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The hire comes after the firm indicated its intention to augment its London office before the end of the year.

Businesses across industries are ramping up their processes to support compliance with new regulatory requirements.

One marketplace has a heady mix of an established legal market, plenty of talent, a weak currency, enough deals and comparatively unprofitable local firms.

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The potential sale could mark the end of Farhad Moshiri's tenure as Everton owner.

The popular social media platform has three months to bring its handling of teenagers and children's data into compliance with EU privacy rules.

Law firms have the habit of following one another, which has sometimes resulted in inertia on the most serious social issues—but this week has shown that it could have positive effects, writes The London Lawyer.

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Robert Spano, a former judge and President of the European Court of Human Rights and current Gibson Dunn partner, has argued that clients would not want to politically align themselves with such a move.

On Tuesday the firm hired a corporate partner from Akin in London.

The dramatic team departure started in mid-August when Neel Sachdev quit the world's largest law firm alongside several others.

In-house lawyers across the continent have been fighting for years for the right to legal professional privilege. Increasingly, they are winning.

This year's ranking contains several warnings—chief among them being the need for further corrective measures to address the shrinking profit margins.

Overall fee income growth at the UK's top firms outstripped the AmLaw 100 in 2023, but average partner profits fell at the worst rate since the financial crisis.

The Legisway Benchmark for Legal Departments report from Wolters Kluwer and the European Legal Tech Association (ELTA) showed that many corporate legal teams in Europe are still at the early stages of their digital transformation.

ECIJA adds to its urban planning and public law areas, whilst Andersen brings on a former CMS banking and finance partner.

Steve D'Amore, currently global co-leader of Winston & Strawn's litigation department, has spent his entire career at the firm, starting more than 30 years ago. Outside of the U.S., Winston & Strawn has offices in Brussels, Paris, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sa o Paulo.

In August, Irwin Mitchell said that Andrew Tucker had passed away after an 'unexpected illness'.

A range of firms converged on one of the biggest combinations so far in 2023.

The team, led by two partners, will be based in Berlin and bring Hogan Lovells' broader infrastructure and energy team to more than 40 lawyers, the firm said.

'If what law firms want is green credentials, keeping bee hives is a very bad idea and likely to backfire,' one expert tells Law.com International.

The firm also has offices in New York and San Francisco, but does not practise US law.