Legal Business

The bank’s group and deputy GCs discuss the split of Lloyds and TSB, and helping Lloyds’ efforts to rebuild trust…

Francesca Fanshawe

While the in-house profession has come of age, the number of home-grown trainees remains tiny. Legal Business assesses whether in-house…

Caroline Hill

The energy giant’s group GC discusses the overhaul of its legal function When the in-house legal team of a large…

Legal Business

Global 100 firms embraced foreign expansion again in February. Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) announced a significant addition to its Latin…

Legal Business

Advisers benefit as investors target industrial assets The shift towards global industrial real estate portfolios as an asset class last…

Legal Business

US law firms are facing a fundamental overhaul over the way they calculate and distribute their profits that could result…

Legal Business

Jobling steps aside as head of volume business BT Law An innovator long at the vanguard of transforming the traditional…

Sarah Downey

The impact of HM Revenue & Customs’ decision to overhaul the way salaried partners are taxed is being felt across…

Legal Business

UBS and HSBC see key in-house moves The start of 2014 has seen almost as much in the way of…

Legal Business

In mid-February, Latham & Watkins confirmed its third London private equity partner hire from Clifford Chance (CC), with Kem Ihenacho…

Julian Matteucci

While historically relatively untouched by the globalisation of legal services, international firms have continued their recent surge into Switzerland, with…

David Stevenson

David Stevenson assesses Shearman’s hopes of regaining its potency ‘The work that’s been done over the last few years is…

Legal Business

Latest QC promotions round the largest in three years In stark contrast with the recent decline in the number of…

Sarah Downey

Speechly Bircham is trying its hand once more at finding a merger partner as the firm last month announced it…

Legal Business

Partasides and Petrochilos to join former colleague Jan Paulsson Breakaway arbitration boutiques are increasingly common but they rarely have the…

Legal Business

I don’t believe people that do well have an unerring right to succeed and it’s entirely down to their own…

Legal Business

US leaders grind out growth in 2013 despite ‘anaemic economy’ Despite having to contend with what Latham & Watkins’ outgoing…

Legal Business

Moore becomes first lateral hire in firm’s 125-year history It had been well telegraphed but even so news that Slaughter…

Francesca Fanshawe

Increasing confidence in the transactional market has contributed to a rash of senior partner moves at the start of 2014,…

Sarah Downey

Financial institutions report multibillion-dollar effects of post-crisis costs Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank have become the latest major financial institutions…