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Eversheds adds senior tax disputes partner from RPC

Robert Waterson joins to lead UK tax disputes team

Judge reprimanded for love letter to step down as CAT president

Mr Justice Marcus Smith will be replaced by former president Sir Peter Roth on an interim basis

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Bitcoin start-up Thesis hires former Cooley lawyer as GC

Katherine Snow joins from crypto data platform Messari, where she was CLO

Skadden tops global Q3 M&A table as total deal value jumps by 16%

Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins follow closely behind as megadeals contribute to strengthening market

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Bowmans absorbs A&O Shearman’s South Africa legal team team in Johannesburg

Group including eight partners moves over as A&O Shearman winds down Johannesburg office

IBA endorses first international treaty on AI governance

Support for European convention on AI builds on IBA’s AI report launched at annual conference in Mexico City last month

O’Melveny adds senior private equity duo in London from Ashurst

Ashurst’s PE co-chair David Carter and UK/European PE head Braeden Donnelly join US firm

Women KCs celebrate 75th anniversary of first appointments

Lady Chief Justice hosts event to mark progress since first two women took silk in 1949

Verizon persuades court to throw out $847m 5G patent infringement verdict

US judge grants retrial as jury’s verdict is ‘against the great weight of the evidence’

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Huel and WeTransfer-backer Highland Europe hires GC from Osborne Clarke

Josephine Healy replaces Rini Banerjee, who left the VC fund back in April

US rail operator Amtrak promotes deputy GC to replace retiring legal chief

Byl Herrmann succeeds Eleanor Acheson, who has been in the role since 2007

Schillings launches in Dublin

First European branch for London defamation, privacy and reputation management specialist

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Geradin Partners recruits team for Finland debut

Third office launch this year for competition specialist

Squire Patton Boggs, McDermott add corporate and M&A partners in London

Former Goodwin counsel Ben Morgan joins SPB, while Sebastien Bonneau joins McDermott from Eversheds

‘Surprise’ ruling in Germany as court sides with AI outfit in image copyright spat

Decision sets a precedent as it broadens the scope of lawful data use for AI training

Burns & Levinson announces closure

Boston stalwart to shutter following raids from larger rivals

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Senior roles for women at Mexican law firms rank lowest among sectors

While women account for 39% of lawyers at law firms in Mexico, just 17% occupy senior roles, an IBA report finds

Hogan Lovells bolsters capital markets practice with double partner hire from Linklaters

Íñigo Berrícano joins in Madrid and Alex Parkhouse joins in London

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