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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer names Matrix Chambers barrister as attorney general
Richard Hermer KC takes over brief from shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry
High Court slashes ‘staggering’ £343m claimants’ costs budget in dieselgate litigation
Landmark ruling effectively reduces total costs budget for claimants and defendants – including expenses already incurred – from £650m to £388m
Baker McKenzie, Linklaters lead on Carlsberg’s £3.3bn Britvic acquisition
Bakers counsels Carlsberg in deal to help Danish brewer expand beyond beer
Gibson Dunn secures privacy partner in London from Goodwin
Lore Leitner brings experience in GDPR-driven privacy compliance programmes as US firms cite growing demand from clients for data security and AI advice
Mahmood crowned lord chancellor as UK lawyers win and lose in Labour landslide
Barrister Shabana Mahmood first Muslim to be appointed to the role as Labour’s victory sees trio of current and former Conservative lord chancellors swept aside
The luxury of menopausal beauty products – substantiated or just marketing?
Menopausal products are big business for brands. But Freeths legal beauty expert Iona Silverman explains how to balance product claims with the law
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Raft of City firms up NQ salaries amid ongoing pay war
HSF, DLA Piper and HFW among firms to boost pay as Paul Weiss introduces new UK training contract that dishes out market-topping £180k to its NQs
Proskauer scoops two partners apiece from A&O Shearman and Cahill in London
A&O’s former banking co-head Philip Bowden among banking and finance quartet
Partial win for Moderna in Covid-19 vaccine patent battle with Pfizer and BioNTech
Freshfields, Taylor Wessing and Powell Gilbert advise on closely watched London High Court dispute
From Braverman to Starmer: the many lawyers seeking election to the UK Parliament
Ben Rigby runs the rule over a selection of the nearly 200 lawyers vying for votes in today’s general election
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Fieldfisher grows revenue 10% as PEP sees modest increase
European firm grows profits per equity partner 4% to £966k in year to end of March following previous year’s 11% decline
Music licensing business Merlin signs up London-based Greenberg Traurig shareholder as GC
Neil Miller takes on role last held by Merlin’s COO Charlie Lexton
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HFW revenue passes £250m revenue milestone fuelling 8.8% rise in PEP
UK-headquartered firm grows revenue by 11.4% in second year of new strategy
UK ratifies Hague-19 Convention in a boost to London litigation
Treaty ensures UK judgments will be recognised in EU and other member countries
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Osborne Clarke posts double-digit rise in UK PEP as firm-wide revenue grows 19% to €525m
UK independent points to growth in US and ESG and energy practices as it exceeds €500m revenue target one year early
US and UK growth drive 17% increase in Kennedys’ revenue
Turnover at insurance specialist jumps to £384m as fee-earner count climbs by 12%
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Signature opens in Frankfurt with double partner hire from Mayer Brown
Partners recruited to co-found disputes firm’s third European office outside London base
AI, NFTs, Stradivarius violins and a fashion revolution at Wimbledon: more key takeaways from Luxury Law Summit London
Maura O’Malley reports from London’s premier luxury law conference, which explored how the sector is innovating
UK national security patents jump by 36% in one year
Increase in defence spending as geopolitical tensions ratchet up could be behind the rise in military technology patents issued with secrecy orders
Macfarlanes raises NQ pay to £140k
City stalwart becomes highest-paying UK firm after international Magic Circle rivals
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