‘A strategic priority’: DLA Piper builds competition team with Dentons’ Sam Szlezinger Legal Business As litigation teams in the City gear up for more competition-based damages cases following recent changes to legislation, DLA Piper…
Building the team: Cooley hires Reed Smith life sciences partner duo Legal Business Cooley has made more recruits to its newly launched London office with the hire of Reed Smith life sciences partner…
Three in London: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer makes up 17 in 2015 promotions round Legal Business In its latest partner promotions, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made up its fewest number of partners in the City since 2009,…
Revolving doors: Magic Circle loses partners in Europe and Asia while Bakers hires in Africa Legal Business Last week saw both Clifford Chance (CC) and Allen & Overy (A&O) lose partners in Europe while, in Hong Kong, Linklaters lost…
Singapore scramble: Morgan Lewis teams up with Stamford Law to enter market Legal Business Singapore continues to be an attractive legal market for many Western law firms targeting the fast growing Asia-Pacific region with…
An 11-strong panel: Ashurst and Addleshaws lose out as Carillion finalises adviser review Legal Business Construction giant Carillion has finalised its legal panel review, with Ashurst and Addleshaw Goddard losing spots and Irwin Mitchell gaining…
A $40m award: Clyde & Co client Glencore loses High Court fraud case Legal Business Withers‘ client, Romanian oil company OMV Petrom, has succeeded in its high profile dispute against natural resource giant Glencore at…
So much for the rule of law – Ted Greeno on court fees and undermining the City Legal Business Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan disputes veteran Ted Greeno (pictured) argues that a self-defeating stance on hiking court fees will undermine…
Comment: It’s the ‘decade of the lawyer’ – Law firms beware Legal Business Our third annual GC Power List report looks more like a state-of-the profession piece than its two predecessors. While the…
An opportunity to ‘build something’: KWM’s City litigation head Alex Leitch leaves for Covington Legal Business US firm Covington & Burling has bolstered its European disputes capabilities with the hire of King & Wood Mallesons London head…
Global London: King & Spalding hires Latham’s Daniel Friel as it builds City office Legal Business King & Spalding has hired Latham & Watkins’ former European vice chair of tax Daniel Friel, the latest in a…
Mass hires: Fresh wave of Pillsbury partners join move to Winston & Strawn Legal Business Eight more Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partners have resigned in New York, Washington DC and San Francisco to join Winston…
GC Power List 2015: The Team Elite Legal Business Menu It’s the ‘decade of the lawyer’. Law firms beware RPC: The pace of change is frightening The A-Teams –…
Quality, outside scrutiny and Paxman – the LB Awards loom Legal Business Fantastic as I look in a DJ, I wouldn’t say by character I’m a natural awards-type person but I have…
Life after Sir Nigel – They built it, now what? Legal Business DLA Piper’s new head Simon Levine jokes about avoiding becoming the David Moyes to his high-profile predecessor’s Alex Ferguson, but…
The case against value – the virtue that can become vice Legal Business It’s the spirit of the age that law firms feel the need to not only deliver better value and efficiency…
Freshfields’ northshoring planned on radical scale as City leader repositions for changing law market Legal Business Internal worries as firm’s new low-cost hub could affect up to 800 roles Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s decision to jump on…
Linklaters suffers blow as US firms hire trio of leading partners Legal Business Linklaters lost a trio of heavyweight partners in February with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and Kirkland & Ellis cherry-picking…
Barclays Investment Bank hires new global GC Legal Business Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s co-chair of its financial institutions Mark Shelton is leaving the US firm to join Barclays Investment…
Mishcon gains ABS licence to include non-lawyers in partnership Legal Business Mishcon de Reya has become the latest firm to acquire an alternative business structure (ABS) licence from the Solicitors Regulation…
