Morgan Lewis & Bockius has made up its third London-based partner in two years, promoting Victoria Thompson in the firm’s finance group. Thompson follows last year’s promotions of antitrust partner Joanna Christoforou and employment partner Lee Harding at Morgan Lewis’s City office. Thompson is dual-qualified to practise in New York as well as in England […]
Slaughter and May has been called in to advise the landlords as part of Arcadia’s company voluntary arrangement (CVA), in the ongoing endeavour to pull the retail group from the brink. Slaughters has joined the throng of firms acting on the CVA, led by restructuring partner Tom Vickers and associates Samyuktha Rajagopal and Edward Couzens. […]
The Law Society has begun charging junior lawyers for its careers advice, The Lawyer has learned. As of June, the membership body for solicitors in England and Wales is running a series of sessions for lawyers under 2PQE, charging £50 for an hour-long appointment with a careers adviser. When VAT is added, that sum rises to […]
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Government for the way it paid Linklaters & Paines more than £13m for advice on the sale of the first three rail franchises. The report criticises the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, Opraf, for not using a competitive tender to choose Linklaters and for not […]
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has made up its third London-based partner in two years, promoting Victoria Thompson in the firm’s finance group. Thompson follows last year’s promotions of antitrust partner Joanna Christoforou and employment partner Lee Harding at Morgan Lewis’s City office. Thompson is dual-qualified to practise in New York as well as in England […]
Slaughter and May has been called in to advise the landlords as part of Arcadia’s company voluntary arrangement (CVA), in the ongoing endeavour to pull the retail group from the brink. Slaughters has joined the throng of firms acting on the CVA, led by restructuring partner Tom Vickers and associates Samyuktha Rajagopal and Edward Couzens. […]
The Law Society has begun charging junior lawyers for its careers advice, The Lawyer has learned. As of June, the membership body for solicitors in England and Wales is running a series of sessions for lawyers under 2PQE, charging £50 for an hour-long appointment with a careers adviser. When VAT is added, that sum rises to […]
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Government for the way it paid Linklaters & Paines more than £13m for advice on the sale of the first three rail franchises. The report criticises the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, Opraf, for not using a competitive tender to choose Linklaters and for not […]
“For me transition was necessary”, says A&O’s Emma Niit, “so much so that I felt compelled to completely turn my life upside down for it”.
Which law firms are private equity houses looking to invest in? The answer, if the conversations we’re having with managing partners are anything to go by, is ‘pretty much all of them’. Most regional firms of note have had speculative approaches at some time in the last five years or so, as private equity gradually […]
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 […]
CMS senior partner Penelope Warne has revealed her next steps ahead of her departure from the firm at the end of the month. After 10 years at the helm, Warne is spearheading a project that she founded at the World Bank, which promotes the rule of law and access to justice, connecting law societies with […]
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 […]
