Christian Smith

In another sign of the growing financial interest in sport, sports law boutique Northridge has hired its first sport finance team. Bird & Bird partner Claire Barker has joined Northridge…

The Supreme Court has ruled largely in favour of finance providers in the highly anticipated car finance case brought against MotoNovo and Close Brothers. Following a three-day hearing in April…

News broke last week that the first ever artificial intelligence (AI) law firm had been given the green light by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The rush by law firms to adopt AI has been the…

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting Paul Weiss and one of its former partners in his latest move against large law firms. The executive order, which was signed on Friday…

£20m is a number most recently associated with top private equity partners, but that’s the amount a team from Willkie Farr & Gallagher has been paid for its work on the iconic Merricks v Mastercard…

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your cheat sheet to the litigation market, bringing you the week’s top litigation stories and analysis. This is what litigators are talking about this…

Welcome to The Hearing, your cheat sheet to the litigation market, bringing you the week’s top litigation stories and analysis. This is what’s driving the week. Budget priorities: Last week’s Budget…

The Premier League and Manchester City are both claiming victory after judgment was handed down this week over the legality of the Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules. But with all the spin and…

And just like that, the Olympics are coming to an end. A bit of a comedown for many, but not for the sports lawyers of Northridge Law. Within the space of two Olympic cycles, the sports boutique has…

Lawyers working at immigration firms have told The Lawyer that there is “an element of trepidation” among their teams, as concerns grow over potential attacks by far-right groups.

The associate recruitment market has tightened up over the past year or two. For trainees looking to qualify, it means that finding a home in their preferred practice area has become more difficult…

Legal insight, benchmarking data and jobs

Clifford Chance has increased its newly-qualified salary, meaning Allen & Overy Shearman is now the only one of its peer group not to hike pay to £150,000. The £25,000 increase to £150,000…

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has increased its salary for newly-qualified solicitors (NQs) to £180,000. The US disputes specialist’s other associate salaries will also rise when the move takes…

The wait is finally over. In just under a week, the transformational merger between Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling will go live. But while the deal is done, the job is only just beginning.

At the beginning of the year, The Lawyer released its Top 20 cases of 2024, detailing some of the most influential and intriguing disputes hitting the courts for the first time this year. However…

Legal insight, benchmarking data and jobs

Legal insight, benchmarking data and jobs

Legal insight, benchmarking data and jobs

Legal insight, benchmarking data and jobs