DWF asked equity partnership for a raise in capital contributions for the first time in seven years, The Lawyer has learned. The call for further contributions was made towards the end of 2017, though fixed share partners were exempt, CEO and managing partner Andrew Leaitherland told The Lawyer. A series of conversations between the firm’s management and fixed-share partners […]
A former Locke Lord partner has been struck off and ordered to pay a £70,000 fine for breaching rules set by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), causing “immeasurable” harm to the profession’s reputation. Jonathan Denton left the firm in 2015 and his actions saw his former firm struck with a record £500,000 fine from the Solicitors […]
Ahead of her session at the In-house Financial Services conference, BlackRock EMEA head of corporate Baksho Arkan talks to The Lawyer about the role of data analysts within the in-house legal function and the biggest challenges in-house legal teams face when adopting AI. How will AI impact in-house legal teams within the next 5 years […]
Name: Katja Butler Position: Partner Firm: Skadden Trained at: Linklaters In the Hot 100 for: Being a private equity star while still Skadden’s youngest partner globally. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Without a doubt my first deal closing. I was a trainee at Linklaters and did a double […]
The UK’s 100 largest law firms generated revenue of £33.7bn between them in 2022/23, The Lawyer can reveal in its annual UK200 report, released today. The figure is up 7 per cent from £31.3bn in 2021/22, demonstrating the resilience the UK’s legal sector despite continued turbulence in the political and economic landscapes. Meanwhile, the Independents […]
Wilko’s general counsel is taking on a new role at Sofina Foods after the high street retailer fell into administration. After last ditch attempts to save Wilko failed, general counsel Robert Powell appealed on LinkedIn for staff support of his legal team. He is now joining Sofina Foods as its head of legal. Sofina Foods […]
Senior lawyers from Revolut’s panel firms will mentor in-housers at the fintech as part of a new professional development initiative. While Revolut has its own reverse mentoring scheme internally, the in-house team were keen to mirror this with external providers. They approached panel firms Osborne Clarke and Latham & Watkins with the idea of matching […]
The UK boss of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has been appointed to the position of global senior partner. Segun Osuntokun will take up the newly-created role from 1 January, supporting the firm’s sole CEO Steve Baumer. Osuntokun joined the firm in 2008 as a partner in the litigation and corporate risk practice, and was […]
The latest episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now! Proposed redundancies at CMS and Taylor Rose have raised associate anxieties across the market, with many wondering whether they could be the start of wider trouble. The Lawyer‘s editor Catrin Griffiths and litigation editor Christian Smith are joined by director of insight Matt Byrne and […]
Get critical intelligence into the satisfaction amongst real estate lawyers at private practice law firms in the UK based on data collected from our Lawyer Sentiment survey Filter data on firm culture, satisfaction, sentiment and churn across a range of metrics including salary bands, seniority, age group, sex and location Get the churn score across […]
This report contains: The Lawyer’s The City 50 ranking 2023 analysis on partner capital contributions and how it compares with other key indicators such as profit five-year UK 200 data showing key trends in how firms are using their real estate data on firms’ current and likely future use of artificial intelligence
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The lower down The Lawyer UK200 rankings your firm sits, the more difficult it is to grow. The revenue gap between the Top 10 firms and those outside the Top 50 was £1.14bn in 2022/23, but all that separates the firm ranked 50th (Browne Jacobson) and 100th (Payne Hicks Beach) is £66m in revenue. It […]
Today’s the day: will Allen & Overy (A&O) and Shearman & Sterling vote to merge, or have efforts by both firms’ management failed to convince the naysayers? Unlike the excitement of a day’s General Election, both sides are being very lawyerly about it and can ponder for two whole weeks. The vote closes on 13 […]
On Halloween 2024, all that remained of SJ Berwin will end, as King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) retreat from the UK, Europe and the Middle East is finalised and its offices in those regions closed. The fate of its people in London, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, Frankfurt and Dubai will be sealed. And that will be […]
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The UK’s 100 largest law firms generated revenue of £33.7bn between them in 2022/23, The Lawyer can reveal in its annual UK200 report, released today. The figure is up 7 per cent from £31.3bn in 2021/22, demonstrating the resilience the UK’s legal sector despite continued turbulence in the political and economic landscapes. Meanwhile, the Independents […]
Wilko’s general counsel is taking on a new role at Sofina Foods after the high street retailer fell into administration. After last ditch attempts to save Wilko failed, general counsel Robert Powell appealed on LinkedIn for staff support of his legal team. He is now joining Sofina Foods as its head of legal. Sofina Foods […]
Senior lawyers from Revolut’s panel firms will mentor in-housers at the fintech as part of a new professional development initiative. While Revolut has its own reverse mentoring scheme internally, the in-house team were keen to mirror this with external providers. They approached panel firms Osborne Clarke and Latham & Watkins with the idea of matching […]
The UK boss of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has been appointed to the position of global senior partner. Segun Osuntokun will take up the newly-created role from 1 January, supporting the firm’s sole CEO Steve Baumer. Osuntokun joined the firm in 2008 as a partner in the litigation and corporate risk practice, and was […]
The latest episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now! Proposed redundancies at CMS and Taylor Rose have raised associate anxieties across the market, with many wondering whether they could be the start of wider trouble. The Lawyer‘s editor Catrin Griffiths and litigation editor Christian Smith are joined by director of insight Matt Byrne and […]
