Bit between the teeth: Swiss firms get crypto bug
From cryptocurrencies and blockchain, to regulation and litigation, tech and digital knowhow are changing the face of Switzerland’s financial and legal markets
Bailed-out Russian bank wins damages row with former shareholders
Russia’s National Bank Trust has succeeded in its dispute against former shareholders, in a judgment that has taken over a year to be handed down. The case against six former shareholders first reared its head in 2017, when the new owners of the bank instructed Steptoe & Johnson to commence litigation proceedings against the shareholders […]
Dentons shakes up training contract with three new add-ons
Dentons has refreshed its training contract for its new 2020 trainee intake, laying out three new modules. The modernised contract will include three additional modules: legal project management, innovation and resilience, aimed at embedding trainees with other skills, abilities and mindsets, on top of the traditional lawyer training. Dentons says that these will not replace […]
CMS’s corporate lawyers set to benefit from salary uplift
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang bumped up the salaries of its corporate lawyers this month, it has emerged, a day after it was confirmed the firm would be losing its UK private equity head to Goodwin Procter. The pay packets for London lawyers in the corporate team are understood to have been reviewed by the […]
Osborne Clarke set for High Court hearing in outsourcing clash with MoJ
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is continuing to defend itself from legal action launched by outsourcing giant Mitie, with the facilities management company calling on Osborne Clarke ahead of a High Court hearing next month. Mitie’s pursuit of the government department follows on from this month’s decision to award a contract to French rival Engie […]
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Diversity at the Bar: law firms challenged to report gender instructions
Following The Lawyer’s analysis of gender instructions at the Bar, the Employment Lawyers Association is calling on firms to join its monitoring scheme.
Slaughters swoops for Mayer Brown partner
Following on from its first lateral partner hire in London two years ago, Slaughter and May has looked externally again for an entirely new role in its pensions team. Richard Goldstein joins Slaughters as a consultant and head of pensions knowledge from Mayer Brown, where he was a partner for nearly a decade. He began […]