The legal workplace looks a lot different since 2020. In the span of just weeks last year, law firms – along with many other professional organisations – made the kinds of workplace transformations that would have otherwise taken decades.
Senior Development Underwriter, Sharon Glynn, hosts Senior Risk Management Consultant, Paul Smith, and they discuss pertinent risk management trends and forecasts within the sector in this podcast.
The legal industry doesn’t stand out for embracing ground-breaking change. Indeed, when compared to other professional services organisations, law firms have historically been more riskaverse and less eager to adopt technology and other innovations that change how legal work is conducted.
Why do we need to be worried about climate change? Already the environment has changed, in some instances apparently irrevocably. Individually, consumers are taking action to address their personal impact. In 2019, the focus was on governments to drive and shape sustainability agendas; now the focus is on businesses, and law firms are not immune. […]
In this article, Sharon Glynn, Senior Development Underwriter at Travelers considers the risks of failing to ensure the continuity of culture during this period of sustained home working. The swift development of the Covid-19 pandemic has plunged us all into a life of home working. Law firms, not typically known for agility, have suddenly found […]
As COVID-19 continues to pose economic, medical and mental health challenges throughout the UK and beyond, community support is critical. Law firms are in a position to provide help across a broad spectrum of challenges – and many firms throughout the UK have been offering pro bono legal advice, financial donations and gifts in kind to meet community needs during the lockdown.
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RPC is named counsel on each one of the 10 privacy-related claims brought against the Mirror since 2018.
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US firms are not converting all their hard work into profits.
The High Court has rejected PCP Capital’s claim against Barclays in a highly-anticipated judgment from Mr Justice Waksman, which ruled that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s client is not entitled to the damages it sought. In a mammoth ruling handed down today, Waksman J concluded that PCP’s claim should be dismissed despite finding that Barclays […]
PwC legal head Ed Stacey is to stand down from his role, handing over the reins to partner Teresa Owusu-Adjei. As UK head of legal, Owusu-Adjei will lead 400 lawyers and other legal professionals. She has been with the accountancy firm since 1995, and a financial services partner since 2008 Stacey was appointed head of […]
Latham & Watkins has added another partner to its expanding restructuring and finance groups in London, with Bruce Bell joining from Linklaters. Bell was promoted to partner at Linklaters in 2005, having moved across as an associate from Wilde Sapte in 2000. In Latham’s restructuring group, he will be reunited with fellow Linklaters alumni such […]
Shoosmiths‘ chief operating officer and board member is to leave the business after little more than a year in the newly-created position. Ben Bennett was hired in late 2019 as the firm’s first COO. Reporting to chief executive officer Simon Boss, he came in to support strategic growth and drive operational improvements. As part of […]
Taylor Wessing has brought in a real estate team from Greenberg Traurig, just months after the arrival of an 11-strong private wealth group from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. In March, the firm will beef up the structured component of its real estate sector group with the hire of a four-lawyer team led by partner Michael […]
Osborne Clarke is predicting a gradual shift to new charging systems as part of a five-year client strategy disclosed to The Lawyer by its management. The firm’s leadership has conducted a review exercise internally dubbed ‘3D’. It is anchored on the three main elements at the heart of the firm’s future direction: legal skills, sectors […]
