Ahead of The Lawyer Awards 2019, in association with Travelers, we’re looking back on some of the most complex or legally significant cases of the last 12 months, as eight teams vie for the top prize in this year’s litigation category. In a case that has been rumbling on since 2012, a joint team of […]
Eversheds Sutherland has created a litigation technology unit in an effort to produce solutions that will help deal efficiently with high-value and long-running disputes. The unit, called Propel, will be helmed by financial services disputes partner head Nick Rundle and inquiries and investigations partner Sarah Jones. It boasts a combined headcount of almost 13 people; […]
Our choice of career is an important decision which we are often asked to make before having sufficient opportunity to reach an informed opinion about the type of job that would suit our skills. To help decide if a career in law is for you, I have picked out five critical skills which, based on […]
The State of Qatar has called on Macfarlanes to bring one of the most eagerly anticipated banking disputes of 2019 against Reed Smith client Banque Havilland. Qatar is understood to have filed three claims against multiple banks – two in New York, one in London – with the High Court claim against the Luxembourg-based Banque […]
Ahead of The Lawyer Awards 2019, in association with Travelers, we’re looking back on some of the most complex or legally significant cases of the last 12 months, as eight teams vie for the top prize in this year’s litigation category. In a case that has been rumbling on since 2012, a joint team of […]
Eversheds Sutherland has created a litigation technology unit in an effort to produce solutions that will help deal efficiently with high-value and long-running disputes. The unit, called Propel, will be helmed by financial services disputes partner head Nick Rundle and inquiries and investigations partner Sarah Jones. It boasts a combined headcount of almost 13 people; […]
Our choice of career is an important decision which we are often asked to make before having sufficient opportunity to reach an informed opinion about the type of job that would suit our skills. To help decide if a career in law is for you, I have picked out five critical skills which, based on […]
The State of Qatar has called on Macfarlanes to bring one of the most eagerly anticipated banking disputes of 2019 against Reed Smith client Banque Havilland. Qatar is understood to have filed three claims against multiple banks – two in New York, one in London – with the High Court claim against the Luxembourg-based Banque […]
As Davenport Lyons enters administration, The Lawyer relates its final days. The mood at Davenport Lyons is as low as it could be. Staff were told the firm was going into administration last Friday (25 April). That day those offered a job – mostly partners – were called one by one into a meeting with […]
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 […]
Kinstellar started the year in fine form. If its acquisition of a Vietnamese firm was a big move for it to break into the Southeast Asian market, the acquisition of four offices from German independent Noerr was positively enormous as a statement of intent. There was also a lovely symmetry to the acquisition as the […]
CMS’s promotion numbers have ebbed slightly in its latest round seeing 10 elevated to the partnership in the UK and a total of 54 globally. In 2023, CMS promoted 65 lawyers to partner globally, with 16 of these in the UK, compared with 40 in mainland Europe. For this year the UK cohort is made […]
Another partner from Milbank’s financial restructuring team is set to leave the firm, this time joining Allen & Overy ahead of its merger with Shearman & Sterling. Karen McMaster is the latest partner loss from Milbank following last month’s news of a structured finance team led by partner John Goldfinch moving to Allen & Overy, soon […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has promoted 27 lawyers to partnership, with eight making the grade in London. This year’s cohort is smaller than last year, when 32 promotions were announced, but it brings the figure back in line with pre-pandemic rounds. Over half of this year’s cohort has been promoted in the UK and Australia, […]
Nearly 200 law students were incorrectly told they had failed their first set of Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) exams, in what the chief executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has called “the most serious operational mistake that we’ve made in the last two and half years.” Kaplan, the exam administrator for the SQE, has […]
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 […]
