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Six Jenner & Block partners have been named to Lawdragon’s 2025 “500 Leading Global Litigators” list. The award honors top litigators and trial attorneys globally.

Lawyers from Jenner & Block’s London Office were featured in the Pro Bono Recognition List of England & Wales.

Lawyers from Jenner & Block’s London Office were featured in the Pro Bono Recognition List of England & Wales.

Lawdragon has identified the accomplishments of six of our lawyers who focus on international arbitration and litigation by featuring them in the 2024 500 Leading Global Litigators guide. The Jenner partners included in the guide are Kenneth Beale, Elizabeth Edmondson, Laura MacDonald, Terri Mascherin, James Rogers, and Lizzie Shimmin.

Rowley and Wright (the “Joint Liquidators”), BHS Group Limited (in liquidation) & ors v Chappell, Henningson, Chandler

In a recent article for Solicitors Journal, London Partners James Rogers and Lizzie Shimmin, and Special Counsel Michaela Croft,  provide a breakdown of the English court rulings shaping the developing legal landscape for crypto-assets.

Lawdragon has identified the accomplishments of seven of our lawyers who focus on international arbitration and litigation by featuring them in the 2023 500 Leading Global Litigators guide. The Jenner partners included in the guide are Kenneth Beale, Elizabeth Edmondson, Charlie Lightfoot, Laura MacDonald, Terri Mascherin, James Rogers, and Lizzie Shimmin.

Partner Lizzie Shimmin and Senior Associate Clare Hennessey explore the key trends and new challenges faced by commercial litigators in the English courts, including disputes related to ESG and crypto assets and the rise of collective actions, in this article in Law.com.

Partner Lizzie Shimmin and Associate Oliver Thomson discuss the topic of climate litigation and negligence claims against boards, emphasising the certainty that climate litigation is here to stay in a recent article for the Law Society Gazette.

In an article for Legal Week UK, Partner Lizzie Shimmin shares her thoughts on the importance of greater gender diversity in the  judicial system. Lizzie discusses the benefits of a diverse judiciary and how it can drive positive change in cases relating to women’s rights. She also explains how increased female representation can inspire the next generation of lawyers and could ensure fairness in the political system in the UK.

LONDON, 1STNovember, 2022– International law firm Jenner & Block has completed the relocation of its growing London team to new offices at 10 Exchange Square, Broadgate, in the heart of the City.

Move to Broadgate’s Exchange Square Will Accommodate Continued Growth 

In the December 2021 edition of Investment Week, Partners Jason Yardley and Elizabeth Shimmin discuss the possibility of claims under England’s securities litigation regime concerning an issuer's ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) disclosures. The article explains the trend towards mandatory and detailed ESG disclosures across the UK economy and the resulting risk of shareholder litigation.

In this article, Partners Jason Yardley and Lizzie Shimmin and Associate examine the projected growth of shareholder litigation and class actions in the UK related to environmental, social, and governance, or ESG. The authors discuss the implications of more thorough and mandatory ESG disclosures across markets.

In this article, Mealey’s International Arbitration Report asked industry leaders for their thoughts on diversity among the arbitrators seated on international arbitration tribunals. Jenner & Block Partner Elizabeth Shimmin observed that “whether and to what extent diversity on tribunals panels is important to perceptions of fairness is likely to depend on the nature of the dispute and the type of diversity in question.” She concluded by noting that “there is an intrinsic value in diversifying

Earlier this month, the UK government published a White Paper on its proposals for “Restoring Trust in Audit and Corporate Governance”. Concerns around the UK’s audit and corporate governance framework are longstanding, but the sudden and critical failures of large UK companies such as BHS in 2016 and Carillion in 2018 added fuel to the fire of audit reform discussions.

NEW YORK – MARCH 16, 2021 – Jenner & Block today launched an expanded international Financial Services Litigation (FSL) practice to represent clients in high-stakes litigation, arbitration, contentious restructurings, monitorships, and criminal and regulatory proceedings.  As one of the few top-tier law firms able to work adversely to many major financial institutions, Jenner & Block is well positioned to represent clients in financial services and financial products litigation arising from vo

Section 1782 of Title 28 of the US Code allows foreign litigants to petition federal district courts for US-style discovery from a person or entity who “resides or is found” where the district court is located for use in a foreign proceeding.  Traditionally, foreign litigants have used this provision to seek documents or testimony from within the United States.  Last week, however, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court held that Section 1782 allows foreign litigants in a foreign p

The Court of Appeal on 05 September 2018 gave judgment in SFO v ENRC[2018] EWCA Civ 2006. The judgment allowed the appeal, overturning the judgment of Andrews J in the court below. Mrs Justice Andrews’ judgment had limited the scope of litigation privilege in internal investigations. This judgment has now reaffirmed that when an internal investigation is conducted, in certain cases litigation privilege will apply. The Court was not required to rule on the questions concerning legal advice priv