The Lawyer
17 January 2005
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20 Essex Street - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £22m
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2-3 Gray’s Inn Square - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £9.7m
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3 Verulam Buildings - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £19.43m
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3-4 South Square - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £22.5m
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39 Essex Street - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £16.5m
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4 Pump Court - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £16m
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4-5 Gray’s Inn Square - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £10.8m
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7 Bedford Row - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £14m
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7 King’s Bench Walk - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £19.4m
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A&O scoops Standard Chartered work
17-Jan-2005
Allen & Overy (A&O) has muscled in on longstanding Slaughter and May client Standard Chartered after the magic circle firm scooped an instruction to advise the bank on a major acquisition in Korea.
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Arnold & Porter - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/Global turnover: £12.9m/£271m
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Arnold & Porter bags securities team
18-Jan-2005
Washington DC-based Arnold & Porter has bagged a team of six securities litigation lawyers from the DC office of Texas firm Fulbright & Jaworski.
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Arrested development
17-Jan-2005
Be careful when you’re slagging off lawyers, they might bite back. Even telling a joke can, it appears, get you into trouble. Last week two founders of a group called Americans for Legal Reform were arrested for telling lawyer jokes. And not even very good ones.
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ASB Law - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £18.1m
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B&M’s stringent rules force partner to quit Draxis board
17-Jan-2005
Baker & McKenzie (B&M) partner Stewart Saxe has been forced to resign from his position on the board of Canadian pharmaceutical company Draxis Health after B&M tightened its corporate governance rules.
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Baker & McKenzie - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £84m/£691m
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Bar Council splits PCC and ‘trade union’ arms
17-Jan-2005
Regulatory and policymaking functions part to deflect criticism of conflicts
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BCCI/Bank of America case reaches shock agreement
17-Jan-2005
As the BCCI liquidator’s case against the Bank of England rumbles on, a surprise settlement has been reached in its parallel case, BCCI’s massive claim against Bank of America.
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Berrymans Lace Mawer - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £35.6m
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Biggart Baillie - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £15.1m
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Bircham Dyson Bell - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £22.7m
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Blackstone Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £23m
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Blake Lapthorn Linnell - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £30.5m
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Bond Pearce - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £36.8m
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Brabners Chaffe Street - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £15.4m
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Brick Court Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £34.5m
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Bristows - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £19.5m
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Brodies - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £16.6m
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Browne Jacobson - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £24.1m
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Bryan Cave - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £10.2m/£234m
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Burges Salmon - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £42.2m
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Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £27m/£216m
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Cairn Capital gains chief for legal team
17-Jan-2005
Asset management company Cairn Capital has hired a senior lawyer from Banque AIG to lead its new legal team.
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Careers: in brief
17-Jan-2005
The demand for lawyers specialising in sector disciplines was high throughout 2004, according to the results of an annual salary survey conducted by recruitment specialist Robert Walters. Private practice departments including property, commercial litigation and corporate have seen growth, particularly over the last few months, while there has also been a steady rise in the demand for lawyers specialising in areas such as construction, banking, planning and employment law.
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Careers: people
17-Jan-2005
London firm Maples Teesdale has appointed David Stevens as a litigation partner. Stevens, formerly a senior solicitor at Norton Rose, will be specialising in commercial and property litigation and will head the litigation team.
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Carry on practising
17-Jan-2005
Olswang trumpeted its first press release of the New Year with a rousing “Olswang news for 2005 has begun”.
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CC and Brobeck end fight with a $5.5m settlement
17-Jan-2005
Clifford Chance is hoping that its short-lived association with Brobeck Phleger & Harrison is finally over after a settlement was reached between the firm and former Brobeck partners.
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Charles Russell - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £44.6m
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Cheap slate
17-Jan-2005
The award for the shortest Christmas party goes to Lovells litigator Jon Holland. Having generously left his card behind the bar at a party, Holland was bemused, and possibly somewhat relieved, to find that the grand total of the tab was a stonking £5.60. That party must have been carnage.
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Clarke Willmott - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £26.7m
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £28.5m/£354m
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Clementi prompts Law Society to split functions
20-Jan-2005
The Law Society Council today (Thursday 20 January) agreed to establish separate regulation and complaints handling bodies.
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Cobbetts - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £41.8m
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Cobbetts bolsters German team
18-Jan-2005
Cobbetts has added to its commercial team with the lateral hire of a partner from German firm Busse & Miessen.
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Competition issues form the battleground in fight for LSE
17-Jan-2005
LSE tie-up with Deutsche Börse or Euronext hangs on which regulator’s lap it lands in. By Helen Power
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Corporate deals round-up
17-Jan-2005
Linklaters (Jeremy Parr, Gavin Robert) and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton advised United Technologies on its recommenced offer for UK safety provider Kidde. Kidde advised by Baker & McKenzie.
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Coudert Brothers - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £8.6m/£160m
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Court on camera
17-Jan-2005
Here’s one for any budding stars in legal market land.
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Covington & Burling - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £14.6m/£191m
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Cripps Harries Hall - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £19.3m
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Davies Arnold Cooper - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £30m
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Davis Polk & Wardwell - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £25.2m/£358m
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De Brauw undergoes sweeping shake-up of management team
17-Jan-2005
Leading Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has restructured its management function to bring it in line with common practice in the UK and US.
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Death chambers
17-Jan-2005
The shooting baton that was carried so successfully last week by Freshfields head honcho Hugh Crisp (he of the 212 grouse fame) was picked up this week by David Baylis, head of private equity at Norton Rose. Baylis’s excuse for his no-show at this Wednesday’s (19 January) stellar Hot 100 party is that he’s taking clients shooting in Betws-y-Coed. Where will this endemic poshness lead Tulkinghorn next?
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Debevoise & Plimpton - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £16.5m/£249m
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Dechert - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £42.5m/£248m
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Dewey Ballantine - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £19.1m/£228m
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Dickinson Dees - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £39.5m
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Dickson Minto - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £24m
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DLA Piper launches French securities team
17-Jan-2005
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has opened a French securities practice with a lawyer from Herbert Smith. Anne Maréchal, previously an of counsel at Herbert Smith Paris, joins DLA Piper as a partner. She brings with her two associates. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com, 11 January
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DMH merger opens door to London
18-Jan-2005
South-East firm DMH has secured a London merger, after signing a deal with 15-partner Stallard Solicitors.
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DMH Solicitors - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £15.2m
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Dundas & Wilson - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £40m
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Dutch justice minister touts Clementi-style legal review
17-Jan-2005
Dutch firms face penalties for lawyers’ behaviour; bar to check service quality - Piet Hein Donner, Minister of Justice for the Netherlands
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DWF - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £29.3m
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Earl takes helm at Wedlake Bell
21-Jan-2005
Property specialist David Earl has been elected as Wedlake Bell’s new senior partner.Earl replaces Robert Dolman, who is stepping down after 10 years in the role. Dolman, a private client partner, will return to fee earning. Although Earl’s primary focus will be his commercial property practice, he hopes to continue Wedlake Bell’s growth. The firm last year saw turnover grow to £16.6m from 2002-2003’s £15.8m, with profits per equity partner (PEP) at £250,00, up five per cent ...
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Edwards Geldard - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £19.7m
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Essex Court Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £29.9m
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Exchange Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £13.1m
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Exposed
17-Jan-2005
The Government is facing calls for a public inquiry into chemical weapons tests carried out on soldiers at Porton Down during the 1950s. Jon Robins reports
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Farrer & Co - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £26.7m
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Finers Stephens Innocent - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £16.1m
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Firm profile: New Media Law
17-Jan-2005
The founding partners of media boutique New Media Law, Ian Penman and Paul Hosford, originally met at DLA (now DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary) before Hosford decamped to Steptoe & Johnson.
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First overseas partner joins Ashurst’s board
17-Jan-2005
Ashurst has put an overseas partner on its management board for the first time.
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Fladgate Fielder - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £20.3m
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Fountain Court - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £27m
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Four New Square - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £13.5m
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Freethcartwright - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £21.6m
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GE completes UK panel review
19-Jan-2005
General Electric (GE) Commercial Finance has completed its on-line auction in a bid to rationalise the company’s legal roster and slash its legal spend.
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Getting the boot
17-Jan-2005
A gem of an anecdote reaches Tulkinghorn this week. No names, no pack drill, but rumour has it that, while at a client function, and heavily under the influence, a partner at a national firm interrupted a conversation between another partner and a director of a major bank, got annoyed about something for no reason, kicked the other partner in the groin, and stomped off.
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Google agrees settlement with SEC
19-Jan-2005
Google and its general counsel David Drummond have reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the company's failure to declare $80m in employee stock options prior to its 2004 initial public offering (IPO).
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Grapevine
17-Jan-2005
German firm seeks friendship, but nothing seriousAt the end of last year German firm Beiten Burkhardt ended a tug of love between Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and Eversheds by choosing an informal network of best friends rather than the formal alliance favoured by both UK firms. Strangely, Beiten claims this was never an option.
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Hale and Dorr - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £7.3m/£198m
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Halliwells - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £40.4m
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Hearsay
17-Jan-2005
Which litigator at a top 10 City firm won a new client at a beauty parade for an arbitration despite admitting he’d never done one before?
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Hewitsons - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £18m
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Hill Dickinson - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £40.1m
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HMV looks to Simmons over Nabarros
17-Jan-2005
Simmons & Simmons won out over Nabarro Nathanson to advise HMV on its first major deal since completing its panel review in mid-2004.IT partner Michael Sinclair led the Simmons team advising the leading music retailer on its new music download contract with Microsoft.
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Home security
17-Jan-2005
As offshoring takes an ever firmer hold in the UK, Gilbert McClung examines new regulations that protect the vulnerable UK workforce
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How to catch and keep a City lawyer
17-Jan-2005
Regional firms often need City talent. Alex Van Hattum reveals the methodology behind getting it
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Howard Kennedy - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £22m
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Howrey takes over Houston litigation boutique
17-Jan-2005
Howrey Simon Arnold & White has merged with Houston litigation boutique Clements O’Neill Pierce Wilson & Fulkerson. Howrey’s Houston office has bagged 22 lawyers from Clements and now has 90 in total. Prior to the merger, Clements name partners Thomas Fulkerson and Michael Wilson split to form two-office litigation boutique Wilson Fulkerson. Partner Ralph Midkiff and an associate also declined Howrey, instead forming Zummo Mitchell & Midkiff. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 13 January
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Ince & Co - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £46.5m
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Inter rail
17-Jan-2005
Mitwa Bavisi has overcome some pretty tough obstacles as Union Railways’ legal counsel – not least the body of Mary Shelley’s mother. By Brendan Malkin
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Ius Laboris starts referral relationship with EEF
17-Jan-2005
The Ius Laboris alliance is joining forces with manufacturers’ organisation EEF to provide overseas labour law advice. EEF members come from the manufacturing, engineering and technology sectors. It provides business services, including employment law and HR advice, for member companies. The agreement means EEF will refer overseas employment law advice to ius laboris to be dealt with by one of its 24 member firms. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 11 January
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Jones Day - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £50m/£631m
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JPMorgan lawyer fills legal role at Schroders
17-Jan-2005
Schroders Asset Management has ended its eight-month search for a head of legal for its products with the hire of Christian Cano from JPMorgan Fleming Asset Management.
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Keating Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £17.5m
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Kendall Freeman - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £18.9m
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Kennedys - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £32.7m
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Keoghs - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £15.3m
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Keoghs lands new corporate partner
17-Jan-2005
North West firm Keoghs has boosted its corporate team with a hire from Clifford Chance.Melanie Yeomans joins the firm as a partner from Clifford Chance’s Paris office, where she was a senior solicitor.Yeomans specialises in mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments and will be helping to build up Keoghs’ corporate finance department. Alan Robins, Keoghs’ corporate head, said Yeomans’s appointment will add to the team’s strength.
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Kirkland & Ellis - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £25m/£442m
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Landmark Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £14.2m
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Landmark, 11 New Sq, St John’s hire chief execs
17-Jan-2005
Landmark Chambers has hired its first ever chief executive as a trio of chambers make new appointments to the role.
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Landwell - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £15m
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Latham & Watkins - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £50m/£630m
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Law Soc, Bar Council seek QC selectors
17-Jan-2005
The search for lay members of the selection panel that will choose the first group of QCs to be appointed under the new scheme was launched last week.
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Law Society under fire over plans for training revolution
17-Jan-2005
The Law Society was last week accused of ambushing the legal profession with radical proposals to overhaul legal education.
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Lawrence Graham wins Multiplex acquisition job
17-Jan-2005
Lawrence Graham has scored Multiplex as a new client as the Australian construction company prepares to launch its own in-house legal team in the UK.
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LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £16.8m/£207m
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Legal & General claims victory in battle with FSA
18-Jan-2005
Legal & General (L&G) is claiming to have scored a major victory in its high-profile case against the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
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Legal speak
17-Jan-2005
Decoding what lawyers say gives us endless hours of amusement. Sometimes it’s pretty obvious. A partner leaves, and you can bet that the managing partner will comment: “We wish him well.” Occasionally, they might add: “But our practice is thriving and will continue to be successful” – a comment that always speaks volumes about what’s lurking below the surface.
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Lewis Silkin - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £19.1m
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Linklaters launch Dutch corporate practice with A&O hire
21-Jan-2005
Linklaters has launched a Dutch specialist corporate department with the hiring of Allen & Overy partner Pieter Riemer.Riemer, who will join Linklaters’ Amsterdam office, has been a partner at A&O’s celebrated corporate department for four years.Richard Levy, Linklaters’ Amsterdam partner, said: "We have worked a lot on Dutch-related corporate deals, such as Air France’s merger with KLM, but referred the corporate work to Dutch firms [while handling other aspects of the deal]. ...
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Linklaters set to arbitrate with German malcontents
17-Jan-2005
Linklaters is close to agreeing to a formal arbitration of its festering dispute with the four ousted Germans who threatened to dissolve the firm.
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Littleton Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £14.9m
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Lord Goldsmith to lead defence of hunting ban
18-Jan-2005
The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith QC, is set to lead the government’s defence of the ban on hunting.
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Maclay Murray & Spens - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £38m
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Maitland Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £21m
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Manches - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £23.8m
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Martineau Johnson - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £18.6m
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Matrix Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £9.2m
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Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £79m/£496m
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McDermott Will & Emery - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £22m/£407m
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McGrigors - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £41m (estimated to end September 2004)
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Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £21m/£244m
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Mills & Reeve - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £36.1m
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Mishcon de Reya - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £23.6m
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Monckton Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £8.7m
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Morgan Cole - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £27m
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Morgan Lewis - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £9.5m/£385m
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Morgan Lewis deals blow to Shaw Pittman NY ambitions
21-Jan-2005
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has plucked two outsourcing partners from the New York office of Washington DC’s Shaw Pittman, just as the latter enters due diligence on its merger with Pillsbury Winthrop.
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Nabarros bags Salans corporate partner
17-Jan-2005
Nabarro Nathanson has recruited corporate partner Graham Stedman from Salans. Graham joined Salans from Theodore Goddard, where he was head of corporate, two years ago. He joins Nabarros’ corporate team to focus on M&A work. Nabarros senior partner Simon Johnston said the appointment reconfirmed the firm’s intention to grow with strong senior lawyers. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 10 January
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New Paris head for Ashurst
18-Jan-2005
Ashurst has chosen young corporate partner Frédéric Pinet to replace its outgoing Paris managing partner Christopher Crosthwaite.
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Nicholson Graham & Jones - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £26.5m
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No half measures at Wetherspoon as it brings legal expertise in-house
21-Jan-2005
National pub operator JD Wetherspoon has appointed Clare Eames to the position of legal director. Eames was previously a partner at the Hertford-based law firm McLellans, where she was responsible for the licensing and regulatory department.
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No5 Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £22m
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Olswang takes British Horseracing Board reins for review of funding
17-Jan-2005
Following November’s landmark European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgment, the British Horseracing Board (BHB) has ordered an urgent review of horseracing funding, with Olswang partner David Zeffman selected to the four-person panel.
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One Crown Office Row - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £11.2m
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One Essex Court - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £28m
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Opinion
17-Jan-2005
The Freedom of Information Act: social revolution or most notable for its exemptions?
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Orrick creates Taiwan practice
17-Jan-2005
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has opened an office in Taiwan to provide IP services to technology clients there. The office is named Orrick Foreign Legal Affairs Attorneys at Law and is Orrick’s second base in Asia after Tokyo. The firm is looking to expand further in Asia after doubling the size of its Tokyo operation in 2004. It has also been involved in Taiwanese securitisations as transactional counsel for Chinatrust Commercial Bank. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 12 January
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Outer Temple Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £10m
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Pannone & Partners - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £29.5m
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Patent leathering
17-Jan-2005
2004 saw Lord Hoffmann do a U-turn on his Improver patent yardstick. Will it make patent law any easier to interpret? By Stephen Jones
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Penningtons - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £23.5m
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Pillsbury Winthrop and Shaw Pittman enter merger talks
19-Jan-2005
San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop and Washington DC’s Shaw Pittman have entered merger discussions, which - if successful - would gatecrash the top 20 US firms.
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Potter made High Court Family Division president
17-Jan-2005
Lord Justice Potter has been appointed as the new president of the High Court’s Family Division. He will replace the popular Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss in April. The position of deputy head of family justice and international family justice has gone to Lord Justice Thorpe. Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor, said the range of issues now dealt with by the division “require leadership of the highest calibre”. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 12 January
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Quadrant (formerly 4 Essex Court) - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £13.5m
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Radcliffes LeBrasseur - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £19.2m
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Ready, willing and able?
17-Jan-2005
Watch out, watch out, there’s a dodgy will-writer about. Last week, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint made by the Institute of Professional Willwriters (IPW) about National Legal Services’ advert for will-writing services.
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Reed Smith - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £17.2m/£269m
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Regulators prevent non-lawyer from joining Nauta board
21-Jan-2005
Regulators have barred Dutch giant Nauta Dutilh from hiring a non-lawyer to its management board.
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Richards Butler in US merger bid with NY’s Proskauer Rose
17-Jan-2005
Merger could create £300m-turnover international powerhouse as Proskauer seeks to add London to NY, Paris offerings
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Robert Muckle corporate partner joins Eversheds
17-Jan-2005
Eversheds has lured corporate partner Alan Fletcher (left) from Newcastle’s Robert Muckle. Fletcher is dual-qualified in Scottish and English law and qualified as a chartered accountant prior to his time as a lawyer, training with Arthur Andersen in Scotland and then working for Ernst & Young in Newcastle. Fletcher is the fourth partner to ...
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Separated at birth
17-Jan-2005
Charles Martin, head of Macfarlanes’ international practice group, is of course a transactional lawyer extraordinaire. In his exalted position he takes responsibility for coordinating the firm’s relationships with foreign law firms and many of its major private equity and corporate clients. So his uncanny resemblance to Dr Strangelove’s General Buck Turgidson – the warmongering ...
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Serle Court Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £19m
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Shearman & Sterling - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £53.4m/£445m
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Shearman elbows aside Freshfields to scoop mm02 corporate reorganisation
17-Jan-2005
The London office of US firm Shearman & Sterling has secured a coup by beating Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to instructions from mmO2 on its corporate reorganisation.
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Shepherd + Wedderburn - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £29m
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Sidley Austin Brown & Wood - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £36.8m/£565m
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £17.3m/£352m
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SJ Berwin targets French real estate with new Orrick arrival
17-Jan-2005
SJ Berwin is setting out to attack the French real estate market with the hire of a partner from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe.
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £43.1m/£811m
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SLG suffers in-fighting over training
17-Jan-2005
Solicitors in Local Government (SLG), the professional body representing the 4,000 local government lawyers in England and Wales, has become embroiled in a spat over the future of its training unit.
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SPBG creates legal taskforce to aid victims of the tsunami
17-Jan-2005
Several of the world’s largest law firms have responded overwhelmingly to an appeal from the Solicitors Pro Bono Group (SPBG) to help families and businesses hit by the Asian tsunami.
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Speechly Bircham - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £25.1m
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St Philips Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
St Philips Chambers
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Steptoe & Johnson - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £6m/£121m
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Steptoe sets up in NY with fraud focus
17-Jan-2005
Washington DC-based Steptoe & Johnson has launched a New York operation on the back of its white collar crime practice.
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Sullivan & Cromwell - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £42m/£419m
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Telecoms calling
17-Jan-2005
A resurgent global telecoms sector is now fertile ground for law firms seeking new clients. Tim Schwarz urges a degree of opportunism
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The iceman cometh
17-Jan-2005
At Christmas time, the phrase ‘splash it all over’ usually conjures up images of Henry Cooper and Brut, at least for those of a certain age. Not for those in Allen & Overy’s (A&O) corporate department, however – at least since its riotous Christmas party, that is.
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The work-life quiz
17-Jan-2005
Andrew Sutch, senior partner, Stephenson Harwood
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Thomas Eggar - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £27.05m
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TLT Solicitors - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £17.5m
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Tods Murray - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £17.4m
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Travers Smith Braithwaite - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £45m
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Triple loss at Weightmans prompts strategy shift
17-Jan-2005
Weightmans is redirecting its corporate and commercial strategy as three department heads leave the Manchester office. Head of corporate Jonathan Shorrock, head of corporate recovery Glyn Willmott and head of planning and environment John Holmes will all quit in March in what is understood to be separate career moves. Managing partner Patrick Gaul said the split was “consensual” and that Weightmans would continue to focus on commercial and commercial property work, particularly in Liverpool.
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Trowers & Hamlins - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £38.7m
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Vista trusts allow BVI to slough off past and attract global businesses
17-Jan-2005
The BVI has become the new offshore battleground as a slew of Bermuda and Cayman law firms target the jurisdiction
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Walker Morris - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £39.5m
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Ward Hadaway - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £17.4m
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Watson Farley & Williams - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £45m
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Wedlake Bell - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £16.6m
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Weightmans - UK 100
17-Jan-2005
Turnover: £41m
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Weil Gotshal & Manges - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £50m/£488m
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White & Case - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £51.9m/£495m
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Wiggin signs up Addleshaws media lawyer
17-Jan-2005
Up and coming music lawyer Alexander Ross has quit Addleshaw Goddard for niche media and entertainment firm Wiggin & Co due to a lack of focus on the media group.
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Wilberforce Chambers - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £20.2m
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Wilmer Cutler & Pickering - UK 100
19-Jan-2005
UK/global turnover: £12m/£204m
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XXIV Old Buildings - UK 100
18-Jan-2005
Turnover: £9.3m
