Coming from a Nigerian background there a few avenues you are pushed down, and my mum thought being a lawyer was what I was good at. Sciences didn’t work for me; law made sense at age 16. I was born in Oxford but grew up in Aylesbury. I have been in London for six years […]
Evidence so far shows the UK’s biggest firms are faring better than many predicted in May.
The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Last update: 3 November 2022 The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became the first firm to offer NQs £100,000 in London back in […]
While London is placed into tier two of the new coronavirus restrictions, the courts continue as normal with some high-profile disputes taking place in the High Court, Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal this week. First is two case management hearings in the High Court and CAT. Slaughter and May, Peters & Peters and […]
Whatever they tell you, there’s only one issue topping the magic circle agenda: profitability.
Fieldfisher is gaining a foothold in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), opening its first office since placing the Continent at the core of its three-year strategy. To do this, Fieldfisher has opened its doors in the Austrian capital of Vienna with a four-partner team leading the new office. The firm has hit Austrian firm SCWP […]
This a self-indulgent piece written by an entitled middle-class university educated white male. I know that could be the initial thought for some reading this. We are all quick to make snap judgments and I have to remind myself of this. I want to crack the veneer of that appearance and look a little deeper […]
Latham & Watkins has retained its position as the largest US-headquartered firm in the UK, with an estimated City growth rate of 4 per cent in 2022. Latham is thought to have generated $702m in London last year, the highest level of fee income ever achieved either by it or any US firm. However, the […]
The majority of trainees left stranded ahead of the winding down of MJ Hudson’s legal arm have found new homes. So far, trainees have been split up among three firms: one to DLA Piper, two to Baker McKenzie, and an additional trainee to Haynes & Boone. Tenzin Woden joins an 11-strong team of partners and […]
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has hired David Dunnigan as a senior consultant in its corporate and finance transactions department. Dunnigan was previously at magic circle firm Clifford Chance for over 36 years, until he retired from the partnership at the end of 2021. He was also the global head of the capital markets practice […]
This report contains: analysis of the financial performance of the largest US firms by UK-generated revenue key metrics highlighting the fragmentation of the market individual firm profiles highlighting financial performance and strategy, hirings and exits, and deals and cases
Identify key recruitment trends in the corporate legal market across all sectors from The Lawyer’s proprietary jobs data Get critical data on firms that have hired most corporate lawyers and firms that have lost most corporate lawyers. Also see where a firm’s hires have come from and where a firm’s lawyers have gone to Compare the […]
This report contains: a brief look at the latest trends in life sciences sparked or accelerated by Covid-19 analysis of the main law firms working in the area across the spectrum of contentious and non-contentious practices insight into the 100 largest UK life sciences deals since 2020
This report contains stratification of the market by firmwide headcount at the domestic Italian firms comparison to the international firms that are present there context for how the market has reached this point following the era of mass privatisation in Italy
This report contains: a ranking of the largest chambers by tenant headcount in the last financial year a look at the changes in headcount over the past year, barristers’ year of call, retention rates and gender diversity data from The Lawyer‘s Litigation Tracker offering insight into which chambers feature most in some of the main […]
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You need a couple of attempts to crack America. For Allen & Overy, the O’Melveny negotiation was simply the appetiser before the main course. Ashurst, though, has had a few too many sharing plates. Who can forget the rejection of Latham? The talks with Fried Frank that led to the Ashurst managing partner defecting to […]
Hybrid working has been a significant success for Big Law, with lawyers now used to being able to switch between meetings and the domestic chores. Yes, the working day might be longer, but it’s been more productive for both home and work life. Sadly, the washing may begin to pile up again, as new research […]
All the magic circle’s partner promotions are in for 2023, so what’s interesting about those made up in London this year? Here are a few points that jump out. The magic circle is even less Oxbridgey than ever Just 30 per cent of the 46 new magic circle partners this year hailed from Cambridge (seven) […]
Dodgy-looking characters losing thousands in the casino, sky-high fountain displays dancing in front of glitzy hotels, and George Clooney with his 11-strong mob breaking into vaults are sights you expect to witness in Las Vegas. And a recent holiday to Sin City did not disappoint – except the Clooney part, unfortunately. What was unexpected was […]
Access to justice remains a neglected ideal for this Government
In this week’s edition: Chiomenti redefines its partnership through the ‘Three Speed Concept’, Setterwalls introduces what it believes is the Nordics first-ever India Desk, and why Danish firm Lundgrens stripped back its offering and refocused around four areas. Chiomenti’s partnership speed change In the very first edition of The Passport, we wrote about how Italian […]
Addleshaw Goddard and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are among the firms that advised on Asda’s £2.3bn buyout of EG Group’s UK and Ireland businesses. The supermarket giant is buying EG’s operations that consist of 350 petrol stations and 1,000 food-to-go locations. The deal is expected to be funded by both debt and equity, […]
As partners at Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling prepare to weigh up the benefits (and challenges) of a merger, here are five charts showing what’s at stake. Drawing level on PEP A perennial problem for UK-headquartered firms looking to merge in the US is finding a partner of a similar profitability. Looking at […]
Few deals last year got the market talking as much as Access Group’s private debt refinancing, a bumper transaction involving 16 credit funds. In the past month, it emerged the software group had called in advisers again for a follow-on deal. The Lawyer understands that this time it was Allen & Overy that got the […]
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) is cutting roles in its business services teams globally after an internal audit. The firm is making 47 of its business services positions redundant. The majority of the roles are based in the US with 34 people being made redundant across 17 of its offices in the country. A further […]
