Paul Hastings has targeted Hogan Lovells’ corporate department for the second time this year, bringing in a team of three that includes London head of private equity Ed Harris. Harris is joining alongside Hogan Lovells counsel Leanne Moezi in London, who will become a partner. Partner Adam Brown is also moving across from Northern Virginia […]
The diversity issue extends to the clerks’ rooms, says 11KBW’s Lucy Barbet, chair of the Institute of Barristers Clerks (IBC).
Baker McKenzie has become the latest firm to raise its salary for newly qualified (NQ) solicitors. The firm previously paid its NQs £77,000 per year, a figure that had fallen significantly behind the market given the developments this year. It has now raised that to base pay of £90,000 salary along with a £5,000 sign-on […]
A raft of firms including Addleshaw Goddard, DLA Piper, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Debevoise & Plimpton have scored roles on Actis’s acquisition of stakes in the Middle East’s former biggest buyout firm, Abraaj. Following Albraaj’s filing for provisional liquidation in the Cayman Islands in June 2018, it underwent a complicated unwinding process after a […]
Addleshaw Goddard has failed in its attempt to challenge the jurisdiction of a professional negligence claim brought against the firm by a family-owned business. The firm is facing a claim from Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S), which entered insolvency in 2012. The firm attempted to have the claim moved to the Scottish courts, in a […]
Over 1,500 hours has been recorded by Gowling WLG fee-earners on innovation projects under a scheme launched last year, as firms increasingly give the opportunity to allocate chargeable hours to NewLaw initiatives. More than 150 fee-earners in the firm’s UK offices, representing around 25 per cent of its headcount, have put in over 200 hours […]
Have we reached the high-water mark of globalisation? We’re all living through a period of intense global uncertainty with trade wars, political nativism and the rise of populism, economic stagnation and a worldwide shift in the centres of power. Does this mean that the world’s largest law firms are slamming the brakes on global expansion? […]
Your roadmap to Asia-Pac growth: Enquire here Investigate the risk both international and independent firms are facing in APAC’s main jurisdictions. Understand who’s growing and why in the region. Benchmark your firm’s progress against your peers. Win and defend your firm’s market share. This year’s Asia-Pacific 100 will focus on growth and how the leading […]
Indispensable insight for your firm ENQUIRE TODAY 1. Discover and examine the growth of independent European firms on the continent. 2. Investigate where the opportunities lie; which local firms to compete with, to partner with and to acquire. 3. Reveal the growth of international firms in European legal markets. The Lawyer’s European 100 is the […]
Is the system conspiring against female barristers? We weigh up the evidence, using data on cases at both the Employment Appeals Tribunal and the Court of Appeal
How have firms in the second half of The Lawyer UK Top 100 fared since the recession hit many of them so hard a decade ago? The Lawyer data shows the winners and losers in the mid-tier
The largest merger in the Italian legal market in over 30 years started out in the tiniest possible way. A casual conversation between Giuseppe Lombardi, founder of litigation boutique Lombardi e Associati, and Sergio Erede, one of the three lawyers who twenty years ago founded corporate powerhouse BonelliErede alongside Aurelio Pappalardo and the late Franco […]
Which firms have NEDs on their boards? And who are the most junior UK-qualified partners on leadership teams? The Lawyer’s first boardroom audit displays key trends in gender diversity, seats of power and the role of business services professionals.
David Pollitt is transforming DACB thanks to his style of cheery communication coupled with strict financial discipline.
These are The Lawyer‘s Top 20 cases to look out for in 2019.
The Lawyer first-ever technology-focused market report aims not only to recognise the fact that the UK’s largest law firms are investing an increasing amount of time and money in a wide range of technology applications, systems and solutions, but also highlight which are using these to materially improve the way they operate.
By Nick Holland and Hamish Corner This week’s announcements by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of its intention to fine British Airways and Marriott International £183M and £99M respectively, has not come as a surprise to many. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham had given some strong clues in her recent ‘GDPR – one year on’ article and, […]
By Paul Smith, Spencer Vickers Q. Are lawyers able to enter into contingency /damages sharing agreements with clients? No, contingency fee agreements are unlawful. However, it is lawful for lawyers to enter a fair and reasonable conditional fee arrangement for an increase in fees to reflect the nature of the risk undertaken by counsel in accepting […]
By Angus Evers, Matthew Price Five local authorities in the Solent area have put a hold on determining planning applications for new housing as a result of advice from Natural England about nitrate pollution. Following two rulings by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the ‘Dutch Case’ (C-293/17 and C-294/17) and ‘People […]
By James Forsyth The draft Finance Bill 2019-20 was published on 11 July 2019. It includes, amongst other provisions, changes to reinstate HMRC’s status as a preferential creditor in relation to certain debts in corporate insolvencies. This will have an impact for all shareholders and creditors in corporate insolvencies where HMRC is also a creditor. […]
Economic substance, fund governance and ESG were the three key topics discussed by the technical panel at the HKVCA Asia Venture Capital Forum 2019 moderated by Ogier partner Kate Hodson yesterday. The panel gave their views and experience on the three key topical issues of substance, governance and ESG investing for the PE &VC funds […]
