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‘Significant progress’: Irwin Mitchell posts 6% revenue increase to £235m

Irwin Mitchell has posted a revenue increase of 6% for the last financial year from £221.3m to £235.2m, with profit before…

‘Knowhow and track record’: Magic Circle dominates new panel as seven firms dropped in government legal services revamp

Marco Cillario

Magic Circle firms constitute four of the nine advisers appointed to the government’s new finance and complex legal services panel…

Bean bags primed – A&O buffs up disruptive cred as eight companies join its innovation hub Fuse

Madeleine Farman

Having already carefully cultivated an image as the most free-thinking City law firm in its weight class, Allen & Overy (A&O)has…

Freshfields freezes associate pay bands after 2016 largesse but battle for top juniors to intensify

Madeleine Farman

Amid a simmering market for junior City lawyers, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has opted to hold the line on associate salaries following a…

Guest post: How should in-house counsel lead? It’s all about purpose

Guest Blog

To be a leader as an in-house lawyer today is to be faced with a bewildering array of ideas, strategies…

Clients back New Law model as LOD posts post-merger revenue surge

Georgiana Tudor

Berwin Leighton Paisner‘s (BLP) freelance spin-off Lawyers on Demand(LOD) has posted 15% turnover growth in its first full-year results since it merged…

‘Bumpy year’: Burness Paull posts flat revenue and profit as muted Scots performance continues

Kathryn McCann

Scottish independent Burness Paull has posted flat financials for 2016/17 with turnover up 1% from £53.3m to £53.8m, while profit per equity…

Trainee retention: Linklaters, Gowling, Macfarlanes and Ince keep rates high for the autumn

Madeleine Farman

Linklaters is the latest Magic Circle firm to post its trainee retention numbers, retaining 84% of its 56-strong cohort. This proportion…

Guest Post: My kingdom for a horse – your literary introduction to the psychology of pricing

Guest Blog

Think, just for a moment, exactly like a client. You asked me to provide you with a quote for a…

Guest post: You’re masterful, Mr President: Standards of proof debate takes odd turn

Richard Moorhead

There are some interesting comments highlighted in a story on Legal Futures this month by the president of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal…

Ince’s new partner bonus pool sees top of equity jump 28%

Madeleine Farman

Ince & Co has made use of its new bonus pool for the first time, with the firm allocating around one…

Trainee retention: Latham and Kirkland report contrasting City rates as Magic Circle firms start to post 2017 figures

Madeleine Farman

Latham & Watkins has managed to retain 95% of its City trainees in its latest round, contrasting with Kirkland & Ellis, which…

‘Unprecedented in scale’: Travers, Slaughters and Hogan Lovells advise as Tata Steel separates UK pension scheme

Tom Baker

Travers Smith, Slaughter and May and Hogan Lovells have all advised as Tata Steel today signed a long-awaited agreement to…

Pinsents picks up key mandate on Carillion’s £1.3bn HS2 contracts

Georgiana Tudor

Pinsent Masons has picked up the key advisory mandate as embattled British construction company Carillion was handed a lifeline last month…

Troubled water: Hill Dickinson in talks to sell insurance business to Keoghs as revenue and profit dip again

Marco Cillario

Insurance and shipping specialist Hill Dickinson is in talks with fellow LB100 firm Keoghs to sell off part of its…

Revolving doors: Fieldfisher hires from Hogan Lovells as global players make international appointments

Tom Baker

Fieldfisher has made a major addition to its London corporate team while DWF, Watson Farley & Williams, O’Melveny & Myers…

Linklaters and Addleshaws among the runners on William Hill’s leaner UK panel

Madeleine Farman

Pinsent Masons, DLA Piper, Ashurst and Bird & Bird have all missed out on William Hill’s latest UK adviser panel,…

‘A stellar team’: Pinsents to open in Perth with Norton Rose Fulbright partners

Marco Cillario

Pinsent Masons is continuing its extensive international expansion of late with a new Australian office and the hire of four…

Financials 2016/17: Trowers & Hamlins steadies ship with double-digit turnover rise

Tom Baker

Top-50 UK firm Trowers & Hamlins has recorded increases in turnover and profit per equity partner (PEP) to recover from last year’s…

‘We are seeing results’: Kennedys’ international growth continues with Melbourne launch

Marco Cillario

Insurance specialist Kennedys is continuing to invest in its international operations by expanding into Melbourne through what is its seventh international office…