An insolvency litigator who has practised in the UK, Channel Islands and the Caribbean has joined the firm’s Edinburgh arm. London-headquartered Addleshaw Goddard has appointed Sophia Harrison as a ...

The US firm has hired a public prosecutor who was instrumental in shaping the Department of Justice approach to corporate enforcement. White & Case has snapped up former Department of Justice (DoJ) ...

Veteran trial lawyer Michael Attanasio has departed his role as Cooley’s chair of global litigation after over a decade in the senior position. Cooley’s New York practice head Ian Shapiro has replaced ...

The firm has boosted its white-collar capabilities with the hire of a litigator with extensive public service, private practice and trial experience. Debevoise & Plimpton has hired Daniel Gitner in ...

The firm has snapped up a formidable agency lawyer for its New York office. Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement division acting director Sanjay ...

A ‘commercial relationship’ get-out clause contained in the New York Convention has freed India from making good on a looming arbitral award. Arbitration practitioners tell CDR why the judgment is so ...

A former federal prosecutor has ended near a two-decade in-house tenure to return to private practice, joining the international firm’s New York office as a special counsel. O’Melveny & Myers ...

Practitioners talk to CDR about the Qatari arbitral institution’s first new rules in 13 years, and the broadly welcome changes that position it closer to the expectations of international parties. New ...

Eric Hochstadt has departed a 21-year tenure at Weil to head up Orrick’s global antitrust litigation practice. The seasoned lawyer tells CDR about his big plans to make antitrust a “marquee practice” ...

The expert testimony provider has undertaken a significant hiring spree in Australia to bolster its forensic accounting and commercial damages capabilities. Dispute services provider HKA has added ...

Parties fearing hefty litigation costs are increasingly seeing the appeal of tiered dispute resolution clauses. But what happens when these clauses spark their own disputes? Escalation or tiered ...

The media and tech disputes pro has departed a senior role at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to rejoin Gibson Dunn in California and the US capital. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has ...