All change at Freshfields as Asia chief wins leadership election
Asia MP Georgia Dawson has claimed victory in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s leadership elections, making her the first woman to lead the firm.
Gateley holds on to millions by deferring tax payments
Gateley is the latest firm to confirm its use of the UK Government’s tax deferral scheme, preserving millions by pushing back both VAT and employment payments due to Covid-19. As just one of a raft of measures put in place by the listed outfit, Gateley’s deferral of employment taxes and VAT amounted to £4.8m prior […]
Cooley irons out time frame for delayed City HQ move
Cooley is looking to start populating its new office in TwentyTwo Bishopsgate in the second quarter of 2021, the latest step in an effort to carry out the firm’s long-planned move. It is understood that the firm is looking to organise a phased move well after the beginning of the year, with a time frame […]
Outer Temple appoint first female head of chambers
Outer Temple has voted in a new head of chambers, following the retirement of Christopher Gibson QC earlier this year. Gibson will be replaced by Sarah Crowther QC – who is the set’s first female head of chambers. She has also been appointed as Outer Temple’s head of health. Crowther was called to the Bar […]
Barrister of the week: Devereux Chambers’ Colin Edelman QC
All change at Freshfields as Asia chief wins leadership election
Asia MP Georgia Dawson has claimed victory in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s leadership elections, making her the first woman to lead the firm.
Gateley holds on to millions by deferring tax payments
Gateley is the latest firm to confirm its use of the UK Government’s tax deferral scheme, preserving millions by pushing back both VAT and employment payments due to Covid-19. As just one of a raft of measures put in place by the listed outfit, Gateley’s deferral of employment taxes and VAT amounted to £4.8m prior […]
Cooley irons out time frame for delayed City HQ move
Cooley is looking to start populating its new office in TwentyTwo Bishopsgate in the second quarter of 2021, the latest step in an effort to carry out the firm’s long-planned move. It is understood that the firm is looking to organise a phased move well after the beginning of the year, with a time frame […]
Outer Temple appoint first female head of chambers
Outer Temple has voted in a new head of chambers, following the retirement of Christopher Gibson QC earlier this year. Gibson will be replaced by Sarah Crowther QC – who is the set’s first female head of chambers. She has also been appointed as Outer Temple’s head of health. Crowther was called to the Bar […]
Stephenson Harwood changes tack on two-day-a-week office return
Stephenson Harwood is holding back on its plan to encourage staff to spend at least two days a week in the office following the latest change in the UK Government’s Covid-19 guidance. It was just last month that the firm set a date of early September for its “proper” return to its City office, as […]
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 […]
Welcome to your TikTok legal career
Talent churn is accelerating among the junior ranks with today’s associates more mobile than the generations before them. The concept of long-term professional loyalty is fading as Gen Z rises. These lawyers ask not what they can do for you, but what your firm can do for them. This generational shift in working attitudes is […]
SQE shambles: Candidates lambast pricey appeals process
Frustrated Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) candidates are calling on the SRA to increase accessibility to the appeals process after a results error saw 175 candidates mistakenly told they had failed their exams. On Monday last week, the SRA announced that 175 candidates who sat SQE1 in January and were told they had failed on 14 […]
Ex-Axiom Ince boss to face bankruptcy petition
The administrators of collapsed firm Axiom Ince have filed a creditors’ bankruptcy petition against its former boss. Filed at the end of last week, the petition will seek to force Pragnesh Modhwadia’s bankruptcy, The Lawyer understands, applying to the court for his assets to be taken and sold to pay debts to the administrators. Pinsent Masons […]
Addleshaws, Eversheds and Simmons unveil partner promotions
Partnership promotions are continuing apace, with three City firms announcing a fresh new set of partners for 2024. Addleshaw Goddard has bumped up 26 lawyers this promotions round, which is the largest number of lawyers to make partner in one go in the firm’s history. The international firm’s partner count now stands at 429. Nine […]
Cooley defends Grindr in new High Court class action
Cooley is set to defend social networking and dating app Grindr in a High Court class action launched by Austen Hays, a new collective actions firm owned by Gateley. The claim alleges that Grindr is in breach of UK data protection laws for sharing sensitive data with third parties for commercial purposes without their users’ […]
Euro 100 firm left reeling after rival’s six-partner raid
Norway’s Sands has suffered one of the largest mass defections in its history after six partners left to join Big Five firm Wiersholm in Trondheim. The hires bolster Wiersholm in a range of the firm’s key sectors, including marine law, renewables, technology, real estate and tax. The firm has committed to further growth over the […]
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