News this month that Manchester City is suing the Premier League over its rules cemented what most punters already knew: English football is now a lawyer’s game. As The Lawyer revealed shortly after, three clubs are backing the claim in various ways. Last week, Aston Villa’s owner said he was seeking legal advice about complaining against the rules. […]
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A generational schism could tip the Scottish Independents (UK 200 firms ranked 101-200) market into a mass restructuring phase because too few lawyers are retiring from the partnership. Succession planning is a top concern for a growing number of Independents, but in Scotland the matter is on the verge of critical with firms also confronted […]
Will you make partner quicker at the firm at which you trained? If you’re at Travers Smith at least, the answer is yes. Data collected by The Lawyer on the firm’s last 10 promotions rounds shows that Travers-trained lawyers made partner over a year earlier on average than those who moved from other firms. Of the […]
TLT’s expansion into Birmingham provides a textbook example of how to quickly build critical mass in a new city, while at the same time upsetting the local competition. The target for TLT in Birmingham has been Shoosmiths, a local stalwart that back in 2021 shifted its attention to London. Shoosmiths has made 44 hires in […]
Linklaters is deploying end-to-end Copilot for Microsoft 365, The Lawyer can reveal, with a deal value of $1.8m (£1.42m) The latest version of the product will be made available to 6,900 employees, meaning the cost per employee is nearly $261. Linklaters has trialled the technology since August 2023, with the benefits sought including better productivity and […]
National firm Browne Jacobson saw turnover grow by 12 per cent in 2023/24, passing £118m. The Midlands-heritage firm has made a number of strategic moves in the last financial year, opening in Cardiff in the second half of 2023 and bagging a commercial and technology team from EY as it attempts to scale up in London. […]
A defamation claim brought by a Shakespeare Martineau client against Wiggin-repped Steve Coogan and film studios Pathé and Baby Cow productions has succeeded in its preliminary trial over Coogan’s Richard III film, The Lost King. Judge Lewis handed down judgment today (14 June), ruling on what, under common law, “a hypothetical reasonable viewer” would understand […]
EasyGroup founder and chairman Stelios Haji-Ioannou has called out chancery judges in a statement released today (13 June) after Justice Bacon ruled against the company in a claim brought against cosmetics company Beauty Perfectionists in the High Court. He has already stated his intention to appeal the ruling. Haji-Ioannou said: “We have found that there […]
Sidley Austin has increased its base pay for newly-qualified (NQ) solicitors for the second time this year from £166,500 to £175,000. The pay increase will come into force from 1st July and is also understood to involve rises across the board for associates. Trainee solicitors will see a pay rise too, with first-year trainees moving […]
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