Late into the night at Côte Brasserie in Barbican, two lawyers are deep in quiet conversation. The topic: what Boies Schiller’s London office does next. It was early December 2021. It had been a few weeks since Natasha Harrison, once touted as the heir apparent to prominent founder David Boies, announced she was leaving the […]
The richest partners save hundreds of thousands a year because of the national insurance rules.
This week marked a year since the Supreme Court’s decision in Lloyd v Google in which a multibillion-pound data protection claim brought against the tech giant was thrown out. The immediate aftermath saw a long pipeline of data claims dropped in a flash. But 12 months on and claimant firms are anticipating a bounce-back. Here are […]
Meetings between law firm leaders can be casual, just a polite meeting to chew the fat over a cup of coffee, or they can have a serious intent. Last month, when Dickson Minto’s de facto managing partner Jordan Simpson met with a delegation from New York’s Fried Frank, it was the latter. Make no mistake, […]
UK law firm revenues are up for the first half of the 2022/23 financial year, but many leaders are beginning to feel the squeeze.
While the gender debate rages on between family and friends, on social media and now in the workplace, a growing number of women have been fighting their employers tooth-and-nail over the right to hold gender-critical beliefs without being subject to workplace discrimination. In 2021, the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that think-tank researcher Maya Forstater […]