Centro launches £5m transport panel
Centro, an organisation responsible for the delivery of public transport in the West Midlands, has launched a review of its legal framework valued at £5m.
DAC Beachcroft raids DWF for six-partner team
DAC Beachcroft has raided DWF’s Newcastle office, picking up a six-partner insurance team.
Eversheds tops UK legal brand rankings as DLA rises above Pinsents
Eversheds has been ranked as the strongest legal brand in the UK, ahead of DLA Piper and Pinsent Masons. The research, conducted by Acritas, is carried out every year among 2,300 senior buyers of legal services. Eversheds has taken first position for three of the past four years, leading last year’s Acritas rankings of the […]
Brexit will “test the mettle” of lawyers
There’s a lurid fascination that comes with watching the UK’s Brexit debate from the US. At one level, it seems not unlike a marriage in its death throes. You know both husband and wife and feel terribly about it all, but cannot avert your eyes. The only winner? Neil Sedaka. Breaking up, as we’re told, is hard to do.
Centro launches £5m transport panel
Centro, an organisation responsible for the delivery of public transport in the West Midlands, has launched a review of its legal framework valued at £5m.
DAC Beachcroft raids DWF for six-partner team
DAC Beachcroft has raided DWF’s Newcastle office, picking up a six-partner insurance team.
Eversheds tops UK legal brand rankings as DLA rises above Pinsents
Eversheds has been ranked as the strongest legal brand in the UK, ahead of DLA Piper and Pinsent Masons. The research, conducted by Acritas, is carried out every year among 2,300 senior buyers of legal services. Eversheds has taken first position for three of the past four years, leading last year’s Acritas rankings of the […]
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A&O, Linklaters and Weil in line for £12m payout on Cobham’s sale to US PE group
Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Weil Gotshal & Manges are set to scoop nearly £12m for their work on the £4bn takeover of Cobham, one of Britain’s biggest defence and aerospace companies, if the controversial deal goes ahead. US private equity company Advent International offered to buy Cobham, known for its air-to-air refueling technology, at the end […]
Clydes boosts junior pay and reveals trainee retention
Clyde & Co has increased its salaries for trainee and newly qualified (NQ) solicitors. First-seat trainees will now earn £40,000, up £2,000 from £38,000, while second-years get the same uplift and will now earn £42,000, up from £40,000. The NQ salary has increased £5,000 to £70,000. Clydes has also revealed its retention for the autumn. It […]
Freshfields on call as Burford executive hit by lawsuit claiming sensitive documents were traded for sex tape
A senior executive at litigation funder Burford Capital is facing accusations of trading sensitive documents in exchange for a sex tape, yet another development following a damning report published by Muddy Waters last week. The allegation is part of a $91m lawsuit that was filed at London’s High Court and targeted Daniel Hall, the funder’s […]
Hodge Jones & Allen’s managing partner in surprise departure after three years in role
Hodge Jones & Allen’s managing partner Vidisha Joshi has announced she will be stepping down and leaving the firm. Joshi has been at the firm for seven years in the personal injury team and managing partner for three years. She joined from Prolegal Solicitors. As one of the youngest managing partners in the country, Joshi […]
Reed Smith finally fills its innovation hole
Reed Smith has found a new innovation manager after a four-month-long recruitment effort that followed the departure of its previous chief to artificial intelligence provider RAVN. At the end of September, the firm’s London office will bring in academic Adam Curphey, who was head of development and innovation technology at BPP Law School and previously […]
Fantasy football start-up replaces CMS with Scots firm for $120m dispute
Scottish law firm Harper Macleod has been drafted by the founders of a technology start-up in a $120m claim against its new owners after CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang was forced off the case. The dispute is brought in the Scottish courts by four founders of FanDuel, a daily fantasy sports business. Nigel Eccles, Lesley […]