🆙 | One Essex Court has picked two of its silks to succeed Lord Grabiner KC, as he prepares to stand down as head of chambers after three decades. buff.ly/3Ug7K29

⚖️ | #InCourtThisWeek Computer giant IBM’s mainframe litigation lands in court

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🌅 | #TheLawyerHorizon Working for a City firm in the regions is so last year buff.ly/3UBZxGF

With just under a week to go before A&O and Shearman and Sterling [tag them?] merge, The Lawyer Podcast considers the five major challenges facing the new $3.5bn firm – and what they got wrong…thelawyer.com/the-lawyer-pod…

🗺️ | The recipe for corporate success? More junior associates buff.ly/3WdVRMw

🌅 | #TheLawyerHorizon HSF has sidestepped the talent wars buff.ly/3Wef9la

⚖️ | Womble Bond Dickinson is facing a multimillion-pound negligence claim filed by former clients over a failed real estate redevelopment project in Kensington. buff.ly/3Uwnlfc

🔃 | CMS senior partner Penelope Warne has revealed her next steps ahead of her departure from the firm at the end of the month. buff.ly/3UtReNi

🌅 | #TheLawyerHorizon PE acquirers should target these three firms buff.ly/49PSsqy

🌅 | #TheLawyerHorizon Who’s in and who’s out at Barclays buff.ly/3QhcC5P

📉 | The administrators of collapsed firm Axiom Ince have filed a creditors’ bankruptcy petition against its former boss. buff.ly/3Ua3scy

⚖️ | #InCourtThisWeek Covid-19 vaccines, Tesco and Royal Mail buff.ly/3WeCaEF

🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 | Staff at Baker McKenzie are being encouraged to sit next to co-workers outside their teams, in a bid to stop people from flocking to familiar faces on office days. buff.ly/4aJDvaS

It should defy belief that lawyers would actually propose withholding evidence.
It’s worse that they would try to do so ‘in a way that looks legitimate’.
It’s even worse if they achieved that.

Unbelievable.

What were they thinking?

The sort of behaviour you might expect from, say, a politician, but not solicitors.

😶‍🌫️ | Stinklaters: Barbican residents lash out at Links' 'noxious' generator buff.ly/3U4yfHN

🙋‍♂️ | BT has further shrunk its panel for the third review in a row having appointed a total of 11 firms to its roster. buff.ly/3UlVApr