Withers is to be represented by Clyde & Co as the former firm defends two real estate disputes in the Commercial Court. Clydes’ Neil Jamieson is instructing 4 New Square’s Carl Troman. The two claims were filed separately in December 2018. In both instances, the claimants state that Withers acted negligently and breach its retainer […]
Withers has taken on City firm JAG Shaw Baker in a bid to act for more entrepreneurs, investors and companies operating in the tech sector. JAG Shaw Baker’s six partners and 40-strong group consisting of fee-earners and business services will move into Withers’ offices in London and Cambridge from today. “In our conversations with JAG […]
Withers has made up just one London lawyer to partnership in this year’s round, after a bumper year of promotions in 2018. Hugh More is the sole City promotion in the firm’s contentious employment team. He has been at the firm since 2005. Aside from London, it is the firm’s New York, New Haven and […]
The Business Services Team of the Year at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers, is among the most hotly contested.
Withers is to be represented by Clyde & Co as the former firm defends two real estate disputes in the Commercial Court. Clydes’ Neil Jamieson is instructing 4 New Square’s Carl Troman. The two claims were filed separately in December 2018. In both instances, the claimants state that Withers acted negligently and breach its retainer […]
Withers has taken on City firm JAG Shaw Baker in a bid to act for more entrepreneurs, investors and companies operating in the tech sector. JAG Shaw Baker’s six partners and 40-strong group consisting of fee-earners and business services will move into Withers’ offices in London and Cambridge from today. “In our conversations with JAG […]
Withers has made up just one London lawyer to partnership in this year’s round, after a bumper year of promotions in 2018. Hugh More is the sole City promotion in the firm’s contentious employment team. He has been at the firm since 2005. Aside from London, it is the firm’s New York, New Haven and […]
The Business Services Team of the Year at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers, is among the most hotly contested.
Latham & Watkins is the latest US firm to gear up for a move of its London headquarters and already has its eyes on a brand new building in the City, The Lawyer understands. With its lease ending in 2021, the firm has started a search for a new City home a few weeks ago, […]
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 […]
It seems that one of the chief attributes of managing partners is wild optimism. You can’t move for law firm leaders committing their firms to hardcore five-year targets – particularly in the upper mid-tier, where we’re hearing of plans to double or even triple revenues by the end of the decade. We’d like some of […]
What do Southend-on-Sea and Slough have in common? The answer is that they are the largest urban settlements in Britain without a UK200 law firm. The denizens of these benighted places have to make do without so much as a solitary capital markets lawyer to keep the wheels of commerce turning. Can you imagine? Perhaps […]
It’s new partner season for UK firms, when hundreds of happy associates are granted new status, obligations and bragging rights. Most firms lag behind Kirkland & Ellis, though, which made up 26 in London this year alone. Like the Roman Empire, Kirkland has always made generous grants of citizenship to expand its borders; the more […]
Travers Smith is scouring the market for providers that will help it to replicate its employee electric car scheme for the firm’s partnership. In 2022, Travers became the latest firm to offer an electric car initiative for employees, which enabled interested staff to participate in a salary sacrifice scheme in order to lease an electric […]
As pass rates for the first stage of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) stagnate at a 52 per cent average for 2022/23, City firm recruiters and early careers leaders are voicing concerns about their future pipeline planning. Certainly, a consistent pass rate confirms the goals of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to create what it […]
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has refused to grant Sports Direct an injunction that would force Newcastle United Football Club to supply it with replica kit, following a hearing on Tuesday. Newcastle United, defended by Northridge partner James Eighteen, granted exclusive retail rights for its kit to competitor JD Sports from next season. However, Sports […]
Clifford Chance’s Warsaw office has been caught up in a political row that has ended with the office being searched by the authorities, The Lawyer understands. The search relates to Clifford Chance’s alleged role in supporting an individual prosecutor who took it upon herself to stop the old Polish government from changing the rules relating to the […]
Apple has failed to have a nearly £800m class action brought against it thrown out, following a hearing before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in January. The opt-out claim is brought by class representative Dr Sean Ennis on behalf of around 1,500 app developers in the UK. He has instructed Geradin Partners’ partners David Gallagher […]
