Clifford Chance (CC) has no immediate plans to replace Washington DC managing partner Leiv Blad, who quit last week to join Bingham McCutchen.
Blad was part of a three-lawyer team including Jon Roellke and of counsel Boyd Cloern to leave CC for the antitrust and trade regulation practice at Bingham McCutchen.
Rather than appoint a successor, CC’s New York managing partner and head of the Americas practice, Craig Medwick, will manage both offices while the firm assesses the impact of Blad
The number of commercial cases launched in the High Court has risen to its highest level for six years.
Statistics reveal there were 64,046 civil cases launched in the High Court in 2007 — a 1.6% increase on 2006. The number of commercial proceedings initiated fell between 1999 and 2005, with 2007 the second consecutive year of growth.
However, the figures show that the much-anticipated boom in credit crunch related litigation has not yet materialised.
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is gearing up to review its senior management with the managing partner role up for grabs early in the New Year.
Current incumbent Neville Eisenberg is coming to the end of a nine-year stint as managing partner at the City firm. The vote is due for February with the three-year term set to begin on 1 May.
Eisenberg, who ran uncontested during the 2003 and 2006 elections, was first elected in 1999 and ratified in 2001, when Berwin Leighton merged with Paisner &
Hammonds is reviewing its key clients and pushing to strengthen existing relationships in response to the current market conditions.
The firm, which counts Manchester City FC, National Grid, WPP, Lucite International and Illinois Tool Works among its key clients, is targeting clients across all practice groups in the UK and internationally, rolling out a series of meetings on client handling and development.
In particular the firm intends to focus on clients in the energy and utilities,
Irwin Mitchell has elected John Pickering as its new national managing partner, replacing the incumbent Howard Culley next year.
Pickering, who is currently head of personal injury at the firm, was elected to the post unopposed and will take up the mantle when Culley relinquishes the role at end of April 2009.
Commenting on his appointment, Pickering said: “These are challenging times but one of the great strengths of Irwin Mitchell is its ability to identify and maximise opportunitie
GeneralGeneralThe 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a New Hampshire state law forbidding marketers from using information about doctors’ prescription information that is patient- or prescriber-identifiable for certain commercial purposes. The ruling rejected the argument that the law violated the First Amendment by illegally restricting commercial speech.
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Former Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Michael T. Joyce was convicted Wednesday on charges that he lied about neck and back injuries and abused his position on the bench to receive a $440,000 payout from two insurance companies following an automobile accident. Found guilty on two counts of mail fraud and six counts of money laundering, Joyce faces a maximum of decades in prison, but a shorter sentence is likely because Joyce has no criminal record.
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft’s former chairman and current managing partner, Robert Link Jr., was not included on a recommended slate of candidates for the firm’s management committee given to partners Wednesday, according to a Cadwalader source and confirmed by Link. He gave up his chairman duties in February to real estate partner W. Christopher White, a longtime ally, but continued to run firm operations while White mapped out a new firm strategy that may de-emphasize the firm’s work in capital markets.
The rule that prohibits a jury from hearing about a criminal co-defendant’s confession doesn’t apply in a non-jury trial because judges are capable of applying a rule of limited admissibility, the 3rd Circuit has ruled. In a second opinion authored by the same judge, the 3rd Circuit overturned a federal conviction for illegal gun possession after finding that the prosecutor’s “repeated injection of prejudicial drug evidence into the trial testimony constituted prosecutorial misconduct.”
When the British government dropped a bribery probe of BAE Systems, Europe’s largest military defense contractor had a major management shake-up, including the hiring of new GC Philip Bramwell who is leading the company’s reform efforts. So why have the Americans jumped into the fray? The Justice Department won’t comment — indeed, a wall of silence has come down across the department about the BAE case. And Bramwell says he can’t talk about the probe. But sources and court records suggest several reasons.