Daniel Jacob, managing partner of independent specialist London City law firm Marriott Harrison, discusses opportunities in the innovation market to bridge the transatlantic gap.
Dominic Griffiths is London managing partner at Mayer Brown and author and consulting editor of European Securitisation: A Practitioner’s Guide to Principles and Jurisdictions (published by Globe Law and Business)
Established in 2000, Moneypenny is the world’s market leader for telephone answering, live chat, outsourced switchboard and customer contact solutions. Moneypenny handles more than 2 million legal calls and chats each year for hundreds of legal firms in the UK, including 80 of the Top 200, thanks to its dedicated team of legal receptionists. Communication …
Eversheds Sutherland, Allen & Overy and Womble Bond Dickinson were among the major winners at the inaugural Legal 500 UK ESG Awards 2024, which welcomed more than 400 guests to the InterContinental London Park Lane on 24 April.
If any trend is set to define the London disputes market in 2024, it is the continued rise of group litigation. A vast array of mass claims are winding their way through the courts, spurred on by an increased willingness to adapt to the challenges of case management, heightened awareness of environmental, social, and governance …
A quick scan of the inevitable January opinion pieces predicting trends in the litigation market for the year ahead gives a fairly consistent view of topics we are likely to see. Against a backdrop of continued economic and geopolitical instability, ongoing inflation, high interest rates and supply chain disruption, commentators foresee an increase in insolvency-related …
Continue reading “Disputes Yearbook: Foreword – Stewarts: Groundhog Day?”
When Legal Business first launched its Disputes Yearbook back in 2014 Brexit was barely on the radar, most people had not heard of Wuhan and post-financial crisis disputes work and oligarchs were helping firms cast aside any doubts about how sustainable further disputes growth was at either the biggest players in the City or the …
Continue reading “Scaling up: a look back at the last ten years of disputes in London”
With the marked increase in group litigation and rapid development of the litigation funding industry, the Competition Appeal Tribunal is consistently seeing novel claims. New theories of dominance are appearing, with what actually constitutes a dominant position widening. And the type of claim presented to the tribunal is expanding, with an increasing number of ESG …
Please see below for a link to an online pdf of the Disputes Yearbook 2024.
