21 Jan 2013
The Lawyer
Demystifying commercial awareness video
Powered by The College of Law these recorded highights from our live webcast will help those students wanting to understand more about commercial awareness helping them to define, develop and demonstrate it to potential employers.
The importance of international law to future top lawyers video
Powered by The College of Law these recorded highlights from our live webcast will help those students preparing to make vacation scheme or training contract applications to international law firms or those wishing to further their international studies.
A steppe towards the West
Russia’s Supreme Commercial Court is on the verge of taking a more liberal stance on foreign arbitral awards
Asia partner shortage
Firms plug the talent gap in Asia with junior partnerships
Beware the stealth ABS revolution
Although they have made a quiet start, ABSs have the power to change the face of the legal sector
Five rules of the insolvency game
As the high street suffers, lawyers pick up mandates from administrators
Fix NHS claims problem at the source
NHS negligence payouts can be good value but investment in the services would be a better outcome
Games theory
Shonagh MacVicar, head of legal at Glasgow 2014, is adamant the Commonwealth Games will emulate the glories of London 2012
Green shoots
A new survey shows positivity is trickling back in to Ireland’s legal market as a recovering economy draws work their way, even in the notorious property sector
High price to pay for this bill
The Public Service Pensions Bill could lead to constitutional corruption if it is not amended
Irwin Mitchell regional boss linked to DLA defections
Irwin Mitchell Sheffield boss linked with luring DLA Piper defectors
Job Watch: Russia
Judgment Call 21 January 2013
Moves: 21 January 2013
Myanmar horizons
Law firms are following the many companies scrambling to grab a piece of the action in the fast-emerging country formerly known as Burma
Number crunching: Wragge & Co
The tail-end of Wragge & Co’s 2012 was marked by the departure of banking head and asset finance specialist Paula Laird for US firm Squire Sanders, and a three-partner City team including former managing partner Richard Haywood and current corporate chief Maurice Dwyer, who joined RPC.
Sous le soleil
Firms in north-west Africa’s Morocco and Algeria hubs are seeing a greater influx of international clients into the French-dominated market
Space, the lucrative frontier
Clydes’ canny office lease deal funds large loan
The down-to-earth visionary
Eversheds CEO Bryan Hughes’ finance-focused style suited the recession, but his challenge now is to take the firm to the next, global, stage
The Lawyer Management: Keystone Law
William Robins, COO, Keystone Law
The rising status of the suit set
Eversheds is an interesting animal. Less evidently political than DLA Piper and rather less prone to dramatic convulsions, it’s always been short on pizzazz and long on execution.
Work Life Quiz: Sarah Mansfield, Berrymans Lace Mawer
