Six firms have now taken the giant leap on the London Stock Exchange, but it’s still not for everyone. One of the main reasons for trepidation is the influence that outside investors can gain at the expense of a traditional law firm partnership. However, added investment means more money and firms wanting to expand quickly […]
Shearman & Sterling’s revenue reached $968m in 2019 as the firm continues its laboured rise towards $1bn. Last year’s turnover represents a 1.3 per cent increase on its 2018 revenue, when Shearman’s global results showed 5 per cent growth to $955.5m. Meanwhile, the firm’s average profit per equity partner (PEP) was $2.5m, a modest rise […]
Linklaters has worked with a group of academics to create a new legal technology curriculum for its youngest lawyers. The curriculum, which was developed in partnership with Swansea University, will first prioritise the firm’s trainee population, starting with those who joined the firm in August 2019: around 200 people globally. But the firm has plans […]
The Bar Council has released new figures on barristers’ earnings.
Six firms have now taken the giant leap on the London Stock Exchange, but it’s still not for everyone. One of the main reasons for trepidation is the influence that outside investors can gain at the expense of a traditional law firm partnership. However, added investment means more money and firms wanting to expand quickly […]
Shearman & Sterling’s revenue reached $968m in 2019 as the firm continues its laboured rise towards $1bn. Last year’s turnover represents a 1.3 per cent increase on its 2018 revenue, when Shearman’s global results showed 5 per cent growth to $955.5m. Meanwhile, the firm’s average profit per equity partner (PEP) was $2.5m, a modest rise […]
Linklaters has worked with a group of academics to create a new legal technology curriculum for its youngest lawyers. The curriculum, which was developed in partnership with Swansea University, will first prioritise the firm’s trainee population, starting with those who joined the firm in August 2019: around 200 people globally. But the firm has plans […]
The Bar Council has released new figures on barristers’ earnings.
RPC will be acting for Bloomberg in a fascinating Court of Appeal encounter this week, as it takes on Byrne and Partners during a three-day hearing that is floated for either Tuesday or Wednesday. The case will rule upon whether criminal suspects have a reasonable expectation to privacy, and if so, when. Following a string […]
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The ever-expanding Paris office of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has hired yet more lawyers from a boutique French firm, this time adding in employment and antitrust. The lawyers all join from Franklin; they are antitrust partner Julie Catala Marty, employment partner Claire Fougea and employment of counsel Marion Brière Ségala, who joins BCLP as […]
Wilberforce Chambers has secured the services of a high-profile silk from private practice, with Stuart Isaacs QC joining the set from King & Spalding. After a five-year stint as a partner in the global disputes team at King & Spalding, the commercial specialist will now resume his practice at the Bar. Isaacs is the second […]
This week saw Norton Rose Fulbright revive its Flex scheme of 2009/10, while junior barristers voiced concerns over their livelihoods. Here are the key takeaways. Norton Rose Fulbright rolls back the years As we’ll no doubt be reminding people a lot in the coming weeks, the firm that probably came out best reputation-wise from the […]
Ely Place Chambers is to cease operations from the end of July, as the Bar as a whole faces economic upheaval during the coronavirus pandemic. The set will not continue “in its present form” from the summer, at which point some members are expected to move to new homes. Others are “investigating creating a new […]
A ten-lawyer real estate team, led by partner Anne O’Neill, is to leave Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe’s London office for West End firm Forsters. O’Neill joined Orrick in 2005 from the now-dissolved Coudert Brothers, and was one of eight of its London partners to move in one go. She led Orrick’s UK real estate practice […]
Former Balfour Beatty general counsel Jonathan Lagan has landed in the top legal role at Aldermore Bank. Lagan joins the FTSE 250 bank after a short spell at the construction giant. At Aldermore, Lagan will be responsible for all legal issues and risk including leading the legal and company secretarial teams, and will work with […]
