Follow The Lawyer
Menu
Roy Pinnock

Star legal writers in the energy sector

This week’s most-read briefings writers from TheLawyer.com are drawn from the energy sector. The following excerpts cover pirates, North Sea oil and fracking. 20 Essex Street – ‘Trafigura Beheer NV v Navigazione Montanari SpA (MV “Valle Di Cordoba”) -– fuel oil, pirates and strict liability’ https://www.thelawyer.com/briefings/fuel-oil-pirates-and-strict-liability-trafigura-beheer-v-navigazione-montanari/3031874.article John Emerton and Michael Hunter, Addleshaw Goddard – ‘Budget 2015 […]

In-house Attitudes Report 2015 PDF

Thank you for purchasing The Lawyer In-House Attitudes Report 2015. To get immediate access, simply scroll down to the “Related Files” section of this page to download your report

Latest News

technology and computers

Paul Weiss and Kirkland win roles on General Atlantic’s software bid

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison is acting for General Atlantic on its bid to acquire 100 per cent of French software company Esker. The Paul Weiss team is led by partners William Aitken-Davies and Dan Schuster-Woldan and associate Richard Bach. They were supported by French firm Bredin Prat. Aitken-Davies and Schuster-Woldan are recent joiners […]

Slaughters to ditch water feature – and the spare socks for visitors

In a blow to Noughties trophy office design, Slaughter and May is to remove its iconic water feature from its London HQ reception. The Lawyer first reported last year that the fate of Slaughters’ water feature hung in the balance amid refurbishment works set to take place across the building. This followed its decision to […]

Podcast

The Lawyer Podcast: Is the A&O Shearman honeymoon over?

Last week, A&O Shearman set out post-merger plans to close its legacy Allen & Overy base in Johannesburg, reduce its partnership by 10 per cent by the end of the financial year, and sell its consultancy business Consulting by A&O Shearman. So, is this a sign of things already going wrong, or is this all […]

Revealed: Hogan Lovells’ Warsaw profits plunged in year before closure

As Hogan Lovells prepares to close three of its global offices, figures obtained by The Lawyer show that profits generated by the affected Warsaw base halved in 2023. Earlier this month, the firm announced it would close offices in Johannesburg, Sydney and Warsaw. The firm’s Warsaw office is the larger of the three, home to […]

Signal Research Reports

UK Corporate 50 2024

This report contains: an overview of the UK corporate market in 2023 and the positive shift in mood among lawyers at top corporate practices ranking of the top 50 City firms based on UK corporate revenue, highlighting those achieving significant growth insight into firms’ strategic plans for its UK corporate group over the next five years

The European 100’s newest managing partners

This report includes: an analysis of 18 European 100 firms that have seen new managing partners since the start of 2023 a consultant’s top tips for an MP-t0-be an overview of the trends in the European 100 leadership selection

Litigation Tracker: Q2 2024 (Claims)

This dashboard: contains an overview of the claims at a selection of courts in the UK. allows you to compare activity at the courts in Q2 2024 against Q2 2023.

Litigation Tracker: Q2 2024 (Judgments)

This dashboard: contains an overview of the judgments at a selection of courts in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai during Q2of 2024. allows you to compare activity at the courts in Q2 2024 against Q1 2023.

Find legal roles

Make your next move with The Lawyer Careers. Search and apply for thousands of vacancies, or receive email alerts for new roles when they go live. Whether you're looking at private practice, in-house legal or an exciting business support role, you'll find your future here.

Search vacancies

Horizon

cash and party

US firms have pushed NQ salaries to boiling point

Newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers have seen salary levels soar over the last decade. In 2014, a fresh-faced Clifford Chance lawyer could earn £67,500; that figure reached £150,000 this summer. It is US firms that have inflated the pot with constant base raises that align London and New York operations. But the ripples spread outwards. When Quinn […]

Eversheds needs a radical streak

Eversheds partners aren’t really in the business of throwing curveballs. This week, partners in the International LLP – that’s everything outside the US – cemented Keith Froud as Lee Ranson’s chief executive successor in an uncontested election. We’d have stopped taking bets on this one years ago, you could see it coming a mile off. […]

Slaughters and Freshfields share a trainee strategy

Associate retention is one of the biggest bugbears for law firm leaders, as competitive salaries and the promise of greater opportunities lure rising stars away. Added to this, a firm’s biggest cost is its people, but that didn’t stop Freshfields last year pledging to up its trainee intake from 90 to 100 from 2025. Should […]

HSF is leaning on London

Of the UK Top 50 firms, just 16 have no overseas offices, and of the remaining 34, more than half (19) were bigger outside the UK last year. Internationalisation is a hallmark of a Top 50 firm, but for many it is the UK that keeps the investment pipelines pumped. For firms with international offices, […]

Recent news

Welcome to Wiggin: Ryan Reynolds’s go-to sports lawyer moves firm

Media, technology and IP firm Wiggin has poached a six-strong sports team from Walker Morris. Led by partner David Hinchliffe, the team works primarily on football matters, having acted for clients including Crystal Palace and Leeds United across contentious and non-contentious mandates. Hinchliffe, who joined Walker Morris 28 years ago, was head of sport at […]

Legal & General

Slaughters and Travers win roles on L&G’s billion-pound housebuilder sale

Slaughter and May and Travers Smith are leading on Legal & General’s sale of its UK housebuilder, Cala Homes. Slaughters is leading for longstanding client L&G as it sells Cala to to Ferguson Bidco, a joint venture between Sixth Street Partners and Patron Capital. Slaughters corporate partner Victoria MacDuff is at the helm of the […]

London towers, office City

Cahill refuels with ex-Clifford Chance hire

Cahill Gordon & Reindel has added a new partner to its ranks in London, following a number of exits from its finance practice over the year. Cahill has hired Andrew Kelly as a partner, a former Clifford Chance member. He joins its banking and capital markets practice, working on high yield matters, acquisition financings, recapitalisations […]

Harland & Wolff

Greenberg leads as Titanic shipbuilder preps for administrators

Greenberg Traurig is leading for Harland & Wolff, the company famous for building the Titanic, as it looks set to appoint administrators.  Harland & Wolff posted a notice of intention to appoint an administrator yesterday. Greenberg’s team is led by corporate partner Shashank Krishna, co-vice chair of the restructuring group John Houghton and corporate partner […]

Geoff Steward, Addleshaws

Addleshaws zeroes in on IP with five-strong team hire

In a bid to expand its intellectual property practice, Addleshaw Goddard is adding five lawyers to its ranks from a specialist City firm. Stobbs’ head of litigation Geoff Steward is joining Addleshaws, along with four lawyers. Steward has worked at Stobbs for nearly six years, and played a key role in developing the firm’s IP […]