Chubb completes first UK panel review post-merger
Chubb has completed its first UK panel review post-merger, with firms including DAC Beachcroft and RPC winning spots.
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Reasons NOT to quit law
Analysing your reasons to stay in law can help you determine whether all this moaning is simply superficial or whether you are actually deeply unhappy and in need of a change.
Cadwalader boosts maternity pay in City as part of benefits package overhaul
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has introduced a raft of new measures in its London office in an effort to improve the quality of its lawyers’ working lives and help consolidate its recent growth spurt.
Lloyds Bank in-house heavyweight Wan exits amid restructure
Lloyds Banking Group real estate counsel Lesley Wan has left the bank after 10 years, The Lawyer can reveal.
Chubb completes first UK panel review post-merger
Chubb has completed its first UK panel review post-merger, with firms including DAC Beachcroft and RPC winning spots.
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Reasons NOT to quit law
Analysing your reasons to stay in law can help you determine whether all this moaning is simply superficial or whether you are actually deeply unhappy and in need of a change.
Cadwalader boosts maternity pay in City as part of benefits package overhaul
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has introduced a raft of new measures in its London office in an effort to improve the quality of its lawyers’ working lives and help consolidate its recent growth spurt.
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City firms called in on £1bn hotel deal
A quartet of firms have won top roles on the £1bn sale of four of the Grange Hotel’s London leases, while Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance took the lead on financing matters. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP), Hogan Lovells, Brown Rudnick and Gowling WLG all advised on the sale of the buildings to Queensgate […]
Longer than Charles I: Kerr extends TwoBirds reign to 26 years
Bird & Bird has re-elected CEO David Kerr for another three-year stint in the position, meaning that by the end of this term he will have been in charge for 26 years. Kerr was elected unopposed, with the tech partner having held the position since 1996. The stint easily makes Kerr one of the longest-serving […]
Dechert’s City management gets a new look after partner exits
Dechert has appointed a new partner to its London management team, after the departure of Miriam Gonzalez and appointment of Camille Abousleiman to the Lebanese government. Corporate and private equity partner Chris Field is to join employment partner Jason Butwick and finance partner Gus Black on the committee, with Black taking up the helm as […]
Three firms make the grade in Network Rail’s slimmed-down panel
Network Rail has more than halved its panel in the past six years, with the latest review seeing three firms wins spots until 2024. The spots have been taken by Dentons, Addleshaw Goddard and Eversheds Sutherland and will be in place until 2024. The contract is worth £70m. Stuart Kelly, group general counsel at Network […]
Judge berates Post Office for “oppressive” behaviour in group action claim
The Post Office, represented by Womble Bond Dickinson, has lost a landmark ruling in the first of four cases related to alleged electronic failures at the company that resulted in postmaster job losses and convictions for false accounting. In the first significant judgment concerning the contractual relationship between the Post Office and its agents, Justice […]
The Speed Read: DWF floats; and another law firm leader brought low
Happy DWF float day! While this week marked the first time a law firm has floated on the London Stock Exchange’s main market, it also saw a scandal unfold at US outfit Willkie Farr & Gallagher.