DLA Piper raises NQ salaries to £70,000
DLA Piper has raised salaries for its trainees and lawyers
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DLA Piper has raised salaries for its trainees and lawyers
Travers Smith has retained 94 per cent of its qualifying trainees this September. In a result that exactly matches the firm’s result for autumn 2015, Travers took on 17 of its 18 final-seat trainees in newly-qualified roles. It adds to the three out of three trainees retained in the spring, giving the firm total retention […]
Christopher Johnston QC and Nicholas Peacock (of Hailsham Chambers) co-chaired the annual PNBA Clinical Negligence conference at Clare College, Cambridge this weekend. Chris and Nick put together the weekend’s programme of medical and legal sessions. Please see http://pnba.co.uk/events/clinical-negligence-conference/ for further details. About 100 delegates attended the conference which is now in its 23rd year.
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DLA Piper has raised salaries for its trainees and lawyers
Travers Smith has retained 94 per cent of its qualifying trainees this September. In a result that exactly matches the firm’s result for autumn 2015, Travers took on 17 of its 18 final-seat trainees in newly-qualified roles. It adds to the three out of three trainees retained in the spring, giving the firm total retention […]
Christopher Johnston QC and Nicholas Peacock (of Hailsham Chambers) co-chaired the annual PNBA Clinical Negligence conference at Clare College, Cambridge this weekend. Chris and Nick put together the weekend’s programme of medical and legal sessions. Please see http://pnba.co.uk/events/clinical-negligence-conference/ for further details. About 100 delegates attended the conference which is now in its 23rd year.
A law firm is suing Lloyds Bank over claims it failed to protect its client bank account from fraud, leading it to suffer losses of more than £2m.
Recordati, an international pharmaceutical group listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, has acquires the Swiss pharmaceutical company Pro Farma. Walder Wyss acted as adviser to Recordati in all legal aspects of the transaction. The team was led by Florian Gunz Niedermann (partner, corporate/M&A) and included Simon Kehl (managing associate/M&A), Andrea Voëlin (associate, corporate/M&A), Simone Wetzstein […]
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Taylor Wessing is advising pharma giant Pfizer on aspects around the rollout of its Covid-19 vaccine across Europe, The Lawyer understands. The firm is understood to be counselling the company on patent issues arising from the unprecedentedly large-scale distribution of the vaccine it developed in conjunction with German biotech company BioNTech. It is understood that […]
DWF has made up six new partners, in cities such as Manchester and Bristol, while London has missed out for the second year in a row. While there were no London partner promotions, the office did see director elevations. The promotions mostly concern the firm’s insurance and real estate practices. Of the new partners, professional […]