Weightmans has said it will pay its staff their full salary after making cuts earlier in the year, while also deciding to reinstate distributions from October. From June, the firm’s employees took, on average, an 11 per cent salary reduction, which Weightmans said would be reviewed at the end of October. From 1 September however, […]
Last week, MoFo advised SoftBank on the sale of computer chip designer Arm to Nvidia for $40bn – but this could mark the slowing of its lucrative deal streak.
Brown Rudnick has hired yet another partner to its global restructuring team, with Tony Horspool set to join the US firm’s London ranks. Horspool will join up with Brown Rudnick’s corporate restructuring and special situations team in the capital, following the hire of Richard Obank and Colin Ashford who defected from DLA Piper at the […]
New Look’s long-rumbling restructuring journey is emblematic of a shifting order of restructuring advisers in the City. A decade of financial engineering at the hands of private equity has left the retailer fighting and shifting between magic circle and US legal advisers. Latham’s prescient poaching of star talent has paid off, having sealed the sole […]
The High Court last week announced the appointment of seven justices, with appointments coming into effect from the start of October.
The UK Government has introduced a raft of changes to the Employment Tribunal, in a bit to manage the case backlog caused by coronavirus. The changes, which have been brought by business minister Paul Scully, includes allowances for the judiciary to deploy non-employment judges into the tribunal. This change means that judges can act in […]
Kettle Foods’ Kathy Atkinson on being approachable to colleagues at all levels, and throwing out the window the concept of “lawyers shouldn’t make decisions”.
Chris Kangis, consultant and former VP & general counsel at AEG Europe explains that the best way for lawyers to see the bigger picture, improve emotional intelligence and understand the business is to gain experience from outside the legal microclimate in which a lot of the industry spends their entire working lives. How did you get […]
The report aims to underscore trends across the litigation market, growth strategies and the most likely influential cases identified by the top leading disputes practices within the next year.
The Global Litigation 50 2020 ranks the largest litigation practices in the world by revenue and highlights the key trends within the disputes market for the past year. Understand elite firms’ approaches to building their disputes businesses and their responses to the pandemic Gain insights into the most competitive growth areas Scan the most important strategic […]
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New security laws and a US-China trade war mean Western players will have to change the way their do business to compete with the PRC heavyweights
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?
Amy Pope explains cyber security, geopolitical, and global business impact of UK opposition to China’s moves in Hong Kong, and what companies can do about it.
Time-saving tactics that show how speech technology can save precious time and help legal professionals excel at what they do.
This article explores the collapse of three funds across three different jurisdictions and then sets out some of the lessons to be learnt by directors and fund managers.
Research undertaken by DLA Piper’s Life Sciences practice in conjunction with The Lawyer seeks to understand the current developments in the field of digital therapeutics, looking at key questions that need to be addressed if these products are to become mainstream components of health systems across the world.
TotallyMoney’s Sharon Evans on thinking about the business top to bottom, delivering the legal advice without burning out and always needing to be one step ahead.
Inmarsat’s Christian Fahey on getting comfortable with sharing your gut feeling on something and not being afraid to sell the benefits of your involvement in strategic business meetings.
Mercedes-Benz’s Jonathan Lipman on the importance of keeping up the team spirit, “corridor meetings” and embracing the new normal without loosing the good you already had.
Shell lawyer on recognising signs of burnout and rewiring your brain to think positive
