Addleshaw Goddard’s revenue surpassed the £300m barrier over 2020/21, with an uplift of 12 per cent. Following a sluggish 2020, the firm’s revenue hit £321m while average profit per equity partner (PEP) was up 23 per cent to £849,000, having fallen below £700,000 during the last financial year. The latest revenue figure means that the […]
Now ‘watercooler moments’ are finally set to return, they shouldn’t be stifled by an obsession with efficiency.
Paul Hastings is to bring in a leveraged finance partner from Latham & Watkins’ City office, The Lawyer can reveal. Partner Adrian Chiodo has been a member of Latham’s finance department since 2011. He was previously a partner at Australian outfit Gilbert + Tobin, and prior to that an associate at Milbank and legacy Allens Arthur […]
This week the Court of Appeal dismissed a challenge against the High Court’s 200-page decision in the bitterly fought Avonwick dispute – marking a win for Fountain Court’s Alexandra Whelan who has been fighting the case since 2018. The decision was the result of a two-day hearing earlier this month, which for Whelan marked a […]
Osborne Clarke is joining the raft of firms witnessing a dramatic rise in profits per equity partner (PEP), after a drop in 2019/20. The UK firm’s UK PEP went up by 16 per cent from £614,000 to £714,000. The previous year, the metric had dropped by 12 per from £703,000. The firm’s revenue meanwhile grew […]
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As exponential growth of technology consumes the world, the legal industry is having to move fast to keep up. The Lawyer and cloud-based document management solution Conga gathered seven in-house lawyers as part of The Lawyer In-house Financial Services conference to discuss legal automation transformation. The roundtable was moderated by Conga’s director of sales engineering […]
The masks are almost off, international holidays have restarted, and most return to office plans are well underway. Though it may seem like normal life is fast approaching, those who are resuming office life have had their outlook fundamentally changed by lockdown. How is post-lockdown office life going to reflect this, and what lessons have […]
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Keep checking this live blog for the latest on law firms’ financial results this year. You can find it in the Features section towards the bottom of the homepage.
How a legal team took on the might of the Post Office to put right one of the biggest miscarriages of justice the UK has ever seen
Seven in-house lawyers express their gratitude to external advisers for helping them through the pandemic, while giving pointers on how to move forward.
Last month’s China sanctions against a number of individuals and entities, including Essex Court Chambers, sparked a weekend of discussions for City litigators.
Members of The Lawyer Hot 100 have just two things in common. The first is excellence. Every year, our Hot 100 covers an incredibly diverse mix of legal professionals: scrappers from the rough and tumble of criminal law; sharp-suited corporate dealmakers; intellectuals and silver-tongued advocates from barristers’ profession; the in-house counsel with the ear of […]
In this white paper we ask how in-house legal teams can embrace technology to support their legal functions. Should we build on how we’ve adapted to what has been forced on us by the pandemic? Or should we put our effort into going back to how we did things before? Can we use the “new normal” to drive technological creativity and innovation for in-house lawyers? Could this, right now, be legal tech’s watershed moment?
On 20 July 2021, the UK Government published proposals for a new competition regime for digital markets “to make it fairer for smaller businesses, entrepreneurs, and the British public”. These proposals include significant new powers for the Digital Markets Unit which was recently established within the CMA and an enforceable code of conduct for firms with so-called Strategic Market Status (SMS). The Government is also considering new merger control rules for firms with SMS. The proposals are now open for public consultation until 1 October 2021.
To assess current perceptions of the funding market and gather views on how its future might play out, AlixPartners has collaborated with The Lawyer to survey private practice litigators, leading in-house lawyers, and barristers. The survey focuses on the perceived benefits and drawbacks of funding, the situations in which respondents would typically use a funder, and the direction in which the litigation funding market is headed.
Since 1 January 2021, Regulation (EU) 1215/2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (Brussels Recast) and the 2007 Convention on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (Lugano Convention) no longer apply to the UK.
On 9th-10th June, the Marketing Leadership Summit is bringing together the top marketing and business development leaders working in major law firms today. If you want to become a commercial partner with the Marketing Leadership Summit, simply click here to enquire about available sponsorship opportunities.
Ahead of the inaugural Smarter Working Week in association with Shoosmiths event, Shoosmiths chief executive Simon Boss spoke with The Lawyer about the concept of smarter working and how that has evolved over the past year. “Many people may think smarter working is just about efficiency or productivity” and while it includes that, it’s actually […]
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Shoosmiths’ Caroline White-Robinson on finding the confidence to say “this isn’t going well” and that no, this is not “the worst thing that could have happened”.
