North East firm Jacksons has split its core areas of business into two new firms. The firm’s insurance practice will be spun-off into a separate practice comprising managing partner Richard Clarke and six other partners. The firm’s commercial and private client practice will have 10 partners, including senior partner Kevin Fletcher. Clarke said: “The benefit […]
Jones Day Gouldens is slashing ten per cent of its fee-earning staff in London as it becomes the latest City firm to institute a redundancy programme.The move, which was announced internally today (23 May) will initially affect up to 25 associates and paralegals, but may be followed by a proportionate reduction in secretarial staff. Partners […]
Bevan Ashford’s non-lawyer chief executive Ann Conway-Hughes has resigned after just 18 months in the role. She will be replaced by partner and board member Stuart Whitfield.Conway-Hughes joined from engineering conglomerate GKN in late 2001 to lead an ambitious overhaul of the Bristol, Birmingham and London profit centre.However, there has been no movement in that […]
Eversheds has continued its steady growth in turnover, increasing gross fee income by 13 per cent to £285m in the last 12 months.“The firm’s had a good year, particularly when viewed in the context of current economic conditions,” said managing partner David Gray. “We’ve had significant growth in all practice groups, including corporate, with particularly […]
Audited profit figures released by DLA show a15 per cent hike in the firm’s turnover to £234m for the last financial year, with 21.1 per cent of the firm’s fee income being distributed as equity partner profits. However, profits per partner (PPP) remained relatively static at £460,000, an increase of just 2 per cent from […]
Manchester and Leeds-based Cobbetts has formed an alliance with Belgian trade law boutique Stanbrook & Hooper to provide its clients with EU law advice. The firms were introduced through their common membership of the State Capital Global Law Firm Group.
Stamford Law Corporation is launching in Beijing and Guangzhou, following a bulk hire of Chinese specialist lawyers from rival Singapore firm Colin Ng & Partners. Tan Chong Huat, who leads the team, will join Stamford as a director (the equivalent of a partner) and is bringing with him around six other lawyers. They will all […]
DLA is continuing its drive into Asia after striking a deal to take over Singapore firm J Koh & Co.The corporate and commercial practice, which has been part of the DLA Group, an exclusive association of law firms, since 2000, will see its seven Singapore-based lawyers transfer to DLA’s local office. In Thailand the Bangkok […]
Audited profit figures released by DLA show a15 per cent hike in the firm’s turnover to £234m for the last financial year, with 21.1 per cent of the firm’s fee income being distributed as equity partner profits. However, profits per partner (PPP) remained relatively static at £460,000, an increase of just 2 per cent from […]
Manchester and Leeds-based Cobbetts has formed an alliance with Belgian trade law boutique Stanbrook & Hooper to provide its clients with EU law advice. The firms were introduced through their common membership of the State Capital Global Law Firm Group.
Altheimer & Gray has been hit by the shock resignation of the chairman of its international practice. Louis Goldman, the partner primarily responsible for the firm’s expansion in Europe, has resigned as the Chicago firm continues its internal restructure. It is understood that it had already been decided that responsibility for the firm’s international expansion […]
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has lost its second corporate partner to Kirkland & Ellis just weeks after the New York firm’s talks with Ashurst Morris Crisp fell through. Thomas Christopher is joining Kirkland one month after Stephen Fraidin, one of Fried Frank’s most senior partners, left for the same destination in a move […]