4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (514+ words) Pogust Goodhead has gone to the High Court to challenge an attempted takeover of the £36 billion Mariana litigation by former partners. The firm wants the court to rule that the client committee cannot remove it or stop it from instructing…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (317+ words) Linklaters has hired Johnson & Johnson global litigation head Erik Haas as a partner in New York. The move follows Linklaters’ hire of a five-lawyer disputes team from Paul Weiss earlier this year. Linklaters has added another heavyweight disputes lawyer in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (254+ words) A former Ashurst IT analyst has been barred from working in law without regulator permission after taking a firm laptop home and failing to return it. Ashurst eventually tracked down the missing computer using security software installed on its laptops....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (553+ words) Clifford Chance has moved to compel arbitration and dismiss a lawsuit brought by former partners Clifford Cone and Michael Sabin over its clawback of nearly $5.8 million in profit distributions. The firm argues that the pair agreed to resolve partnership disputes…...