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Kirkland & Ellis has hired its second funds partner this week, this time from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Louisa Cobbe has joined the US firm’s London office. She trained at legacy BLP, qualifying in 2010. She made partner at the newly-merged firm in 2019. She advises on the structuring, capital raising and ongoing operation of […]
The latest trainee retention results from the autumn 2022 round.
Tripp Hemphill, VP Enterprise Markets EMEA at DISCO, talks about how the legal space is ready for a tech revolution, automation’s role in saving time and effort, and the one thing lawyers should know about integrated AI.
Ben Wulwik joined OakNorth in its early start-up days, over six years ago. Founded by university friends Rishi Khosla and Joel Perlman, OakNorth came about after they realised there was a gap in the market for providing funding to entrepreneurs following the experience they’d had in trying to secure a loan for the first business […]
Fast-growing law company Elevate has turned to US investment banking provider Stifel to begin a private equity capital raise, with Reed Smith as legal advisor. Having considered an AIM listing back in 2021, which was delayed due to Covid-19 disruption, Elevate has decided that private equity financing would be more conducive to its strategy and […]
Kirkland & Ellis has bolstered its investment funds practice by swiping a partner from Ashurst’s London office. Catherine Gokah makes the move after being appointed partner at Ashurst in May 2021. Her practice involves advising fund sponsors in respect to fundraising activities with a focus on real estate and infrastructure. Christopher Braunack, investment funds partner […]
Training in-house can often be seen as a barrier to an impressive legal career, but the insight gained into how a business works can also be invaluable.
What is it like working on one of the UK’s largest corporate demergers for 20 years? To find out, The Lawyer spoke to GSK’s Sarah Clements on the role played by the in-house teams involved. Clements, who is GSK’s legal head of group transformation and separation, worked alongside its group general counsel James Ford and […]
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“I acted for a client 20-odd years ago that went from 50 firms on its panel to 12, and we thought that was absolutely revolutionary,” says BLM’s legacy senior partner Matthew Harrington. “Now clients are looking at panel sizes, certainly in the general insurance market, of two to three firms.” And that, in a nutshell, […]
This live blog charts law firms’ results for the 2021/22 financial year.
The latest trainee retention results from the autumn 2022 round.
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The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Last update: 3 August 2022 The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became the first firm to offer NQs £100,000 in London back in […]
Ahead of this year’s Smarter Working Week event, Thomson Reuters’ chief product officer LegalTech Kriti Sharma spoke with The Lawyer about the concept of smarter working and how this has evolved to become “more people-centric”. Working smarter is about creating experiences that “connect humans”, put people at the centre of businesses and create positive change. Tech is […]
This month’s publication of The Lawyer’s new US 50 ranking confirms that 2020 was yet another record year for US law firms in the UK. But while 23 firms saw a double digit rise in revenue and seven grew their turnover by 20 per cent or more, not every firm enjoyed such a barnstorming performance […]
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.
Today’s “Success Stories” case study features Alexia Tomazos, the head of legal and business affairs at Outbrain, a leading recommendation platform for the open web. In this short video, Tomazos talks about smarter ways of working and shares a couple of practical examples for increasing productivity and efficiency. TL Success Stories – Alexia Tomazos from […]
