Hot 100 career quiz: 6KBW College Hill’s Sasha Wass QC
“I received over 10 pupillage rejections from chambers who explained to me that they had already taken on ‘one woman’ and that my application would therefore be declined.”
White & Case boosts disputes group with A&O hire
A partner from Allen & Overy’s litigation team is moving to White & Case, with both firms seeing multiple exits and arrivals since the start of 2021. Lawson Caisley is leaving the magic circle firm after nearly a decade. He joined in 2012 from Hogan Lovells, where he had been for 20 years. At A&O, […]
Pinsents breaks £500m barrier with narrow turnover rise
Pinsent Masons’ revenue snuck up by just under two per cent during the last year, rising from £495.5m to £503.3m. This coincided with a significant uplift in the firm’s average profit per equity partner, which shot up 16 per cent from £546,000 to £636,000. Managing partner John Cleland told The Lawyer that the results were […]
SRA pursues “dishonesty” claims against ex-Fieldfisher partner
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) today argued that a former Fieldfisher partner was “plainly dishonest” when signing off on an “inaccurate and misleading” document. This allegation was put before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) as the SRA set out its case against Stephen Evans-Jones, who was said to be one of the firm’s “highest equity […]
Barrister of the week: Brick Court’s Georgina Petrova
Hot 100 career quiz: 6KBW College Hill’s Sasha Wass QC
“I received over 10 pupillage rejections from chambers who explained to me that they had already taken on ‘one woman’ and that my application would therefore be declined.”
White & Case boosts disputes group with A&O hire
A partner from Allen & Overy’s litigation team is moving to White & Case, with both firms seeing multiple exits and arrivals since the start of 2021. Lawson Caisley is leaving the magic circle firm after nearly a decade. He joined in 2012 from Hogan Lovells, where he had been for 20 years. At A&O, […]
Pinsents breaks £500m barrier with narrow turnover rise
Pinsent Masons’ revenue snuck up by just under two per cent during the last year, rising from £495.5m to £503.3m. This coincided with a significant uplift in the firm’s average profit per equity partner, which shot up 16 per cent from £546,000 to £636,000. Managing partner John Cleland told The Lawyer that the results were […]
SRA pursues “dishonesty” claims against ex-Fieldfisher partner
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) today argued that a former Fieldfisher partner was “plainly dishonest” when signing off on an “inaccurate and misleading” document. This allegation was put before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) as the SRA set out its case against Stephen Evans-Jones, who was said to be one of the firm’s “highest equity […]
Clifford Chance concludes redundancy consultation
Clifford Chance has concluded a redundancy consultation around its support functions, with 52 professionals set to depart the firm. Forty-three of them will leave as a result of voluntary redundancy. They pertain to teams such as secretarial, mail room, and document production. The process was first started in April. At the time, about 44 to […]
HSF has sidestepped the talent wars
There’s no doubt that firms are using non-UK growth to power their global figures. Of the 35 Top 50 firms for which The Lawyer has historical global revenue data, all but four saw higher growth outside the UK in the five years since 2019. Included in this group is Herbert Smith Freehillls (HSF), where London remains […]
PE acquirers should target these three firms
Which law firms are private equity houses looking to invest in? The answer, if the conversations we’re having with managing partners are anything to go by, is ‘pretty much all of them’. Most regional firms of note have had speculative approaches at some time in the last five years or so, as private equity gradually […]
Who’s in and who’s out at Barclays
Barclays’ legal team was once among the most influential in the UK. That power has diminished over the last decade, yet the banking giant still packs a punch when it comes to talent management. Some 40 lawyers are understood to have left Barclays in the UK last year. There are cost-cutting measures at play here, […]
The platform firm has moved mainstream
Keystone Law, the poster child for the platform firm, is likely to break the psychologically important £100m revenue barrier in 2025. The success of this firm has spawned a new market, which is challenging traditional firms on the talent front. More than 3,500 lawyers now work across a variety of fee-sharing outfits, research from Atlas […]
Don’t wait for the climate crisis to come to you
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright’s London offices will all be under water in a few decades. This trio shares idyllic views overlooking the Thames, but they will all be submerged in the river by the year 2100 as climate change-induced sea level rises occur. And this is based on the […]
Ex-Haleon GC moves to Saudi for Aramco role
The ex-general counsel of Haleon has announced that he has joined energy and chemicals business Aramco, which is based in Saudi Arabia. Bjarne Tellman was hired by GSK four years ago to prepare the company for the creation of Haleon, one of the UK’s largest corporate demergers in 20 years. The purpose of the demerger […]
The Lawyer Podcast: A&O Shearman’s five biggest challenges – and worst mistake
The wait is finally over. In just under a week, the transformational merger between Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling will go live. But while the deal is done, the job is only just beginning. On this episode of The Lawyer Podcast, editor Catrin Griffiths and litigation editor Christian Smith look at how the […]
Travers duo exit for Goodwin
A duo from Travers Smith is leaving for Goodwin Procter, as exits from the UK firm’s corporate team continue. Partners Ian Keefe and George Weavil are joining Goodwin’s private equity team. Their arrivals follow the exit of a team from Goodwin to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, led by partner Christian Iwasko. Both Weavil […]
Supreme Court tells Gazprom subsidiary to halt UniCredit claim
The Supreme Court has upheld an anti-suit injunction against a Gazprom subsidiary, potentially halting €440m proceedings in Russia. The Gazprom part-owned special purpose entity, RusChemAlliance (RCA), had brought a damages claim against the bank UniCredit in Russia concerning an aborted contract following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. UniCredit instructed Latham & Watkins in its pursuit of […]
CMS’s outgoing senior partner to join World Bank
CMS senior partner Penelope Warne has revealed her next steps ahead of her departure from the firm at the end of the month. After 10 years at the helm, Warne is spearheading a project that she founded at the World Bank, via her own company, which promotes the rule of law and access to justice, […]
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