Tech Pioneers: Meet Addleshaws’ trainee innovators
A group of trainees and associates brimming with innovative tech ideas is being given the opportunity to take the reins, collaborate with partners and revolutionise how firms work
Kirkland alumni club: Willkie secures double-partner hire in London
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has secured its long-awaited hire of two partners from Kirkland & Ellis, as they join former colleague Claire McDaid to expand its City private equity team. Gavin Gordon and David Arnold are to join Willkie in the City, following on from the firm’s hire of Dechert tax partner Jane Scobie last […]
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Common sense advice for training contract applications
Let me tell you why I’ve written this, and why you might want to read it. For over 20 years, I worked in the same law firm. It became – no thanks to me – one of the most successful law firms in the world. When I was a partner there, I was asked to join the group […]
What you read this year (and it wasn’t all about Covid)
What have you been reading this year on The Lawyer? One topic of conversation is obvious, but Covid hasn’t quite pushed all other news items from the agenda. Here’s our top 20 most popular articles from 2020. Over half of The Lawyer’s most read articles this year were related to the pandemic but, asides from […]
Slaughters promotes compliance head to GC role
Tech Pioneers: Meet Addleshaws’ trainee innovators
A group of trainees and associates brimming with innovative tech ideas is being given the opportunity to take the reins, collaborate with partners and revolutionise how firms work
Kirkland alumni club: Willkie secures double-partner hire in London
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has secured its long-awaited hire of two partners from Kirkland & Ellis, as they join former colleague Claire McDaid to expand its City private equity team. Gavin Gordon and David Arnold are to join Willkie in the City, following on from the firm’s hire of Dechert tax partner Jane Scobie last […]
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Common sense advice for training contract applications
Let me tell you why I’ve written this, and why you might want to read it. For over 20 years, I worked in the same law firm. It became – no thanks to me – one of the most successful law firms in the world. When I was a partner there, I was asked to join the group […]
What you read this year (and it wasn’t all about Covid)
What have you been reading this year on The Lawyer? One topic of conversation is obvious, but Covid hasn’t quite pushed all other news items from the agenda. Here’s our top 20 most popular articles from 2020. Over half of The Lawyer’s most read articles this year were related to the pandemic but, asides from […]
Travers loses PE head to Latham
Travers Smith’s Paul Dolman is leaving the firm for Latham & Watkins, in a coup for the US firm’s private equity practice. Dolman has been at Travers his entire career and has been an obvious hiring target for many US firms keen to expand their private equity teams. At Latham, he will be reunited with […]
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A COO is a managing partner’s best friend
Firms must once again turn their attentions towards servicing current clients for a lower cost.
Business travel is not dead
The world is becoming a more open place to travel based on the Henley Passport Index.
There is one good reason US firms are hiring senior associates into partnership
In recent months there has been a glut of senior associate hires.
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For all of Quinn’s success in London, it’s seriously missing out on IP
The most successful US firm in London in terms of sheer growth is Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.
2020’s redundancies tell us three things about the shape of 2021
The job losses in the legal sector last year give us a good inkling of where the most profound changes are likely in 2021
Latham isn’t sniffy about the mid-market – just ask Travers
With Paul Dolman’s hire, Latham is targeting the mid-market PE opportunities.
Mayer Brown pulls out of Thailand after Asia review
Mayer Brown is the latest firm to rethink its strategy in South East Asia, with its lead partner in Thailand joining a rival US outfit in the country. Local partner in charge Maythawee Sarathai has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth, as Mayer Brown closed its Bangkok operations. The Bangkok office was acquired by Mayer Brown following […]
Clifford Chance and Kirkland lead on US fund manager deal
Clifford Chance was on call for Alter Domus, as it agreed an acquisition deal that takes its assets under administration to $1tr. Clifford Chance supported Alter Domus as it completed the purchase of fellow business Strata Fund Solutions. The deal makes Alter Domus one of the largest private asset servicers for PE and venture capital […]
Mishcon takes on BT in multimillion-pound consumer action
Telecoms giant BT has called on Simmons & Simmons as it faces a multimillion-pound claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The claim is brought by Justin La Patourel, founder of Collective Action on Landlines (CALL), and Mishcon de Reya’s Rob Murray. The dispute relates to BT allegedly overcharging customers for its landline subscription. In 2017, […]
Clifford Chance on call in app dispute with Apple and Google
Clifford Chance is representing the studio behind hit game Fortnite in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) after Epic Games launched legal action against Apple and Google. The dispute concerns the defendants’ decision to remove Fortnite from their respective app stores in August 2020, which has spawned abuse of dominance claims from Epic which now seeks […]
Simmons throws out fraud claim after rejected SDT complaint
Simmons & Simmons has successfully struck out a fraud claim from a litigant in person who accused the firm of dishonesty and had lodged a complaint to the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT). David Hinkel’s claim was dismissed by the High Court on Friday, during which proceedings revealed that the SDT had rejected the appellant’s complaints […]
Slaughters supports UK Government on Covid freight deal
Slaughter and May advised the Department for Transport on a £600,000 mandate around a financial package to protect freight routes during the Covid-19 pandemic, building on a string of profitable public work mandates. A response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that the firm advised on a £35m financial aid package approved by […]
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