Clifford Chance kicked off the hustings for its leadership election last week, The Lawyer understands, with a tweaked process as opposed to previous years. The magic circle firm is understood to have shifted hustings back by a week. As opposed to previous management contests, all candidates will also be participating at the same time. Traditionally, just […]
Willkie Farr & Gallagher is to launch an arbitration practice in London, hiring a partner from WilmerHale to kickstart growth. The US firm has taken on Duncan Speller, an English barrister and partner at WilmerHale since 2013. He had joined the firm in 2002 after completing a pupillage at Fountain Court Chambers. Speller has experience […]
Debevoise’s relationship with Shell in the TCC is an object lesson in how consistent, robust defence results in repeat instruction
As Clifford Chance’s partnership whittles down candidates for the managing partner role, there are widespread concerns the final list will lack female candidates, sources told The Lawyer. The consultation stage of the nomination process means that partners are now poring over names that were submitted in initial phases. Sources told The Lawyer that the first […]
Clifford Chance kicked off the hustings for its leadership election last week, The Lawyer understands, with a tweaked process as opposed to previous years. The magic circle firm is understood to have shifted hustings back by a week. As opposed to previous management contests, all candidates will also be participating at the same time. Traditionally, just […]
Willkie Farr & Gallagher is to launch an arbitration practice in London, hiring a partner from WilmerHale to kickstart growth. The US firm has taken on Duncan Speller, an English barrister and partner at WilmerHale since 2013. He had joined the firm in 2002 after completing a pupillage at Fountain Court Chambers. Speller has experience […]
Debevoise’s relationship with Shell in the TCC is an object lesson in how consistent, robust defence results in repeat instruction
As Clifford Chance’s partnership whittles down candidates for the managing partner role, there are widespread concerns the final list will lack female candidates, sources told The Lawyer. The consultation stage of the nomination process means that partners are now poring over names that were submitted in initial phases. Sources told The Lawyer that the first […]
Forsters is set to swap Mayfair for Marylebone as it prepares to move office, The Lawyer understands. The 181-lawyer firm is believed to have sourced around 50,000 sq ft at 72 Wellbeck Street in the West End. Wellbeck Street is situated midway between Portman Square and Cavendish Square, immediately to the north of Oxford Street and […]
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 […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has upped its newly qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries to compete with the US market. NQ salaries have increased from £125,000 to £150,000. There have also been changes to trainee compensation. First-year trainees will see an increase of £6,000 as salaries rise from £50,000 to £56,000. Second-year trainee salaries will increase from £55,000 […]
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 […]
