Dealwatch: Skadden and Freshfields make the news on Pearson’s FT sale Legal Business Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have both won lead roles advising on Pearson’s £844m sale…
Guest post: Who’s afraid of IBM Watson? Machine learning and the future of law Legal Business Recently in New York, Adam Smith Esq had the opportunity to invite a couple of dozen law firms to ‘An…
Trowers UK revenues support 3% turnover growth as international offering goes into reverse Legal Business UK top-50 firm Trowers & Hamlins has recovered from the mixed set of financial results last year but is yet…
Former News International adviser Abramson found in breach of solicitor practice rules as Chapman cleared Sarah Downey Having been plagued by allegations of cover-ups in the high profile phone hacking scandal, former News International adviser Lawrence Abramson…
Frontrunners emerge at Linklaters in race for managing partner Legal Business Finance & projects head Michael Kent and global banking chief Gideon Moore have emerged as the frontrunners to succeed Simon…
A&O boosts Spanish office ranks as it hires Ashurst’s banking head Jaishree Kalia After having launched a second office in Spain last year, Allen & Overy (A&O) has continued to build its offering in…
Supreme Court finds conditional fee agreements in line with human rights treaty Legal Business In a decision providing certainty to recovering litigation costs, the Supreme Court has ruled that the costs regime put in…
Guest post: Enforcing a patent is an abuse of process, except where it isn’t Legal Business Last week the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment (16 July) in Case C-170/13 Huawei…
PLMJ focuses on international expansion as it elects new managing partner Legal Business Portuguese firm PLMJ has elected a new managing partner, Luís Pais Antunes (pictured), with a remit to focus on further…
Regulators look to cut ABS red tape in Legal Services Act reform push Legal Business The Legal Services Board, along with the other legal sector regulators, has published suggestions to reform the Legal Services Act…
Standard Chartered appoints acting global legal head while group GC Fein wins new role in management reshuffle Kathryn McCann Standard Chartered has appointed an acting global head of legal and compliance as incumbent Jamie Kelly goes on sabbatical while…
Q&A: CMS Cameron McKenna managing partner Weston on ‘making sure high quality firms understand what CMS is’ Legal Business With an election for the top leadership job looming at CMS Cameron McKenna, the firm’s incumbent managing partner Duncan Weston…
Comment: Momentum – the little-discussed magic that can lead to big success Legal Business Momentum versus quality. That’s the question for the upper reaches of the legal industry that is never on the lips…
‘A broad-based City professional services firm’: RPC breaks into insurance and financial consulting with software business buy Legal Business In a move to widen it offering to its insurance clients, RPC’s consulting arm has branched out from a legal…
Dealwatch: Linklaters and Ashurst lead on Schneider Electric’s £1.3bn reverse takeover of Aveva Tom Moore A four-partner team from Linklaters advised France’s Schneider Electric on its £1.3bn reverse takeover of UK engineering software company and…
‘It has certainly shown its teeth’: Fraud specialists fear SFO budget cuts put agency’s progress at risk Sarah Downey The Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) annual report has shown improvements on last year, both in its levels of activity and…
Revolving Doors: US firms kick-on with big hires as Clydes invests Stateside Tom Moore As firms move to finalise their lateral hires before the holiday season starts, a string of US hires were wrapped…
Slaughter and May’s trainee retention slips to 89% for 2015 autumn intake Legal Business The first Magic Circle to report its trainee intake numbers for autumn 2015, Slaughter and May has revealed it is…
A&O and Freshfields win big on 888’s £900m purchase of Bwin after bidding battle Jaishree Kalia Magic Circle duo Allen & Overy (A&O) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acted as the bidding battle for online gambling company…
Judiciary watchdog sees complaints rise by 20% in first year of new discipline regime Legal Business The annual report issued by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) has seen the number of complaints made against judicial…
