Dentons has appointed a ‘chief mindfulness officer’ for Europe in an attempt to develop its lawyers’ emotional intelligence. Warsaw-based partner Karina Furga-Dabrowska has been handed the role as an acknowledgement of her role in the launch of NextMind, Dentons’ wellbeing programme. Furga-Dabrowska has been with the firm since 2006 and is co-head of its tax advisory […]
Are law firms missing a trick when it comes to the use of technology? The first panel session at this year’s Business Leadership Summit will suggest that the answer to that question is ‘yes’.
Exigent is launching what it describes as “the first evergreen fund specialising in early-stage investments in legal and data technology” as the alternative legal services provider continues to branch out from its LPO roots. The fund, Bright Minds Capital Partners, is focusing in particular on AI, blockchain and big data management applications. Exigent is the […]
Akin and Goodwin’s batches of hires last week have put both firms back on the City map, but barely move the dial in terms of London bench strength. Data from The Lawyer’s annual US Top 50 report confirms that a gap is opening up between the top five largest firms and the rest of the […]
Eversheds Sutherland is launching a new business built on its existing consulting platform to go head-to-head with alternative legal services providers and the Big Four accountants operating in the contract lawyer, managed legal services and consulting markets. Called Konexo, the firm’s own version of an ALSP will take on the growing challenge of rivals such […]
The agenda for this year’s Business Leadership Summit has now been finalised thanks to an advisory board chock-full of some of the market’s leading thinkers, doers and future-market specialists. This year’s theme is literally simple: back to basics. With the level of noise in the market today around new technology and the latest supposedly time-saving […]
The Business Services Team of the Year at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers, is among the most hotly contested.
This year’s The Lawyer US Top 50 report has not only revealed the largest US-headquartered firms in the UK, it also includes pointers as to how firms can best achieve growth in the extraordinarily competitive London market. Certainly, this year’s ranking provides ample evidence that a number of US firms in the UK at least […]
The 50 largest US law firms ranked by revenue have been revealed with the publication of The Lawyer US Top 50 report. Last year was a record for US firms in the UK in terms of the total revenue they generated, with the combined turnover of the 50 largest rising by 13 per cent over […]
Israeli lawyers are operating in a vibrant economy but innovation is so rapid, regulators are finding it hard to keep up
Kirkland & Ellis is now the largest US firm in the UK by revenue, The Lawyer can confirm, with the $380m turnover it generated in 2018 putting it at the number one position for the first time ever. The new data is included in the latest US Top 50 2019 report, which ranks US firms […]
Average revenue per lawyer (RPL) at the 50-largest US firms in the UK has broken through the $1m mark for the first time, The Lawyer can reveal, with average RPL rising by 8 per cent from $953,000 to a new record of $1.03m. The entry into The Lawyer’s US Top 50 2019 report this year of […]
