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Irwin Mitchell has dropped chargeable hours across the whole firm to accommodate people’s different working needs. The firm carried out a review of its time recording approach at the end of the last financial year, introducing a new model. Irwin Mitchell has traditionally had targets of around 1,500 hours, with discounts in place for various […]
City firms are traditionally slow to react on controversial topics, but as a number of organisations withdraw their support for Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme, they may be forced to consider their position internally.
Kirkland and Latham top the US 50 law firms in London table in 2021.
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
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Irwin Mitchell has dropped chargeable hours across the whole firm to accommodate people’s different working needs. The firm carried out a review of its time recording approach at the end of the last financial year, introducing a new model. Irwin Mitchell has traditionally had targets of around 1,500 hours, with discounts in place for various […]
City firms are traditionally slow to react on controversial topics, but as a number of organisations withdraw their support for Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme, they may be forced to consider their position internally.
Kirkland and Latham top the US 50 law firms in London table in 2021.
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 legal community is mourning Stephen Doggett, one of the law’s most prominent communications professionals, who passed away last weekend.
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Dentons has lost a corporate partner duo to Eversheds Sutherland, including its former global chair of its insurance group. Martin Mankabady has made the move from Dentons to Eversheds along with fellow partner Adriana Cotter. Mankabady, who led Dentons’ insurance group, had been at the firm for over six years, having joined from Clyde & […]
Kirkland & Ellis is strengthening the secondaries element of its London investment funds practice with the hire of a partner from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Partner Aleksander Bakic has joined Kirkland after three years at Akin Gump. He was previously at O’Melveny & Myers and advises private equity fund sponsors across multiple alternative […]
Tesco Bank has promoted from within, ahead of the departure of its legal director and company secretary. Michael Mustard is set to leave his role in February this year, with Fiona Burden, the bank’s current head of legal, taking the helm. Mustard has spent more than seven years in the business after joining in 2014. […]
The first pass rates of the Solicitors Qualification Exam (SQE) have been revealed. The students who sat the first-ever SQE1 exam in November received their results yesterday, with just over half – 53 per cent – receiving the good news that they had passed. Some 1,090 candidates, including 27 solicitor apprentices, took the exam across […]
