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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Black History Month: We all have a duty to push for real diversity
I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. My parents are from Haiti and immigrated to Canada in the 1970s, a difficult period for ethnic minorities. As a nurse, my mother had to deal with patients refusing to receive care from black nurses. My father was a trained architect but, when unable to find a […]
Number of solicitor apprentices at UK200 firms doubles in a year
The number of solicitor apprentices at UK200 law firms has doubled since 2018, research by The Lawyer has found. In the 2018 UK200 report, there were 75 school-leavers undertaking the Level 7 ‘Trailblazer’ Apprenticeship, which leads to qualification as a solicitor after six years. This has risen to 146 apprentices as of 2019. Additionally, there […]
Shearman in global overhaul of how firm assesses its staff
Shearman & Sterling is in the process of changing the way it assess its staff, as an increasing number of firms steer away from the traditional annual performance review and towards real-time feedback. The US firm is overhauling its performance management systems and rolling out a new career development approach for staff globally. The new […]
Judge wins landmark whistleblowing case in Supreme Court
A judge who claims she was “bullied, ignored and undermined” by her peers has won a landmark case in the Supreme Court, which ruled she should be classed as a worker and granted the same legal protections as whistleblowers. After a range of cost-cutting reforms were announced by the Ministry of Justice in 2010, District […]
Ashurst jumps on fintech bandwagon with accelerator launch
Ashurst has set up a new accelerator programme for up to 30 fintech companies, following similar efforts made by firms such as Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May and Addleshaw Goddard. The firm has launched FinTech Legal Labs, which will be run in its new London headquarters in the Fruit & Wool Exchange. It is […]
Fieldfisher, Enyo and Pinsents lose out in PrivatBank appeal
Hogan Lovells has been successful in an appeal for its client PrivatBank, allowing the firm to pursue the lawsuit in London against oligarchs represented by Fieldfisher, Pinsent Masons and Enyo. The Ukrainian bank challenged a High Court judgment, which ruled the case does not have jurisdiction in London and that a worldwide freezing order on […]