Revolving doors: Keystone makes a dozen senior hires as UK partner recruitment ramps up Tom Baker Keystone Law has continued to attract senior lawyers to its non-traditional model, adding 12 partner-level hires across multiple practice areas.…
Revolving doors: CMS continues recruitment drive with IP hire as Eversheds lures banking counsel from Linklaters Tom Baker Continuing the frenetic pace set during last week’s round of lateral partner recruitment, CMS has hired a patent litigation specialist…
Revolving doors: CMS makes double corporate play in London as New Year hiring spree gathers momentum Tom Baker In an extraordinarily busy week for partner recruitment, CMS has made an eye-catching corporate play in London with two Magic…
Expansive Knights bounces back with 9% organic growth after another year of acquisitions Tom Baker Listed firm Knights has returned to form with a 9% organic growth in revenue to £59.7m in its half-year results.…
Silk and steel: Women lead the way in latest QC round as five solicitors make the cut Tom Baker Well over half of female applicants were successful in this year’s Queen’s Counsel (QC) appointments, spearheading a cohort that also…
Revolving doors: Global 100 firms kick off new year with heavyweight hires Tom Baker Continuing the frenetic pace of recruitment displayed throughout 2021, 2022 has begun with Allen & Overy (A&O) adding an established antitrust…
Mishcon hit with record £232,500 SRA penalty over money laundering mishaps Tom Baker In an unflattering revelation ahead of its planned IPO, Mishcon de Reya yesterday (5 January) received the highest-ever financial penalty…
Linklaters ushers in lockstep shake-up to attract and promote top talent Tom Baker The latest strategic move in the war for junior talent, Linklaters has introduced a significant overhaul of its lockstep pay…
Global 100: Hogan Lovells – Winning Hartson minds Tom Baker The champagne corks had long-since popped when the great and the good of legacy British firm Lovells and Washington DC…
The Client profile: Sarah Holford, Scania UK Tom Baker Shortly after completing the Legal Practice Course, Sarah Holford was looking for somewhere to kick-start her career. An opportunity presented…
Braced for impact: GCs on the threat of group actions and collective redress Tom Baker In April, Legal Business spoke to dozens of disputes counsel in private practice to ascertain the salient trends in contentious…
Revolving doors: Management merry-go-round as CC, Mayer Brown and Watson Farley name new leaders Tom Baker Capping off a week of significant change in big law’s C-suites, Clifford Chance has appointed financial markets partner Charles Adams…
Revolving doors: Bumper week for Taylor Wessing with team hire in Poland and double partner swoop in London Tom Baker Taylor Wessing dominated this week’s lateral partner recruitment, with eye-catching expansion both at home and abroad. In Poland, the firm…
Revolving doors: White & Case lands corporate heavyweight from Clifford Chance as Hogan Lovells makes German team hire Tom Baker Headlining the latest round of lateral partner appointments, White & Case has made an eye-catching move for Clifford Chance’s former…
Revolving doors: Capita appoints new legal chief as Clifford Chance lures back former PE star Tom Baker In a major in-house move, professional services company Capita has appointed Claire Denton as its new chief general counsel and…
Revolving doors: Mishcon expands in Singapore as Squire takes on Madrid buyout team Tom Baker Bouncing back from a swathe of pre-IPO disputes partner exits, Mishcon de Reya has made a senior contentious hire in…
Revolving doors: HSF takes two senior New York litigators from Hogan Lovells as Littler expands in Portugal Tom Baker Amid a hectic week for lateral partner recruitment, Herbert Smith Freehills has picked up two former Hogan Lovells financial litigation partners in New…
The Bribery Act, ten years on: Has it properly tackled corporate misconduct? Tom Baker Marking the ten-year anniversary of the Bribery Act, senior white-collar lawyers from private practice and in-house have agreed that significant…
The management interview – James Palmer Tom Baker Legal Business: What has the pandemic taught you about leadership? James Palmer: Everything teaches me. The last 15 months or…
