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Ince mulls “away days” as firm eases Covid-19 measures

The Ince Group has ended the salary reductions introduced at the height of the pandemic, as it starts to formulate policies around future working arrangements. In April 2020, the firm agreed salary reductions that ranged from 10 to 30 per cent for employed staff and amounted to 30 per cent for members of the plc. […]

12 April 2021 09:00
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Law firms News

Hogan Lovells divvies out special bonuses worldwide

Hogan Lovells is the latest firm to announce firmwide special bonuses to staff, with the transatlantic outfit taking a regional approach to payments. Rewards are varied across the firm’s offices to all lawyers, apart from partners, as well as those in business services, including paralegals and PAs. Those in Europe, the Middle East and Africa […]

8 April 2021 14:18
Law firms News

Extra pay or extra holiday: DLA lets staff choose their Covid reward

DLA Piper is offering employees the choice between one week’s pay or an extra week’s holiday to reward them for their work during the pandemic. The “one week thank you” is for all fee-earners and business services professionals at DLA Piper’s international business. In the UK alone this amounts to around 2,000 employees, covering both […]

6 April 2021 09:00
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Dentons to tackle Zoom fatigue with “no internal meetings” day

Dentons is to introduce a “no internal meetings” policy one day per week, under the firm’s new agile working plans. To avoid fatigue stemming out of long hours on video calls, wherever possible meetings will have to be scheduled for 50 minutes and 20 minutes, rather than 60 and 30 to allow flexibility. It is […]

31 March 2021 12:09
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Ashurst to dish out £1,000 one-off bonus

Following the likes of Simmons & Simmons and Norton Rose Fulbright, Ashurst has said it will pay its staff a one-off bonus reward after strong performance last year. The firm has doubled the size of its existing bonus pool in order to make the payment of at least £1,000 to employees worldwide. According to its […]

30 March 2021 10:26
Law firms News

Dechert tells employees: We’ll give you paid time off to get Covid-19 vaccine

Dechert is giving its global headcount paid time off to get inoculated with Covid-19 vaccines, as it readies to reopen its offices later this year. The US firm will allocate up to eight paid hours for its people to get vaccinated. In several US states and in Belgium employers are legally required to provide this […]

26 March 2021 15:01

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Women and the Pandemic: “Covid-19 has made us tighter as a team”

I remember that day in March 2020 very clearly. The day Boris Johnson announced we should all work from home with immediate effect. I was sitting with my colleagues in our office in Leeds and I think we all realised then that something strange and quite scary was unfolding outside although we couldn’t really articulate […]

19 March 2021 09:00
Law firms Opinion

Covid: levelling the City and the regions

Walker Morris managing partner Malcolm Simpson discusses how Covid-19 has altered the future of the legal profession for good.

10 February 2021 09:00
Analysis

Roundtable: How corporates can prepare for the wave of litigation to come

Following an influx of coronavirus-related claims and virtual trials, as well as reinvigorated litigation funders, there is no doubt that Covid-19 is driving a new approach to dispute resolution. This emerging trend was put forward by Stewarts during a recent roundtable, with insight provided by three of the firm’s partners alongside general counsel from a […]

12 November 2020 09:00

Coronavirus Briefings

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Open justice and remote inquests: Allowing public and media video access to hearings

A simple legislative oversight at the start of the pandemic has meant that, whilst most other courts increased their accessibility to the public by giving access via remote video platforms, the Coroners Courts became more closed and secretive. All public, including accredited media representatives, have remained banned from watching any online broadcasts of coronial proceedings over the past twelve months.

12 April 2021 15:02

Are employees with long Covid entitled to compensation?

With MPs increasing the pressure on ministers to recognise long COVID as an occupational disease, claims for compensation could become more common in the near future. So, what do employers need to know and how should they face these claims?

12 April 2021 14:47

Retail part II: Reinventing the high street and the leisure industry post-pandemic

As the face-to-face economy returns in the coming months, this webinar considers what needs to change for brands and businesses in these sectors as we move in to the next new normal and what the high street and leisure industries must do to reinvent themselves to compete with, amongst many things, digital-only operators.

12 April 2021 12:48

Coronavirus Portugal: simplified support for micro-enterprises

The simplified support is created for micro-enterprises, in a business crisis situation and which have benefited from the simplified Lay-off or from the gradual recovery support, in the amount of EUR 1,330 per employee covered by those measures, paid in a phased manner over 6 months.

12 April 2021 09:12

How to protect against cybersecurity threats in a work-from-home environment

The new reality raises operational and legal issues across all aspects of a company’s business. One of the most significant is an increased threat of cybersecurity breaches.

7 April 2021 17:17

Temporary changes to permitted development rights in Wales

Wales will see a number of temporary changes to permitted development rights coming into force on 30 April 2021 through the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Order 2021.

7 April 2021 17:10

What will school summer holidays look like in 2021?

After 12 months of disrupted schooling, questions are arising around how children will catch up on missed learning. One solution, recently proposed by the education secretary Gavin Williamson, involves major changes to the structure of the school year.

6 April 2021 16:11

Covid-19 FCA test case ruling – Are insurers really the bad boys?

If the accusation is this is just another example (albeit on a grander scale) of insurers wriggling out of their contractual obligations, then in the court of public opinion, they are guilty as charged. There is, however, a defence to be made in support of the position they took.

6 April 2021 12:41

Businesses look to agility to secure a post-Covid-19 future

Howard Kennedy surveyed more than 1,000 companies to understand what agility means to businesses and how they are using it to deliver their goals.

1 April 2021 14:24

Coronavirus Portugal: Extraordinary support to the reduction of economic activity

What is the Extraordinary Support to the Reduction of Economic Activity?

31 March 2021 17:16

A post-Covid reset for the future of mobility

To some it might seem perverse to be writing about how we get around at a time when so many of us have been stuck in our homes for so long – but there has never been a more important time to consider the future of mobility.

31 March 2021 17:00

Covid-19 FCA test case: Some clarity for policyholders?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) brought the Test Case in June 2020 to clarify the extent to which certain non-damage “disease clauses” and “prevention of access” clauses in business interruption insurance policies would respond to losses arising out of the UK Government’s lockdown measures taken to combat the spread of Covid-19 in March 2020.

31 March 2021 15:13
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