Dentons has launched a managed legal services offering to take on low to medium complexity work for in-house legal teams. Developed as an extension of a client’s in-house team, the firm says the new offering will allow for significant cost savings to clients and free up the workload of their in-house legal department, by assisting […]
Johnny Depp’s libel case has put the spotlight back on News Group, which has drifted toward settling claims rather than face litigation.
Hogan Lovells’ new CEO Miguel Zaldivar wants to seize corporate footing in London and target growth in practice areas like privacy and cybersecurity, as well as trade. Zaldivar, who officially became the firm’s CEO on 1 July, told The Lawyer that there now needs to be a shift in how the firm is perceived, particularly […]
Covington & Burling has received a successful outcome in a long-running dispute arising out of Ukraine. The firm and Hogan Lovells were defending a pair of oligarchs in a dispute brought by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s client Avonwick Holdings, in a case that featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases 2019. British Virgin Islands-based […]
Clifford Chance has unveiled a set of diversity pledges, covering gender, race and LGBT, as it aims to improve its credentials by 2030. On the gender front, the firm said it wants to increase its female partner representation to at least 40 per cent by 2030. However, according to the firm’s latest set of gender […]
Travel operator Fleetway has called in PwC as it fell into administration yesterday, with Eversheds Sutherland appointed to assist the Big Four giant. The company’s collapse was brought on by cash flow pressures amid Covid-19, a scenario many travel companies are also facing as fewer holidaymakers book overseas trips. Fleetway, which employs around 62 employees, […]
CMS saw its global turnover grow by just under 5 per cent to €1.42bn last year, its third financial results since its merger with Olswang and Nabarro, It marks an increase from the previous 12 months’ €1.36bn, with the latest results covering the 2019 calendar year. Its UK LLP had a similar performance, this time covering […]
Pinsent Masons has revealed its retention results for the autumn. Of 71 final-seat trainees, 68 applied from newly-qualified (NQ) jobs with the firm, and 57 have accepted offers, giving the firm a retention score of 80 per cent for the autumn 2020 round. None of the 57 are being retained on fixed-term contracts. Pinsents is […]
Bird & Bird has reopened its London office as part of a phased reoccupation project. The office was subject to a soft opening last week. Only those who can’t work productively from home are encouraged to access the Fetter Lane premises, while the largest part of the workforce will still be operating remotely until UK […]
There is a moment in the 1980s movie Thelma and Louise when a young actor walks on to the screen. In the film his role is a little larger than a bit part, just a two-bit hustler who steals a heart and a bag full of cash to conveniently move the plot on to the […]
Gowling WLG organised a round table with in-house lawyers and compliance teams across the financial services industry, both in traditional banks and fintech, to discuss how their companies have been affected by Covid-19 so far, and how they plan to move forward. The discussion was led by Ian Mason, partner and head of UK financial […]
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Gowling WLG organised a round table with in-house lawyers and compliance teams across the financial services industry, both in traditional banks and fintech, to discuss how their companies have been affected by Covid-19 so far, and how they plan to move forward. The discussion was led by Ian Mason, partner and head of UK financial […]
LawCare CEO Elizabeth Rimmer shares her 3 R’s for looking after your mental health, including useful tips such as using the lockdown as a way to get new perspectives on the positive changes we would like to make in our lives.
This year’s Asia-Pacific 100 report will focus on activity in seven key jurisdictions including Hong Kong and Singapore, and an overview of the changing sizes, geographical footprints and strategies of leading law firms over the last five years.
Your roadmap to Asia-Pacific growth Track and analyse the growth of the leading independent firms based in Asia-Pacific Investigate the competitive landscape, who to benchmark and to partner with in the region Examine talent investment trends in the industry by accessing five years of promotions and lateral hire data of the 30 largest firms in […]
Monitor the impact on the London market of the investment made by US firms. Investigate which practice areas firms are targeting for 2020/21. Discover the underlying market dynamics that will shape the London legal market in 2020/21. The Lawyer US Top 50 is unique as the only ranking of UK and London financial performance of […]
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 […]
After almost 10 years spent banging at the door, waiting to enter the mainstream, litigation funding is now ready for its moment in the spotlight
The debate around structural racism has been heightened by the killing of George Floyd and the growing voice of the Black Lives Matter movement. Together, they reframe how we think of the history of the City, and by extension the commercial legal profession.
They qualified during the Great Recession – now they’re making partner during the Great Pandemic.
How have law firm leaders managed the coronavirus lockdown and what lessons have been learned from the global financial crisis?
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.
The #StopHateforProfit campaign launched on 17 June 2020 with a striking advert in the LA Times asserting that Facebook had “allowed incitement to violence against protestors fighting for racial justice in America.” The campaign urged advertisers to hit Facebook in their pockets and withdraw their advertising from the site in the month July. Facebook has previously […]
The pandemic has highlighted some new patterns in the legal industry. Here, I’ve picked out three that I believe we should try our best to hold on to.
On 1 August changes to the current permitted development regime will be introduced. These will assist in meeting housing demand, whilst ensuring that conversions to residential use provide adequate natural light.
With 2020’s global shake-up there’s been plenty of opportunity to rethink how we work – and how much we work. Rightly so – stress, overwork and burnout have become all too common in recent years.
