Twelve firms have won spots on Centrica’s new legal panel, after a rigorous review in which the UK utilities giant quizzed participants on their diversity and inclusion credentials. Slaughter and May and Linklaters are among the 12 firms to have been appointed. The two firms, alongside Dentons, DWF, Pinsent Masons, Norton Rose Fulbright, HFW, Freeths, Womble […]
The latest developments in the aftermath of the collapse of the breakaway league from the legal point of view. Contact alex.taylor@thelawyer.com with related news or analysis.
Reed Smith has approved a Covid bonus to its associates. The firm has notified associates across its global platform that it will award special 2021 bonuses across the spring and autumn. These bonuses are based on seniority, ranging from $12,000 to $64,000 in the US; the amounts elsewhere will be based on jurisdictions and currencies. […]
Shearman & Sterling has changed its fiscal year-end to June, The Lawyer can reveal, meaning partners will have to wait longer to receive their distributions as the firm transitions. The US firm had previously tallied up its financials, promoted partners and calculated compensation at the end of the calendar year. However, it has now shifted […]
While the Essex Court Chambers silk has built one of the Bar’s most esteemed cross-border fraud practices, his latest success saw him tackle elements of competition and insolvency law.
Twelve firms have won spots on Centrica’s new legal panel, after a rigorous review in which the UK utilities giant quizzed participants on their diversity and inclusion credentials. Slaughter and May and Linklaters are among the 12 firms to have been appointed. The two firms, alongside Dentons, DWF, Pinsent Masons, Norton Rose Fulbright, HFW, Freeths, Womble […]
The latest developments in the aftermath of the collapse of the breakaway league from the legal point of view. Contact alex.taylor@thelawyer.com with related news or analysis.
Reed Smith has approved a Covid bonus to its associates. The firm has notified associates across its global platform that it will award special 2021 bonuses across the spring and autumn. These bonuses are based on seniority, ranging from $12,000 to $64,000 in the US; the amounts elsewhere will be based on jurisdictions and currencies. […]
Shearman & Sterling has changed its fiscal year-end to June, The Lawyer can reveal, meaning partners will have to wait longer to receive their distributions as the firm transitions. The US firm had previously tallied up its financials, promoted partners and calculated compensation at the end of the calendar year. However, it has now shifted […]
Herbert Smith Freehills is making up 23 partners in its latest promotions round, with lawyers elevated for the first time in the firm’s Milan and Johannesburg offices. Disputes took priority with a total of nine promotions across the board. This year’s round is just three fewer than last year’s batch of 26, with Australia and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hooray, big-ticket M&A is having a mini-revival and so are the firms that make so much of their money out of it. Already in 2024, major European M&A deals to have been announced include International Paper’s £5.8bn planned acquisition of London-listed packaging company DS Smith, which trumped another offer from rival Mondi. Other significant matters […]
On Tuesday last week (9 April), the SRA sought to quell a rising tide of discontent around the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). In its most recent SQE annual report, SRA chief executive Paul Philip said the public and profession could have “confidence” in this “rigorous assessment”. That confidence was short-lived. Yesterday (15 April), Philip was […]
For one firm, the pan-Nordic dream is dead. For another, it’s just begun. Hannes Snellman’s announcement that its Stockholm and Helsinki offices will be going their separate ways later this year represented the end of a strategic gamble that started 16 years ago. Back then, its leadership bet that opening in Stockholm (2008) and Copenhagen […]
Competition boutique Geradin Partners opens its doors in Paris today as the firm seeks to become a serious player in the French capital’s vibrant competition and litigation scenes. Opening on the same block as Freshfields in the heart of Paris’ 8e Arrondissement, Geradin has brought in competition litigator Marc Barennes from Bureau Brandeis with his […]
Car lease schemes for partners are rapidly dwindling in the wake of the electric vehicle (EV) salary sacrifice revolution, but Hill Dickinson is not one of them. Once a more common method for partners to enjoy part of their profit share, traditional car lease schemes have lost their lustre. The tax incentives that once made […]
The residents of the Barbican Centre’s Cromwell Tower organised a demonstration outside magic circle firm Linklaters on Tuesday to protest against its diesel generator, which was installed in late March.
BT has further shrunk its panel for the third review in a row having appointed a total of 11 firms to its roster. The panel will run for three years and includes 10 firms that have been reappointed from 2020. Those continuing their relationship with BT after the latest review are the likes of Allen […]
Dentons has promoted 12 lawyers to partner in the UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) this year, including nine partners in London. Of the remaining three promotions, two were made in Glasgow and one was made in Abu Dhabi. Most of the promotions have been made in the projects team, with Claudia Thomas and Graham […]
