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 […]
Exclusive: Clifford Chance to launch new delivery hubs in global innovation boost
Clifford Chance has refocused its global innovation strategy around expanding on its network of innovation and delivery hubs around the world, The Lawyer can reveal. The hubs in Singapore, New York, Dubai and London will focus on key innovation points for the firm and will work alongside resource management, pricing and pitching support teams as well as assisting […]
Linklaters M&A star exits for Paul Hastings
Linklaters heavyweight M&A partner Roger Barron is exiting the firm after 17 years to join Paul Hastings in London. This move comes exactly a week after Paul Hastings announced the hire of DLA Piper partner Anu Balasubramanian. Barron featured in The Lawyer Hot 100 2018, sealing his place in this year’s Hot 100 following his work closing […]
Norton Rose hit with mass defection as 15-strong team exit to Reed Smith
A team of 15 lawyers across four different Norton Rose Fulbright offices in the US have decamped to join Reed Smith. The team includes global head of life sciences and healthcare Rick Robinson, Washington partner Lesley Reynolds, Austin partners Jeff Layne and Ben Koplin and New York partner Cori Goldberg. Two Norton Rose associates, Washington […]
Clifford Chance searches for diversity head after gender pay gap report
Clifford Chance is searching for its first global head of inclusion and diversity, just a few weeks after the firm revealed a 66 per cent pay gap in its gender pay gap reporting. Clifford Chance’s new global head of diversity and strategy will be based in any of the firm’s 32 worldwide offices, and will work […]
Addleshaws calls on Clydes to defend professional negligence claim
Addleshaw Goddard has called on Clyde & Co to defend the firm over advice given to big four accountancy firm Deloitte by its Scottish arm, legacy HBJ Gateley, before its 2017 merger. Deloitte was originally drafted in during the collapse of a caravan park business owned by the now-defunct Scottish business Arthur Holgate & Son, […]
Exclusive: DWF raises capital contributions for the first time in seven years
DWF asked equity partnership for a raise in capital contributions for the first time in seven years, The Lawyer has learned. The call for further contributions was made towards the end of 2017, though fixed share partners were exempt, CEO and managing partner Andrew Leaitherland told The Lawyer. A series of conversations between the firm’s management and fixed-share partners […]