Twenty Essex’s Tony Beswetherick KC has joined South Square after 14 years as a member of his previous set. Beswetherick’s practice spans civil fraud, asset recovery, insolvency and company ...

Half of Ashurst’s offices are considered to be at risk of wildfires, according to a startling disclosure in the firm’s latest annual report. The firm said that a total of 16 out of its 32 ...

The director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has announced he will retire from his position in March, vacating the role just halfway through his term. Nick Ephgrave, who assumed the role ...

US-based legal AI company Harvey will open an office in Paris this year, establishing a continental foothold as it scales its European business. The company has appointed Jorge Bestard as ...

The Warsaw office of A&O Shearman saw a substantive increase in its profits over the previous financial year, The Lawyer has learnt. Accounts for the 2025 financial year published in Poland’s ...

Cape Verde has approved a new Industrial Property Code through Legislative Decree No. 2/2025 of 2 December, which repeals the ...

In its second major lateral hire of the day, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has recruited a senior disputes partner from Latham & Watkins in London. Sophie Lamb KC is set to join Skadden ...

Renewed US interest in Greenland has cast fresh attention on Danish law firms’ ties to Interforce, less than a year after firms Kromann Reumert and Gorrissen Federspiel signed up to the ...

Weightmans has announced the arrival of its new claims director, who joins from Allianz Personal and becomes the first partner based in the London office to join the executive board.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has hired a former co-managing partner of Freshfields, who is set to join the firm in its Brussels office. Rafique Bachour will join the firm’s antitrust ...

Assessing risk, anticipating outcomes and predicting likely decisions is part and parcel of working in sectors such as law ...

With consolidation rife among UK and US firms, focus is turning on other outfits that may be in line to merge. Yet Dechert, a firm with intent to grow, has quashed claims it is positioning itself ...