A group of eight disputes partners are leaving Mishcon de Reya, The Lawyer can reveal, as the full repercussions of the firm’s IPO vote begin to materialise. The firm is losing all five of the partners in its civil fraud defence team, as well as litigators across competition, white-collar and private client. Six of the […]
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Last full update: 3 November 2023 Last minor update: 1 May 2024 The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became the first firm to […]
Gone are the days of the star M&A partners, as firms strive to eliminate favouritism and promote talent. A rundown of the top UK deals this year – and the teams leading them – suggests their strategy may be working.
A group of eight disputes partners are leaving Mishcon de Reya, The Lawyer can reveal, as the full repercussions of the firm’s IPO vote begin to materialise. The firm is losing all five of the partners in its civil fraud defence team, as well as litigators across competition, white-collar and private client. Six of the […]
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Last full update: 3 November 2023 Last minor update: 1 May 2024 The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became the first firm to […]
Gone are the days of the star M&A partners, as firms strive to eliminate favouritism and promote talent. A rundown of the top UK deals this year – and the teams leading them – suggests their strategy may be working.
The billable hour system is when a lawyer records how they spend every minute of their working day to calculate how they bill the client. It used to be the most common method of charging a client for the work of a lawyer. Different bands of lawyers at different firms cost different amounts and clients […]
Last week’s move of Cahill leveraged finance partner Jonathan Brownson along with two of his colleagues to Latham & Watkins highlights an issue facing several US 50 firms: How to grow. Helpfully, possibly even serendipitously, it comes courtesy of a firm that isn’t even in the US 50. And therein lies the point. Cahill at […]
Danish firm Accura posted its financials last week and in doing so two significant milestones were passed. Firstly, Accura posted a psychologically important 10-digit revenue figure in Danish Kroner for the first time to slightly above 1bn kr (£114.5m) (2022: 863.8m kr (£98.9m)). Secondly, for the first time in Danish legal history all five major […]
Deloitte Legal likes to make a lot of noise about its dabbling in the legal sphere. The 2020 acquisition of Kemp Little was proclaimed as “ground-breaking” by the auditing giant. More recently, the 2023 hire of a four-partner real estate team from Shoosmiths suggested a significant gearshift in its legal operations. Pre-pandemic, such a move […]
Any firm that has occupied the national scene will know that the multiple office network can be politically charged. Management might talk about ‘one firm, one culture’, but most lawyers are aware of a pecking order with London in lead position. The annual promotions season provides a snapshot of how firms are prioritising those networks, […]
Journalists aren’t natural champions of PRs, but sometimes we sympathise. Cleaning up the mess of lawyers behaving badly. Calming down those who haven’t been ranked in the latest directory release. Trying to pitch tedious not-quite-scholarly articles to uninterested reporters. Getting asked ‘can we just have a leaflet?’ by people who don’t comprehend the breadth of […]
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Last week, The Lawyer reported that time-poor lawyers are struggling to date in a profession where time is money. Longer hours for junior lawyers, compounded by a waning London dating market, is only adding to the problem. So on this episode of The Lawyer Podcast, editor Catrin Griffiths […]
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Linklaters is rolling out mandatory training on generative AI (genAI) for staff worldwide in a bid to encourage usage, better support clients and save employee time. The initiative is one of many spearheaded by Linklaters’ head of client tech and AI Shilpa Bhandarkar, who was promoted to partner just last month. The training was created […]
The general counsel of British clothing retailer Ted Baker has shared a heartfelt post on social media supporting her team, who are looking for new roles after the business fell into administration in early March. General counsel Alison Beveridge said: “As we near the end of the administration of Ted Baker, the upcoming sale to […]
Latham & Watkins is set to lose two teams in Germany, hitting the firm’s restructuring and equity capital markets capabilities in Hamburg and Frankfurt. The Lawyer understands that a two-partner restructuring team will leave to join Willkie, while a separate two-partner team is joining White & Case strengthening the latter’s equity capital markets practice. White & […]
