Almost two years after a significant turnaround in the Court of Appeal, Lloyd v Google is now set for its Supreme Court showdown. The mammoth data protection dispute will be heard across two days before a panel of five starting Wednesday. An estimated 4.4 million iPhone users are on the respondent’s side in this legal […]
A group of Linklaters partners are getting ready to split their time between London and Dublin, as the firm gears up for its launch in the city next month. The one-floor office is set to open on the 1st of May in a building overlooking the city’s signature Merrion Square. As part of the process, […]
Ashurst is gearing up to elect the next chair of the firm, with six partners understood to be in the running for the post. London corporate duo Jason Radford and Karen Davies have been cited by sources as potential candidates to replace outgoing Ben Tidswell, as well as dispute resolution partner Simon Bromwich. Meanwhile, the […]
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
Almost two years after a significant turnaround in the Court of Appeal, Lloyd v Google is now set for its Supreme Court showdown. The mammoth data protection dispute will be heard across two days before a panel of five starting Wednesday. An estimated 4.4 million iPhone users are on the respondent’s side in this legal […]
A group of Linklaters partners are getting ready to split their time between London and Dublin, as the firm gears up for its launch in the city next month. The one-floor office is set to open on the 1st of May in a building overlooking the city’s signature Merrion Square. As part of the process, […]
Ashurst is gearing up to elect the next chair of the firm, with six partners understood to be in the running for the post. London corporate duo Jason Radford and Karen Davies have been cited by sources as potential candidates to replace outgoing Ben Tidswell, as well as dispute resolution partner Simon Bromwich. Meanwhile, the […]
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
The Lawyer has compiled trainee solicitor salaries and newly-qualified (NQ) solicitor salaries from the UK’s largest law firms. Last update: 3 November 2023 The latest salary figures are a reflection of the influence of American firms on the UK market. When Bingham McCutchen became the first firm to offer NQs £100,000 in London back in […]
Barclays’ legal team was once among the most influential in the UK. That power has diminished over the last decade, yet the banking giant still packs a punch when it comes to talent management. Some 40 lawyers are understood to have left Barclays in the UK last year. There are cost-cutting measures at play here, […]
Keystone Law, the poster child for the platform firm, is likely to break the psychologically important £100m revenue barrier in 2025. The success of this firm has spawned a new market, which is challenging traditional firms on the talent front. More than 3,500 lawyers now work across a variety of fee-sharing outfits, research from Atlas […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright’s London offices will all be under water in a few decades. This trio shares idyllic views overlooking the Thames, but they will all be submerged in the river by the year 2100 as climate change-induced sea level rises occur. And this is based on the […]
Talent churn is accelerating among the junior ranks with today’s associates more mobile than the generations before them. The concept of long-term professional loyalty is fading as Gen Z rises. These lawyers ask not what they can do for you, but what your firm can do for them. This generational shift in working attitudes is […]
Hooray, big-ticket M&A is having a mini-revival and so are the firms that make so much of their money out of it. Already in 2024, major European M&A deals to have been announced include International Paper’s £5.8bn planned acquisition of London-listed packaging company DS Smith, which trumped another offer from rival Mondi. Other significant matters […]
Slaughter and May is to add another senior lawyer to its pensions team in the City, this time from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Charles Magoffin, a partner at Freshfields since 2010, is joining Slaughters as a senior counsel from September. Slaughters has still only ever made one lateral hire in the City, also into its pensions […]
Litigation funders will be keeping a close eye on an upcoming review into third-party funding regulation, proposed caps on returns, as well as litigation costs. The Civil Justice Council is looking to produce a full report by the summer of 2025. The review follows an increased focus on litigation funders and their role in disputes, […]
In its largest promotions round ever, Ashurst has elevated eight London lawyers to partner out of 30 worldwide. The firm has made up eight lawyers in London, as well as seven in Sydney. In total, 17 promotions were made in Ashurst’s Australian offices, meaning just five were made outside of either London or Australia. Loans […]
Frustrated Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) candidates are calling on the SRA to increase accessibility to the appeals process after a results error saw 175 candidates mistakenly told they had failed their exams. On Monday last week, the SRA announced that 175 candidates who sat SQE1 in January and were told they had failed on 14 […]
The administrators of collapsed firm Axiom Ince have filed a creditors’ bankruptcy petition against its former boss. Filed at the end of last week, the petition will seek to force Pragnesh Modhwadia’s bankruptcy, The Lawyer understands, applying to the court for his assets to be taken and sold to pay debts to the administrators. Pinsent Masons […]
