Global Litigation Top 50: the success stories of 2019
The speed of growth in contentious activity at many firms over 2018/19 is almost as high as it has ever been over the past five years.
Financials 2018/19: Pinsents PEP stumbles after a year of global expansion
While its UK competitors pile in to report single-digit PEP growth for 2018/19, Pinsent Masons saw a decline in its average profit per equity partner to £620,000. The 5 per cent decrease in PEP was in spite of a 7 per cent jump in turnover to £482m. Gross profit also rose during the last financial […]
GC2B roundtable: How customer expectations are shaping direction of the global real estate market
Fourteen GCs and senior counsel at a roundtable hosted by The Lawyer and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner discuss how the latest trends create challenges and opportunities for firms
Colonial? A unified global firm that respects its partners is far from that
Greenberg Traurig executive chairman Richard Rosenbaum responds to Dentons’ Joe Andrew’s opinion piece published last week. The recent opinion piece strongly touting the verein model as the only obvious answer and disparaging other methods of global law firm growth as “colonial” brought to mind a saying I was taught early on in my career: “The […]
Data dive: the firms hitting $1bn for the first time
The number of firms producing turnover of more than $1bn continues to rise, according to The Lawyer’s Global 200 report.
Global Litigation Top 50: the success stories of 2019
The speed of growth in contentious activity at many firms over 2018/19 is almost as high as it has ever been over the past five years.
Financials 2018/19: Pinsents PEP stumbles after a year of global expansion
While its UK competitors pile in to report single-digit PEP growth for 2018/19, Pinsent Masons saw a decline in its average profit per equity partner to £620,000. The 5 per cent decrease in PEP was in spite of a 7 per cent jump in turnover to £482m. Gross profit also rose during the last financial […]
GC2B roundtable: How customer expectations are shaping direction of the global real estate market
Fourteen GCs and senior counsel at a roundtable hosted by The Lawyer and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner discuss how the latest trends create challenges and opportunities for firms
Colonial? A unified global firm that respects its partners is far from that
Greenberg Traurig executive chairman Richard Rosenbaum responds to Dentons’ Joe Andrew’s opinion piece published last week. The recent opinion piece strongly touting the verein model as the only obvious answer and disparaging other methods of global law firm growth as “colonial” brought to mind a saying I was taught early on in my career: “The […]
Dentons takes second swipe at Simmons’ banking practice
Simmons & Simmons has lost another partner to Dentons, with banking and finance lawyer Richard Pallot-Cook rejoining the firm after six years. Richard Pallot-Cook, who specialises in corporate and financial restructuring, work-outs and insolvency, moved across from legacy SNR Denton to Simmons & Simmons in 2013. Having trained at legacy Eversheds, he was at SNR […]
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A&O rejigs corporate and banking leadership
Allen & Overy (A&O) has announced two new banking and corporate heads, coming swiftly after the firm’s leadership election results. Philip Bowden has been reappointed as global co-head of banking, with Hong Kong-based Vicki Liu stepping into the role of co-head alongside him. She succeeds Amsterdam-based Andrew Thomas, who was in the position for four […]
Reed Smith strikes NewLaw deal with Elevate
Reed Smith has struck a deal with Elevate for its Leeds service centre, in a move that will enable the US firm to start offering a flexible resourcing service. As part of the multi-year agreement, the value of which was not disclosed by the parties, Elevate will support the firm’s lawyers in the EMEA regions […]
Coronavirus: Mayer Brown sets up Apple-style “genius bar” support service
Mayer Brown has launched an emergency service to support staff with problems working from home, as the number of technical issues rise in a remote working environment. The service, called ‘virtual technology guru’, was launched last Thursday and it was designed as a way to help people with complex requests that go beyond remote helpdesk […]
Eversheds’ RE group: “Property is no longer just about location, but connectivity”
Around a fifth (17 per cent) of Eversheds Sutherland’s total revenue is generated from the real estate sector, according to The Lawyer’s Global Real Estate 50 report, and its focus on the market stretches back decades, particular in the UK. Consequently, there are few firms better placed to comment on the state of the real estate market […]
Brown Rudnick furloughs City fee-earners and temporarily docks pay
A group of fee-earners at Brown Rudnick’s London office have been asked to join the UK Government’s furlough scheme, as the firm implements a series of protective measures globally. The Lawyer understands that approximately 17 members of staff across practices areas such as white-collar, litigation and corporate have been furloughed, with employees ranging from paralegals […]
Clifford Chance’s summer vacation scheme will go ahead – online
Clifford Chance will run its 2020 summer vacation scheme as a virtual event, in response to the current coronavirus pandemic. The virtual scheme will take place from Wednesday to Friday, 1-3 July and will comprise three days – instead of the traditional two weeks – of virtual learning by using external platform InsideSherpa, which was […]