Oppenheimer to accept bids for Palo Alto office

Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly's highly unusual move to auction off its entire Palo Alto office will leave the new owner saddled with dotcom boom rent rates as San Francisco property prices continue to plunge

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Trowers reveals innovation trainee seat amid legal tech push

Trowers & Hamlins has become the latest firm to offer an innovation seat to its trainees as a part of its training contract. From the beginning of April,  trainees at Trowers will have the option to sit in the innovation team and develop their competency in legal tech. Trowers’ training contract is divided into four […]

Stockholm

Scandi shake-up as Hannes Snellman finalises split between offices

Scandinavian firm Hannes Snellman has finalised the split between its Swedish and Finnish businesses, citing “a divergence of the business strategies…in Helsinki and Stockholm”. The firm announced in February 2024 that the split would take place and the necessary arrangements have taken place splitting the offices into two distinct entities under the Hannes Snellman operating […]

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Harbottles partners told to step up on lock-up

With the 2023/24 financial year-end just days away, law firm leaders are doing everything they can to make sure no bill is left unsent and no debt is left uncollected. For many firms, that process will include turning to a raft of new technology solutions to try and speed up the cashflow process. However, at an […]

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Linklaters cuts partner promotions by a third in latest round

This year marks an end to a series of bumper promotions rounds at Linklaters, with just 27 being made partner as of 1 May 2024. The magic circle firm has elected 27 new partners – a decrease of 34 per cent from the 41 promotions announced in both 2023 and 2022. The size of the […]

HIgh Court London

“An egregious case”: High Court order ends Dechert hacking claim saga

A High Court default judgment has brought an end to the long-running dispute involving the Emirati sovereign wealth fund RAKIA, US businessman Farhad Azima, Dechert and its former partner Neil Gerrard. The default judgment, which was granted by the High Court yesterday, has resulted in the dismissal of two High Court judgments and one Court […]

Signal Research Reports

The impact of tech on financial management

This report contains: an analysis of 15 UK firms’ cash flow management and lock-up trends over the past five years lock-up correlated with profitability to demonstrate the impact of strong financial management for firms’ bottom line details on the adoption of technology by firms to make their financial management more efficient

The Scottish legal market in 2024

This report contains: an analysis of the Scottish legal market as a whole, covering key locations and sectors the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the country analysis of the Scottish independent firms’ efficiency

Under the hood: Quinn Emanuel’s London Office

This report contains: a look at the profitability and growth of Quinn Emanuel’s London office since its opening in 2008 an analysis of Quinn’s bench strength and how it weighs up against competitors an overview of Quinn’s practice in London

Linklaters and the race for the global elite

This report contains: The Lawyer‘s new global elite index which ranks firms on four key financial metrics analysis of the magic circle firms’ growth trajectories in the US insights from industry experts on firms poised for global dominance in the next decade detailed analysis of the magic circles practice area performance using data from The […]

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