Jones Day advises as Connaught calls in the administrators
Connaught, the property and environmental services group that has appointed administrators in the largest company administration since Woolworths, has turned to Jones Day to guide it through the process.
Burness chair helps snooker's Higgins quash match-fixing claims
Burness partner Philip Rodney has successfully defended the former snooker world champion John Higgins of allegations of match fixing, originally made by the News of the World (NoW).
UK 200 financials laid bare in pivotal year for profession
Beyond PEP: magic circle and silver circle firms extend the gap on every profit metric
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White & Case launches Beijing seat for trainees
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Addleshaws bulks up City banking team former DLA partner
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Fountain Court clerk becomes head of clerking at Devereux
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Blunder excludes Indian lawyers from QLTS
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Freshfields names co-heads of global competition practice
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Cuatrecasas unveils new office heads for London and New York
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Misrepresentation should make firms’ insurance void
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German contender enters CC senior partner race
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National duo lose RSA panel places
Bakers, Hammonds and Herbies scoop Boots pension transfer
Baker & McKenzie, Hammonds and Herbert Smith have worked on a pensions deal that has seen Alliance Boots offload the liabilities on the smaller of its two pension schemes to insurer Pensions Insurance Corporation (PIC).
Misrepresentation should make firms’ insurance void
As we approach the October renewals period for solicitors’ professional indemnity (PI) insurance, smaller law firms face a perfect storm.
Focus: David Gold, Golden years
Herbert Smith stalwart David Gold says his retirement plans don’t involve golf or gardening instead he’s starting out with a DoJ-appointed role making sure BAE remains ethically sound
Motor head
Risk management is the name of the game in the fast-moving world of Simon MacDonald, group legal affairs manager at MotorSport Vision.
Firm Profile: Harper Macleod
When the financial crisis hit in 2008 Scottish firm Harper Macleod took swift action to prepare its business for the worst.
Two-year itch
The entry of foreign firms into India has become a saga of classical proportions. And as Kian Ganz finds, it is one that is set to run and run
Feel the learn
Fiercer competition for work and talent in an increasingly globalised business environment means firms need to provide their lawyers with a broader-based skill set than previously
Focus: Hammonds, Hello Squire
Hammonds’ stated aim of merging with Squire Sanders needs a bit of work
White & Case launches Beijing seat for trainees
White & Case has expanded its international trainee solicitor secondment programme to its Beijing office.
Tulkinghorn: The signs are bad
While Tulkinghorn and his many spies are used to passing sentence on the prospects of competing law firms, none of the aforesaid expect commentary on the ups and downs of the profession to find its way to the offices of The Lawyer from the road sign-writers of England’s South Coast.
On The Lawyer.com
This week sees the launch of the UK 200 2010 and for the first time ever it
includes profiles of all 200 firms. To find out where your firm ranks click
here.
Our lead story this week puts the figures in context, looking at the top
firms by PEP and EPP. And to find out how many days it took for the top 50
practices to break even click here.
The Lawyer UK200 2010
Click here for info on more than 200 top law firms
The high cost of ambition
Given that we’re now officially in an age of austerity, in this year’s edition of The LawyerUK 200 we decided to focus squarely on costs and the effect of cuts.
Phone jacker
A handful of lawyers is working its way through the tangled web that is the alleged phone hacking scandal to have engulfed the News of the World (NoW).
Howard Kennedy partner’s net profits
Howard Kennedy partner Dov Katz has a passion outside the law that has helped his firm make some powerful connections within the Jewish community. And the passion? Table tennis.
Editor's weekly: Brochures away
I always feel really old when telling people that I prefer reading magazine articles to their online cousins.
Closer to home
Considering the amount of time and energy UK firms have spent trying to get India to open its legal market to foreigners (for more of which see this week’s special report) it seems a little counter productive when our own country’s administrative bodies appear hell-bent on keeping out lawyers from abroad.
