Irwin Mitchell’s group revenue exceeded £300m in the past year, driven by a strategic overhaul and a revamped rewards system under new CEO Craig Marshall. Marshall, who was appointed CEO in September 2023 following the loss of the firm’s longstanding CEO Andrew Tucker in August, has spent his first 10 months reassessing the firm’s strategy […]
Profit per equity partner (PEP) and net profit at Eversheds Sutherland International LLP ground almost to a halt last year, with the firm’s revenue growth rate also dipping for a second successive year. PEP growth slowed, rising nominally from £1.29m to £1.3m. Net profit, meanwhile, remained flat with the firm having recorded £175.1m, a slight […]
Kingsley Napley has saved £149,500 in a year, after implementing an initiative that saw it shut half of its six floors on Fridays when most staff work from home. The scheme, first reported in The Lawyer last summer, is called “The Building that Shrinks and Grows”, and sees the firm turn off the lighting, heating, […]
Bevan Brittan’s revenue passed £75m for the first time in 2023/24 as the firm grew for an 11th successive year. The top line increased from £67.3m to £76.2m off the back of exceptionally strong performances for the higher education team (up 37 per cent), the independent health and care team (32 per cent) and the […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is acting for General Atlantic on its bid to acquire 100 per cent of French software company Esker. The Paul Weiss team is led by partners William Aitken-Davies and Dan Schuster-Woldan and associate Richard Bach. They were supported by French firm Bredin Prat. Aitken-Davies and Schuster-Woldan are recent joiners […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has unveiled a number of perks for aspiring solicitors in its inaugural internship programme, including half of their pay upfront and money for work attire. Paul Weiss has launched its bi-annual two-week work experience scheme, which will be based in its Soho office commencing next year. A total of […]
In a blow to Noughties trophy office design, Slaughter and May is to remove its iconic water feature from its London HQ reception. The Lawyer first reported last year that the fate of Slaughters’ water feature hung in the balance amid refurbishment works set to take place across the building. This followed its decision to […]
Last week, A&O Shearman set out post-merger plans to close its legacy Allen & Overy base in Johannesburg, reduce its partnership by 10 per cent by the end of the financial year, and sell its consultancy business Consulting by A&O Shearman. So, is this a sign of things already going wrong, or is this all […]
As Hogan Lovells prepares to close three of its global offices, figures obtained by The Lawyer show that profits generated by the affected Warsaw base halved in 2023. Earlier this month, the firm announced it would close offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw. The firm’s Warsaw office is the larger of the three, home to […]
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Newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers have seen salary levels soar over the last decade. In 2014, a fresh-faced Clifford Chance lawyer could earn £67,500; that figure reached £150,000 this summer. It is US firms that have inflated the pot with constant base raises that align London and New York operations. But the ripples spread outwards. When Quinn […]
Eversheds partners aren’t really in the business of throwing curveballs. This week, partners in the International LLP – that’s everything outside the US – cemented Keith Froud as Lee Ranson’s chief executive successor in an uncontested election. We’d have stopped taking bets on this one years ago, you could see it coming a mile off. […]
The Higher Education sector is in big trouble. As we reported last month, universities are struggling to fill places on their undergraduate courses – not least for law degrees. Many are in financial distress. Tuition fees for home students have been capped at £9,250 since 2017 and are falling well behind what is profitable, but […]
Associate retention is one of the biggest bugbears for law firm leaders, as competitive salaries and the promise of greater opportunities lure rising stars away. Added to this, a firm’s biggest cost is its people, but that didn’t stop Freshfields last year pledging to up its trainee intake from 90 to 100 from 2025. Should […]
Of the UK Top 50 firms, just 16 have no overseas offices, and of the remaining 34, more than half (19) were bigger outside the UK last year. Internationalisation is a hallmark of a Top 50 firm, but for many it is the UK that keeps the investment pipelines pumped. For firms with international offices, […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is acting for General Atlantic on its bid to acquire 100 per cent of French software company Esker. The Paul Weiss team is led by partners William Aitken-Davies and Dan Schuster-Woldan and associate Richard Bach. They were supported by French firm Bredin Prat. Aitken-Davies and Schuster-Woldan are recent joiners […]
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has unveiled a number of perks for aspiring solicitors in its inaugural internship programme, including half of their pay upfront and money for work attire. Paul Weiss has launched its bi-annual two-week work experience scheme, which will be based in its Soho office commencing next year. A total of […]
In a blow to Noughties trophy office design, Slaughter and May is to remove its iconic water feature from its London HQ reception. The Lawyer first reported last year that the fate of Slaughters’ water feature hung in the balance amid refurbishment works set to take place across the building. This followed its decision to […]
Last week, A&O Shearman set out post-merger plans to close its legacy Allen & Overy base in Johannesburg, reduce its partnership by 10 per cent by the end of the financial year, and sell its consultancy business Consulting by A&O Shearman. So, is this a sign of things already going wrong, or is this all […]
As Hogan Lovells prepares to close three of its global offices, figures obtained by The Lawyer show that profits generated by the affected Warsaw base halved in 2023. Earlier this month, the firm announced it would close offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw. The firm’s Warsaw office is the larger of the three, home to […]