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Stewarts Law set for double office launch in US

Stewarts Law is set to launch its first international offices with the firm to open two offices in the US. The firm will open in New York and Delaware on 1 May with the hire of litigation partner duo David Straite and Ralph Sianni who have joined from their own boutique Sianni & Straite to lead the offices.
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Nabarro international committee chair leaves firm to join Minter Ellison

Nabarro has seen two partners leave its London office including international committee chair Michael Hales, who is joining Australian firm Minter Ellison as a partner in Perth. Hales, who advises on a broad range of commercial disputes, has been a partner at the firm since 1996 and has a practice which covers banking, corporate, e-commerce, tax, regulatory and fraud disputes.
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Freshfields scores dispute double with roles on two key Apple cases

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won key roles on two high-profile disputes involving US tech giant Apple, as the company goes head-to-head with both Samsung and the US Department of Justice (DoJ). The magic circle firm is advising Apple on its design infringement claim against Samsung, as it attempts prevent its tech rival from selling its Galaxy tablet across Europe in light of alleged similarities to its iPad.
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Phone-hacking lawyer takes News Corp action to the US as blogger sues Times

Phone-hacking lawyer Mark Lewis is poised to take legal action against News Corporation in the US, as the long-running scandal moves beyond the UK courts. Taylor Hampton's Lewis is set to arrive in the US this weekend to begin discussions with New York civil liberties lawyer Norman Siegel over legal action for three alleged victims of phone-hacking described as a "well-known sports person", a sports person not in the public eye and a US citizen.
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Riverview adds former High Court judge to barrister line-up

Riverview Law has added former High Court judge Sir Oliver Popplewell to its chambers arm as an associate member of its mediation and arbitration team. Popplewell, a door tenant at Brick Court Chambers, is joining the line-up of barristers associated with Riverview Chambers, the chambers arm of the fixed-price legal services business.
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Pegasus – slaying the Bar's beast of a diversity problem

"Mini-pupillages are essential for getting a pupillage in the end and most sets would not look at a candidate without them," says Brick Court Chambers co-head Jonathan Hirst QC. Following last year's creation of PRIME by a group of leading law firms the Bar in March announced its own bid to increase socio-economic diversity with the 'Pegasus Access Scheme'. The initiative is not a direct counter-point to PRIME as it is focused on forging a direct path to pupillage for under-graduates rather than raising aspiration by introducing relatively under-privileged school children to the legal profession.
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Fixed-fee spin-off Radiant moves into litigation with double partner hire

Fixed-fee technology firm Radiant Law is set to branch out into litigation after a successful first year in business which has seen it sign up a number of big-name clients. The technology, outsourcing and commercial law boutique, which was launched by a group of partners from legacy Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, Latham & Watkins and Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) early last year, has now added litigation to its offering with the hire of partners Anna Cook from Wedlake Bell and Sarah Hill from TLT Solicitors.
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The Quinn effect continues as restless litigators quit big law for boutiques

If further proof were needed of the growing trend for leading litigators to spin off from large firms to form their own boutiques, Hogan Lovells duo Graham Huntley and Helen Brannigan provided it last month with news of the launch of Signature Litigation.
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Addleshaws to open in Singapore next month in arbitration push

Addleshaw Goddard is opening its first office outside of the UK next month with the launch of a new base in Singapore. The office, which will open for business in May, will initially focus on international arbitration but could expand to become a fuller service offering in future. The base will be led by litigation partner Jamie Harrison, who joined Addleshaws as a partner from US law firm Winston & Strawn in 2009.
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Newly-launched Riverview Chambers signs up director of ops with 3VB hire

Riverview Chambers has hired a director of operations, with 3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) practice manager Jeremy Hopkins set to take on the role. The chambers is one arm of the DLA Piper-backed venture Riverview Law, the new-look legal services business which launched earlier this year.
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