With the summer wound down, chambers are welcoming new tenants and it’s not just pupils who are starting life at their new (virtual) homes. The likes of 3VB, Radcliffe Chambers and Doughty Street have all made significant hires in September. Here is a round-up of the nine biggest moves last month: Adam Temple, 3VB Commercial […]
The UK is being slow to shift from the traditional nine to five, but thanks to Katie Power, Crabtree & Evelyn is using flexible working to its advantage
The magnitude of the mammoth trucks litigation was made abundantly clear in a recent judgment that revealed costs of over £1.4m for a single disclosure application. This figure emerged during a recent decision handed down by the Competition Appeal Tribunal that dealt with with a summary assessment for costs, during which Mr Justice Peter Roth […]
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
The Lawyer Awards in association with Travelers Virtual Ceremony – this is the must-attend event for the legal sector.
Defendant insurance firm Plexus has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator, having confirmed last week that its investors had pulled back their support. According to the public filing system, both Plexus Law and Plexus Legal have applied to the High Court to appoint an administrator. Macfarlanes has been appointed as its representative. […]
Welcome back to The Passport, your weekly roundup of the most impactful stories from across the European continent. This week, Vienna’s importance to the European legal community appears to be increasing, Milan was named as the home of the third court of the UPC’s central division and a Brussels-based trade and sanctions boutique makes a […]
Join the Slaughter and May partnership – and then move out. That’s what new Slaughters partner Hemita Sumanasuriya is doing when he joins the Takeover Panel as its secretary for a two-year secondment starting in September. Sumanasuriya has been a Slaughters’ partner for just two months, having been promoted in the firm’s most recent round […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is the latest firm to add to its high yield and leveraged finance ranks, hiring a partner from Baker McKenzie. Haden Henderson is joining the magic circle’s City team. He joined Bakers as a partner in 2018 having been a counsel at Ropes & Gray for nearly eight years. New York qualified, […]
Travers Smith is making up five lawyers to partner this year, with two joining the firm’s financial services and markets team. The lawyers who have made the cut include financial services and markets lawyers Sam Brewer and Henriika Hara. The firm has also made up corporate partner Ben Lowen, employment lawyer Allie Murray and finance […]
This report contains: analysis of the financial performance of the largest US firms by UK-generated revenue key metrics highlighting the fragmentation of the market individual firm profiles highlighting financial performance and strategy, hirings and exits, and deals and cases
Identify key recruitment trends in the corporate legal market across all sectors from The Lawyer’s proprietary jobs data Get critical data on firms that have hired most corporate lawyers and firms that have lost most corporate lawyers. Also see where a firm’s hires have come from and where a firm’s lawyers have gone to Compare the […]
This report contains: a brief look at the latest trends in life sciences sparked or accelerated by Covid-19 analysis of the main law firms working in the area across the spectrum of contentious and non-contentious practices insight into the 100 largest UK life sciences deals since 2020
This report contains stratification of the market by firmwide headcount at the domestic Italian firms comparison to the international firms that are present there context for how the market has reached this point following the era of mass privatisation in Italy
This report contains: a ranking of the largest chambers by tenant headcount in the last financial year a look at the changes in headcount over the past year, barristers’ year of call, retention rates and gender diversity data from The Lawyer‘s Litigation Tracker offering insight into which chambers feature most in some of the main […]
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Don’t miss out on hearing from The Lawyer’s superstar US managing partner panel at our live webinar to mark the launch of this year’s US 50 report. Where will growth come from in 2023, how is law firm culture changing and what does the A&O/Shearman merger mean for the global elite market? Register here
Significant salary hikes provoke outrage among the legal elite. “Newly qualified lawyers are paid how much?” is the common response to the latest NQ pay jump. Still, at well over £100,000 a pop for a lawyer straight from university, it’s a fair question. This level of pay at a time when costs are spiralling is […]
Employee ownership makes for more successful firms
You need a couple of attempts to crack America. For Allen & Overy, the O’Melveny negotiation was simply the appetiser before the main course. Ashurst, though, has had a few too many sharing plates. Who can forget the rejection of Latham? The talks with Fried Frank that led to the Ashurst managing partner defecting to […]
Defendant insurance firm Plexus has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator, having confirmed last week that its investors had pulled back their support. According to the public filing system, both Plexus Law and Plexus Legal have applied to the High Court to appoint an administrator. Macfarlanes has been appointed as its representative. […]
Welcome back to The Passport, your weekly roundup of the most impactful stories from across the European continent. This week, Vienna’s importance to the European legal community appears to be increasing, Milan was named as the home of the third court of the UPC’s central division and a Brussels-based trade and sanctions boutique makes a […]
Join the Slaughter and May partnership – and then move out. That’s what new Slaughters partner Hemita Sumanasuriya is doing when he joins the Takeover Panel as its secretary for a two-year secondment starting in September. Sumanasuriya has been a Slaughters’ partner for just two months, having been promoted in the firm’s most recent round […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is the latest firm to add to its high yield and leveraged finance ranks, hiring a partner from Baker McKenzie. Haden Henderson is joining the magic circle’s City team. He joined Bakers as a partner in 2018 having been a counsel at Ropes & Gray for nearly eight years. New York qualified, […]
Travers Smith is making up five lawyers to partner this year, with two joining the firm’s financial services and markets team. The lawyers who have made the cut include financial services and markets lawyers Sam Brewer and Henriika Hara. The firm has also made up corporate partner Ben Lowen, employment lawyer Allie Murray and finance […]
