Two O’Melveny & Myers lawyers, including partner John Daghlian, have moved across to join their former colleagues at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Funds veteran Daghlian and counsel Mary Lavelle, who joins Akin Gump as a partner, have been reunited with Aleksander Bakic and Daniel Quinn, who joined Akin Gump in March this year. […]
“Pride is not about making a statement for someone else, it’s about celebrating victories in the battle for love and acceptance,” says Bakers’ Rachel Mullan Lipman.
Stephenson Harwood has launched an innovation network for associates working on the firm’s technology projects to help junior lawyers to develop their careers. The network, which includes 25 associates, was conceived and launched by Paul Orchard, the firm’s head of innovation. In order to help the associates see this initiative as a way to expand […]
The Law Society has begun charging junior lawyers for its careers advice, The Lawyer has learned. As of June, the membership body for solicitors in England and Wales is running a series of sessions for lawyers under 2PQE, charging £50 for an hour-long appointment with a careers adviser. When VAT is added, that sum rises to […]
Co-head of PwC’s NewLaw practice and partner Andrew Giverin talks to The Lawyer about the top inefficiencies in legal departments and the biggest challenge facing GCs at the moment, ahead of his roundtable session on the 2nd July. What are the top two inefficiencies you have observed in in-house legal departments? – Lawyers having to […]
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has made up its third London-based partner in two years, promoting Victoria Thompson in the firm’s finance group. Thompson follows last year’s promotions of antitrust partner Joanna Christoforou and employment partner Lee Harding at Morgan Lewis’s City office. Thompson is dual-qualified to practise in New York as well as in England […]
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 […]
Reveal how firms identify and integrate the market’s top talent. Uncover the impact the investment firms have made in recent years. Investigate which areas firms are looking to target for 2019. Discover the trends that are the most important now, and those that will become increasingly so over the next few years. ENQUIRE TODAY This […]
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? In this feature, the data shows which firms are 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.
Break-ups of law firms are rare on the Continent. So when not one, but two Swedish firms suffered losses in Stockholm last year, it sent convulsions across the Nordic region.
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 Lee Perry Lawyers need to ensure their roles extend beyond the obvious affiliation with risk and compliance if they want to secure influential positions on their company boards, new research from Shoosmiths and The Lawyer reveals. Read the report Building GC influence in the boardroom – strategies for success Just 22% of in-house general […]
By Emma Williams The recent Court of Appeal decision in Habberfield v Habberfield [2019] EWCA Civ 890 provides an important, and useful, restatement of the principles of proprietary estoppel. The principles of assurance, reliance and detriment are well known to lawyers. However, it is always welcome to see a doctrine as hard to unpick as proprietary estoppel […]
Scheme of Arrangement (Section 86) A Court approved compromise entered into between a company and its creditors or members or any classes of them. “Arrangement” is construed extremely broadly making a scheme a very flexible restructuring tool. Once effective, a scheme binds all members/creditors, including dissenters (whether or not they had notice of the scheme). […]
By James Sidwell, Ashley Pigott, Christopher Richards Formal dispute resolution procedures such as litigation and arbitration can involve significant financial and time investment which can detract from a company’s key business and be an unwelcome drain on resources. In addition, parties in litigation are positively encouraged to settle their disputes without a full trial, and […]
By Patrick Wheeler The first anniversary of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May is likely to be marked with big fines. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has to date announced just 127 enforcement notices despite there being an estimated 10,000 data breaches in the UK and 59,000 breaches across the EU since […]
