsel, Jonathan Pearl.

In an indication of the growing globalisation of legal education, and a further vindication of Singapore’s growing international legal market, the UK’s College of Law has penned a deal with a leading legal educator in Singapore to develop postgraduate legal training locally.

With thirty partnership promotions putting flesh on the bones of Norton Rose’s global expansion, Ben Rigby investigates the firm’s development of its associates and the prominence of dispute resolution within that cadre.

In a speech in the Cayman Islands, Bar Council chairman Michael Todd QC has called for litigators to reassess their ethical duties in high-stakes cases, while also arguing for greater investment in the UK courts, commensurate with the rule of law and access to justice.

The Bar Standards Board has traded objections with the Law Society over the potential launch of a scheme aimed at improving criminal advocacy – including white-collar crime – which has already attracted judicial criticism.
 

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has hired Henry Horbaczewski as senior counsel in Boston and Susan Resley as a partner in San Francisco, bolstering the firm’s nationwide litigation practice.

Disputes and forensic specialist Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has named a new team of managing directors in its London, Moscow and Munich offices to meet what it says is an increased demand for its professional services.

 

[w]With the announcement that Allen & Overy had hired Orrick’s Steven Adkins to join its Washington, DC IP practice, the firm has sought both to augment its US offering and also expand the reach of its IP litigation capability in a specialist litigation market, dominated by both boutique firms and major US practices.

[w]A recent clutch of GC appointments suggests Australia’s booming natural resources sector continues to thrive, as does its in-house recruitment market, according to February’s edition of the Corporate Lawyers Newsletter, published by the Law Society of New South Wales.

[w]Canadian arbitration veteran Jack Marshall QC has left Norton Rose Canada – formerly Macleod Dixon – to establish an independent practice, having spent nearly five decades with the firm he joined directly from law school.