City firms prepare staff for G20 riots
Law firms across the City have been beefing up security and asking staff to leave their suits at home ahead of expected G20 demonstrations.
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White & Case partner quits ahead of cull
27-Mar-2009White & Case UBS relationship partner Rachel Hatfield has left the firm after becoming disaffected with its strategy.
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Former TTP GC guilty of insider dealing
27-Mar-2009The former general counsel of technology company TTP Communications has been found guilty of insider trading in the first insider dealing criminal prosecution brought by the FSA.
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Travers offers trainees £10,000 to defer
Weil cuts US internships and defers start dates
Bristol's Veale Wasbrough to cut 26 jobs
Clifford Chance cuts 24 associate jobs in US
Herbies and Halliwells act on JJB gym sale
Clifford Chance asks trainees to defer
Slaughters promotes two to partnership
Chadbourne wants blood to help New Yorkers
Cost of BVC rockets despite slump in pupillages
Eversheds reduces sets from 90 to 15
Eversheds is to radically overhaul its use of the external bar in a drive to increase competition for its work.
Firms line up for London councils’ joint panel
Law firms have begun the scramble to win contracts from the London Boroughs Legal Alliance (LBLA), a scheme that could eventually see all London councils served by a single panel.
McDermott City partners anticipate cold shoulder as trio vie for chairman post
23-March-2009US firm McDermott Will & Emery is gearing up for a leadership election. But the firm is not facing a revolution any time soon – all three candidates vying to replace chairman Harvey Freishtat form part of the firm’s traditional core.
Playing FTSE
Shazanna Safdar-Karim is rapidly climbing the ranks at FTSE Group.
It is an acronym that has barely moved off the front pages over the past year. When the world of stock markets became the number one story, FTSE and its various leagues of stocks and bonds became the number one measurement of the economic crash.
No whining as Mipim waves au revoir to bacchanalian excess
It sounds as if lawyers are putting a brave face on it. For years, the Mipim festival in Cannes – the biggest property event in Europe – has attracted developers, funders, surveyors and lawyers in equal measure.
Tulkinghorn: Fergie’s turkey
Being an in-house lawyer can throw up some surprising situations – just ask ITV general counsel Andrew Garard.
US firm Shearman & Sterling has followed Freshfields' lead by slashing its NQ salary rate by £7,000. Is this a sign of things to come?Cost cutting is clearly going to remain a top priority for law firms, with Salans having the same idea as Norton Rose and drawing up plans for a four-day week. Not all readers of TheLawyer.com are supportive of this plan though. What do you think?
Elsewhere, US firm Chadbourne & Parke is doing its bit for New York society by collecting its lawyers' blood.
The Apprentice analysed...The credit-crunched Apprentice returned to BBC1 on Wednesday night and Sir Alan brought the so called high-fliers crashing back down to earth with a task that required everyone to get down and dirty: washing cars. Simple as it may sound, one team messed it up by spending too much on cleaning products. Here, three lawyers discuss the employment law issues facing the apprentices this week.
Don't ask? Don't getWhen you’re made redundant from a law firm you know that the firm will do everything it can to stick to its standard financial package. But people are succeeding in getting extras thrown in. The trick is to be imaginative.
Putting life into law
If there’s one topic that elicits more comment on TheLawyer.com than any other, it’s education.
In the courts this week, at the end of the Buncefield High Court battle it looks like the case is set for a Court of Appeal hearing while Weil Gotshal & Manges has forced a judicial review of the UK Government's decision to freeze Kapthing's assets.
Meanwhile, Beachcroft partner Charles Newman explains why disgruntled clients could end up stuck with the same lawyers even if they decide to move firms.
It's not just clients who are on the move though with litigation stalwart David Oliver QC returning to Thirteen New Square Chambers, where he plans to reignite his litigation career.
New Skadden chief still thinks big
Executive partner inherits a firm that seems capable of defying the crunch.
Quinn Emanuel bags A&O partner
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is preparing for the pickup in finance-related litigation with the hire of Allen & Overy (A&O) structured finance star Dan Cunningham.
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