Former DPP Alison Saunders is Linklaters’ big new hire; a blockbuster name drafted in to provide gravitas to clients and a different perspective to its cases.
But where does Alison Saunders’ skillset fit into a magic circle law firm?
Firms are replacing years of traditional process with new ways of working
The annual silk round brings the brains of Britain to the fore, but once again there are too few women or lawyers from ethnic minorities making the QC grade
Dublin’s real estate market has clawed its way back from the deep financial crisis of 2008.
An incident involving JP Morgan is understood to be the reason why White & Case’s hire of Weil Gotshal & Manges’ City banking chief Mark Donald has fallen through. The Lawyer revealed in November that the Weil Gotshal lawyer would be joining White & Case as a partner, having long been courted by the US firm. […]
On New Year’s Eve, Ince partners received a rather unexpected email from the firm’s interim chairman.
It was now subject to a pre-pack administration; a process that is ever part of its suitor Gordon Dadds’ playbook.
Following a swift exit from Goodwin at the tail-end of last year, the pair have returned to their old stomping ground; acting for management in PE deals.
How can you reshape an in-house team in the image you want it to be? This was just one of the issues up for debate at The Lawyer’s latest roundtable with BCLP.
Experts from across the market give their view on the past 12 months and offer predictions for 2019.
We shout a lot these days and we seem to have forgotten how to listen. Even if we are listening it is, more often than at any time in the history of mankind, within our own bubble as we plug in the earphones and pull up the audio drawbridge. There’s a lot of shouting on […]
2019 will be the year when legal tech becomes smart, and when analytics opens doors to unexplored territories
A legal universe where New Law has come of age may be closer than you think
In 2016, Balfour Beatty’s legal department embarked on one of the largest compliance programmes of its kind. How did the team embed the company’s values and processes into such a large workforce?
Bakers claims its app is unique in the legal market and the effort goes on to add bespoke functions for clients
Slaughter and May’s solution to the challenge of increasingly complex cases involving millions of documents and seemingly endless email trails: Tiki-Toki
Let’s begin at the end. I have seen the future, and it is a long queue at Paris, Gare du Nord. All week at MIPIM, Brexit talk had been banned. Mention of it was social death, like flicking bogies into the salad bowl. But (as Leon Trotsky once said of war), you might not be […]
A noticeable difference at MIPIM this year, says DLA Piper’s real estate co-chair Antoine Mercier, was the number of women featuring on the many panels.
Today Philip Hammond has announced in his Spring Statement a commitment to funding menstrual products at secondary level and in colleges. It is not enough.
HFW partner Sarah Taylor was promoted to equity last year as a single mother of two, and writing during a work flight from London to Singapore, talks about the guilt of working parents.
While we can be rightly sceptical about the rebadging of the smallest organisational improvements as ‘innovation’, it’s clear that the discourse has shifted dramatically.
As a female junior solicitor it is strange to think that 2019 will mark 100 years since women were first allowed to practice law, by the introduction of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Just six years before that, in the famous case of Bebb v The Law Society [1914] 1 Ch 286, the Court […]
The glacial pace of change in relation to women’s progress at the Bar is disappointing, writes Outer Temple Chambers’ new CEO.
Given that we are apparently obliged to contemplate Brexit until the great trumpet sounds, let’s consider some of the consequences of the referendum that we’re seeing winding through the courts. There are three Brexit-related pieces of litigation in The Lawyer Top 20 Cases 2019. As noted in today’s cover feature. Brick Court barristers are on […]
It’s widely believed that retention rates are a critical measure of success and that trainees are a long-term investment. But the beliefs are myths, argues Aspirant’s Jason Ku.
For law firms the real question is how to get and maintain momentum. Jomati’s Tony Williams explains how to do it.
As early as you like in 2019, here comes the consolidation in New Law.
While Deloitte has been praised for its open approach on how it dealt with inappropriate behaviour, the biggest City law firms are trying to close down the discussion.
R (Chidlow) v Senior Coroner for Blackpool and Flyde [2019] EWHC 581 (Admin) 12 March 2019 Humans’ bodies being such complex organisms it is unsurprising that medical causation is often extremely complicated and that the law regarding the legal causation of medical injuries can be particularly convoluted. Indivisible injuries, multifactorial causation, material contribution, loss of […]
It’s important not to confuse no-code for no-knowledge – there are still important aspects to AI automation that you need to understand to succeed. If you are a lawyer and reading this blog post then you will likely be exploring online topics such as automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with other innovative new […]
This briefing considers the requirements for foreign nationals (meaning non-Caymanians and persons who are not married to a Caymanian) not wishing to work in the Cayman Islands but to reside there. For those considering such a move, there are various options open to them to make their relocation a reality…
Brexit was the key topic at the 20th annual IBA Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds 2019 – but as you’d expect, there was discussion on a range of areas from NPPR to credit funds, and from the prospects of the UK economy to AIFMD II. Seven partners from Ogier’s international funds team from Cayman, […]
By William Jean-Baptiste On 5 March 2018, the Luxembourg Government filed the 2019 Finance Bill (the Bill) with the Chambre des Députés. Following the 2018 general elections, the Luxembourg Government was authorised to extend certain credits and expenses of fiscal year 2018 (the “douziemes provisoires” or provisional twelfths system) for the period running from January to […]
March 2, 2019 Saturday and dated 30 702 Official Gazette ( ” Official Gazette “), the Family, Ministry of Labor and Social Services, jointly by the Environment and Urban Planning Ministry and the Interior Ministry, Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents And Regulations on Mitigation of Impacts ( ” Regulation ” ) Has been published; The Regulation on the […]
The National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska adopted the Law on the amendments to the Law on Renewable Energy Sources and Efficient Cogeneration (Law) in an urgent procedure, abolishing subsidies for the production of electricity from wind power plants in the Republic of Srpska. The Law will enter into force eight days after its […]
By Bolormaa Volodya General understanding of the Arbitration: Civil court lawsuits and trials are the traditional method for resolving disputes. However, concerns about court congestion and delays, rising litigation costs, and the negative psychological and emotional impact of litigation have increased the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques such as mediation, arbitration etc. Arbitration is one […]
By Samuel R Beighton, Bola Ajayi On 14 March 2019, the Court of Justice (CoJ) delivered a landmark judgment confirming that acquiring companies may be liable to pay damages for the harm caused by an acquired company’s infringement of EU competition law. The judgment may be expected to have significant implications for the scope of due […]
By Le Rong, Jamie Rowlands Cross-border transactions, while bringing new and exciting opportunities for your business, can be challenging. When you have got to grips with the cultural nuances of negotiating tactics, there comes the matter of drafting your agreement; making sure you have taken into consideration laws and regulations of an often unfamiliar jurisdiction. […]
Private trust companies (‘PTCs’) may be described as companies established to act as trustees for one or more trusts that are related in some way e.g. made in connection with the same family group, philanthropic or charitable organisations, business or investment funds. Bermuda has a stellar international reputation and is a popular jurisdiction in which […]
The reach of the Supreme Court’s decision in the goods and services discrimination complaint of Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd [2018] IRLR 1116 is starting to reveal itself. In the recent EAT decision in Gan Menachem Hendon Ltd v Groen UKEAT/0059/18/OO the Tribunal’s finding of direct discrimination on grounds of religion or belief was overturned on the basis […]
