A year ago, this was the week when it all went really wrong. Twelve months on and, in case you missed it, The Lawyer has been reporting the personal testimonies of partners who were there on 15 September 2008, when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.
News that hourly rates have fallen by up to a third has reignited the debate about how companies pay for legal services.
DLA Piper’s finance and projects lawyers are going to have to prove their worth to incoming chief Bob Charlton – after all, they saw what happened at Freshfields
The Taylor Root Law Society Rugby Sevens was the legal sporting event of the year.
Residential mortgage-backed securities issue creates buzz in the market as investors flood in. By Catrin Griffiths
Last year Shearman & Sterling sent New York M&A partner Creighton Condon to London to lead the firm’s European network.
Does the elite firm need to soften its aggressive tactics? asks Julia Berris
The Legal Services Board (LSB) is to launch a major new panel with the possibility of a single law firm winning the pitch.
Quadrant Chambers is to raise its pupillage award by more than a third in a move that will intensify the war for talent at the bar.
Circle Anglia, the social housing provider for London and the South East, has launched a root-and-branch review of its legal advisers.
The College of Law’s (CoL) Legal Services Policy Institute (LSPI) is calling for the training contract for solicitors to be abolished in a bid to “widen access to the profession”.
Clifford Chance is pledging to increase its percentage of female partners to 30 per cent.