Fieldfisher has posted a 17 per cent increase in annual revenue for 2018/2019, closing a year punctuated with numerous lateral hires and an expansive international strategy. The firm generated a total of £242m from £207m over 2018/19, when it surpassed the £200m barrier for the first time. Profit per equity partner increased by 7 per […]
Tributes have been paid to Latham & Watkins’ Madrid office head Juan Picón, the former senior partner of DLA Piper, who has sadly passed away.
The only female silk at 3 Verulam Buildings is leaving the set to join Allen & Overy Consulting on a part-time basis. Catherine Gibaud QC will leave 3VB to join A&O Consulting as a senior adviser to CEO Sally Dewar and her team. A&O Consulting advises clients on issues relating to governance, corporate purpose and […]
With a female partnership proportion of 41 per cent, Greenberg Traurig tops The Lawyer’s diversity rankings, yet with nine firms reporting a drop in women partner numbers and three featuring only men at the top level, progress still needs to be made
The Warsaw office of Weil Gotshal & Manges has brought in a new tax team from the legal unit of Deloitte Legal, as speculation mounts over the fate of the US firm’s CEE office. A team led by tax partner Leszek Tokarski, including tax specialists Maciej Kostrzewski and Artur Ciechomski, joined the US firm’s Warsaw premises […]
General counsel of the year has become a particularly competitive field at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers. Each of the finalists has made enormous impact in their work. Mohaimin Chowdhury, general counsel and company secretary of Gatehouse Bank, has been involved in the transformation of the Shariah-compliant bank’s activities in the last 18 […]
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 Daniel Rupprecht, Director – eDiscovery consulting, Competition & Investigations A knock on the door With substantial fines, potentially into the millions, regulatory investigations are a major legal risk to corporations. Many such investigations start with a bang – at least a bang on the door in the form of a dawn raid. A dawn […]
The Portuguese government is creating conditions to lure foreign talent and investors, with competitive tax regimes, visa programmes and urban renovation schemes
By Patrick Arben, Daniel Wood, Teresa Edwards One of the distinguishing features of litigation in England and Wales is the process of disclosure, whereby the parties to a claim must identify and make available to each other documents that help their own case, and on which they intend to rely, that help the other party […]
Shoosmiths provides a summary of some of the proposed legal changes relevant to commercial organisations anticipated in the next 12 months
The departure of a partner impacts the firm and its reputation with current and future employees, clients, prospective clients and business referrers
