Konexo, the alternative legal services business operated by Eversheds Sutherland, has launched a legal resourcing app to manage its extensive base of consultants amid a surge in Covid-19 related mandates. The app was developed to help consultants within ‘Legal Resourcing’, one of the services lines offered by the firm’s NewLaw business, onboard more easily from wherever […]
A disagreement between two High Court judges of the same rank has led to contrasting court orders that have thrown a £28m dispute into disarray, The Lawyer can reveal. This follows a pre-trial intervention from Mr Justice Baker, who sided with Kingsley Napley after its challenge against a default judgment awarded by Mrs Justice Cockerill. […]
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has become the latest institution to unveil its courses to prepare students for the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE). After BPP and the University of Law, NTU is one of the main providers of postgraduate legal education and the new courses are its attempt to cater to the market as the […]
The overnight shift to remote working during lockdown has shaken up attitudes to the traditional commute forever, while raising fears over childcare assistance and career development, our major industry-wide survey reveals
Research undertaken by DLA Piper’s Life Sciences practice in conjunction with The Lawyer seeks to understand the current developments in the field of digital therapeutics, looking at key questions that need to be addressed if these products are to become mainstream components of health systems across the world.
Konexo, the alternative legal services business operated by Eversheds Sutherland, has launched a legal resourcing app to manage its extensive base of consultants amid a surge in Covid-19 related mandates. The app was developed to help consultants within ‘Legal Resourcing’, one of the services lines offered by the firm’s NewLaw business, onboard more easily from wherever […]
A disagreement between two High Court judges of the same rank has led to contrasting court orders that have thrown a £28m dispute into disarray, The Lawyer can reveal. This follows a pre-trial intervention from Mr Justice Baker, who sided with Kingsley Napley after its challenge against a default judgment awarded by Mrs Justice Cockerill. […]
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has become the latest institution to unveil its courses to prepare students for the new Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE). After BPP and the University of Law, NTU is one of the main providers of postgraduate legal education and the new courses are its attempt to cater to the market as the […]
The overnight shift to remote working during lockdown has shaken up attitudes to the traditional commute forever, while raising fears over childcare assistance and career development, our major industry-wide survey reveals
Reed Smith has brought in the global head of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s oil and gas practice, its latest lateral hire in a period that has seen several additions to its City outpost. The US firm has hired partner James Atkin, who will join its energy and natural resources group. At Orrick, Atkin co-helmed the […]
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Allen & Overy has decided to shut down its two-staff satellite office in Barcelona, and focus the growth of its Spain practice from Madrid. The magic circle firm launched the Barcelona office in February 2014, with the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner Antoni Valverde. However, the office remained a small outpost with a single-fee […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising Debenhams’ administrator FRP Advisory as Boohoo snaps up the department store’s brand. The deal does not include any of Debenhams’ remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce, meaning that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go. Freshfields global restructuring and insolvency head Ken Baird […]
Cornerstone Barristers has said it “repudiates the contents” of a tweet made by one of its members, with the set launching an internal investigation into the matter. The tweet was made by Jon Holbrook, who was called to the Bar in 1991. Cornerstone said the post, published on 17 January, was brought to its attention […]
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has hired its second restructuring specialist in the City, as firms look to bulk up amid a wave of deal opportunities. The London outpost of the US firm has hired partner Mandip Englund, who has spent almost two years at Reed Smith. She will work within Fried Frank’s global […]
Members of The Lawyer Hot 100 have just two things in common. The first is excellence. Every year, our Hot 100 covers an incredibly diverse mix of legal professionals: scrappers from the rough and tumble of criminal law; sharp-suited corporate dealmakers; intellectuals and silver-tongued advocates from barristers’ profession; the in-house counsel with the ear of […]
Clifford Chance is starting a series of focus groups in its London office that will look at ways to boost ethnic minority retention rates in coming years. Starting later this month and ending in the first weeks of February, the firm has formed focus groups consisting of people of ethnic minorities and white colleagues – […]
