How US firms justify their enormous NQ salaries
Obscene? Possibly. Justifiable? Unlikely. Sustainable? Absolutely.
The speed read: climate change and coronavirus take centre stage – but don’t ignore Kennedys’ New Law play
Judges are signing up to the climate emergency Climate change is centre stage this week and as Greta Thunberg arrived in Bristol, Extinction Rebellion turned up on Bunhill Row to make an example of Slaughter and May. The protests are a bit embarrassing for Slaughters, but to be fair there are dozens of firms in […]
Signs of hope, despite another male-dominated silk round
The issue is not so much attracting women to the Bar; it is about how to help female barristers build and maintain a career, writes deputy editor Matt Byrne.
Reignite Academy to expand its operations into Birmingham and the Bar
The Reignite Academy will expand its platform to the barristers’ profession and outside London, with the programme due to launch in Birmingham later this year. Reignite, launched in late 2018, is an initiative aimed at bringing former City lawyers who have been out of the law firm workplace for some time back into private practice. […]
Stock market woes sees Burford’s share price drop to three-year low
How US firms justify their enormous NQ salaries
Obscene? Possibly. Justifiable? Unlikely. Sustainable? Absolutely.
The speed read: climate change and coronavirus take centre stage – but don’t ignore Kennedys’ New Law play
Judges are signing up to the climate emergency Climate change is centre stage this week and as Greta Thunberg arrived in Bristol, Extinction Rebellion turned up on Bunhill Row to make an example of Slaughter and May. The protests are a bit embarrassing for Slaughters, but to be fair there are dozens of firms in […]
Signs of hope, despite another male-dominated silk round
The issue is not so much attracting women to the Bar; it is about how to help female barristers build and maintain a career, writes deputy editor Matt Byrne.
Reignite Academy to expand its operations into Birmingham and the Bar
The Reignite Academy will expand its platform to the barristers’ profession and outside London, with the programme due to launch in Birmingham later this year. Reignite, launched in late 2018, is an initiative aimed at bringing former City lawyers who have been out of the law firm workplace for some time back into private practice. […]
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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Addleshaws recruits second finance partner from McDermott
A partner from McDermott Will & Emery’s finance practice has left the firm after 18 months for Addleshaw Goddard. Rachel Kelly, who specialises in structured finance and debt capital markets, moves to Addleshaws with fellow lawyer Kerry Pettigrew, who joins Addleshaws as a legal director. Kelly was one of the first partners to depart the […]
DWF secures landmark Supreme Court turnaround for Morrisons
DWF, Blackstone Chambers and 11KBW today pulled off a dramatic victory for Morrisons in the Supreme Court, as it ruled that the supermarket chain was not ‘vicariously liable’ for a mammoth data breach that affected over 100,000 employees. In a judgment handed down by five justices via live stream on Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court unanimously […]
Hundreds of Irish barristers lend support to virus contact tracing scheme
Almost 400 barristers registered to the Irish Bar have volunteered to carry out coronavirus contact tracing in order to help relieve pressure on health staff. A total of 385 barristers, which is about one-sixth of all practising barristers in Ireland, have signed up to volunteer for the Health Service Executive. Under the scheme, which is […]
Shearman opts against salary hikes in Italy
Shearman & Sterling’s Italian arm has told its staff that it will not be handing out any pay rises this year. Following a management decision, which is understood to have been made slightly before the coronavirus outbreak, staff in the Milan and Rome offices of the US firm will not be granted raises for the […]
Covington replenishes competition ranks with BCLP hire
Covington & Burling has made its first London lateral hire in two years, bringing in a new partner from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner to boost its competition capabilities in the City. James Marshall joins the Washington DC-based firm after more than 10 years at BCLP, having spent nine of those years at Berwin Leighton Paisner […]
Ashurst hires from Deloitte for consulting venture
Ashurst has launched a consulting business in its Australian offices, hiring a chief strategy officer from Deloitte to run one of the groups. Philip Hardy – who was chief strategy officer of Deloitte’s audit and assurance division – will run Ashurst’s risk advisory service, which will focus on how to manage risk and compliance issues […]