Walk before you run creating foundations for tech to deliver
By Craig McKeown, Jason McQuillen Even the most costly and sophisticated legal technology doesn’t offer a magic solution it needs good data, professional judgement and organisational buy-in to deliver. From chatbots to contract life cycle management, technology can take a lot of the grunt work out of legal practice, enabling you to focus more of […]
Getting on top of a data breach before it turns ugly
As a general counsel, how can you prepare, respond and emerge stronger?
Tackling a business crisis: the expanding role of general counsel
By Umang Paw and Fran Marwood The widening of the GC’s strategic remit means that when a crisis strikes, it’s down to them to investigate. So knowing what to do, and what skills to develop in preparation, is vital…
Are you optimising tech to create a leading legal team?
Law firms and in-house teams are bombarded with new technologies. Here’s how to see through the fog and lay the foundations to build your future-focused legal team By Craig McKeown, Umang Paw For legal teams – whether in law firms or working in-house – technology is more front-of-mind than ever before. It’s not hard to […]
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Pinterest IPO advisers to pick up $2m in legal fees
Three US firms are guiding social media scrapbook company Pinterest through its IPO listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton won the mandate for the company, working on a dual-class structure with partners Ethan Klingsberg, Jeffrey Karpf and Pamela Marcogliese in its corporate team. Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is […]
Ashurst usurps Norton Rose Fulbright as McLaren’s key adviser
Norton Rose Fulbright has lost its role as McLaren Group’s global legal adviser as the automotive manufacturer forms a new relationship with Ashurst. After a tender process, Ashurst will now work closely alongside McLaren’s in-house counsel on all aspects of its legal requirements. The company does not have a formal legal panel, instead opting to […]
O’Melveny down to six partners in London after lawyer exit
O’Melveny & Myers has lost a third City partner in less than a month, with financial regulation lawyer Eve Ellis joining Ropes & Gray. Ellis, who specialises in financial services regulation, first started at O’Melveny in 2007 as counsel in its investment funds group. She has moved back and forth over the last twelve years, […]
Clydes laments poor gender record in latest promotions
Clyde & Co has acknowledged a lack of gender diversity in its latest promotions round, despite welcoming 24 partners to the fold and doubling the number seen in 2018. The firm has stayed true to its insurance roots with the lion’s share of new partners (15) being made up in the practice, while marine and […]
Squires poised for move into RBS’s former HQ
Squire Patton Boggs is looking to downsize its London office as it looks at new premises in nearby Premier Place in Bishopsgate. The firm is understood to be under offer for around 50,000 sq ft of space at Premier Place, 2-5 Devonshire Square, the former headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). It occupies […]
Tech report 2019: The vendors profiting from a splurge in innovation investment
About 46 per cent of firms surveyed will replace their client relationship management systems in the next two years, The Lawyer Technology Report 2019 shows. By contrast, only 15 per cent of the pool of firms who took part to the survey have replaced these systems over the past year. Investments around infrastructure can reveal a […]