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Tech Pioneers: How two worlds collided at Bird & Bird
Inside Bird & Bird’s consulting foray, five years after its creation
Law Against Loneliness: 2 June
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
Labour MP David Lammy takes on role at Doughty Street
Tottenham MP David Lammy has joined Doughty Street Chambers as an associate tenant. Lammy, who currently serves as the shadow lord chancellor and shadow secretary of state for justice, will now also be an associate tenant at Doughty Street. He is not the first Labour MP to have ties to the set, with the party’s current […]
Leaitherland’s DWF exit deal: departing CEO to keep 70 per cent of shares
DWF’s departing CEO Andrew Leaitherland is to be paid an annual salary of £530,000 over the next 12 months, while nearly a third of his shares in the firm will be clawed back by the business. Details of Leaitherland’s lucrative exit package have emerged following his shock departure from the listed outfit on Friday, which […]
A&O partner joins ex-colleagues in Milbank HK move
Milbank has made its first partner hire in Hong Kong in five years, as capital markets partner Alex Tao joins the US firm from Allen & Overy. Tao was a partner at Allen & Overy’s Hong Kong office for nearly four years. Prior that he was a counsel at Davis Polk & Wadwell, where he […]
Housing developer A2Dominion kicks off inaugural panel process
Housing developer A2Dominion is looking to assemble its first panel of external legal advisers and is looking for alternative legal services providers to join the mix. The company is due to send out tenders this month, with the developer aiming for a roster that will include three to five firms across a number of themed […]
Baker Botts in final negotiations for new London HQ
Baker Botts is closing in on plans for its upcoming London office move, making it the latest US firm to change its City headquarters in a year that has already seen many real estate commitments being made. The firm is understood to be in negotiations to move into 20 Fenchurch Street. The building, also known […]
Reed Smith poised for job cuts as firm reveals further Covid-19 measures
Reed Smith is starting a redundancy consultation process in London, one of a number of new measures introduced by the firm as it battles the consequences of Covid-19 on its business. The process will target what it describes as a “small number” of lawyers and staff in the firm’s City office. The Lawyer understands it will […]
The partner class of 2020 are lucky: they’re being elected by optimists
As partner promotion announcements began to mount over the course of March and April, it became clear that not all firms’ analyses of the economic impact of Covid-19 – and the associated subsequent recession – were uniform. A group of outliers emerged: of the top 20 firms, Ashurst, Simmons & Simmons and Taylor Wessing all […]
Forged in fire: the new partners of 2020
They qualified during the Great Recession – now they’re making partner during the Great Pandemic.
3 pieces of advice
Liberis GC Alexis Alexander’s 3 tips for lockdown.
Webinar: How to measure the legal team’s value-add
Watch this free webinar for how to maximise team efficiency.
OUT NOW: EUROPEAN 100 2020
The report aims to examine the growth of independent European firms on the continent as well as potential challenges and opportunities evidenced by trends in the market.
- Discover and examine the growth of independent European firms on the continent.
- Investigate where the opportunities lie; which local firms to compete with, to partner with and to acquire.
- Reveal the growth of international firms in European legal markets.
European 100 2020 Report
Read this report to: Discover and examine the growth of independent European firms on the continent. Investigate where the opportunities lie; which local firms to compete with, to partner with and to acquire. Reveal the growth of international firms in European legal markets. The Lawyer’s European 100 is the only in-depth report into the legal […]
Global Real Estate 50 2020
Read this report to: Ensure your firm hit their 2020 practice area growth objectives, whilst increasing the importance of real estate practice to the firm. Make better-informed decisions regarding your strategic investment in tech. Win additional business from more prestigious and profitable clients. Cherry-pick the best acquisition targets, and decide which new ground to break […]
Learning & Development Benchmarking 2020
The L&D Benchmarking reports compares the top UK law firms approaches to learning and development, as well as feedback from employees, enabling your firm to: Get more value from your greatest assets: retain, develop and attract more proficient, advanced and therefore lucrative employees at your firm through greater targeting of your L&D spend. Benchmark your […]
Forged in fire: the new partners of 2020
They qualified during the Great Recession – now they’re making partner during the Great Pandemic.
Managing remotely: law firm leaders on navigating the pandemic – and what comes next
How have law firm leaders managed the coronavirus lockdown and what lessons have been learned from the global financial crisis?
Coronavirus: full details of how law firms are reacting
All the latest developments on what firms are doing in response to the coronavirus spread. Contact editorial@thelawyer.com if you have further updates.
The climate change challenge after the pandemic: how to build a sustainable law firm
Before the outbreak of coronavirus, one of the biggest questions for law firm leaders was – how can we make our business more sustainable? With just a few decades to go before the climate crisis becomes irreversible, these are the long-term investments firms are making.
New QCs at a time of change: the silks of 2020
As 114 new silks celebrated their success in the 2020 Queen’s Counsel appointments, they were also marking the end of an arduous selection procedure – all for the honour, pride and privilege of securing those two prestigious letters that can reshape a legal career. Finally gaining the QC kitemark gives some barristers a sense of […]
Changes in the real estate landscape
The past week has seen significant changes for all involved in real estate. This article summaries the key points owners and their advisors need to know.
Why you might be accepting fake news without realising it
Do you believe everything you see? No matter how discerning or intelligent you are, we are all pre-programmed to be more accepting of information in certain contexts than others. While most of us are wise to the ‘Nigerian prince’ phishing scams of old, we are less likely to question an email from someone we know. We might question news on a website we’ve never seen before – but not in a publication we know well. And if we follow somebody high-profile on a social media platform we’re familiar with, like Instagram, chances are we take what they say at face value. It’s precisely because of this that mainstream media recently described influencer and celebrity accounts as ‘the gateway drug to fake news’.
Why wealthy families will become even more mobile
After the pandemic, the richest people will use technology to establish themselves even further afield than they are now – and will need the necessary legal support.
Covid-19 & green finance: What next?
In this feature article, Mark Oliphant of The International Stock Exchange Group goes from Brexit and through COVID-19 to explore the impact so far on, and the prospects for the future of, green finance and the wider sustainable investing market.