Gender diversity: beyond tick-box initiatives
Allen & Overy and Pinsent Masons have grasped the idea highlighted by Women in Law London – that diversity must be built into an organisation, with people being held responsible
Allen & Overy and Pinsent Masons have grasped the idea highlighted by Women in Law London – that diversity must be built into an organisation, with people being held responsible
For four decades Royal London chairman Rupert Pennant-Rea has been a City figure in several guises. Here’s what he thinks makes the perfect legal adviser.
Law firms operate in a war market for talent. If you visualize a law firm within the simplest possible Econ 101 model, clients are a firm’s demand and lawyers are its supply. Any firm is only as good as its lawyers.
UK challenger bank OakNorth is not only a company where – at least according to insiders’ thinking – old and new collide.
The great three-way CMS merger could surely be portrayed as a bright new world of opportunity for clients, but it’s not being marketed that way.
The first government-backed ‘Trailblazer’ solicitor apprenticeship schemes launched at the end of 2015. But why would you invest in one?
Forget the money: culture is the new battleground for US and UK firms in London.
Exclusive data compiled for the Top 50 US Firms in London report underlines the extent to which US firms in London are an increasingly diverse bunch.
If perceptions of firms matter, and they do, then perceptions of potential hires and the talent generally matter just as much. This is where the increasingly widespread understanding of unconscious bias plays a major role. As part of The Lawyer’s Top 50 US Firms in London report, we questioned firms about their recruitment processes and if they […]
Perceptions matter. And so they should – particularly if your business has an image problem.
London’s top fi rms are reviving their private client practices, opening up fresh opportunities for the best lawyers. What are the skills talented associates need to make it this time round?
Turnover is all very well, but if you really want a metric that underlines the extent to which US firms are now part of the UK legal-market furniture check out how many of their London associates trained with them. If anything should underline the extent to which these firms are now part of the UK […]
The number of female partners working in independent European firms has risen by almost a third in five years, data gathered for The Lawyer European 100 2017 reveals.
Revenue growth slowed for many European law firms last year, with many blaming the UK’s referendum over its membership of the EU as the major cause.
In 2017, for the first time, the full financial strength of the top US law firms in the UK, primarily those in London, was revealed in The Lawyer’s first Top 50 US Firms in London analysis.
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