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By Rick Mitchell | February 1, 2024
Ashurst Advance's new office, in Krakow, is being opened in partnership with Elevate, a global ALSP based in Los Angeles.
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By Jack Womack | Paul Hodkinson | January 16, 2024
The news conflicts with the Big Four firm's stated ambition of more than trebling in size in the UK and Ireland by 2025, and points to the difficulty the auditing giants have had in gaining a foothold in legal.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | December 5, 2023
Developing its Konexo arm, Eversheds has brought in Credit Suisse's former APAC GC.
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By Jack Womack | October 30, 2023
Inflexion is investing in the £20 million-revenue A&O affiliate, but that the law firm will retain a 'significant minority stake'.
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By Christopher Niesche | October 29, 2023
Kate Marshall, who left KPMG in December and then took a career break, will now serve as Law Squared's chief legal officer, overseeing the firm's practice groups.
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By Paul Hodkinson | October 20, 2023
For all their talk of growth, it could be a long time before the Big Four's progress in the UK—the biggest single legal market they can operate in—poses a threat to large law firms, writes the London Lawyer.
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By Jack Womack | October 19, 2023
Like its rival Deloitte Legal, KPMG's legal arm is expected to land in the UK Top 50 in the next two or three years.
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By Jack Womack | October 11, 2023
Deloitte Legal's total lawyer headcount in the UK has also increased and is now comparable with some of the country's Top 50 law firms.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | September 27, 2023
The ex-in-house lawyers, who hail from companies including Virgin Atlantic and HSBC, are expected to add an extra dimension to Eversheds' offering in the increasingly competitive ALSP market.
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By Paul Hodkinson | July 20, 2023
Christopher Bogart says it is a 'tragedy' that the UK legal regulator has caused the country to miss the opportunities of market liberalization reforms.
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By William O'Brien, Katia Finkel, Levon Golendukhin and Romy Descours-Karmitz | March 15, 2024
Enforcement of arbitral awards against sovereigns is in the spotlight. Whether dealing with investment treaty or commercial arbitration awards, the key question for award-creditors against state or state-owned enterprise (SOE) respondents around the world is: will we be able to enforce the decision?
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By Kim L. Kirn | March 6, 2024
Here are six compelling reasons to consider arbitrating and mediating FINRA cases instead of limiting your FINRA practice to only one ADR method.
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By Kenzo Tsushima, Rico Burnett & David Malkinson, Morae | March 6, 2024
Chances are that in 10 years, law firms and alternative legal service providers are going to converge under a technological strategy that ALSPs are already leveraging.
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By Justin Henry | January 31, 2024
Greg Williamson's law firm, OGC, only hires lawyers with 15 years of practice and substantial in-house experience in order to give clients more cost predictability.
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By Isha Marathe | January 25, 2024
KPMG's tax and legal ops principal Jeff Ikejiri believes that alternate legal service providers (ALSPs) will be primed to take on more complex legal work, and more comprehensively help clients grapple with generative AI.
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By Justin Henry | January 23, 2024
"We're actually seeing a lot of traction with our enterprise and small and medium-size business clients to actually think about Axiom Advice & Counsel as another law firm alternative to their panel law firms," said Axiom's CEO David McVeigh.
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By Amanda Bronstad | January 22, 2024
In a Jan. 10 letter, U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Michael Kaplan of the District of New Jersey asked the Federal Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure to change a rule that prohibits bankruptcy judges from appointing special masters.
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By Samuel S. Woodhouse | January 8, 2024
The statutes and case law related to the unauthorized practice of law are designed to answer the question of who can advocate on behalf of the parties in arbitration. Specifically, the cases and statutes set the boundaries with respect to whether one must in fact be a lawyer to represent parties or whether lawyers can cross state lines and represent parties in states in which the lawyer is not a member of that state's bar.
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By Rich Lee | January 2, 2024
Mediation starts the moment everybody signs the confidentiality agreement and can go on for months. If there's no settlement, it's just suspended. There's no failure because mediation can always start again. I stress that with parties and lawyers. We can always come back.
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By Sean Saari | December 20, 2023
Employ a jointly retained valuation expert. This underused approach can pivotally shift disputes, especially where emotional entanglement clouds judgment, as in divorce or business ownership conflicts.
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