Pogust Goodhead asked a court on Monday for permission to exit its role as joint lead firm on the Dieselgate litigation, a week before the trial is due to begin in what is one of the largest group actions ever brought.
Pogust Goodhead asked a court on Monday for permission to exit its role as joint lead firm on the Dieselgate litigation, a week before the trial is due to begin in what is one of the largest group actions ever brought.
Linklaters lost an attempt on Monday to strike out a claim brought by a financial technology investor that the Magic Circle firm had negligently failed to spot a "large-scale fraud" against a company that the investor had acquired.
A Carter-Ruck partner who threatened to sue a whistleblower who exposed the multibillion-dollar OneCoin crypto-scam failed to convince a tribunal Monday to order the Solicitors Regulation Authority hand over information about the decision to press on with her prosecution.
A tribunal has ordered the Solicitors Regulation Authority to pay a non-solicitor costs of £27,000 ($36,319), ruling that "a serious procedural error" by one of its adjudicators had wrongly prevented her from working for a law firm.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a former Locke Lord LLP partner's appeal of his conviction and prison sentence for helping launder roughly $400 million in proceeds from the infamous OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced Monday that it has opened a new office in Charlotte, North Carolina, and added a 37-lawyer collateralized loan obligations and asset-backed lending team from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, part of a larger exodus of Cadwalader attorneys tracked by Law360 Pulse.
Three-quarters of the trainees who qualified at Shoosmiths in the U.K. in September have stayed on at the firm on permanent contracts to round out the year, the firm said Monday.
The Financial Services Authority said Monday it has joined forces with the Solicitors Regulation Authority and other watchdogs to stop misleading advertising by claims management companies and law firms working on motor finance claims.
Phil Pepper, head of employment at Shakespeare Martineau, discusses the challenges of working on a high-stakes case that progressed to the European Court of Justice, the need for reform of employees' rights legislation when a business transfers, and why lawyers should develop soft skills early in their careers.
