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HSF Primed For US Expansion After Merger With Kramer Levin
Senior managers at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP are confident that partners will approve its tie-up with New York-based Kramer Levin to create a transatlantic firm valued at more than $2 billion, with a unified pay structure and deeper penetration into new practice areas.
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A former executive at BHP Billiton told a court on Friday that he believes the mining giant is likely to have reviewed its safety procedures after the collapse of a dam that happened before the Brazilian disaster at the heart of the trial.
Four veteran news presenters for the British Broadcasting Corporation have filed an appeal against their failed claims for equal pay, according to their legal representatives.
The government said Friday that it will increase public funding for legal aid by £20 million ($25 million) a year to help individuals and families facing deportation and homelessness, the first increase in funding for civil legal aid since 1996.
Investors sought to prevent Barclays PLC asserting legal privilege over documents requested for disclosure in securities fraud litigation at a court hearing Thursday, after a judge ruled in a separate case that a "shareholder rule" exception to legal privilege did not exist.
The retirement savings watchdog has said that its role as a regulator will change as pension schemes become consolidated into much larger megafunds and effectively become too big to fail.
A court has ordered the solicitors' regulator to end the closure of a law firm, concluding that it was unlikely that its manager knew that a "fraudulent impostor" was forging property titles and making false mortgage applications.
The former chief financial officer of Australian miner BHP Billiton told the High Court on Thursday that it was a "separate entity" from Samarco — the company responsible for running a mine that caused Brazil's worst environmental disaster.
Three Bulgarians "tasked to spy" for Russia gathered information on prominent targets before passing it along to a Russian agent, a prosecutor told the first day of a trial in London on Thursday.
A former senior lawyer at a Magic Circle firm said Thursday that the leadership of the Solicitors Regulation Authority should take responsibility for its handling of the Axiom Ince scandal that led to an investigation of the watchdog.
The financial troubles of three former executives of MWB Group, an investment firm that has collapsed, does not preclude them from owing £44.8 million ($56.8 million) in compensation for violating the U.K. takeover rules by deceiving shareholders, a court ruled on Thursday.
