DACB should take a gamble on Vegas
Dodgy-looking characters losing thousands in the casino, sky-high fountain displays dancing in front of glitzy hotels, and George Clooney with his 11-strong mob breaking into vaults are sights you expect to witness in Las Vegas. And a recent holiday to Sin City did not disappoint – except the Clooney part, unfortunately. What was unexpected was […]
Is this all, Alex Chalk?
Access to justice remains a neglected ideal for this Government
A&O/Shearman’s legal advisers show they mean business
If you need further evidence of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling’s very serious intentions to merge, just look at which firms are sorting out the nitty gritty. First off, they did not seek M&A advice from their own – and therefore cheaper – partners. They went external, and to no less than Simpson […]
A&O should own this takeover
No way is this a merger of equals
Not all firms are hiring – but these are
If you’re thinking of moving jobs, then you might be in the minority. The recruitment market has slowed over the past few months after the well-documented pandemic boom and subsequent economic turmoil. A few trends are putting off both sides of the coin. Stealth layoffs and redundancies have been widely reported, but some rather unremarkable […]
Prince Harry loses legal challenge against Home Office
The Duke of Sussex has lost a High Court legal challenge against the Home Office after the UK Government and Metropolitan Police refused to allow the royal to retain his police security detail. After his intention to step down as a working royal became clear, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle announced their move […]
Mega-merger, mega-fees: The in-house perspective on A&O Shearman
“My first thought on the Allen & Overy-Shearman merger was ‘this is exciting!’” says one in-houser, but then came the realisation. “Oh wait, which way will the fees go?” Money is often top of the list for in-housers when trying to pick external counsel, alongside factors that include quality of expertise and geographic scale. The […]
Brodies launches office in the Middle East
Scottish independent firm Brodies has launched an office in Abu Dhabi, making it the firm’s seventh office in total and its first venture outside of Europe, The Lawyer can reveal. The office has been coined Brodies Middle East, and the decision to open it has been driven by the firm’s existing energy clients in Abu […]
Hogan Lovells is latest firm to up NQ pay
Hogan Lovells is the latest firm to join the likes of A&O and Linklaters in hiking its newly-qualified solicitor pay, The Lawyer understands. Newly-qualified solicitor pay in London is set to rise by 12 per cent from £107,500 to £120,000. Birmingham NQs will be paid £75,000, an increase of £5,000. Pressure on firms to meet NQ […]
Shearman projects team exits for Ashurst
Ashurst has swiped a global energy and infrastructure team from Shearman & Sterling, just days after the US firm announced its transformative tie-up with Allen & Overy The defecting Shearman team includes London-based project finance partners Sanja (Sonny) Udovicic and Julia Derrick, as well as Seoul-based partner Anna Chung, and Singapore-based partner Jean-Louis Neves Mandelli […]
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