Travers’ former tax head Kathleen Russ elected as senior partner successor to Chris Hale Tom Baker Travers Smith has nominated former tax department head Kathleen Russ (pictured) as its new senior partner, to succeed long-serving Chris Hale…
Revolving Doors: Eversheds makes City corporate play as DLA and Ashurst announce international hires Thomas Alan The first signs of a late-autumn slowdown in City laterals emerged last week with Eversheds Sutherland making the only significant…
‘Real fire power’: Weil loses banking head to White & Case’s unrelenting hiring spree Nathalie Tidman White & Case’s City hiring spree continues to go great guns with the recruitment of Weil Gotshal & Manges’ well-regarded…
Two European candidates remain as CC’s senior partner contest goes down to three Marco Cillario The likelihood of Clifford Chance’s (CC) next senior partner being based outside London has surged after the first round of…
Comment: We come not to bury the Magic Circle but to save it Alex Novarese A number of contacts have been telling me of late that Legal Business is gaining a reputation for being ultra-bearish on the…
SRA defers super exam until 2021 as costs of new assessment revealed Tom Baker In a busy week for the legal watchdog, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced it is postponing the implementation…
‘A giant opening for competitive forces’ – Controversial SRA handbook overhaul given green light as Passmore steps down Tom Baker In a significant easing of practice rules, the Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved divisive plans by the Solicitors Regulation…
Law Society pushes firms for increased transparency on partner pay gaps Thomas Alan The Law Society has called for uniformity in law firms’ gender pay gap reporting in a bid to ‘get ahead…
Enterprise GC 2019 – Our flagship in-house event returns bigger, better and with a lot more bluechip GCs Alex Novarese Consider this a call to arms or an acknowledgement that I can use all the help I can get but…
SRA shoots down Government plans for post-Brexit mutual recognition of legal qualifications Tom Baker The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has condemned a Government plan to mutually recognise international legal qualifications as part of post-Brexit…
Revolving Doors: Stephenson Harwood and Ropes make moves in a busy City recruitment round as HFW expands in Abu Dhabi Thomas Alan There were a number of lateral hires in the London last week, with Stephenson Harwood, Ropes & Gray and Osborne…
Comment: The great distraction – The innovation bandwagon has hobbled law’s market forces Alex Novarese I used to believe the UK legal profession was more imaginative than it got credit for – now I find…
Linklaters finishes tech jigsaw with hire of Ashurst’s global IT head Thomas Alan Linklaters has bolstered its technology clout with the hire of Ashurst’s well-regarded head of global IT, Bruna Pellicci. Pellicci becomes the…
Macfarlanes holds hands up to significant gender pay gap at partner level Tom Baker In another stark example of the disparity in the treatment of men and women within City law, Macfarlanes has revealed an…
Comment: NDA mess shows age of just-about-OK legal ethics has passed Alex Novarese Once, not long ago, considerations of ethics were simple for law firms, if they bothered thinking about them at all.…
Gordon Dadds to become largest listed firm with £43m acquisition of Ince Hamish McNicol Gordon Dadds is set to become the UK’s largest listed law firm by revenue after acquiring Ince & Co for an…
London calling for Latham as it makes up nine partners in the City Thomas Alan Latham & Watkins has promoted 31 lawyers to partner across all five of its departments globally, with 29% of those getting…
‘Fit like a glove’: Gordon Dadds brings Ince into the modern era, says leadership Hamish McNicol The lack of overlap between Gordon Dadds and Ince & Co made the tie-up an ‘overwhelmingly attractive proposition’, the firms’ leaders say.…
The technology debate: Ctrl+Alt+Delete Alex Novarese With alternative legal services arms at Global 100 law firms in full swing, and innovation and technology experts striving to…
Stars and stripes in their eyes – assessing the US ambitions of A&O and Freshfields Nathalie Tidman Nathalie Tidman looks at the struggle for the City elite as US players dominate home and away ‘People like me,…
