The Gordon Dadds group has hit back at the departure of Ince’s Monaco team to HFW, claiming the financial performance of its representation in the principality “can be improved by bringing in a new team”. The comments from the group come as Ince’s former lawyers in Monaco break away to join HFW’s new venture. Gordon […]
Freshfields has posted its best trainee retention results since 2011. The firm has kept on 38 of its 41 final-seat qualifiers, giving it a score of 92.7 per cent. Trainee Development Partner Craig Montgomery said: “We are very pleased to be keeping on a high proportion of our August 2019 qualifying intake, reflecting the firm’s continued […]
A costs award has been awarded against Addleshaw Goddard in an ongoing professional negligence dispute with a former client in Scotland. A judge ruled last week that Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S) should be awarded £86,240, just weeks after The Lawyer reported that Addleshaws had failed to challenge the jurisdiction of the claim. The firm is […]
When it comes to high-level #MeToo allegations, trusting internal investigations is a dangerous game Baker McKenzie finds itself in a right old #MeToo mess. The firm has been referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over allegations that the firm allowed a sexual misconduct investigation to be “improperly” influenced by the accused, former London managing partner […]
The Gordon Dadds group has hit back at the departure of Ince’s Monaco team to HFW, claiming the financial performance of its representation in the principality “can be improved by bringing in a new team”. The comments from the group come as Ince’s former lawyers in Monaco break away to join HFW’s new venture. Gordon […]
Freshfields has posted its best trainee retention results since 2011. The firm has kept on 38 of its 41 final-seat qualifiers, giving it a score of 92.7 per cent. Trainee Development Partner Craig Montgomery said: “We are very pleased to be keeping on a high proportion of our August 2019 qualifying intake, reflecting the firm’s continued […]
A costs award has been awarded against Addleshaw Goddard in an ongoing professional negligence dispute with a former client in Scotland. A judge ruled last week that Arthur Holgate & Son (AH&S) should be awarded £86,240, just weeks after The Lawyer reported that Addleshaws had failed to challenge the jurisdiction of the claim. The firm is […]
When it comes to high-level #MeToo allegations, trusting internal investigations is a dangerous game Baker McKenzie finds itself in a right old #MeToo mess. The firm has been referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over allegations that the firm allowed a sexual misconduct investigation to be “improperly” influenced by the accused, former London managing partner […]
Clyde & Co is one of five firms that will represent parties in the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal next month, as Baker McKenzie faces claims it allowed a misconduct investigation to be “improperly” influenced. Bakers, two former partners and the firm’s ex-HR director are all set to appear after the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) referred […]
Talk of associates losing faith in the partnership track is nowhere to be seen at Addleshaw Goddard, which recently unveiled its largest round to date. The partnership count is currently running at 429 – up 75 per cent from the 245 it housed back in 2019. Those promotions show a firm that is bullish about […]
1 May is a big day for many in the legal industry, not just the thousands of people at Allen & Overy and Shearman who have now combined officially. Scores of lawyers become partners today after a wave of promotions, meaning that also – in the great circle of life – plenty of veterans are […]
The significance of the unstoppable growth of US-headquartered firms in London isn’t solely about jaw-dropping scale, although the size of headcount and revenue at some of these big City beasts is truly head-turning. Notably, several US firms have doubled down on their investment in London of late, and not just Paul Weiss. While the New […]
It has been over four years since the UK first went into lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s four years since the world went crazy and stocked up on toilet roll, since staff had to bundle up their laptops and work on makeshift garden furniture desks, and since most of the nation actually looked […]
We’re all watching eagerly for the changes coming at Allen & Overy on 1 May as its merger with Shearman & Sterling finally goes live. But Addleshaws has its own significant change that day. Next Wednesday, Andrew Johnston will officially kick off his tenure as managing partner with longstanding incumbent John Joyce stepping aside. Addleshaws […]
Davis Polk & Wardwell has recruited from Paul Hastings’s finance team, expanding its partnership ranks in the City to nine. The small City outfit has hired Luke McDougall from Paul Hastings. McDougall focuses on UK and cross-border acquisition finance and restructuring, acting for senior lenders, junior lenders and borrower groups on a variety of capital […]
Having returned to the legal market after seven years in retirement, Graham White has been named as senior partner of McDermott Will & Emery’s London office, along with a new managing partner. Private equity lawyer White, who joined McDermott this year after leaving Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson in 2017, has taken on the […]
A week after losing a private equity duo, Travers Smith is set for another partner exit – this time from its infrastructure finance team to Sidley Austin. Partner Ben Thompson has exited the firm and is joining Sidley Austin. Thompson joined the firm in September 2021 from Weil Gotshal & Manges, where he was a […]
Manchester United’s interim CEO and general counsel has left following another shake-up within the club’s executive ranks. Patrick Stewart served as general counsel at the club for over 18 years and stepped into the interim CEO role at the end of last year following the departure of Richard Arnold. Stewart completed his legal training at Burness and qualified in […]
Iberian firm Uría Menéndez will close in New York when its Park Avenue lease expires, after more than three decades in the US. The firm runs with a small staff in New York of just three lawyers, led by office managing partner and corporate lawyer José Félix Zaldivar. Uría Menéndez felt its US strategy would […]
