Clifford Chance, DLA and Slaughters cash in on £6m Punch sale fees
Clifford Chance, DLA Piper and Slaughter and May are among a group of firms to reap more than £6m in legal fees from the sale of Punch Taverns last year.
New charity Law Rocks launches David Batcup award
Law Rocks, the legal market battle of the bands which has raised more than $2m since launching in 2009, has officially become a registered charity with the pro bono help of Howard Kennedy.
Richard Adkinson appointed a deputy district judge
Richard Adkinson has been appointed by The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales as a Deputy District Judge (Magistrates’ Court). He will continue to practice at No5 as well as fulfilling his judicial duties.
Slaughters seconds partner to Brexit task force
Slaughter and May has seconded one of its corporate partners to the UK Government’s Brexit unit.
Reed Smith’s KWM push: What was it all for?
Reed Smith’s mass hire of around 50 lawyers from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) was one of the largest to be made by any firm. But what has the firm gained?
Revealed: The UK top 100 law firms 2023
The UK’s 100 largest law firms generated revenue of £33.7bn between them in 2022/23, The Lawyer can reveal in its annual UK200 report, released today. The figure is up 7 per cent from £31.3bn in 2021/22, demonstrating the resilience the UK’s legal sector despite continued turbulence in the political and economic landscapes. Meanwhile, the Independents […]
Wilko GC starts afresh after retailer’s collapse
Wilko’s general counsel is taking on a new role at Sofina Foods after the high street retailer fell into administration. After last ditch attempts to save Wilko failed, general counsel Robert Powell appealed on LinkedIn for staff support of his legal team. He is now joining Sofina Foods as its head of legal. Sofina Foods […]
Revolut buddies up with two firms for mentoring scheme
Senior lawyers from Revolut’s panel firms will mentor in-housers at the fintech as part of a new professional development initiative. While Revolut has its own reverse mentoring scheme internally, the in-house team were keen to mirror this with external providers. They approached panel firms Osborne Clarke and Latham & Watkins with the idea of matching […]
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BCLP appoints London partner to new senior role
The UK boss of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has been appointed to the position of global senior partner. Segun Osuntokun will take up the newly-created role from 1 January, supporting the firm’s sole CEO Steve Baumer. Osuntokun joined the firm in 2008 as a partner in the litigation and corporate risk practice, and was […]
The Lawyer Podcast: The truth behind the CMS redundancies
The latest episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now! Proposed redundancies at CMS and Taylor Rose have raised associate anxieties across the market, with many wondering whether they could be the start of wider trouble. The Lawyer‘s editor Catrin Griffiths and litigation editor Christian Smith are joined by director of insight Matt Byrne and […]
Real Estate: Lawyer Sentiment
Get critical intelligence into the satisfaction amongst real estate lawyers at private practice law firms in the UK based on data collected from our Lawyer Sentiment survey Filter data on firm culture, satisfaction, sentiment and churn across a range of metrics including salary bands, seniority, age group, sex and location Get the churn score across […]
The City 50 2023
This report contains: The Lawyer’s The City 50 ranking 2023 analysis on partner capital contributions and how it compares with other key indicators such as profit five-year UK 200 data showing key trends in how firms are using their real estate data on firms’ current and likely future use of artificial intelligence
UK 200 2023 – Top 50 profiles and Top 100 overview
IN ASSOCIATION WITH The Top 100 of The Lawyer‘s UK 200 rankings interactive, firm-specific profiles of the top 50 firms’ financial overview, business mix and operations the UK 200 thermometer showing the shape of the market
Global Litigation 50 2023
This report contains: ranking of the top 50 firms based on their global litigation revenue generated in the last financial year analysis of financials and headcount growth global trends in litigation over the past year
Global Top 30 in Europe
This report contains: a stratification of the 30 largest global law firms in Continental Europe based on partner headcount a look at what proportion of global partnerships are concentrated in Europe an analysis of firms’ presence in Europe’s five key financial centres
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The partnership model is creaking
The lower down The Lawyer UK200 rankings your firm sits, the more difficult it is to grow. The revenue gap between the Top 10 firms and those outside the Top 50 was £1.14bn in 2022/23, but all that separates the firm ranked 50th (Browne Jacobson) and 100th (Payne Hicks Beach) is £66m in revenue. It […]
On your marks, get set, A&O
Today’s the day: will Allen & Overy (A&O) and Shearman & Sterling vote to merge, or have efforts by both firms’ management failed to convince the naysayers? Unlike the excitement of a day’s General Election, both sides are being very lawyerly about it and can ponder for two whole weeks. The vote closes on 13 […]
Eversheds’ major litmus test
On Halloween 2024, all that remained of SJ Berwin will end, as King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) retreat from the UK, Europe and the Middle East is finalised and its offices in those regions closed. The fate of its people in London, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, Frankfurt and Dubai will be sealed. And that will be […]
New powers are rising in the far North
The latest mergers in Scotland will be followed by more soon enough
Who cares about London, anyway?
The Lawyer’s first Regional Powerhouse Ranking shows the strength of the UK’s legal market outside London
SRA calls in the Met on Axiom Ince probe
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is liaising with law enforcement authorities over allegations made regarding embattled firm Axiom Ince, as the Metropolitan Police Service confirms a referral was passed on by the regulator. In August, the regulator suspended three partners from Axiom Ince, the firm that acquired Ince Group just four months before and was […]
Ince crisis: Future trainees ‘left to fend for themselves’
As Axiom Ince finally collapses, The Lawyer can reveal that barely any of the current or future trainees have found new homes – and the future trainees have missed their deadline to begin their studies at BPP. The Lawyer understands that two individuals have been able to transfer their current training contracts to Stephenson Harwood […]
HSF defends in $13.8bn High Court claim brought by Russian businessman
Jailed Russian businessman Ziyavudin Magomedov has filed a $13.8bn claim against US private equity giant TPG, ports multinational DP World and a number of Russian state companies. The claim, which alleges that Magomedov’s business empire was manoeuvred into Russian state hands, was launched by litigation boutique Seladore Legal and includes a line-up of barristers from […]
Dozens exit Axiom Ince for Birketts and Horwich Farrelly
Axiom Ince has taken another hit this morning, losing a large team to Birketts and over 30 lawyers to Horwich Farrelly (HF). HF has taken the largest cohort yet from the ailing firm, onboarding more than 30 lawyers including nine partners and one associate partner. Partners Stef Johnston, Jarrod Parker, Alison Beesley, Chris Foulkes, Richard […]
The Passport: Taylor Wessing, Inflexion and Beyoncé
This week in The Passport we’re taking a view on how Taylor Wessing might add an important missing piece in its European jigsaw and how a weak Krona has been both a blessing and a curse to Sweden’s biggest players. Taylor Wessing’s big Italian gap The big European news out of Taylor Wessing earlier this […]
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