Barristers Chambers

One Essex Court barrister appointed as next Takeover Panel chairman

Laurence Rabinowitz KC will succeed Michael Crane KC in May next year

4 Stone Buildings rings changes with new leadership and clerking co-heads

Shake-up will see hugely respected senior clerk David Goddard take consultancy role

Arbitration barrister Baloch exits 3 Verulam Buildings for Essex Court

Experienced senior junior swaps sets in rare lateral move between commercial chambers

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Women KCs celebrate 75th anniversary of first appointments

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

London’s 9 Stone Buildings dissolves as members join Tanfield and Selborne Chambers

Seventeen tenants move their practice as London barristers’ chambers closes after more than a century

Pump Court Chambers suffers multi-million pound alleged fraud loss

High Court judgment reveals £2.75m alleged fraud committed by former employee in set’s credit control department

Consultancy firm BRG hires ex-Keating, Wilberforce Chambers CEO

Former senior clerk Declan Redmond to join consultancy as managing director from Kroll

Fountain Court snaps up ex-Slaughters associate, criminal bar rising star

Katherine Hardcastle’s arrival further bolsters top commercial set’s criminal law capability

Freshfields arbitration partner opts for the Bar

Peter Turner KC joins 39 Essex Chambers after 27 years as a partner at Magic Circle firm

Mishcon de Reya’s international arbitration head to join Littleton Chambers in London

Arbitration solicitor-silk Louis Flannery KC to move across in August and be called to the Bar

Kirsty Brimelow KC elected to join first all-women Bar Council leadership team

Doughty Street silk will serve as 2025 vice chair alongside the next chair, Barbara Mills KC, and treasurer Lucinda Orr

Brick Court Chambers investigating ‘potential cyber incident’

Top commercial set said to have been targeted by Medusa cyber gang

Matrix boosts antitrust practice with competition law specialist from St. John’s Chambers

Ex-Burges Salmon partner Matthew O’Regan is the latest former solicitor to join Matrix’s competition team

Fountain Court’s Matthew Gearing KC becomes first former solicitor called to Singapore Bar

The former A&O partner joins KCs Toby Landau, Sapna Jhangiani and Jern-Fei Ng as UK appointments to the Law Society of Singapore

Former Clifford Chance arbitration head departs for Twenty Essex

Audley Sheppard KC is latest leading practioner to become an independent arbitrator

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One solicitor appointed King’s Counsel out of 95-strong tally

Withers arbitration co-head celebrates as overall success rate for applications continues to decline

New Bar Council chair calls for more investment in justice system ‘at the point of structural failure’

Sam Townend KC also prioritises making the profession more ‘resilient and sustainable’

‘Nobody should be experiencing these behaviours’: report highlights employee bullying at the Bar

Landmark research by the Legal Practice Management Association and Institute of Barristers’ Clerks found more than a quarter of Bar employees had been bullied

The swift rise of a ‘wonderful role model’ to the UK Supreme Court

Dame Ingrid Simler has impeccable diversity credentials, writes Ben Rigby

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