Far from being a complete return to normal, law firms across the country opened their doors a little more this month. How have they been preparing and what can staff expect from their old offices? Slaughter and May Slaughters has been less touchy-feely and more prescriptive than most other firms, telling staff to be in […]
One of the City’s leading sets of commercial chambers is reassuring clients after it fell victim to a cybersecurity incident, The Lawyer can reveal. The ransomware attack, which targeted 4 New Square, affected roughly six per cent of the set’s instructing solicitors over the past five years, although its members were able to continue working […]
The largest 200 UK law firms are revealed in The Lawyer’s UK 200 latest report.
When Hogan Lovells associate Lauren Bruce embarked on the firm’s mandate to support the UK Meteorological Office in delivering a huge upgrade to its supercomputing capability, she had no idea she was destined to become lead associate on the deal. Starting as it did in February 2020, the project would coincide with the peak of […]
Far from being a complete return to normal, law firms across the country opened their doors a little more this month. How have they been preparing and what can staff expect from their old offices? Slaughter and May Slaughters has been less touchy-feely and more prescriptive than most other firms, telling staff to be in […]
One of the City’s leading sets of commercial chambers is reassuring clients after it fell victim to a cybersecurity incident, The Lawyer can reveal. The ransomware attack, which targeted 4 New Square, affected roughly six per cent of the set’s instructing solicitors over the past five years, although its members were able to continue working […]
The largest 200 UK law firms are revealed in The Lawyer’s UK 200 latest report.
When Hogan Lovells associate Lauren Bruce embarked on the firm’s mandate to support the UK Meteorological Office in delivering a huge upgrade to its supercomputing capability, she had no idea she was destined to become lead associate on the deal. Starting as it did in February 2020, the project would coincide with the peak of […]
It’s a 90-minute train journey to London and two hours from Bristol. At £29 per sq ft, grade A office rents are a third of the average £90 per sq ft City firms pay. And it has an abundance of lawyers. Slowly but steadily, Southampton is slipping into the mid-tier consciousness as a city in […]
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 […]
Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) is continuing its innovation strategy rollout with the introduction of a new programme for its trainee solicitors. Following the launch of its ‘advanced client solutions’ (ACS) team in early April, the firm has now brought in Russell Up, a scheme designed to have each trainee deliver four innovation projects throughout their two-year training […]
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 […]
