Stephenson Harwood has hired Jonathan Goacher, the former head of regulatory for Asia at Hill Dickinson, as a partner in Singapore.

Since it was released in November last year, artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has taken the Internet by storm. Hailed as the most sophisticated form of generative AI yet, the tool has impressed by competently engaging in sophisticated dialogues, drafting essays, summarising documents, and even writing software.

The Singapore office of Stephenson Harwood has apologized after lawyers found that their bonuses were smaller than what they had been promised, UK news website RollOnFriday has reported.

Corporate lawyer Paul Westover has joined Thai firm LawPlus as a partner in Bangkok from Stephenson Harwood, where he previously led the Greater China corporate group.

As another year packed with challenges and trials draws to a close, law firm leaders consider what measures were successful, and how those will influence their strategies for 2022 and beyond.

Stephenson Harwood has boosted its international private wealth offering with the hire of Wei Kang as a partner in Hong Kong from DLA Piper, where she was an of counsel.

Stephenson Harwood has hired private wealth expert Suzanne Johnston as a partner in Singapore. Johnston was most recently director and senior legal counsel at financial services firm UBS.

Data has become an increasingly critical part of the way law firms do business, with difficult decisions now being weighed using analytics and information. While lawyers are united on the fact that data is the way forward, firms take different approaches in how they get the best out of the information at hand.

Stephenson Harwood has hired international arbitration expert Chris Bailey as a partner from King & Spalding. Bailey will initially be based in the London office, and later relocate to Singapore.

Stephenson Harwood has lost two more partners in Hong Kong: Commercial litigation partner Richard Wilmot has joined local firm Tanner De Witt, while energy specialist Marco Pocci has moved to MB Kemp’s newly opened office in London.