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.
2
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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Finance lawyers dominate in FTSE350 in-house teams
Almost half of all the lawyers at the companies in the current FTSE350 that have a UK-based in-house legal team work in the banking and finance sector, The Lawyer can reveal. According to data compiled for the new FTSE350 report, 40 per cent of the lawyers tracked at in-house teams in the UK work for […]
The speed read: Clifford Chance’s canny graduate strategy; bye-bye Ballheimer; and 2020 predictions
Firms serious about bagging the best graduate talent should take a look at Clifford Chance A few years back, a bunch of firms set up events for first-year law undergraduates – a group long ignored on the milkround in favour of second and third-years. We predicted what seemed like the obvious conclusion: the war for […]
Shearman and King & Spalding lead on takeover of Eddie Stobart
A pair of US firms have advised on the takeover bid of haulage company Eddie Stobart as its shareholders have approved its rescue by asset manager DBAY Advisors. King & Spalding’s London corporate partners William Charnley and Marcus Young advised Eddie Stobart, which had to secure £55m bailout funding from Douglas Bay Advisors, on the […]
A&O and ENSafrica lead on South African Airways rescue
South African firm ENSafrica and Allen & Overy are leading on the business recovery of one of Africa’s largest airlines, South African Airways, saving it from collapse. ENSafrica’s chairman Michael Katz is leading for the airline on behalf of the National Treasury of South Africa, which manages its national economic policy. South African Airways is […]
Jones Day set to bid farewell to Russia with office closure
Jones Day is to shut its doors in Moscow, The Lawyer understands, after setting up in Russia 16 years ago. The decision means the US firm will no longer have a fixed presence in the country, with the closure expected later this year. Jones Day initially entered the Russian legal market back in 2003, with a total […]
Mayer Brown jumps on innovation bandwagon with new ’embrio’ programme
Mayer Brown’s managing partner Jeremy Clay is backing a new global innovation plan to trial new technologies.