Partner promotions: Simmons adds eight new partners, half in London Jaishree Kalia Simmons & Simmons has promoted eight lawyers to its partnership ranks, just one more than the top-20 LB100 firm made…
Linklaters appoints first female corporate City head Legal Business Linklaters has named Sarah Wiggins as its first female corporate head in London, with the home-grown lawyer placing diversity on the…
Freshfields unveils new City competition head as Marchant takes over as London corporate chief Legal Business Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed Simon Marchant as its new City corporate head in the wake of Julian Long’s election to…
DLA’s partner promotions up by a third with latest round of 45 Legal Business DLA Piper has promoted 45 lawyers to its partnership, a 33% increase on last year. The lion’s share of promotions fell…
The Bar 1-0 MoJ: Crown court halts serious fraud trial over lack of representation Legal Business In an embarrassing setback for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in its long running dispute over legal aid with the…
Eversheds in talks to extend voting rights as 164 junior partners inject cash Legal Business Fixed-share partners to make capital contributions of 25% of profit share Eversheds started talks in April over the voting rights…
Hogan Lovells gives voice to partners under 45 with new board level role Legal Business Higson elected ahead of move to single global CEO Hogan Lovells has taken a step towards giving its younger partners…
GC appointments for EY, HarperCollins and BNY Mellon Legal Business Reshuffles see trio promoted to fill senior roles Three high-profile in-house counsel appointments in the UK and US last month…
Great expectations – Neuberger speaks Sarah Downey Lauded as the outstanding jurist of his generation, Lord Neuberger carried huge weight of expectation on assuming the leadership of…
Back in the machine – opportunity and threats amid much-changed debt markets Jaishree Kalia After years in the post-Lehman doldrums, the finance markets are springing back to life. Legal Business assesses the forces powering…
Shock horror: economic revival makes it as impossible as ever to make partner Alex Novarese It’s not going to come as a huge shock to our readership of jaded veterans to hear this but the…
DISSENT: A precarious professionalism Legal Business UCL’s Richard Moorhead argues the integrity and professionalism that City lawyers take for granted is all too easily swayed The…
Whose money making machine? Not all law firms will be richer in a bank-lite world Legal Business Cov-lite, cov-loose and even now cov-lame – in some pockets of the finance market we are back to the boom…
The last word – the state of law firm leadership Legal Business With a spate of executive elections taking place recently, we ask the c-suite at leading City firms how management has…
Heading to The Ivy: Legal Business and RPC team up for GC Power List Summer Reception Alex Novarese We’ve made it no secret that a major aim for Legal Business and its Legalease stablemates is to better engage…
Worth the money: Barclays to introduce value accounts for upcoming legal panel Sarah Downey Failure to meet value targets set to result in firms partially refunding banking giant As Barclays’ long-awaited review of its…
The Crown Estate’s Peeke to join Land Securities in legal head role Legal Business Land Securities, the UK’s largest listed property company, has hired The Crown Estate’s deputy head of legal Alex Peeke as…
Latest partnership rounds confirm another tough year to make the grade at City leaders Francesca Fanshawe Partnership promotion figures unveiled in April saw a slight improvement on the dwindling numbers seen in earlier announcements, although still…
Life during law: Helen Burton Jaishree Kalia The first deal I worked on when I qualified at Allen & Overy (A&O) was for David Morley and everything…
Irwin Mitchell’s outgoing chief executive John Pickering on change in the sector and why it was time to hang up his boots Legal Business Announcing his retirement last month, Irwin Mitchell’s longstanding head and current group chief executive John Pickering pointed to ‘the changing…
