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Simmons & Simmons’ partnership re-elected Jeremy Hoyland as managing partner after an uncontested election, seeing him begin a second four-year term on…

Daniel Coyne

Jonathan Ball of Norton Rose Fulbright initially worked as a scientist before becoming a lawyer, and is now an Intellectual…

Sarah Downey

City law firm RPC has recorded a 16% rise in its first half-year revenue from £38.7m in the same period…

Legal Business

Senior Eversheds partners William Naunton and Clive Jones, who handed in their resignations at the start of this year with plans…

Legal Business

We’re halfway through November and it’s Friday, so here’s our regular look back at some of the stories that have…

Legal Business

In a 2011 piece on the decimated real estate market in the City, we noted that few senior property partners…

Legal Business

DLA Piper lawyers from London and Madrid have been called in by Vodafone to investigate allegations of tax fraud at…

Legal Business

Having been plagued with a series of partner departures from London, Edwards Wildman Palmer has now taken a hit to…

Tom Moore

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), the UK’s statutory compensation scheme for customers of authorised financial services firms, is currently…

Legal Business

Monday (10 November) saw the EU Council of Ministers formally adopt the European Commission’s Directive on antitrust damages, a move…

Legal Business

US firm Latham & Watkins continues its aggressive hiring strategy with the recruitment of a six-partner team from O’Melveny &…

Legal Business

Five banks have been collectively fined £2bn by UK and US regulators for failing to stop traders from trying to…

Legal Business

As I reach my middle years I find much to admire and celebrate about the legal profession, and lawyers in…

Tom Moore

Nicholas Fletcher QC, who has led Berwin Leighton Paisner‘s international arbitration practice for the last five years, has resigned from…

Tom Moore

Corporate partner Simon Witty, who Davis Polk & Wardwell hired from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2012 to launch its English…

Legal Business

In what constitutes the latest controversial move over Damages-Based Agreements (DBAs) regulation, the Government has ruled out hybrid versions of…

Legal Business

A mass reshuffle has taken place of DLA Piper’s executive managment team, with the firm’s Dutch head of corporate Barbara…

Legal Business

London, last week, saw Bristows hire another Bird & Bird partner into its TMT and life sciences practice while Eversheds…

Legal Business

London-based corporate partner James Palmer has triumphed over Sydney-based Mark Crean to become the next senior partner at Herbert Smith…

Legal Business

James Palmer (Profile) talks to Legal Business about being elected the first senior partner at Herbert Smith Freehills since the…