Tech pioneers: meet Simmons’ innovation architect
Ben McGuire explains how his Solutions team has combined all the firm’s New Law arms into a force for positive change
Hanging up on office life? The Lawyer’s Work From Home survey results
The overnight shift to remote working during lockdown has shaken up attitudes to the traditional commute forever, while raising fears over childcare assistance and career development, our major industry-wide survey reveals
Case study: How Linklaters recruited in lockdown
Across the UK’s legal industry, junior candidates are being put through their paces in a virtual environment as Covid-19 enforces a move away from a day of face-to-face interviews and office tasks.
Gateley scraps 2020 bonuses to protect cashflow
Listed law firm Gateley has scrapped its 2020 bonus scheme in its latest bid to control cashflow in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Lawyers and staff were told that no bonuses would be paid for the April 2020 financial year “as part of a number of measures we have taken to protect the business in […]
Burness Paull approves ‘significant’ partner cash injection
Burness Paull has completed a multimillion-pound fundraising round, in which the firm’s top equity partners were asked to double their capital stakes to £300,000. The firm voted through the cash call in April, as partners opted to inject cash into the business rather than raise bank borrowings. Burness Paull has also reduced monthly drawings by […]
The Covid Files: How the Top 50 firms are managing…furlough
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced firms to examine whether their cash position is strong enough to withstand a sudden economic downturn. The Lawyer contacted the UK Top 50 firms to understand how firms are adjusting financial management in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this series, we reveal how the market is managing the ongoing […]
The Covid Files: How the Top 50 firms are managing…Quarterly distributions
The coronavirus pandemic has forced firms to examine whether their cash position is strong enough to withstand a sudden economic downturn. The Lawyer contacted the UK Top 50 firms to understand how firms are adjusting financial management in response to the pandemic. In this series, we reveal how the market is managing the ongoing fallout. […]
City firms are nowhere near bridging the North-South divide
HS2 aside, it’s clear that regenerating the regions means more business for firms in situ. However, opportunities for the City elite in the regions is limited and having an outsourcing hub won’t necessarily help that narrative.
The resurrection of KWM’s global dream
Mishcon’s closure of its ten-year-old New York office this month might be seen as a significant bit of IPO prepping, but it has also gifted three partners to a firm from which we have heard little in recent times: King & Wood Mallesons (KWM).
The core ingredients of a successful information governance programme
Sonia Cheng, managing director of FTI Consulting’s Information Governance Privacy and Security talks explains what core ingredients make a successful information governance programme, and the three emerging governance risk areas that corporations face in 2020.
