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Shearman & Sterling continues push towards $1bn global revenue

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 […]

New QCs at a time of change: the silks of 2020

As 114 new silks celebrated their success in the 2020 Queen’s Counsel appointments, they were also marking the end of an arduous selection procedure – all for the honour, pride and privilege of securing those two prestigious letters that can reshape a legal career.  Finally gaining the QC kitemark gives some barristers a sense of […]

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DWF and RPC among four new firms on Dixons Carphone roster

Electrical retailer Dixons Carphone has appointed 14 firms to its panel, bringing on board four new ones to its roster. Bristows, DWF, RPC and Carson MacDowell are the four new firms that join the likes of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Addleshaw Goddard and DLA Piper after a tender process that started in November. The other firms […]