Addleshaw Goddard has created a new leadership function, appointing one of its co-heads of real estate to lead its London operations. Partner Leona Ahmed has left her role as real estate co-head to become the firm’s first head of London. The new role, which mirrors similar existing positions in other UK offices and is effective […]
Mills & Reeve has tweaked its training contract and summer vac scheme interview process by trialing mini-hackathons in a bid to find “lawyers for the future.” In the early stages of the recruitment process in February, the firm held group exercises and design thinking workshops to test the problem-solving skills of candidates beyond legal knowledge. […]
Linklaters has become the latest firm to set up a graduate scheme based solely around legal operations, as part of an overall rethink as to how it delivers services to clients. The magic circle firm is set to offer the graduate scheme to between five and 10 individuals from August/September 2020, who will undergo a […]
Linklaters has worked with a group of academics to create a new legal technology curriculum for its youngest lawyers. The curriculum, which was developed in partnership with Swansea University, will first prioritise the firm’s trainee population, starting with those who joined the firm in August 2019: around 200 people globally. But the firm has plans […]
Addleshaw Goddard has created a new leadership function, appointing one of its co-heads of real estate to lead its London operations. Partner Leona Ahmed has left her role as real estate co-head to become the firm’s first head of London. The new role, which mirrors similar existing positions in other UK offices and is effective […]
Mills & Reeve has tweaked its training contract and summer vac scheme interview process by trialing mini-hackathons in a bid to find “lawyers for the future.” In the early stages of the recruitment process in February, the firm held group exercises and design thinking workshops to test the problem-solving skills of candidates beyond legal knowledge. […]
Linklaters has become the latest firm to set up a graduate scheme based solely around legal operations, as part of an overall rethink as to how it delivers services to clients. The magic circle firm is set to offer the graduate scheme to between five and 10 individuals from August/September 2020, who will undergo a […]
Linklaters has worked with a group of academics to create a new legal technology curriculum for its youngest lawyers. The curriculum, which was developed in partnership with Swansea University, will first prioritise the firm’s trainee population, starting with those who joined the firm in August 2019: around 200 people globally. But the firm has plans […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have acted on Tesco’s latest exit from the Asian continent, as the retailer sold its Thai and Malaysian business for $10.6bn to the CP Group yesterday. Freshfields London managing partner Claire Wills led the team for longstanding client Tesco, together with Hong Kong partner Simon Weller and City partner Keir […]
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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 & 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 & 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 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 […]
Taylor Wessing has ended part-time working contracts with an extensive pool of university students, as the firm looks to deal with the effects of the coronavirus crisis. It is understood that the firm is parting ways with group of up to 95 university students, who have worked part-time with the firm as part of their […]
In anticipation of the economic impact that coronavirus will have on clients, Humphries Kerstetter is making the bold move to cut its charge-out rates across the board. Partner rates, which previously ranged between £390 to £450 an hour, will be set at a standard £350 as of April 1 2020. While reductions will apply to […]
