Watson Farley & Williams’ financials have rebounded after a sluggish 2017/18, with average profit per equity partner rising by 11 per cent to £562,000. The PEP increase comes after a £100,000 dip in the previous financial year, alongside a similar fall in net profit for 2017/18 and 2 per cent growth in global revenue. The […]
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
The inaugural The Lawyer Marketing Leadership Summit, held on a sparkling June day at the Runnymede on Thames Hotel and Spa, gathered together more than 70 of the leading minds in marketing and business development (BD) across the legal services industry to future gaze and network. The event brought together some of the most […]
After a raft of partner defections, Taylor Wessing is about to lose one its innovation leads to Deloitte Legal.
This week, Addleshaw Goddard and Walker Morris come up against each other in an envelopes cartel dispute, while JP Morgan Chase defends a claim brought by Nigeria.
Watson Farley & Williams’ financials have rebounded after a sluggish 2017/18, with average profit per equity partner rising by 11 per cent to £562,000. The PEP increase comes after a £100,000 dip in the previous financial year, alongside a similar fall in net profit for 2017/18 and 2 per cent growth in global revenue. The […]
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
The inaugural The Lawyer Marketing Leadership Summit, held on a sparkling June day at the Runnymede on Thames Hotel and Spa, gathered together more than 70 of the leading minds in marketing and business development (BD) across the legal services industry to future gaze and network. The event brought together some of the most […]
After a raft of partner defections, Taylor Wessing is about to lose one its innovation leads to Deloitte Legal.
The poor pipeline of female employment silk applications isn’t due to shyness or lack of ability; it’s structural.
The scene: A US firm boardroom, somewhere not in New York*. Big Cheese (furiously): ‘We’re not growing fast enough. What have you got?’ Smaller Cheese (panicking): Private equity! That’s the thing! Kirkland! Paul Weiss!’ Big Cheese: ‘Do whatever it takes. And do it now.’ Smaller Cheese: ‘Leave it with me. We’ll hire big in London. […]
Some US firms in London tend to get all the headlines, and as you know who they are, we won’t bother namechecking them again. But there are others, a tad more under the radar, that have had a barnstorming year in 2023 and whose time in the limelight is now. Such as Willkie Farr & […]
The latest newly-qualified (NQ) salary rise from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer still managed to raise interest last week, despite the fact enormous pay hikes are the new normal these days and that even £150,000 isn’t unusual any more (as of last week, Quinn’s £180,000 tops the market alongside Gibson Dunn). But it is still significant because […]
European firms see more value in having a physical office in the Square Mile than they do in the Big Apple. Last week, Spanish firm Uría Menéndez became the latest to shut up shop in New York, having been there for 30 years. Uría was the final member of Slaughter and May’s fabled Best Friends […]
Thanks to Paul Weiss, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis (but mainly Paul Weiss), Linklaters has a few empty chairs at Silk Street. One way a firm can replenish its ranks is through lateral hiring – enter Travers Smith corporate partner Richard Spedding – or internal promotions. Last month, a total of 14 lawyers were made up […]
Goodwin Procter has given its new Luxembourg office the moving-in present of a new partner, hiring European 100 firm AKD’s co-head of investment funds. The US firm is bringing in Virginie Leroy to strengthen its European funds practice. Leroy spent more than four years at AKD, having joined from Canadian firm DSL in March 2020. […]
The lower mid-market is full of law firms that want to move up the food chain. Shoosmiths is one of them. With a national corporate practice of 30 partners across 14 locations, according to The Lawyer‘s Practice Analysis service, the bedrock of its work has historically been chunky regional deals. It is now gunning for […]
Litigation boutique Candey has opened an office in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), marking the firm’s crossover into the offshore legal market. The firm is among a handful of firms that practise both BVI law and English law, with several of its lawyers already able to practise there, including partner Lisa Walmisley and BVI legal […]
Womble Bond Dickinson, which defended the Post Office in the high-profile group litigation brought by the sub-postmasters, is in line to receive £178,000 from its former client as it provides evidence to the Horizon inquiry. According to public documents, Womble Bond Dickinson entered into a contract worth £178,000 with the Post Office for the provision […]
Former White & Case partner Ian Bagshaw is launching the London office of Perkins Coie, along with five of his ex-colleagues. Bagshaw will become managing partner of Perkins Coie in London, a firm whose only offices outside the US are in Taipei and Beijing. The plan is to focus on what Perkins Coie is good […]
