Law firms

Georgiana Tudor

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringerhas appointed Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrisonlawyer Menachem Kaplan (pictured) as its first partner to head up the…

Tom Baker

Five New York-based partners are to leave Ashurst for US finance firm Chapman and Cutler, completing the full departure of the ten-partner…

Georgiana Tudor

Charles Russell Speechlys (CRS) has revealed 3% revenue growth for the 2016/17 financial year, alongside an 8% jump in profit per…

Georgiana Tudor

Vinson & Elkins(V&E) has increased its London associate and trainee solicitor salary levels, boosting newly qualified salaries 20% to £120,000 and first-year…

Marco Cillario

Dentons is to combine with Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens, embarking on the latest phase of its European expansion into Scotland’s…

Marco Cillario

The government department for exiting the European Union (DExEU) has spent £3.7m in legal costs since it was set up…

Miriam Kenner

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has today (21 July) ruled against certifying one of the first US-style £14bn opt-out consumer…

Alex Novarese

The Supreme Court has gained its first female head with Lady Hale today (21 July) confirmed as its new president alongside three…

Marco Cillario

City-headquartered professional services firm RPC will retain 82% of its trainees this autumn, a 15% increase from last year’s intake,…

Alex Novarese

To recap as the UK tiptoes towards banana republic territory in the wake of last month’s inconclusive, prediction-defying general election:…

Marco Cillario

The civil courts generated a £100m surplus in their most recent year according to new figures that are bound to…

Georgiana Tudor

Disputes and business crime boutique Peters & Peters has today (19 July) announced that the former head of special crime at the…

Georgiana Tudor

Ince & Co’s revenue has grown 16% to £88.5m this year, signalling recovery from a three-year decline, in what Ince’s…

Marco Cillario

Fieldfisher has invested in a digital platform offering an automated way to generate and update documents required during funding rounds, allowing…

Georgiana Tudor

White & Case has been fined £250,000 in the largest-ever sanction imposed by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) against a firm,…

Marco Cillario

The hopes of the UK’s largest legal watchdog of being separated from the Law Society appear to have been dashed,…

Georgiana Tudor

Long-serving Matrix Chambers CEO Lindsay Scott (pictured) is to join 39 Essex Chambers as its new chief executive officer, later…

Alex Novarese

Have we reached peak aspirational employer league table yet? From the perspective of the legal industry we certainly should have,…

Marco Cillario

Linklaters is seeking to recruit a chief information security officer (CISO) to establish, shape and deliver its global IT security strategy…

Georgiana Tudor

Lawyers On Demand (LOD), Berwin Leighton Paisner’s(BLP) freelance lawyers spin-off, is due to launch in the Middle East with a new…