The shortlist for The Lawyer Awards 2023 has been revealed, with firms, chambers and in-house teams battling it out to take home a trophy. The awards take place on 20 June 2023 in London’s JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel. For more information, please visit our website or contact the team on awards@thelawyer.com. Awarding winners across […]
An NQ at Mishcon has kickstarted an Instagram debate over the kinds of hours that lawyers work in a video she shared to her account “@itsallhearsay”. Megan Hulme, an NQ in the restructuring and insolvency department at Mishcon de Reya, has shared an honest look into what the daily hours of one of her working […]
Dan Neidle is enjoying his new role as a gadfly “All communications sent to me will be held in strict confidence and only disclosed with your explicit permission”, reads the legal notice on Dan Neidle’s website Tax Policy Associates (TPA). “Unless you are threatening to sue me for libel, in which case absolutely no duty […]
The Ince Group has been placed into administration following a year of audit delays, asset sales and a suspension of its shares. In an announcement to the London Stock Exchange today, the company noted that the “length of the auditing process has put pressure on cash flows to the business”, adding that its major creditors […]
The shortlist for The Lawyer Awards 2023 has been revealed, with firms, chambers and in-house teams battling it out to take home a trophy. The awards take place on 20 June 2023 in London’s JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel. For more information, please visit our website or contact the team on awards@thelawyer.com. Awarding winners across […]
An NQ at Mishcon has kickstarted an Instagram debate over the kinds of hours that lawyers work in a video she shared to her account “@itsallhearsay”. Megan Hulme, an NQ in the restructuring and insolvency department at Mishcon de Reya, has shared an honest look into what the daily hours of one of her working […]
Dan Neidle is enjoying his new role as a gadfly “All communications sent to me will be held in strict confidence and only disclosed with your explicit permission”, reads the legal notice on Dan Neidle’s website Tax Policy Associates (TPA). “Unless you are threatening to sue me for libel, in which case absolutely no duty […]
The Ince Group has been placed into administration following a year of audit delays, asset sales and a suspension of its shares. In an announcement to the London Stock Exchange today, the company noted that the “length of the auditing process has put pressure on cash flows to the business”, adding that its major creditors […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has stepped in to close London firm Fletcher Day. As revealed by The Lawyer earlier this week, HM Revenue and Customs had issued a winding-up petition against Fletcher Day; however the SRA has now intervened to protect the interests of clients. In a statement the SRA said: “An intervention means […]
Some US firms in London tend to get all the headlines, and as you know who they are, we won’t bother namechecking them again. But there are others, a tad more under the radar, that have had a barnstorming year in 2023 and whose time in the limelight is now. Such as Willkie Farr & […]
The latest newly-qualified (NQ) salary rise from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer still managed to raise interest last week, despite the fact enormous pay hikes are the new normal these days and that even £150,000 isn’t unusual any more (as of last week, Quinn’s £180,000 tops the market alongside Gibson Dunn). But it is still significant because […]
European firms see more value in having a physical office in the Square Mile than they do in the Big Apple. Last week, Spanish firm Uría Menéndez became the latest to shut up shop in New York, having been there for 30 years. Uría was the final member of Slaughter and May’s fabled Best Friends […]
Thanks to Paul Weiss, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis (but mainly Paul Weiss), Linklaters has a few empty chairs at Silk Street. One way a firm can replenish its ranks is through lateral hiring – enter Travers Smith corporate partner Richard Spedding – or internal promotions. Last month, a total of 14 lawyers were made up […]
Paul Weiss’ UK spending spree is far from over. Just a year ago, this firm was small fry among the US City titans. Cue an audacious carve-out of some of Kirkland & Ellis’ superstars last summer and everything changed. That initial raid (which included debt finance heavyweight Neel Sachdev and corporate star Roger Johnson) was […]
An Osborne Clarke partner is being referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) following a formal complaint made by Clifford Chance’s former UK tax head. In July 2022, ex-Clifford Chance partner Dan Neidle made headlines for a series of posts on the tax arrangements of leading Conservative politicians, including Nadhim Zahawi. He claimed that Zahawi had […]
Simmons & Simmons represented Barclays Bank in an $150m anti-suit and anti-enforcement injunction against Russian state investment bank, VEB. VEB was founded in 1922 as the first international bank of the USSR, and since 2018 it has been chaired by the country’s former deputy prime minister under Putin, Igor Shuvalov. The bank was represented by […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has increased its salary for newly-qualified solicitors (NQs) to £180,000. The US disputes specialist’s other associate salaries will also rise when the move takes effect from June. A 1 PQE associate is set to be paid £195,000, while a 2 PQE associate will be on £220,000. For 6 PQE associates, […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has lost its UK head of competition, a year and a half after he joined the firm. Lambros Kilaniotis left the firm in April, having joined Quinn from RPC (where he was head of competition) in January 2023 to co-head Quinn’s UK competition practice with partner Kate Vernon. In a […]
The latest episode of The Lawyer Podcast is out now. Last week, all eyes were on A&O Shearman, a union hailing Big Law and its future. But in this week’s episode, we consider why so many solicitors are pursuing another future: opening their own firm. A survey from Censuswide on behalf of Harbour Litigation Funding […]
