Senior management at Clifford Chance will have to set out their diversity and inclusion targets to the firm, as it continues its push to reduce its gender pay gap. Members of the firm’s executive leadership group, including managing partner Matthew Layton and new senior partner Jeroen Ouwehand, are among those who have committed to publicly […]
DWF has made Dentons partner Brendan Slack the firm’s first lateral partner hire as a listed entity as it looks to capitalise on the momentum generated from Friday’s float. Banking and finance specialist Slack spent four years at his previous firm, having joined in March 2015 from legacy Speechly Bircham – now Charles Russell Speechlys […]
Employment law takes centre stage this week, as Mishcon de Reya acts for Pimlico Plumbers in its latest court case, while BLM defends the Royal Opera House against a former musician. Firstly, our attention turns to Croydon. TMP Solicitors’ Jacqueline McGuigan bested Mishcon de Reya last year in the Supreme Court, securing a key decision […]
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?
Allen & Overy (A&O) is rolling out a new app globally that will allow every individual in the business to offer real-time feedback, in the latest stage of the firm’s global overhaul of its appraisal system. The app is currently available to approximately 5,800 people in A&O with just “a few hundred” still to receive […]
Clyde & Co‘s initiative to raise the profile of its female lawyers and staff has resulted in almost twice as many women being quoted in the media than at this stage last year. Since launching the initiative on 7 January, the firm has seen women comprise 38 per cent of all Clydes’ spokespeople quoted in […]
A former client of Mishcon de Reya has brought a claim against the firm alleging that it did not adhere to the terms of a fee agreement, The Lawyer has learned. An application, made by former Mishcon client Piero Quaradeghini, was heard in the Rolls Building last week against a strike out claim made by the […]
Former Dechert partner Miriam Gonzalez Durántez has issued a withering riposte to the Mail on Sunday’s owner Viscount Rothermere over allegations that her husband Nick Clegg breached ministerial conduct while in office. It was claimed in an article this year that Gonzalez had influenced Clegg to breach ministerial code by requesting information about the Serious […]
With DWF poised to become the first listed law firm on the London Stock Exchange’s main market this Friday, here are five things from its prospectus that law firm leadership teams will find intriguing.
Litigation funder Therium has launched a new pro-bono initiative which will see the business commit roughly £1m a year to funding cases outside of its historic targets. ‘Therium Access’ will require litigants to file applications to the fund via an online form that will need to be completed by an established law firm with grants […]
A heavily public law-focused week sees the UK Government fighting off three massive claims related to transport, pharmaceuticals and human rights. The battle over how Heathrow Airport gained permission to build a new runway has made national news, particularly after it edged out its South London counterpart Gatwick Airport to the the chagrin of campaigners […]
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
