Wigs and veils up for discussion by Lady Hale and Lord Neuberger in Supreme Court briefing to mark a new legal year Legal Business Deputy president of the Supreme Court Lady Hale today (2 October) advocated a new approach to attracting youths from diverse backgrounds…
Comment: The air of unreality – can the big deal deliver for Ashurst? Alex Novarese ‘Historically, what killed Ashurst’s mergers has been apathy. Latham, Fried Frank, Clifford Chance – people were apathetic.’ So recalls one…
Layton leads the field as CC set for managing partner election Legal Business The race to fill the shoes of Clifford Chance (CC)’s longstanding global managing partner David Childs has reached a decisive…
Consolidation watch: Dentons and McKenna Long in merger talks Legal Business Dentons and McKenna Long & Aldridge confirmed late on Monday (30 September) that they are in merger talks to create…
More drama from Berlin – criticism of Hogan Lovells client led to departure by partner now leading team to rival Legal Business Surprise surrounding last week’s announcement that Hogan Lovells’ 30-lawyer Berlin arm is leaving to launch a German law practice for…
Africa expansion: Eversheds in talks to launch in five key jurisdictions Legal Business Eversheds is significantly expanding its Africa offering and is currently in discussions to establish offices in the key markets of…
Guest post: Grayling’s conference speech – main points and some reflections Legal Business Earlier this week, Chris Grayling MP, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, delivered his speech to the Conservative…
Financial results 2013: BLP reveals PEP slump of 39% David Stevenson Following an unusual waiting game that has ensured Berwin Leighton Paisner’s profit figure has remained a topic of growing interest since…
Status update: Gibson Dunn partner hired as Facebook deputy GC Legal Business Social media giant Facebook has appointed Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s co-head of IT and data privacy Ashlie Beringer as deputy general…
Sailing for Boston – Freshfields’ managing partner quits to join US buyout house Legal Business One of the most respected law firm leaders in the City has called it a day ahead of time with…
Guest blog: Do you heart QualitySolicitors? Legal Business I’ve spent the last two days at the QualitySolicitors conference in Manchester. I was invited to chair the opening session…
Asia Pacific: DLA hires four-strong Jones Day team in Beijing Francesca Fanshawe DLA Piper has further bolstered its Asia Pacific offering with the hire of a four-lawyer IP team from Jones Day in…
Bircham Dyson Bell ex-partner struck off for £2m client overcharging and false expenses Legal Business A former Bircham Dyson Bell partner has been struck off the Roll after knowingly overcharging clients, misusing client funds and making…
Guest post – Opinion: SFO confirms 8 Bribery Act ‘Projects’ – enforcement rhetoric will convert into action Legal Business ‘We have some 68 cases on our books at present, including matters under development in our intelligence section; these include…
Ever reducing panels: AIG reveals new look firm line-up Legal Business The in-house trend towards panel downsizing is again in evidence as AIG today (26 September) revealed a 25-strong list of…
Approved: Ashurst achieves full financial integration and single profit pool Sarah Downey Ashurst today (26 September) effectively threw down the gauntlet to a number of its newly-merged competitors by announcing it has ‘overwhelmingly’…
Deal round-up: Bakers, Bird & Bird and Simmons advise on multi-billion energy programme as BLP takes on PFI bond issue David Stevenson The UK government may be short of funds but it has generated high value deals for Baker & McKenzie, Berwin…
Skadden and Shearman take lead roles as struggling BlackBerry agrees $4.7bn sale Jaishree Kalia Following dashed hopes that BlackBerry’s new handset would reverse its falling fortunes, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Shearman & Sterling…
Consolidation in the second 50 – Manches and Penningtons confirm talks David Stevenson From within the over-crowded space that is the lower of half of the LB100, beleaguered 139-lawyer Manches has emerged as being…
Virtual law: Mercedes-Benz UK GC sets up Radius Law Sarah Downey The virtual law space has a new entrant after former Mercedes-Benz UK group general counsel and head of compliance Iain…
