High Court judges’ pay rises rejected despite recruitment levels falling Legal Business Despite warnings of poor morale at the judiciary coupled with flailing levels of recruitment, the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB)…
Revolving Doors: Freshfields, Dentons and Pinsents make key hires as Uber and Callcredit build in-house teams Legal Business Following a string of seven recent hires to its Advanced Manufacturing and Technology (AMT) sector, Pinsent Masons has boosted its…
Partner promotions: Clifford Chance appoints 24 new partners, with nine in the City Kathryn McCann Clifford Chance (CC) has appointed 24 new partners globally, with promotions across the US, Asia Pacific, continental Europe and nine…
Herbert Smith Freehills evens out international balance in latest partner promotion round Legal Business After two years of having the bulk of its promotions in the Asia-Pacific region, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has gone…
‘Growing confidence’: Linklaters and A&O lead on biggest post-crisis RMBS transaction Tom Moore Magic Circle firms Linklaters and Allen & Overy were instructed on the £6.1bn securitisation of UK mortgages by private equity…
Told you so: City litigators unsurprised as MoJ requests £427m cash injection following drop in court claims Legal Business In line with what many dispute experts predicted, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has requested a cash injection after seeing…
White & Case secures victory for Russia as Dutch court overturns record $50bn Yukos award Legal Business A Dutch court has set aside the record $50bn arbitration award made against Russia in 2014 over its handling of…
Report hits out at Freshfields and SRA involvement in ScottishPower scandal Legal Business Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have been criticised in a parliamentary report into ScottishPower’s ‘cashback guarantee’…
Ashurst loses another partner to Gibson Dunn as Perry quits Legal Business Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has revisited Ashurst for yet another lateral hire, appointing financial institutions partner James Perry.
In the post: De Bie takes top role at Royal Mail after seven months as interim GC Kathryn McCann Maaike de Bie has taken the general counsel (GC) role at Royal Mail, following seven months as interim GC after…
‘An important victory’: Travers Smith gets another Tchenguiz claim dismissed Legal Business Travers Smith has secured a win against British entrepreneur Vincent Tchenguiz, as a Commercial Court judge dismissed a £2.2bn claim…
Comment: GCs have scraped a seat at the table but too many are wasting the opportunity Legal Business Barclays, Volkswagen and Tesco are three massive businesses in three significant, sophisticated and important business sectors. Each one of these…
‘A global perspective’: Australia partner Jenkins next to head Ashurst Jaishree Kalia After four months of searching for the firm’s next global managing partner, Ashurst has turned to its Australian side and…
Clyde & Co makes up 16 partners in half-female promotion round Legal Business Clyde & Co has announced a record number of promotions, adding 16 new partners, half of whom are women.
Guest post: How to write like a lawyer Legal Business Writing properly florid legal text takes years of practice. No-one enjoys reading it: not even the curmudgeon who has taken…
Shell slashes global panel from 11 to six post-BG merger Madeleine Farman Shell has slashed its global panel from 11 firms to just six, with Eversheds and Reed Smith newcomers to the…
Comment: Why one-stop shopping isn’t doing what it was supposed to Legal Business Sometimes in business what you correctly forecast can prove as problematic as what you get wrong. Because even when you…
Clifford Chance rebuilds competition team with plum hire from the CMA Legal Business Just one week after losing star competition partner Alastair Mordaunt to Magic Circle rival Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance has…
KWM real estate duo land at Ashurst following restructure Tom Moore With 24 partners on the market following King & Wood Mallesons‘ (KWM) decision to axe 15% of its European and…
New Treasury report claims lawyers will be worse off as result of Brexit Kathryn McCann A new report issued by the Treasury has claimed lawyers and other professional services will be worse off if Britain…
