Not even a pandemic can halt China’s law firms
The booming Chinese IPO market has benefitted the Chinese law firms.
Clifford Chance drives strategy to unite Continental European offices
Clifford Chance is spearheading a strategy that will see its Continental European offices brought into a single profit and loss account, The Lawyer can reveal. The project, internally known as ‘One Europe’, has been developed by the firm’s senior leadership in a bid to treat its offices across the UK and Continental Europe as a single team, […]
Sports Direct launches negligence claim against Deloitte
Mike Ashley’s multibillion-pound retail empire has filed a claim against its former tax advisers at Deloitte, The Lawyer can reveal. A claim was filed last week as Ashley’s Sports Direct faces mounting scrutiny from several European tax authorities over a scheme designed by the Big Four auditor. Questions have been raised as to how Sports […]
Roundtable: Talking digital strategy with Wolters Kluwer
As the end of the pandemic approaches, organisations are turning their attention away from the short term strategic thinking needed to weather lockdown and the return to the office and toward long term growth. Many of the factors and attitudes which have underpinned working life during the pandemic will be taken forward into the ‘new […]
Turn the Inns of Court into a film set
Rising rents, falling demand – Inns of Court face toughest challenge yet
Not even a pandemic can halt China’s law firms
The booming Chinese IPO market has benefitted the Chinese law firms.
Clifford Chance drives strategy to unite Continental European offices
Clifford Chance is spearheading a strategy that will see its Continental European offices brought into a single profit and loss account, The Lawyer can reveal. The project, internally known as ‘One Europe’, has been developed by the firm’s senior leadership in a bid to treat its offices across the UK and Continental Europe as a single team, […]
Sports Direct launches negligence claim against Deloitte
Mike Ashley’s multibillion-pound retail empire has filed a claim against its former tax advisers at Deloitte, The Lawyer can reveal. A claim was filed last week as Ashley’s Sports Direct faces mounting scrutiny from several European tax authorities over a scheme designed by the Big Four auditor. Questions have been raised as to how Sports […]
Roundtable: Talking digital strategy with Wolters Kluwer
As the end of the pandemic approaches, organisations are turning their attention away from the short term strategic thinking needed to weather lockdown and the return to the office and toward long term growth. Many of the factors and attitudes which have underpinned working life during the pandemic will be taken forward into the ‘new […]
Bird & Bird wades into Bitcoin inventor battle
Bird & Bird is advising a non-profit cryptocurrency group in the battle over Bitcoin, as it demands a judicial declaration that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not the digital coin’s creator. Wright proclaims he penned and owns the copyright to a Bitcoin whitepaper published in 2008 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, which first outlined […]
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Stephenson Harwood should have fixed the roof while the sun was shining
The challenges are mounting for Stephenson Harwood CEO Eifion Morris
A&O is paying a lot in recruiter fees
The magic circle don’t have a penchant for hiring in new partners externally, so when they do, the market takes note.
Ropes bounces back, a bit less shouty this time
Ropes & Gray lost many of its partners in 2017 but has recovered impressively in London.
The Lawyer’s own Euro 2020
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More pay rises on the way as inflation mounts
The combination of inflation and a busy year for corporate law firms should drive up associate salaries.
Mishcon and Travers are a match made in heaven
Another year, another law firm IPO. And this time it’s Travers that will be picking up the fees from Mishcon.
Goodwin raises referral bonus as associate demand surges
Goodwin Procter has increased the amount of money available for employees who refer successfully-hired associates to the firm, as demand for new talent grows. The referral bonus has been increased from $20,000 to $30,000, a figure available exclusively for those who refer lawyers who go on to join the firm. It is understood that other […]
Linklaters fights back against sexual harassment allegations
Linklaters and a former tech COO of the firm today embarked on their defence against sexual harassment claims that are being pursued by a former paralegal in the London Central Employment Tribunal. The case concerns allegations against Partha Mudgil, who left Linklaters’ Nakhoda startup back in February 2020 having been chief operating officer (COO) of […]
Shearman bulks up in leveraged finance with Milbank hire
Shearman & Sterling is boosting its City leveraged finance ranks with a new hire, this time from Milbank. The US firm has recruited special counsel Rahul Chatterji, who will join as a partner to help develop the practice. The addition comes as the firm recently brought in Sanjeev Dhuna from Allen & Overy. An expert […]
Wedlake Bell and Moon Beever agree July merger
London firms Wedlake Bell and Moon Beever are to merge as of 12 July 2021. Wedlake Bell ranked 87th in The Lawyer UK 200 in 2020 with revenue of £37.7m. The firm’s core groups are real estate, private client and business services, with disputes work integrated into all three. Last year’s revenue breakdown saw real […]
Linklaters forms trainee group to spark new tech ideas
Linklaters has selected a group of 25 trainees who will be tasked with driving new projects across the firm’s practices, in a bid to tap into the creativity of its junior lawyers. Dubbed as the ‘trainee practice innovation and efficiency (PIE) team, the forum will be part of a tentpole of 30 existing PIE groups […]
Met Police appoints nine firms to legal roster
The Metropolitan Police Service has assembled its new £65m panel, a year and a half after the review kicked off. Though the Met initially said it was looking for up to 15 firms, nine have scored a place including new appointments DAC Beachcroft, DWF and Blake Morgan. The other firms are: Capsticks, Gowling WLG, Michelmores, […]
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