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March 11, 2009 |
So, yet another review of the civil litigation system. This time it is into costs and it is going to be 'fundamental'. On the face of it, Lord Justice Jackson's brief is wide-ranging. He is to look at all civil litigation from fast track to mega-case, taking into account views on case management, conditional fee arrangements, third-party funding, cost regimes in other jurisdictions, costs shifting rules and more. The review, we are told, is the judiciary's response to the failure of the Woolf reforms to control the cost of civil justice. Do we, or should we, have any realistic hope that by 31 December 2009 Jackson and his colleagues will have happened upon the key to low-cost proportionate civil justice for all?
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March 9, 2009 |
Mayer Brown chairman James Holzhauer is to step down before the end of the year, as the firm kicks off an overhaul of its management structure.In an email sent to his fellow partners on Friday (6 March), Holzhauer stated that he would remain as chairman through a transition period, but he would step aside once a successor was chosen or ready to take over.Mayer Brown's leadership structure last changed in June 2007 after the retirement of longtime chairman Tyrone Fahner, when Holzhauer - an appellate lawyer and former University of Chicago law professor - was named chairman.
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February 25, 2009 |
HSBC has established an offshore legal team in Malaysia following a successful pilot scheme last year.The bank piloted the scheme last February, sending a team of four lawyers to its global service centre in Kuala Lumpur to assist the team in the UK, with the Malaysian group largely dealing with volume legal queries.Following the trial, the bank is establishing a permanent team based in the region, with five additional lawyers joining the function. The bank is one of the first financial institutions to establish an offshore legal team.
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February 24, 2009 |
Proskauer Rose has posted its financial results for 2008, with profits per equity partner falling by 10% to $1.4m (£965,000), reports the Am Law Daily. Revenues increased marginally by 1% to $634m (£436.5m), while total headcount rose from 685 in 2007 to a new mark of 692. Proskauer chairman Allen Fagin said that, given the challenges, he was satisifed with his firm's performance. The results "put us in the vicinity of most of the firms we would consider peers," he says - the group, according to Fagin, includes Mayer Brown and Latham & Watkins.
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February 19, 2009 |
Eversheds and Cobbetts have settled negligence claims brought against the firms by building societies for advice on allegedly fraudulent property deals. Eversheds and Cobbetts both settled the claims, brought by Nationwide and Cheshire Building Society respectively, last month, with details of both settlements confidential.The claims related to allegedly fraudulent property deals and the overvaluation of properties, committed by an employee of Dunlop Haywards - the surveying unit of property company Erinaceous.
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February 19, 2009 |
Nabarro has signed an exclusive agreement to send all of its trainees taking the Legal Practice Course (LPC) to Kaplan Law School from autumn 2009. The City firm is the third firm to sign up to Kaplan exclusively, after similar deals were struck up by Bird & Bird in October 2008 and Mayer Brown in November 2006.The education provider teaches Nottingham Law School's LPC, which was last year awarded top marks by the Law Society in all assessment categories.
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February 18, 2009 |
It is now 18 months since the idea of judicial appraisals for senior commercial judges first hit the headlines. By the end of 2009, initial findings from the first round of appraisals should be complete. The process is likely to cover all High Court judges in the Commercial Court and Chancery Division, plus masters. Based on the ratings and opinions of court users - litigants, solicitors and barristers - individual appraisals will be distributed exclusively to each judge with a copy sent to the head of the relevant division. It seems possible that judges' league tables will also be made publicly available. A Legal Week survey conducted in 2007 of more than 100 senior litigators showed strong support for the idea: 43% of respondents said they would definitely endorse the introduction of upward appraisals for judges, with a further 41% indicating they might do so.
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February 11, 2009 |
Leading US law firms saw a record year for lateral moves in 2008 despite the financial downturn, with a 4% increase in partner moves during the year. Research from Legal Week sister title The American Lawyer found that 2,509 partners in Am Law 100 and 200 firms transferred to rivals over the course of 2008. K&L Gates took on the most lateral partners, bringing in 185 over the period, followed by Reed Smith with 74, DLA Piper with 58 and Jones Day with 57.
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February 11, 2009 |
This is the year of low expectations, where even some who have been elected to partnership - and who expected to make the cut - sound surprised. "I was not so confident, given the economy," says Rena Chng, a newly-elected partner at Mayer Brown's Palo Alto office. Though Chng says she had successfully handled a big litigation matter this past year and was the only one in her office to be put up for partnership, she says, "If they had said, 'you won't make it this year,' I would have understood."Indeed, the number of newly-minted partners has generally plummeted since last year - along, presumably, with the firms' business. For instance, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy promoted just four this year, compared to 11 last year; O'Melveny & Myers, 15 (23 last year); Mayer Brown, 27 (43 last year); Morrison & Foerster, 10 (24 last year); Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, five (eight for 2007; 13 for 2006); Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, eight (13 last year); and Weil Gotshal & Manges, seven (21 last year).
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February 11, 2009 |
Although the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has been on the books in roughly its current form for more than 30 years, its practical importance has increased dramatically in recent years, with the US authorities stepping up FCPA enforcement and demanding ever-steeper penalties from companies charged with having violated its terms. This trend has major implications for European companies which are often directly subject to the FCPA, either because they have US-based operations, or because they issue securities that are traded on US exchanges. Indeed, major European companies such as Siemens, Akzo Nobel, Alcatel, ABB and BAE Systems have found themselves embroiled in expensive, messy and high-profile investigations with US authorities in recent years. And yet, according to one recent survey, executives at nearly half of the companies listed on the FTSE 350 were unaware of whether their company is subject to the FCPA, and nearly two-thirds responded that their company had no FCPA compliance programme or that they were unaware of whether any such programme existed.
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