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“Lisa Mayhew, my supervisor at Lovells (now co-chair of BCLP) opened my eyes to employment litigation when I had no clue what sort of lawyer I wanted to be.”
Mishcon de Reya will promote its fourth business services professional to its partnership, in what is thought to be its largest promotions round in at least the last five years. Mishcon head of MDR Cyber Joe Hancock follows in the path of COO Bambos Georgiou, business development director Elliot Moss and HR director Vanessa Dewhurst […]
A former client of Mishcon de Reya has brought a claim against the firm alleging that it did not adhere to the terms of a fee agreement, The Lawyer has learned. An application, made by former Mishcon client Piero Quaradeghini, was heard in the Rolls Building last week against a strike out claim made by the […]
K&L Gates has lost its London antitrust and regulation group head Neil Baylis to Mishcon de Reya, as the latter ramps up its lateral recruitment in the City for 2019. Baylis joined K&L Gates in 2002 after starting off his legal career at Clifford Chance. He then moved to Ashurst as an associate in 1996, […]
“Lisa Mayhew, my supervisor at Lovells (now co-chair of BCLP) opened my eyes to employment litigation when I had no clue what sort of lawyer I wanted to be.”
Mishcon de Reya will promote its fourth business services professional to its partnership, in what is thought to be its largest promotions round in at least the last five years. Mishcon head of MDR Cyber Joe Hancock follows in the path of COO Bambos Georgiou, business development director Elliot Moss and HR director Vanessa Dewhurst […]
A former client of Mishcon de Reya has brought a claim against the firm alleging that it did not adhere to the terms of a fee agreement, The Lawyer has learned. An application, made by former Mishcon client Piero Quaradeghini, was heard in the Rolls Building last week against a strike out claim made by the […]
K&L Gates has lost its London antitrust and regulation group head Neil Baylis to Mishcon de Reya, as the latter ramps up its lateral recruitment in the City for 2019. Baylis joined K&L Gates in 2002 after starting off his legal career at Clifford Chance. He then moved to Ashurst as an associate in 1996, […]
In the past few years, Kirkland & Ellis has recruited heavy-hitters from the likes of Linklaters, Freshfields, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Ropes & Gray. But have their associates followed?
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Dentons has lost a corporate partner duo to Eversheds Sutherland, including its former global chair of its insurance group. Martin Mankabady has made the move from Dentons to Eversheds along with fellow partner Adriana Cotter. Mankabady, who led Dentons’ insurance group, had been at the firm for over six years, having joined from Clyde & […]
Kirkland & Ellis is strengthening the secondaries element of its London investment funds practice with the hire of a partner from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Partner Aleksander Bakic has joined Kirkland after three years at Akin Gump. He was previously at O’Melveny & Myers and advises private equity fund sponsors across multiple alternative […]
Tesco Bank has promoted from within, ahead of the departure of its legal director and company secretary. Michael Mustard is set to leave his role in February this year, with Fiona Burden, the bank’s current head of legal, taking the helm. Mustard has spent more than seven years in the business after joining in 2014. […]
The first pass rates of the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) have been revealed. The students who sat the first-ever SQE1 exam in November received their results yesterday, with just over half – 53 per cent – receiving the good news that they had passed. Some 1,090 candidates, including 27 solicitor apprentices, took the exam across […]
