Digital transformation, legal tech buy-in and user adoption
Wolters Kluwer’s Maurits Annegarn on tackling low adoption of legal tech.
Hot 100 career quiz: Brick Court Chambers’ Robert O’Donoghue
“You need the flexibility and courage to seize opportunities when they arise – they won’t always be obvious or wrapped in red ribbon.”
Corporate star Comiskey crowned Linklaters’ next leader
Linklaters’ senior partner election race has concluded, with Aedamar Comiskey beating two other contenders to the role. The firm’s head of corporate will replace incumbent Charlie Jacobs, who earlier this year confirmed he would leave Linklaters at the end of his term. Jacobs has since announced he is joining JP Morgan as head of the UK […]
Bakers restores NQ salaries to pre-pandemic levels
Baker McKenzie has returned its newly-qualified (NQ) salaries to normal rates, after a reduction during the pandemic last year. The firm crunched salaries by £2,500 (3 per cent) to £87,500 and dropped the sign-on bonus last June. The announcement came a week after Bakers had said it had no plans to reduce salaries for trainees […]
Eat or be eaten: many small firms will face the law of the jungle in 2021/22
With the uncertainty of the pandemic retreating we could see a few mid-market mergers.
Digital transformation, legal tech buy-in and user adoption
Wolters Kluwer’s Maurits Annegarn on tackling low adoption of legal tech.
Hot 100 career quiz: Brick Court Chambers’ Robert O’Donoghue
“You need the flexibility and courage to seize opportunities when they arise – they won’t always be obvious or wrapped in red ribbon.”
Corporate star Comiskey crowned Linklaters’ next leader
Linklaters’ senior partner election race has concluded, with Aedamar Comiskey beating two other contenders to the role. The firm’s head of corporate will replace incumbent Charlie Jacobs, who earlier this year confirmed he would leave Linklaters at the end of his term. Jacobs has since announced he is joining JP Morgan as head of the UK […]
Bakers restores NQ salaries to pre-pandemic levels
Baker McKenzie has returned its newly-qualified (NQ) salaries to normal rates, after a reduction during the pandemic last year. The firm crunched salaries by £2,500 (3 per cent) to £87,500 and dropped the sign-on bonus last June. The announcement came a week after Bakers had said it had no plans to reduce salaries for trainees […]
Shoosmiths dishes out four weeks’ pay “thank you” bonus
Shoosmiths is handing employees a 7.7 per cent “thank you” bonus and has paid back money it received through the Government’s furlough scheme. The bonus is equivalent to four weeks’ of employees’ annual wage and will be paid at the end of May. November 2020 and Feb 2021 quarterly dividends were paid to partners at […]
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Firms have recognised that people like to consume their content in different ways and over the years we have seen firms establish LinkedIn pages, Instagram pages and launch a series of podcasts to engage with clients. But do firms know what is resonating well with the market and the optimum way to engage clients?
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The pandemic has led to massive behavioural changes which have affected client habits, content engagement and client relationships, but have marketing strategies adapted to align with this psychological shift and how data-driven were those decisions? This session explores the importance of data in this increasingly digitalised world and where human insights still have a part to play in getting the right message across to the right people.
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ESG is on everyone’s radar, but are firms meeting the changing needs of clients? This panel discusses what cuts through the noise, what matters most and what makes clients choose one firm over another to support them in delivering their businesses’ approach to ESG.
Simpson Thacher hikes NQ pay to $205,000
Simpson Thacher has boosted its London NQ pay as it joins the wave of pay rise announcements from its rivals. According to a source familiar with the firm, classes of 2021/2020 will receive a starting pay of $205,000, with the class of 2013 at $365,000. London lawyers will also receive “proportionate salary increases”. Earlier this […]
Ashurst boosts NQ pay after Covid freeze
Ashurst has become the latest firm to increase the base rate for its UK newly-qualified solicitors. The firm has now made £90,000 its NQ base salary. Last summer, as it confronted the effects of Covid-19, Ashurst froze NQ pay at £84,000. In November last year it was increased to £85,500. In 2019 Ashurst had upped […]
Webinar: Advising businesses with a global workforce
What will your workplace look like after COVID-19? How are these changes in working patterns going to impact the different departments within your businesses? Given the increasing number of businesses switching to long-term remote work or looking to expand their talent pool beyond previous geographic constraints, this webinar looks at the practical implications of an […]
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