Private equity-backed family firm Stowe has expanded outside the UK for the first time view an investment in The Australian firm Unified Lawyers, which has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland.

BHP has been denied permission to appeal Mrs Justice O’Farrell’s Mariana Dam judgment, which ruled that the mining giant should be held responsible for the collapse of the Fundão dam.

The Pension Protection Fund’s (PPF) latest panel includes five newly appointed firms, while one previously appointed in 2022 has fallen off the roster. Bird & Bird, Burges Salmon, Eversheds ...

Ropes & Gray is set to launch an antitrust practice in its fledgling Milan office, following a series of Italian hires by the Bostonian firm. Jacopo Figus Diaz, senior counsel at ...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has approved the final settlement deals in the car shipping class action, in what will be the first payments to be distributed to a class in the opt-out regime.

Rachita Maker brings 25 years of experience driving innovation and transformation across the global legal sector. Co-founder of Ekamm8, she has led the design and delivery of technology-enabled ...

Shashank Pande brings over 30 years of global, multi-sector experience in the design and delivery of legal and compliance services. Prior to founding Ekamm8, he was EVP and Global Head of Sales at ...

Sullivan & Cromwell has become the latest elite firm to introduce a non-equity tier to its partnership, while adding a $50,000 bonus for associates and counsel who refer external lawyers to join ...

The Employment Tribunal has found the NHS harassed a group of female nurses who protested a transgender colleague’s use of a staff changing room. Seven nurses brought the case under the Equality ...

Addleshaw Goddard is defending the Co-operative Group in a claim brought by the joint liquidators of former supermarket chain Somerfield. The case starts today in the High Court for seven weeks ...

A barrister has contacted the Law Society after discovering that the merged firm created by Taylor Wessing and Winston & Strawn will trade under his name. Winston Taylor, an associate advocate ...

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.