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The Lawyer’s top 200 UK law firms revealed
The largest 200 UK law firms are revealed in The Lawyer’s UK 200 latest report.
Women and the Pandemic: Home-schooling my son revealed his, and my own, undiagnosed neurodiversity
In March last year, my husband and I (like many parents), were suddenly faced with the task of home-schooling our children – in our case twin boys, Ben and Tom, aged 9. Despite being identical twins, we had always noticed differences in the way in which each of our boys learned and we were already […]
As cash piles rise a spending boom beckons
At least four City firms had more than £100m in cash as the pandemic reached its first peak in April last year.
Linklaters begins UK redundancy round
Linklaters has launched a voluntary redundancy programme for all of its London secretaries and PAs. A total of 225 legal secretaries and business team PAs have been given the opportunity to take voluntary redundancy. Linklaters confirmed that there are no target for the number of employee cuts and no compulsory redundancies. In a statement, the […]
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European 100: Combined revenue reaches all-time high of €12.2bn
The record growth seen among swathes of US firms last year was echoed across Continental Europe, as 2021 saw the largest jump in combined revenue in the history of The Lawyer’s Euro 100 report. The combined revenue of all 100 firms for the 2021 financial year grew by roughly €1bn between 2020 and 2021, rising […]
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Milbank mulls overhaul of partnership structure
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