Specialty Group: Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Contact: Stephen Hughes, Special Counsel and Lara Radik, Senior Associate; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) Every litigator or in-house claims manager has felt the temptation to ‘just file a holding defence’. ...

Contact: Madlen Searle, Clarkslegal LLP (Reading, England) You cannot have escaped the recent judgment regarding Gordon Ramsay. For those who haven't heard of him he is a celebrity restaurateur and the star of several ...

Contact: Jill Bainbridge; Blake Morgan (Southampton, England) Dispute Resolution analysis: The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected a complaint by one of Joseph Stalin's grandsons about an article that ...

Contact: William A. Goldberg; Lerch, Early & Brewer (Maryland, USA) I often see attorneys make the mistake of filing "kitchen sink" complaints, that is, lawsuits containing redundant and/or superfluous causes of actio ...