Squire Patton Boggs – what does the merger mean for lawyers in London and Europe? Legal Business Effective on 1 June, the merger between 39-office firm Squire Sanders and 330-lawyer Washington outfit Patton Boggs will bring together…
Financial results 2013/14: Osborne Clarke unveils a PEP increase of 46% Legal Business Osborne Clarke continues its upward growth trajectory with an announcement today (6 June) of a 46% increase in profit per equity…
Associate pay 2014 – ‘A good year’ sees CC boost salaries and bonuses across the board Sarah Downey Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance (CC) has significantly raised its salary package for its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers and junior…
Zoopla! Freshfields and Slaughter and May line up for £1bn float of the UK’s second biggest property website Legal Business The anticipated £1bn initial public offering (IPO) of the UK’s second largest online property website has seen Magic Circle firms…
Strategic Recruitment: The Product Jaishree Kalia The debate over the value of partner recruitment has intensified in recent years. Legal Business analyses hiring trends at top…
Strategic Recruitment: What Lies Beneath Legal Business More law firms are formally vetting potential senior recruits. Legal Business investigates the growth – and controversies – of partner…
The Programme – how Dundas & Wilson fits into the CMS masterplan Sarah Downey With a takeover of Dundas & Wilson under its belt and a barrage of post-Lehman re-engineering in place, CMS Cameron…
Cameronics redux: a hard-to-grasp institution that looks set to surprise Legal Business Given that I get paid to poke around law firms’ inner workings, it’s not that often that I find it…
Partner recruitment: buyer beware Legal Business If the oxymoronic notion of partner recruitment didn’t exist who would invent it? On one level, of course, its emergence…
A bit of hustle, a bit of love – GCs expect attention and pitching from advisers Legal Business In our focus on Nabarro this month the firm comes in for some criticism at the hands of an important…
The last word – strategic recruitment Legal Business From disastrous due diligence to delusions of grandeur, leaders from LB100 firms and senior recruitment specialists give their take on…
DISSENT: A self-deceiving return to business as usual Legal Business RSG’s Reena SenGupta argues an improving economic climate is leading top law firms to wrongly assume the ‘new’ normal is…
Eversheds real estate head and tax partner to form high-end boutique Legal Business William Naunton and Clive Jones to depart after year-long notice period. The head of Eversheds’ international real estate group, William…
Camerons launches cost-saving venture through Dundas offices as the firm prepares for move to Cannon Place Legal Business CMS Cameron McKenna plans to utilise the Scottish offices and personnel of new merger partner Dundas & Wilson as a…
Q&A with Hogan Lovells new chief executive Steve Immelt Legal Business As Washington DC-based Steve Immelt next month takes over the reins from Hogan Lovells co-chief executives David Harris and Warren…
BP brings in reverse auction as it pushes ahead with panel review Legal Business Energy giant seeks increased transparency in bidding process with new online element BP has introduced a reverse auction into its…
Financial results 2013/14: BLP’s PEP up 35% and revenue 6% David Stevenson In one of the most anticipated sets of financial results of the 2013/14 financial reporting season, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)…
Slaughters, A&O and Linklaters announce associate pay increases Legal Business Trainees, NQs and PQEs to receive salary boost. Setting the bar for trainee, newly-qualified (NQ) and associate pay last month…
Weil’s City banking head Stephen Lucas joins Kirkland Legal Business One of the best-known names in the leverage buyout market, Stephen Lucas, is set to join Kirkland & Ellis from…
In need of sponsors – can a bank-dominated A&O get the hang of this private equity thing? Jaishree Kalia Jaishree Kalia assesses A&O’s latest attempt to break into the buyout game. There was never any obvious reason for Allen…
