Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
This session will give attendees an insight into the habits of a successful law firm in the digital age.
A complex crime and fraud set has taken the decision to pause pupillage recruitment due to the pandemic. Red Lion Chambers will not be recruiting any pupils for its September 2022 cohort, with its programme re-opening in October 2021 for its 2023 cohort. The set said the pandemic has meant it has had to extend […]
Digital bank Monzo has hired a senior member of Barclays’ legal team as its next general counsel and company secretary. Stephanie Pagni, currently UK GC and chief legal counsel for the global consumer banking and payments division of Barclays, will leave the bank after 15 years. She will become general counsel and company secretary for […]
For the first instalment of The Lawyer European Awards shortlist discussions, The Lawyer’s Editor, Catrin Griffiths and International Editor, Yun Kriegler will be looking at the trends emerging from the Western Europe shortlist entries.
The Lawyer European Awards is going virtual for 2020! The ceremony will take place online on Tuesday 1 December 2020 at 2pm (GMT).
If you’d like to join the celebrations, you can register to attend here.
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
This session will give attendees an insight into the habits of a successful law firm in the digital age.
A complex crime and fraud set has taken the decision to pause pupillage recruitment due to the pandemic. Red Lion Chambers will not be recruiting any pupils for its September 2022 cohort, with its programme re-opening in October 2021 for its 2023 cohort. The set said the pandemic has meant it has had to extend […]
Digital bank Monzo has hired a senior member of Barclays’ legal team as its next general counsel and company secretary. Stephanie Pagni, currently UK GC and chief legal counsel for the global consumer banking and payments division of Barclays, will leave the bank after 15 years. She will become general counsel and company secretary for […]
Clifford Chance is looking to launch a new curriculum to extend lawyers’ understanding of technology and its applications on client matters starting next year. The course, currently dubbed ‘Innovation Academy’, is being put together by the firm’s innovation team in collaboration with other functions, including graduate recruitment. The idea is the brainchild of April Brousseau, […]
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Revived interest in Japan from certain law firms may have something to do with the Rugby World Cup.
Kirkland & Ellis and Simpson Thacher are expected to deliver another strong set of results in coming weeks.
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Linklaters has retained 47 of 50 trainees in its spring 2021 cohort, giving it a 94 per cent retention score. The firm follows Allen & Overy in releasing its qualification figures for March. Due to personal reasons one of the 47 is on a fixed-term contract. Nevertheless, the retention figure is the magic circle firm’s […]
Allen & Overy has decided to shut down its two-staff satellite office in Barcelona, and focus the growth of its Spain practice from Madrid. The magic circle firm launched the Barcelona office in February 2014, with the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner Antoni Valverde. However, the office remained a small outpost with a single-fee […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising Debenhams’ administrator FRP Advisory as Boohoo snaps up the department store’s brand. The deal does not include any of Debenhams’ remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce, meaning that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go. Freshfields global restructuring and insolvency head Ken Baird […]
Cornerstone Barristers has said it “repudiates the contents” of a tweet made by one of its members, with the set launching an internal investigation into the matter. The tweet was made by Jon Holbrook, who was called to the Bar in 1991. Cornerstone said the post, published on 17 January, was brought to its attention […]
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has hired its second restructuring specialist in the City, as firms look to bulk up amid a wave of deal opportunities. The London outpost of the US firm has hired partner Mandip Englund, who has spent almost two years at Reed Smith. She will work within Fried Frank’s global […]
Members of The Lawyer Hot 100 have just two things in common. The first is excellence. Every year, our Hot 100 covers an incredibly diverse mix of legal professionals: scrappers from the rough and tumble of criminal law; sharp-suited corporate dealmakers; intellectuals and silver-tongued advocates from barristers’ profession; the in-house counsel with the ear of […]
