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Byline: Kate Beioley Banking giant Barclays has told panel firms that they should team up as single units as part of its latest panel review process. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Former News of the World (NotW) editor, DLA Piper client Andy Coulson has been found guilty of phone hacking charges while Rebekah Brooks, who was represented by [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Is Linklaters on the hunt for an alliance in China? Sources suggest the magic circle firm has been touting the market for a deal, but it's by [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has turned to change theorist Richard Susskind for advice on its next panel process, which is expected to result in its adviser [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Taylor Wessing has continued its international expansion with the launch of US offices in Palo Alto and New York. The firm will relocate four corporate technology partners [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chance is to vote next month on slashing its management committee from 16 to nine in Matthew Laytonas first key move as leader. Matthew Layton The [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley A ruling allowing McLaren to claim tax back on a APS32m fine for spying on rival Ferrari has been overturned by the UKas Upper Tax Tribunal. Yesterday [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is on the hunt for an expanded panel after turning its back on the idea of scrapping or reducing its dedicated roster.A [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley DLA Piper, Lewis Silkin, Reed Smith and Shepherd & Wedderburn have deflated a probe into the artificial boosting of sports bra prices by the UKas new competition [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley 7KBW and 39 Essex Court have settled a payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling battle between Lloyds subsidiary Black Horse and a customer on the day it was [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Transport for London's (TfL) in-house lawyers have launched a court action in the row between black cab and Uber taxi drivers. The body's in-house team has issued [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley BPas ongoing panel review process is drawing to a close, with firms expecting to be told if they have scooped a UK panel place before the end [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Chinaas biggest life insurer China Life is set to buy Clifford Chanceas Canary Wharf headquarters in a APS780m deal, according to media reports. The state-owned Chinese investor [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Dentons has ramped up its war of words with the media and industry analysts over financial transparency. The firm has responded to critical questioning in the American [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Banks seem to have woken up to the idea that litigators are better together and have been reorganising their legal teams accordingly. In an era of high-profile [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The UK' s water industry watchdog Ofwat has appointed former Ofgem legal director Elizabeth Hillman as its first general counsel following a management reshuffle. Hillman reports into [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Bird & Bird has lost an appeal for airline Jet2.com against a delayed passenger in a ruling which could pave the way for millions of airline compensation [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Addleshaw Goddard, CMS Cameron McKenna, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Osborne Clarke have won the main spots on Scottish and Southern Energyas (SSE) first formal panel. The aBig [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Scottish law firms Thorntons, Murray Donald and Steel Eldridge Stewart are to merge later this year to create the largest law firm in eastern Scotland. The expected [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Nabarro senior partner and self-confessed aIT geeka Graham Stedman is heralding a major set of investments in technology ahead of the firmas move to 125 London Wall [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley How GCs can prove their worth and why the azero sum gamea played with external firms should stop were hot topics at our recent summit in PortugalA [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Baker Botts has returned to advise Russian state-owned energy giant Rosneft after adding former a former Linklaters lawyer and Rosneft contact to its team. Slaughter and May [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Broadcasting group Starbucks (HK) Ltd is making a final bid to win its trademark battle against British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) after being granted permission to appeal an [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Barclays has overhauled its legal function to create a streamlined global litigation group reporting directly to its general counsel and has also launched a new global financial [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley A former 1 Gray's Inn Square barrister jailed last year for avoiding paying Au77,000 in income tax and VAT has been struck off by the Bar Standards [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Former Ince & Co litigation partner Denys Hickey has quit the firm for the bar to join 39 Essex Street Chambers. The former oil and gas disputes [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Lord Alan Sugar has hit Kinglsey Napley with a APS1.3m professional negligence claim over an allegedly botched property deal, according to papers filed at the High Court. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Heineken is expected to hand its new soleA advisory mandate to either Eversheds orA Pinsent Masons but neither CMS Cameron McKenna nor Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are expected [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Utility company South Staffordshire Plc has cut its informal panel from 25 to four with DWF, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, SGH Martineau and SAS Daniels being [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Manchester-based Linder Myers is understood to have put up to 50 jobs under a redundancy consultation on recommendation from Assure Law, which rescued the firm from administration [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley BBCas head of litigation Nadia Banno is leaving to join Baker & McKenzie just two years after taking up the head role at the BBC. The lawyer [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The former general counsel of Islamic bank Gulf Finance House (GFH) Capital David Haigh has been arrested in Dubai, reportedly in relation to alleged financial irregularities surrounding [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is on track to rack up APS30m in legal fees after instructing Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) to recoup money it paid [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley A solicitor jailed for 21 months following US bribery charges has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) and ordered to pay APS7,000 costs. The [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Indian property company Unitech will pursue Libor-based claims against Deutsche Bank after the Supreme Court refused the bank permission to appeal (PTA) a claim amendment accepted by [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is the most popular legal brand in London and the UK among general counsels, research by Acritas claims. The research, based on responses of [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Berwin Leighton Paisner has unveiled a 5.6 per cent rise in turnover for the 2013/14 financial year to Au246m and boosted profit per equity partner (PEP) to [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Nabarro is gearing up for its first managing partner elections in 15 years, three years after the board appointed incumbent Andrew Inkester in 2011. Three years after [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chance has named banking partner Barbara Mayer-Trautmann as its newest partnership council member following new Middle East partner Robin Abraham's election to Middle East managing partner. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Lawyers on Demand's (LoD) first set of accounts since being spun off from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) reveal that the firm gave LoD a Au2.65m loan to [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clydesdale Bank has launched its first panel review since appointing general counsel Jennifer Darbyshire in 2012 and overhauling its legal team. Tender invitations were sent out last [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Patton Boggs has handed over $15m to Chevron and issued a statement of regret, bringing to an end its high-profile legal battle with the oil giant. A [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Linklaters has implemented pay rises for all associates with 3 year PQE lawyers seeing the biggest rise, receiving a salary boost of 5 per cent from Au89,000 [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley A total of eight firms including Ashfords, DLA Piper and Eversheds have lost their places on the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) panel, which has been slashed [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringeras former chief information officer (CIO) Paul Domnick has taken up leadership of software and risk management company LitA(c)ra after stepping down from his role [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Three former Dewey & LeBoeuf partners have joined their cases against Barclays in an attempt to prove that the bank and defunct firm induced them to take [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Sainsburyas has added TLT and King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin to its revamped roster in its third panel review. The tender, run by in-house counsel Clare [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Theyare officially hitched, but CMS and Dundas still have some wooing to doA A year after CMS Cameron McKenna crossed the threshold of Dundas & Wilson with [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Ex-Freshfields star Jan Paulsson is the latest arbitrator to set up a boutique practice. Theyare small and perfectly formed a but are these firms the future? Arbitrators [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley A year after CMS Cameron McKenna first crossed the threshold of Dundas & Wilson with its tantalising proposal, the merger between the two firms has gone live. [...]