Barclays goes external to replace group GC Mark Harding Legal Business In a surprise announcement, Barclays has today (30 August) revealed that Bob Hoyt has taken over from Mark Harding as…
Guest post – Syria: the UK can legally use force Legal Business In some ways this week, with the recall of Parliament and the UK tabling a UN resolution, seems like a…
Trainee retention: Macfarlanes & Latham reveal numbers Legal Business Macfarlanes has become the latest City firm to decide on its trainee retention rates, with 18 out of 24 trainees –…
UK PI bandwagon – Slater & Gordon buys Fentons and reveals 2012/13 results Legal Business Slater & Gordon today (21 August) made further inroads into the UK personal injury (PI) market as it formally announced…
Guest post: Could David Miranda be a “terrorist”? Legal Business There’s understandably been a great deal of reaction to the nine-hour detention at Heathrow airport of David Miranda, who was…
Personal injury: Slater & Gordon in talks to acquire Fentons Legal Business Further consolidation in the personal injury market looks set to take place next week after it emerged that acquisitive Australian-listed…
Asia round-up: DLA loses former Singapore head..again.. as Hill Dicks launches in Hong Kong Legal Business With all eyes trained on Asia the office fall outs and launches have been throw into far sharper relief. Losing…
Guest post: Topline heroin – how global law became addicted to the wrong measure of success Legal Business One lens through which to view a large part of the corpus of business and management literature is that of…
Trainee Retention: Hogan Lovells, Travers and RPC reveal numbers Legal Business The trainee retention rates rollercoaster continues to bring with it good news and bad as today firms including Hogan Lovells,…
Real estate round up: Hogan Lovells, BLP and Nabarro show credentials while Mishcons makes key hire Legal Business Unsurprisingly, what little major real estate work that is around has found its way to the usual trio of law…
Vision of the future? Former eBay dispute resolution team heads to Europe Legal Business An online dispute resolution (ODR) technology business spun out of eBay is setting up in the UK after receiving a…
Latham, Sidley and Skadden lead the US pack in Legal 500 research Legal Business Often hailed as one of the greatest US success stories of the last 25 years, new research underlines the elevated…
After mounting controversy Bar watchdogs face court challenge to procedures in high-stakes move Legal Business Regulators are never popular but the Bar’s watchdogs have seen sustained controversy finally escalate into a court challenge to their…
Guest post: In the ABS landscape, it’s all about the brand – oh yes Legal Business ‘Tesco Law’ is a phrase that, thankfully, is finally dying out as the reality of alternative business structures (ABSs) takes…
Financial results 2013: the good, the bad and the ugly as Howard Kennedy FSI, Clarke Willmott and Manches reveal results Legal Business The latest results for firms in the second half of LB100 are a mixed bag, as Howard Kennedy reports inflated…
Asia Round-up: Singapore in focus for Minter Ellison, Sidley Austin and Taylor Wessing Legal Business The decline in Singapore M&A has seemingly done little to dampen the enthusiasm of international firms to launch or build their…
Guest post: ‘Culture’ wins yet another victory over business judgment (or how to actually have a law firm strategy) Legal Business Here’s Scenario One: you’re in an executive committee or practice group or departmental meeting at your law firm, and the…
Financial results 2013: Scottish elite numbers make grim reading as Maclay reveals results Legal Business Following Dundas & Wilson’s announcement last week that its revenues and profits had tumbled dramatically for the second year running, the…
Kirkland’s trophy hire – Robert Khuzami to join the firm in Washington Legal Business If securing senior US regulatory agency lawyers can be compared to a highly competitive game of cards, then Kirkland &…
