For almost every business of any size operating in Europe, The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become an integral feature of corporate life. Designed to protect EU citizens, its primary impact has been felt on businesses large and small as EU regulators have sought to make it the global standard for privacy and data […]
Barristers choose their words carefully when representing their clients in court. And so it proved when Steven Kay QC put his clients’ case in the Commercial Court in April. In his opening statements on behalf of former Metropolitan Police officers, Nigel Brown and Alec Leighton, Kay said: “It doesn’t matter what their motivation was with […]
It is the story which just keeps on giving: the long running, three-way struggle between international mining conglomerate ENRC, its former legal advisers Dechert, and the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. For legal journalists, the ongoing saga has given them plenty to write about over the past year.
It has been a very good year for most large international law firms with increased revenues and profits generally par for the course. But things have not been quite so good at Philadelphia-based Dechert. The latest results from the AmLaw100 show an unusual disparity in the firm’s performance compared to many of its peers.
