Name: Vicky Sandry Organisation: Sky Position: General counsel Trained at: McKenna & Co In Hot 100 for: A series of successful innovations in the legal team at Sky. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I was a trainee at what was then McKenna & Co, and I […]
The Lawyer interviews Allen & Overy IP partner and member of the Hot 100 David Stone.
Name: Olga Galazoula Firm: Ashurst Position: Partner In Hot 100 for: Work on the high-profile administration of Bell Pottinger. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I actually trained in Athens and the most memorable bit about my time there was the sheer variety of work that I […]
Name: Richard Millett QC Chambers: Essex Court Chambers Position: Barrister In Hot 100 for: Acting as leading counsel in the independent inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a pupil? Putting my pupilmaster’s leader’s cross-examination notes into a ring binder backwards, so that […]
Name: Deborah D’Aubney Organisation: Rolls Royce Position: General counsel In Hot 100 for: Taking on the challenge of transforming the company’s internal legal function. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I was once sent to do a site visit with counsel. In the days before sat nav I […]
Name: Michael Roberts Firm: Hogan Lovells Position: Partner In Hot 100 for: Star litigator on landmark cases in 2017 and 2018. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Being sent at the last minute to get a document signed by a client who was skiing in Verbier. […]
Name: Kerry Westland Firm: Addleshaw Goddard Position: Head of Innovation & Legal Technology Trained at: Addleshaw Goddard In Hot 100 for: Being Addleshaw Goddard’s ‘secret weapon’ of a legal technologist. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? For me it was attending my first pitch. It was for a client that […]
Name: Michael Chissick Position: Managing partner Firm: Fieldfisher Trained at: Herbert Smith In the Hot 100 for: The transformation of Fieldfisher. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? The City in the 1980s was incredibly exciting. Thatcher’s ‘big bang’ had deregulated the financial markets and there was […]
Name: Katja Butler Position: Partner Firm: Skadden Trained at: Linklaters In the Hot 100 for: Being a private equity star while still Skadden’s youngest partner globally. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Without a doubt my first deal closing. I was a trainee at Linklaters and did a double […]
Name: Bankim Thanki QC Position: Barrister Chambers: Fountain Court Chambers Trained at: Fountain Court Chambers In Hot 100 for: Leading roles in some of the biggest cases of 2017. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a pupil? Being asked to work for the then Head of Chambers at Fountain Court, […]
Name: Kate Burns Organisation: NotOnTheHighStreet.com Position: General Counsel Trained at: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer In Hot 100 for: Stepping up to the GC role at a crucial time for NotOnTheHighStreet and making the position her own. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? One of my most vivid was […]
Name: Robert Camp Firm: Stephens Scown Position: Managing partner In Hot 100 for: Reinvigorating Stephens Scown with a focus on employee engagement. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Two memories spring to mind – the first being reprimanded by my principal for suggesting to a family client (who […]
Name: Emma Danks Firm: Taylor Wessing Position: Partner Trained at: Clifford Chance In Hot 100 for: As one of the few female private equity heads in the City, leading on numerous big deals. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Probably being asked by my supervisor to move his (very […]
As a university student, I must admit that my aspirations were not to be a child abuse solicitor. I knew I wanted to be a high street solicitor who helped ‘Joe Bloggs’ but that was about as far as it went. I also didn’t know, at the time, that being a solicitor was much more […]
Name: Lee Ranson Firm: Eversheds Sutherland Position: Co-CEO In Hot 100 for: Successfully leading Eversheds into an international merger. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I have good memories of my time as a trainee. I soon understood that there was a significant difference between what I’d […]
Name: Amie Norris Position: Senior associate Firm: Pinsent Masons Trained at: Pinsent Masons In Hot 100 for: Being a rising star in the corporate world. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? My first all night completion. I always knew I would love or hate corporate law (although deep down I […]
UNISON’s Adam Creme featured in the Hot 100 for leading his team to victory on one of the most important employment cases in recent years.
Allen & Overy’s Shruti Ajitsaria featured in The Lawyer Hot 100 earlier this year for leading the firm’s landmark Fuse initiative.
Zoopla Property Group’s general counsel and company secretary Ned Staple shares his three main ways for lawyers to make a difference in their company.
Name: Jonathan Blair Position: Co-chair and UK managing partner Firm: Womble Bond Dickinson Trained at: Wragge & Co In Hot 100 for: Leading Bond Dickinson into a major US merger. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I did my training at Wragges in Birmingham in the late 1980s and as a […]
Name: Elizabeth Bradley Position: Partner, global head of tax Firm: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Trained at: Berwin Leighton Paisner In Hot 100 for: Taking tax to the top of BCLP’s agenda. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? While I was a corporate trainee, I was asked to attend a closing meeting […]
Name: Adrian Beltrami QC Chambers: 3 Verulam Buildings Position: Barrister, Joint head of chambers In Hot 100 for: Defending banks in many of the biggest finance cases in the UK courts. Read his full Hot 100 entry. What’s your most vivid memory from being a pupil? I particularly remember, on my first day, being locked in my pupil […]
Name: Sally Davies Firm: Mayer Brown Position: Partner In Hot 100 for: Becoming Mayer Brown’s first female London senior partner. Read her full Hot 100 entry. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? There was a particularly hideous checking exercise of a trial bundle. There had been some photocopying errors, which meant the whole set […]
Head of transformation for Banco Santander’s legal department Gloria Sánchez Soriano talks to The Lawyer on what the in-house function of the future will look like and the skills lawyers will need to fully take advantage of the legal technology available on the market.
Name: Rod Freeman Firm: Cooley Position: Partner In Hot 100 for: Combining product liability law with tech expertise; Grenfell Tower fire public inquiry. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee/pupil? I started my career in a small high-street firm in the suburbs of Sydney, where I was given […]
Name: Julia Boyle Organisation: Telefonica Position: Deputy GC Trained at: Norton Rose In Hot 100 for: Work opposing the judicial review of Ofcom’s spectrum auction last year and negotiating renewal of rights to O2 events. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? The only one I’m prepared to admit […]
Name: Trevor Griffiths Firm: Sharpe Pritchard Position: Partner Trained at: Sharpe Pritchard In Hot 100 for: Isle of Wight Council v Platt, the landmark Supreme Court school attendance case. Read his full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? I am actually old enough to have done Articles and therefore was an […]
Name: Anna Cook Firm: Bristows Position: Partner Trained at: Dorman & Co In Hot 100 for: Working on one of last year’s largest advertising technology cases. Read her full Hot 100 profile. What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? My most vivid memories involve running. I did my training contract at a shipping […]
Ahead of his session at The Lawyer’s GC Strategy Summit, Banco Santander’s head of legal global corporate banking for Germany, Austria and Switzerland Timo Mathias Spitzer talks about the role of the modern in-house lawyer and making a difference within your organisation. How can the legal function be a competitive advantage to its company? A […]
Liverpool headquartered Weightmans has enjoyed a comfortable few years, which has seen it keep hold of its position of as one of the UK’s top 50 firms by revenue.
Paul Jenkins was a bold choice for managing partner, and now he’s running the firm during one of the most turbulent periods in its history.
The story of the re-entry of the Big Four accountancy firms into legal services has occupied many minds in the last year or so. But in the UK, there is one notable absence – Deloitte. While its rivals EY, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers have all been busy hiring senior lawyers from top private practice firms Deloitte has stayed away from the UK market.
Last November Irwin Mitchell announced that it was acquiring southeast firm Thomas Eggar. The deal gave the northern-focused Irwin Mitchell an additional six offices in the south of England and has boosted the firm’s turnover to £250m.
Allen & Overy’s (A&O) new management outlined their strategy to partners last month in the 45-degree Dubai heat. But what were the hot topics on the agenda?
Private prosecution boutique Edmonds Marshall McMahon caused a stir earlier this year after it made the biggest lateral hires in its short history.
Orrick’s global boss and London head talk about bringing the firm’s base in the capital up to scratch to meet the needs of global clients, Microsoft and Instagram.
Linklaters’ new managing partner Gideon Moore speaks out about his plans to review everything at the firm to “check that what we’re doing still makes sense”.
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) launched a new plan of action on Thursday (28 April) that gave an enticing hint at its plans for expansion in the US.
Manchester has become a competitive breeding ground for back office-style legal processing centres and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) wants to be one of the city’s biggest players.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is among a minority of international firms to have by-passed Hong Kong and entered into Greater China via an office in Shanghai. Six years after its 2006 launch in Shanghai, the firm expanded its mainland China footprint to Beijing and most recently it announced a plan to set up a base in Hong Kong.
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has had a turbulent few years. Since the merger with SJ Berwin in 2013 created a global firm made up of three separate partnerships, bosses have struggled to keep a hold on ‘big-hitter’ partners in the UK, keep finances in check and integrate 2,800 lawyers including 600 partners worldwide.
In the wake of the Brexit vote, there is a need for some clarity on the general subject of globalisation and a law firm’s strategic positioning. First, globalisation is not a decision. It is a force and, for all intents and purposes, a force of nature. It is the movement of people, ideas, products, services, […]
After last week’s historic decision by the British people to leave the EU many will want know immediately what the implications are.
Addleshaw Goddard’s recent announcement that it will be restricting the number of partners who can leave the firm each year is far from unique, but it is a manifestation of a management doctrine I find curious
The Travers Smith Art Programme is at the heart of our new corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme.
Last week the chairman of the legal referral network Interlaw, Michael Siebold, wrote in his opinion piece ‘Pale imitation of a network’ that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and I’m more than happy to take the compliment that large firms are paying to legal networks such as ours
Imagine you are a general counsel or director in whose department sits the person who buys your company’s insurance policies. You may be about to become a star witness in insurance disputes. Is that news to you? Are you concerned by it?
Imagine you have a corporate client with a fraud or corruption issue. The client conducts its business responsibly. It has a code of ethics its leadership believes in. It wants to put its house in order and manage the associated risk. What do you advise? You won’t be surprised to read what my recommendation would […]
In 2013, Susy Bullock went on a secondment to UBS from Gibson Dunn. Four-and-a-half years later, she’s the bank’s EMEA litigation head.
Lucozade GC Mary Guest has been keeping an eye on looming sugar tax and GDPR requirements while undertaking a panel review.
GC Rob Booth says including specialists in conversations with lawyers is the best way to build value for the real estate company
University pension scheme lawyer Louise Howard talks about her job looking after the pensions of 350 higher education and research institutions
Early in 2001, The Lawyer reported the move of Oxford University Press lawyer Mark Wilkinson to pharmaceutical giant Bayer. Wilkinson was tasked with setting up the legal department of Bayer’s UK arm; a role that has seen him grow the function ten-fold and form an integral part of the company’s 800-strong global law patents and […]
Prison murders are just one element of the Care UK legal team’s workload.
Credit Suisse Asset Management EMEA head of legal Jason Edel talks to The Lawyer about the essential non-legal skills general counsel need to possess and their unique position to advise on commercial strategy ahead of his session at the In-House Financial Services conference. How has the role of general counsel transformed within the last 5 […]
Monzo Bank, of orange debit cards fame, is growing fast. So fast that GC Dean Nash has not yet had the chance to pin down a regular panel
At the start of 2016 restructuring partner Ashley Katz became the latest big-hitter to move over to Fried Frank Shriver Harris & Jacobson’s growing London base.
Shami Chakrabarti says she was surprised that the 13 January announcement of her imminent departure from civil rights charity Liberty attracted so much attention. Sandwiched between the deaths of celebrities David Bowie and Alan Rickman, the news still made the front page of several national newspapers, notably left-leaning The Guardian and The Independent
Since appearing in The Lawyer Hot 100 two years ago Reed Smith’s Tamara Box has taken on a new role at the US firm
John McDonnell QC was named in the Hot 100 in 2005 for his diverse practice, celebrity client roster and the launch of his new chambers, Thirteen Old Square.
Now in her 16th year at Travers Smith, Helen Croke has been key to the success of the firm’s private equity group. One of eight partners in the firm’s dedicated private equity and M&A team, Croke qualified at Travers in 2001 and moved up into partnership seven years later. The team has remained largely unchanged […]
Cathy Pitt is building CMS’ strength in the ever-changing world of funds
Jonathan Berger has found the ideal place to pursue his media work
Dan Oates is helping to build Fried Frank’s London private equity team
Mona Arshi is a prize-winning poet and former human rights lawyer. She recently won the Forward prize for best first collection. You began your training contract at JR Jones in the same week that Doreen and Neville Lawrence instructed the firm on the murder of their son Stephen. How did that time influence the rest […]
Hays general counsel for UK and Ireland Evelyn Styles tells The Lawyer why she chose a role in-house over private practice. Did you start your career in-house? I trained at a small high street practice and it gave me first hand experience of dealing with all aspects of legal maters, such as contract and commercial […]
Travis Perkins general counsel Deborah Grimason grew up around business – though she’d be the first to admit that her father’s bakery delivery business in rural Northern Ireland was a far cry from the FTSE 100 company she now guides through legal minefields. Grimason knew two things growing up: that she wanted to enter a profession […]
Natalie Sherborn left the criminal bar and is now a senior associate at defamation and reputation management firm Schillings. She tells us about how and why she made the move. What’s your background? I went to a state comprehensive school in Essex. I don’t know if anyone in our family even knew what a barrister was, […]
Maclay Murray & Spens partner Jill Reid entered private practice after 25 years in-house with Chevron UK, Shell and Dana Petroleum. Why did you make the move into private practice? I feel that my role [at Dana] as General Counsel and Company Secretary in an oil and gas operating company having assets in multiple jurisdictions with […]
Travers Smith’s David Patient gives his advice for those moving into a management role. Was moving into a management position always a career objective for you? It has certainly not always been a career objective for me, but something that evolved over time. I had the good fortune to have the opportunity to open our […]
