KLegal commercial litigation partner Paul Philips has left the firm to join Olswang. Philips, who was a partner at Scots firm McGrigor Donald before its merger with KLegal, is best known for working alongside former McGrigors partner Eddie MacKechnie in the Lockerbie trial in 2001.

Philips joined Olswang last week as a partner and has taken some clients with him, including American Airlines. He said: “There are inherent conflicts for litigators in an MDP and the set-up there was not going to suit me.”