SRA reviews Dentons’ handling of work discrimination case
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is investigating whether a formal inquiry should be launched into Dentons’ handling of a discrimination case.
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The most common name for a law firm partner is…
Exclusive research conducted by The Lawyer has revealed the most common names for male and female partners in the UK’s largest firms.
Guy Norman wins second term as Clifford Chance corporate head
Clifford Chance global head of corporate Guy Norman has been reappointed to a second term in the role, effective from 1 May.
Clydes promotes 12 as partner numbers pass 400 for first time
Clyde & Co has made up 12 associates to equity partner, swelling the firm’s partnership numbers to over 400 for the first time in its history.
The 60 second interview: How GCs can make a difference
Zoopla Property Group’s general counsel and company secretary Ned Staple shares his three main ways for lawyers to make a difference in their company.
A&O guns for tech revenue stream with derivatives platform launch
Allen & Overy (A&O) has developed a new online platform in the wake of impending derivatives regulations.
HSF teams up with SullCrom for Weir’s largest-ever acquisition
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Sullivan & Cromwell have teamed up to advise FTSE 250 engineering company Weir on its billion-dollar acquisition of US provider Esco.
Hot 100 career quiz: Jonathan Blair
Name: Jonathan Blair Position: Co-chair and UK managing partner Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson Trained at: Wragge & Co In Hot 100 for: Leading Bond Dickinson into a major US merger. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I did my training at Wragges in Birmingham in the late 1980s and as a […]
High society: Canada braces for cannabis M&A boom
The recreational drugs trade is rarely thought of as a sector for M&A lawyers to capitalise on, but in Canada that is exactly what is happening. The Canadian government has just introduced laws that will legalise marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes, creating opportunities for lawyers to act on M&A deals for companies looking to […]
Lo♥︎ing legal life: Who do you think you are?
This week, Systemic Coach Zita Tulyahikayo and Barrister and NLP Master Practitioner James Pereira QC discuss the meaning and importance of self-awareness
Cadent Gas launches first panel since National Grid split
Cadent Gas has launched its first panel tender since the £13.8bn deal which saw it split from National Grid in December 2016.
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A&O veteran Philip Wood: What I learned from 50 years in law
Allen & Overy’s (A&O) former banking head Philip Wood QC is retiring at the end of this month after half a century in the magic circle firm.
FTSE 250 – 2018 report
The Lawyer FTSE 250 report, produced in association with Consilio, is the definitive guide to in-house teams at the FTSE 250 and the law firms serving them. It details which law firms are working with each of the 250 companies and on what types of matters, including both corporate and litigation work. A detailed investigation […]
Global Real Estate 50 – 2018 report
Win more business. Spot greater opportunities. Uncovering in-depth data on deals, clients and real estate teams, the report also delivers opportunity-led insights, proving it to be a vital piece of reading to inform your long-term strategy. Focusing specifically on property tech, this report gets inside the top real estate practices in the world revealing the […]
Litigation Tracker 2018: Year in review report
Analyse 2017, to inspire 2018. By analysing the 2,000+ cases across fifteen English courts that reached judgment in 2017, the report unearths the most active firms and chambers in the year. Importantly, it details who is instructing whom, uncovering vital relationships between litigants and law firms and between law firms and chambers. Key insight The […]
The awkward question of succession at Bird & Bird
Critics insist Bird & Bird is a dictatorship, with CEO David Kerr ensconced at the top. It could make discussing succession a bit tricky
The magic circle’s succession problem
The day of the corporate big beast is over. What can the magic circle do to nurture its next crop of superstars?
Latham: The rise and very public fall of Bill Voge
What a way to go. If anyone was wondering what it would take for the global chair of a $3bn law firm to stand down from his position, yesterday’s shock revelation, which has since been updated as more details have emerged, provided the answer. For it to have happened to the global law’s golden firm […]
A&O and O’Melveny: At last some realism about global mergers
Oh, this is cute. A&O’s overture to O’Melveny & Myers yet again underlines the magic circle firm’s reputation for lateral thinking. For the last five years A&O has been consistently rumoured to be on the verge of doing a deal with Shearman & Sterling. Bypassing New York in favour of a West Coast play – […]
Revealed: The scale of sexual harassment in law
The profession has a problem
Exclusive: Clifford Chance launches second probe into partner sexual misconduct
Clifford Chance has launched a second investigation in under 12 months into the behaviour of a current partner, following allegations of sexual misconduct leaked to The Lawyer. The first allegations emerged in 2015 when the accused partner was based in one of the firm’s European offices, and include multiple allegations of sexual impropriety with staff in […]
Gender pay gap: Female partners at Hogan Lovells paid 3.2% more
Hogan Lovells gender pay gap results have shown that female partners receive more than their male counterparts on both a median and mean basis.
Gender pay gap: Eversheds female equity partners paid 10% more
Female equity partners at Eversheds Sutherland received 10 per cent more than their male counterparts on average last financial year, the firm’s gender pay gap reporting has shown.
Clifford Chance is first magic circle firm to reveal partner pay gap
Clifford Chance has become the first magic circle firm to include partner data as part of its gender pay reporting, showing an average gap of 66 per cent across its London office.
Webinar: General Counsel: 3 steps to modernise your legal department
Hosted by Nicholas d’Adhemar, CEO and Founder of Apperio Date: Wednesday 9th May Time: 3.30pm – 4.15pm BST RSVP In-house legal departments are under increasing pressure to add additional value to the business by providing greater strategic insight as well as being more predictable and efficient in managing their costs. This change in their role […]
China – New measures reform pollutants discharge permit system
By Wenhong Xu and Hui Yang On January 10 2018 the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) issued the Administrative Measures for Pollutants Discharge Permits (for Trial Implementation) (MEP Order 48), which took effect on the same date. The measures develop and refine the Interim Provisions on the Management of Pollution Permits (Huan Shui Ti [2016] 186), which […]
Home Office and disabled people’s rights to asylum in the UK
By Emily Dugan The 11 April 2018 article uses a 2015 unreported Tribunal determination of an asylum seeker from Zimbabwe, living with a disability called “W”, promulgated in June 2015, as the basis of demanding urgent action to address the asylum claims based on disability, three years later…