Dear law firms: Seven pandemic love letters from your clients
Seven in-house lawyers express their gratitude to external advisers for helping them through the pandemic, while giving pointers on how to move forward.
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Kettle Foods’ legal chief on changes that enabled her to focus on complex work.
Osborne Clarke and RPC unveil 2021 partner promos
Osborne Clarke and RPC are the latest UK firms to have announced their latest partner promotions. Osborne Clarke has elevated seven of its UK lawyers to the partnership, a slightly bigger round than last year’s. The promotions were made across sectors such as tech, media and comms, energy and utilities and financial services. Of the […]
Download: How GCs are using legal tech
In January, Wolters Kluwer and The Lawyer launched a survey that sought to determine how in-house legal teams use legal technology. The opinions of 130 general counsel from leading organisations across the UK were gathered, and the analysis was supplemented by interviews with legal heads at organisations including Bupa, BT and the City Football Group. […]
Ashurst promotes smallest cohort in five years
Ashurst has unveiled its smallest partner promotions round since 2016, with 14 new partners making the grade. Five of the new promotions – around 35 per cent of the total – are based in London, with one partner apiece in investment funds, finance regulatory., dispute resolution and two in corporate transactions. It is understood that […]
