Dechert gains Singapore licence after 8 month wait Legal Business Eight months after applying for a Foreign Legal Practice licence to open in Singapore, US law firm Dechert has been…
Trainee Retention: Clifford Chance and Herbert Smith Freehills reveal retention rates Legal Business Following a spate of healthy trainee retention rates in recent weeks, magic circle firm Clifford Chance (CC) and international firm…
‘Clients are more confident about the market’: Baker & McKenzie becomes world’s largest law firm Tom Moore Baker & McKenzie has overtaken DLA Piper as the world’s largest law firm, with revenues for the year ending 30…
Guest post: Stop being proactive, stop being commercial, stop being nice Legal Business I made a mistake. It was in 1989. I went in-house and found I was good at my job. It…
Slaughters posts high trainee retention rate while BLP keeps on 83% Tom Moore Slaughter and May, which is well known for its high retention rates, has kept on 33 out of its 34…
‘The overall benefits are potentially enormous’: Bucks County Council granted ABS licence with emergency services group Sarah Downey In a move that has been welcomed by the Legal Services Board, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has granted an…
Ashurst starts out-of-hours worker redundancies Jaishree Kalia The past year has seen a number of UK firms scale back their back-office support teams to become more efficient…
Wachtell, A&O and Gibson Dunn lead on Walgreens acquisition of Boots Tom Moore The largest drug retailer in the US, Walgreens, has instructed Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Magic Circle firm Allen…
HSF snatches Freshfields former energy co-head Legal Business Herbert Smith Freehills has landed a blow on Magic Circle firm Freshfields with the hire of the firm’s former co-head of energy…
Former Freshfields lawyers open boutique following Magic Circle firm’s Barcelona exit Legal Business Two of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s lawyers have set up an IP/IT specialist boutique in Spain following the closure of the…
Financial results 2013/14: Burness Paull posts 20% revenue increase alongside 25% profit rise Sarah Downey Scottish firm Burness Paull is the latest to release its 2013/14 financial results and has today (7 July) announced a…
Guest post: Change is neither good nor bad: It is Legal Business ‘Call it the Great Recession, the Great Reset, or whatever, the world palpably shook in September 2008 and the repercussions…
Dealwatch: Travers Smith and Baker Botts lead on $1bn demerger; Mills & Reeve and Burges Salmon advise on Co-op farm sale Sarah Downey A healthy uptick in transactional activity has brought a handful of players in line for a windfall, as City-firm Travers…
Trainee retention: Nabarro and Fieldfisher maintain high rates while Trowers & Hamlins drops to 64% Legal Business Nabarro and Fieldfisher have kept on a high number of trainees this month with the latter firm retaining 100% of…
Dentons picks up partner as Chadbourne closes Kiev office Legal Business Chadbourne & Parke’s Adam Mycyk has moved to Dentons following Chadbourne’s decision to close its Kiev office.
Financials 2013/14: Ince & Co suffers a 7% fall in global revenues, down to £86.7m Legal Business Ince & Co’s global revenues fell to £86.7m in the 2013/14 financial year from £93.2m in the 2012/13 LB100. Against…
Dentons sues Republic of Guinea in District Court of Columbia for $10.2m in unpaid fees Legal Business Dentons is suing the Republic of Guinea and its Ministry of Mines and Geology for $10.2m over alleged unpaid legal…
Trainee retention: Freshfields keeps on 82% of junior lawyers Legal Business Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has become the second Magic Circle firm to post a high retention rate keeping on 82% of…
Revolving Doors: City hires for KWMSJB and Kaye Scholer; international recruits for Dentons and Eversheds Legal Business This week’s lateral hiring has seen international firms King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWMSJB) and US firm Kaye Scholer…
Stephenson Harwood gets licence to open Seoul office Jaishree Kalia Stephenson Harwood will open its Seoul office in autumn this year after the Korean Ministry of Justice awarded the firm…
