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Revolving doors: Alston & Bird adds London structured finance partner as Signature’s Bushell departs

City recruitment clearly slowed down last week but Alston & Bird managed to add to its relatively new City branch…

Pinsents makes up non-lawyers to partner as it mulls quarterly distributions delay in wake of Covid-19

Pinsent Masons has promoted staff outside of traditional legal services to partner for the first time in a slightly increased…

Junior barristers blast the government’s ‘woefully insufficient’ self-employed support package

Thomas Alan

Junior barristers have heavily criticised the government’s self-employed support package as ‘woefully insufficient’ while imploring the Bar Council to address…

A&O defies coronavirus turbulence to lure back New York litigation partner

Nathalie Tidman

Allen & Overy has not let market turmoil wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic get in the way of its US…

DWF flags Covid-19’s ‘material impact’ on profit and increased debt as Keystone declines dividend

Hamish McNicol

The UK’s largest listed law firm, DWF, expects the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic to have a material impact on…

The domino effect – restructuring counsel brace for deluge as Covid-19 means no more business as usual

Nathalie Tidman

‘Even two weeks ago no-one predicted such a catastrophic impact from the coronavirus. Things have turned very quickly.’ This City…

Freshfields and Slaughters drafted as Government reveals details of Covid-19 business support package

Marco Cillario

The UK Treasury and Bank of England (BoE) have called in their go-to counsel Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus…

Guest comment: HSF disputes chief assesses the City litigation market’s Covid-19 response

Guest Blog

In light of the human impact of Covid-19, the immediate concern for businesses is the health and safety of their…

Listed firms suffer Covid-19 fallout as Knights staff face sweeping cuts and Ince cancels dividend

Hamish McNicol

Knights board members and staff earning more than £30,000 face pay cuts of at least 10% and some staff will…

Coronavirus update: The Legal 500 pushes back research schedule to ease pressure on clients and firms

Legal Business

The Legal 500 is pushing back its research schedule in response to the coronavirus pandemic, suspending all client contact for the…

Linklaters acts on $500m ‘virtual trial’ while insurers and claimants agree coronavirus ceasefire

Thomas Alan

The Commercial Court is going fully virtual on a case worth over $500m this week, with Linklaters and King & Spalding among…

A&O bullish on US investment drive with hire of federal enforcement firepower in DC

Nathalie Tidman

Allen & Overy has again thrown itself behind its strategy to accelerate investment in its US business after fruitless merger…

Guest post: Coronavirus tears up competition regimes for foreign investments as Europe struggles to shield reeling economies

Guest Blog

COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc with the global economy, disrupting all manner of business throughout the world. Stock markets have…

Blogs

Revolving doors: Alston & Bird adds London structured finance partner as Signature’s Bushell departs

Pinsents makes up non-lawyers to partner as it mulls quarterly distributions delay in wake of Covid-19

Junior barristers blast the government’s ‘woefully insufficient’ self-employed support package

A&O defies coronavirus turbulence to lure back New York litigation partner

DWF flags Covid-19’s ‘material impact’ on profit and increased debt as Keystone declines dividend

The domino effect – restructuring counsel brace for deluge as Covid-19 means no more business as usual

Freshfields and Slaughters drafted as Government reveals details of Covid-19 business support package

Guest comment: HSF disputes chief assesses the City litigation market’s Covid-19 response

Listed firms suffer Covid-19 fallout as Knights staff face sweeping cuts and Ince cancels dividend

Coronavirus update: The Legal 500 pushes back research schedule to ease pressure on clients and firms

Linklaters acts on $500m ‘virtual trial’ while insurers and claimants agree coronavirus ceasefire

A&O bullish on US investment drive with hire of federal enforcement firepower in DC

Guest post: Coronavirus tears up competition regimes for foreign investments as Europe struggles to shield reeling economies

Coronavirus latest: Supreme Court goes virtual as junior lawyers plea against postponing exams

‘Impossible to predict’ coronavirus fallout sees Gateley cancel £3m dividend and suspend guidance

Revolving doors: Orrick adds four-partner WFW projects team as Taylor Wessing invests in employment bench

More gloom for Freshfields as another disputes partner exits after internal investigation

‘There’s no coronavirus playbook’: Relief at emergency measures but law firm leaders predict worst is yet to come

‘No crown jewels’ but firms rally with coronavirus advice to steer clients through crisis

Comment: Coronavirus will brutally strip away the profession’s illusions