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Byline: Natasha Bernal Artificial intelligence has a lot to offer the legal sector in terms of efficiency and value for money. Q: What trends are you seeing in AI? David [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Alternative arbitration centres, risk-tracking and media management were all on the agenda for attendees at The Lawyer as conference for in-house heads of litigation. Is London losing [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Telecoms retail giant Dixons Carphone will launch its first formal panel process in December 2015, with the aim to 'formalise external legal relationships'. The panel, which would [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Aon Risk EMEA chief counsel Richard Ferris kicked off The Lawyer's Managing Risk and Mitigating Litigation event by telling delegates in-house counsel are 'still learning risks the [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Lisa Gan Tomlins took lessons learned from JustEat to fast-paced ecommerce business Made.com, then unlearned the rigid translation of law picked up in private practice. Online furniture [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal What are the key elements that every in-house counsel needs when applying for a general counsel role? The in-house panel at the Business Leadership conference unveils candidates' [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal On the first day of The Lawyer's In-house Counsel as Business Partner conference, speakers focused on the qualities that CEOs look for in their general counsel and [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Mayer Brown has made up 27 partners in its latest worldwide promotions round, two of which are based in the firm's London office. London based corporate and [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal In-house counsel can go too far in their search to becoming the perfect business partner, according to Teva Europe general counsel Galit Gonen. In The Lawyer's in-house [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Winston & Strawn has hired Pinsent Masons partner Paul Amiss and Gide Loyrette Nouel finance partner Rebecca Finn to join its London team in a bid to [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Paul Hastings has hired Linklaters finance veteran David Ereira as part of plans to boost its Londonfinance practice. Ereira joined Linklaters from Freshfields in 2007, where he [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Working for a pharma company in Europe, where there is no unified system for distributing and pricing medicines, is challenging but means Galit Gonen can turn it [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Chadbourne & Parke and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman have called off merger talks following months of speculation, The Lawyer understands. Had the merger gone forward, it would [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal TMT and satellite partner Joanne Wheeler featured in the Hot 100 two years ago thanks to her role in driving comprehensive regulation in the UK's space and [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal New arrival Macchi di Cellere Gangemi takes the total of European firms in London to 40. Why do they come and why do they stay, even through [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Portugal's lawyers have been busy this year on a number of big deals, but not all have succeeded. Why? Q: How have the high-profile and complex deals [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Dentonsglobal chief executive Elliot Portnoy and chairman Joe Andrewhave announced the firm's intention to enter into a three-way merger with Australian firm Gadens and Singaporean firm Rodyk [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal When Debevoise & Plimpton hired UK attorney general Peter Goldsmith QC in 2007 as its European head of litigation, some in the market raised eyebrows at the [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Spanish firm Garrigues has merged with local player DLP in Colombia, and has named Argentina and Chile as its next targets for expansion. Garrigues Latin America head [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal K&L Gates global managing partner and chairman Peter Kalis says women, machines and legal journalists are among the biggest agents of change for law firms, and that [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Swiss firms have bagged major business from global brands such as GSK, Novartis and CrE'dit Suisse this year, while their Asia ventures have come good. The legal [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Dentons has hired Taylor Wessing head of telecoms Tracey Sheehan to boost its technology media and telecoms (TMT) team in London. Sheehan was a partner at Taylor [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Matthew Arnold & Baldwin's banking and finance group is leaving the firm for Dentons, The Lawyer understands. Last month, The Lawyerrevealed that the Watford and London-based Matthew [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal US employment giant Littler Mendelsohn has acquired German employment boutique Vangard as its first foothold in Europe. The deal sees Littler Global, Litter Mendelsohnas international arm, take [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Olswang's future was uncertainfollowing a series of seismic management and strategy changes. Now CEO Paul Stevens talks to The Lawyer exclusively about international plans, his new team [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Partners should heed the warning signs of a aseismic shifta in the market and look to the next generation of lawyers to find innovators and gain a [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal The Lawyer Business Leadership Summit kicked off this morning with Clifford Chance innovation head Bas Boris Visser, Credit Suisse managing director Athena Alexander and Axiom global outsourcing [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal US firm Cooley has launched alegal resources tool to tap into the tech startup market in London. The tool, dubbed'Cooley Go', was developed in the US and [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal A new survey by female network Women in Law London (WILL) claims female lawyers care more about promotion opportunities than support from their firm for a better [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal In 2010Allen & Overy(A&O) securitisation partner Angela Clist was credited with leading a landmark bond deal that restored confidence in the market after the recession. Five years [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Italian firms, not content with just servicing their homegrown clients, have decided to stake out new territory in China, London and New York. Reading the headlines over [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal In just nine months US firm Cooley's London office has grown from zero to around 70 fee-earners, but will this meteoric rise cool off? According to London [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Latham & Watkins finance partner Lucy Oddy has moved to Allen & Overy (A&O) after just a year working in the US firmas structured finance practice. Oddy [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Offshore drilling company Transocean senior vice president and general counsel Lars SjAPbring is set to leave the company at the end of 2015 after just 18 months [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal What does the future hold for law firm networks? Network leaders discuss competitive strategies, the shift in in-house mentality and why regulation gives them the edge over [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Martell Mumm Perrier-JouA< Greer has worked for Pernod Ricard for over 10 years, having joined from Willkie Farr & Gallagheras Paris office in 2006. He was corporate [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Olswang has made two hires and two promotions to its senior management team, adding former Linklaters global head of shared services Kevin Bye as head of strategic [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Jenner & Block has hired White & Case partner Charlie Lightfoot as its first lateral hire in London after launching an office earlier this year. Lightfootas hire [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Taylor Wessing has announced a merger with Dutch firm Deterink, which will give the firm two new offices in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. Deterink's seven partners and 47 [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Baker & McKenzie has posted a 4 per cent drop from $2.54bn to $2.43bn in global turnover for the 2014/15 financial year, following record figures that made [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal ICL Holding general counsel Rouven Schwab has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in its chemicals industry group in Frankfurt after he oversaw a large-scale divestment [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Clifford Chance and Taylor Wessing were among a lineup of five firms that advised on the largest property deal ever completed on Londonas [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Dentons is in merger talks with London-headquartered Matthew Arnold & Baldwin (MAB) as part of its international expansion plan, The Lawyer understands. This would be Dentonsa third [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Cineworld Group has appointed in-house counsel Fiona Smith as its new company secretary and general counsel to replace outgoing Richard Ray. Smith was promoted after four years [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Spotify global head of corporate development and general counsel Jared Grusd is to depart to news outlet the Huffington Post to become the companyas chief executive officer. [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has appointed Deborah Wilkie to the newly created role of director of Civil Cartel Enforcement. Wilkie, who was until now the [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal As McDermott Will & Emery sets its sights on Cuba to launch a full-service venture, The Lawyer explores whether the long-forbidden island will become the next big [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Revenue at Burges Salmon grew by 5.6 per cent in 2014/15 from APS76.5m to APS80.8m for the fourth consecutive year, while net profit increased by 10.6 per [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal The launch of domain name .law is set to occur today (30 July 2015) as part of the generic top level domain (gTLD) programme run by NetNames. [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal With moves between US firms rocketing in the first half of 2015, The Lawyeras Top 30 International Firms in London report reveals the most coveted firms to [...]