NQ retention and pay: Good news for NRF and Bird & Bird but FFW puts 5 trainees on extended contract Sarah Downey If you see a rabble of trainees at the pub this lunchtime they may well be from Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF),…
We’ll take that: BPP’s university status welcome news amidst challenging times for education providers Sarah Downey With the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) having just last month thrown down some spiky if not unexpected challenges to…
UK legal services regulation ‘steals a competitive march’ as Jacoby & Meyers launches European venture Sarah Downey Jacoby & Meyers is to establish a new joint venture in the UK as the major US consumer law firm…
Redundancy 2013: Watson Farley latest top 40 firm to review secretarial jobs Sarah Downey With 2013 offering all the dubious promise of being the toughest legal labour market since 2013, Watson, Farley & Williams…
Retention round up: mixed bag as Shoosmiths, Dentons, Taylor Wessing record reduced rates Sarah Downey Following last week’s round of positive trainee retention rates within a mix of Magic Circle, international and regional firms; the…
Investment costs: Hill Dickinson partners vote through £2.8m cash call Sarah Downey It’s been a tough year for national firm Hill Dickinson. With both profit per lawyer and profit per equity partner…
Financial results 2013: Burness Paull (minus the Williamsons) outstrips Scottish rivals with post-merger results Sarah Downey In the first few months since its eye-catching merger at the beginning of December last year, Burness Paull has climbed…
Deal watch: Student Loans Company invites law firm tenders for £40bn debt portfolio sale Sarah Downey The Government’s plan to take the Student Loans Company debt off its balance sheet has moved up a gear as…
Bar round-up: Essex Court and Outer Temple Chambers boost their ranks Sarah Downey It’s been a good summer so far for Essex Court Chambers and Outer Temple Chambers, with Daniel Oudkerk QC recently…
Retention round up: UK firms score top marks on trainee job offers Sarah Downey Despite the wave of redundancies and poor financials of late, firms are still posting high retention rates of junior lawyers…
Good girl gets mad: Rihanna wins t-shirt tiff against Topshop Sarah Downey In a case where the profile of the parties far outshone the legal substance and had many media outlets overexcited,…
Redundancy watch: DWF, Hill Dickinson and Taylor Wessing all confirm job cuts Sarah Downey The stream of UK law firm job cuts continues apace as DWF, Hill Dickinson and Taylor Wessing have today (30…
Amid a punishing regional market, Challinors becomes latest to call in the administrators Sarah Downey It’s not as if anyone needs reminding that the legal market remains challenging, and doubly so for regional advisers. But…
Barristers free to conduct litigation as Bar watchdog ushers in new ‘risk-based’ conduct regime Sarah Downey While the post-Legal Services Act (LSA) shake-up moves far more slowly for barristers than their solicitor cousins, the Bar continues…
It’s now or… later. Hogan Lovells to make decision on dual chief executive structure Sarah Downey Hogan Lovells’ senior management has begun discussions over whether to retain the firm’s dual US-UK chief executive (CEO) structure or…
Litigation watch: SJ Berwin wins IP battle for Sky against Microsoft Sarah Downey SJ Berwin has scored a significant victory in the important tech area of intellectual property rights in cloud data storage,…
BT moves to extend its use of legal outsourcing in the UK Sarah Downey BT has begun an extensive legal process outsourcing (LPO) tender for its work in India and the US and is…
Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Form over substance? Sarah Downey The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) last week published a draft Code of Practice setting out their approach to the use…
Taylor Wessing to review secretarial jobs Sarah Downey 96 London support staff put on notice of potential redundancy. Taylor Wessing is to make 26 of its City secretaries…
Financials update – Field Fisher Waterhouse pays the cost of merger mania Sarah Downey After a turbulent year that saw it unsuccessfully attempt merger discussions with both Laurence Graham and Osborne Clarke, Field Fisher…
