Comment: the rising stars in-house – bluechip legal teams are bursting with talent Caroline Hill The first Legal Business edition of the year coincides with a major project for us: the second edition of our popular…
Investment funds: Schulte Roth to grow London practice with move to bigger City premises Jaishree Kalia Schulte Roth & Zabel’s (SRZ’s) 80-strong top-tier transatlantic funds practice is set to grow after the US firm announced this week…
In-house: face of BT Law to change after Miles Jobling steps aside Legal Business The face of BT Law, having last year secured a licence from the Solicitors Regulation Authority to hive off BT’s…
LLP latest: Speechly points to owed client fees for fall in profits as Ashurst and Hill Dicks also post profit drop Sarah Downey Private-client focused Speechly Bircham has become one of the latest LB100 firm to post its limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts at…
Skadden’s London head Buck steps down as the City claims global management positions in energy and litigation Jaishree Kalia Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s longstanding European head Bruce Buck has stepped down from his role as London head as…
NRF unveils rise in bank loans to £55m but drop in net debt as South African partner appointed as global chair Legal Business Norton Rose’s last pre-Fulbright & Jaworski merger limited liability partnership accounts reveal that the top 10 LB100 firm’s bank loans rose…
Three’s company: BLP’s former head of restructuring Ben Larkin joins Jones Day David Stevenson The third partner to leave Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) for Jones Day in under six months, former head of restructuring and insolvency…
In-house: Shell finds internal replacement for Rees as it picks Ching as legal head David Stevenson Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has this time found an in-house replacement legal director Peter Rees QC, today (10 February)…
O Canada! DLA Piper in talks with Heenan Blaikie partners to set up in Toronto and Calgary Legal Business Long having eyed a Canadian presence, DLA Piper confirmed today (7 February) that it is in talks with a group of…
Comment: Magna Carta, bribery and a bit of confusion – Global Law Summit starts the countdown Legal Business It turns out that hundreds of years of legal history waits not even for Bob Crow so Thursday evening (6…
Cost cutting and near-shoring – Field Fisher Waterhouse ties up with Manchester’s Heatons David Stevenson Following last year’s announcement from Field Fisher Waterhouse that it was looking to move a number of its London support functions…
Seoul searching: Stephenson Harwood hires DLA Piper’s South Korea head Michael Kim Legal Business With five of its nine overseas offices in South and East Asia, it is perhaps unsurprising that Stephenson Harwood has become…
LLP latest: Mayer Brown sees revenue dip by 9.5% as Pinsents gains £20m from McGrigors merger Jaishree Kalia Mayer Brown has released its LLP results for the year ending 2012/13 for the UK business, reporting a 9.5% loss…
Remaking legal education – after 18 years at Europe’s largest law school, Savage confirms retirement Sarah Downey In a career spanning dead-end jobs and the upper echelons of the global legal market, Nigel Savage, the man who…
In-house: BT selects Axiom to replace UnitedLex as new LPO provider Legal Business An innovator long at the vanguard of transforming the traditional in-house legal function, BT has just entered into a three-year…
Revolving Doors: Key transactional and antitrust hires for Bakers, Bird & Bird, K&L Gates, Trowers, Reed Smith and Mayer Brown David Stevenson With transactional activity on the rise international firms including Bird & Bird, K&L Gates, Trowers & Hamlins and Reed Smith…
USP: PwC to expand legal services with ‘under one roof’ pitch as LLP results show legal revenue up Legal Business PwC has plans to grow its legal services capability and promote to clients the obvious advantages of providing business and legal…
‘Go on, have a go’ – TLT partner joins DWF drawn by ‘huge number of opportunities’ Francesca Fanshawe The momentum and energy surrounding DWF’s rapid growth has been credited for its latest hire, TLT corporate partner Richard Tall, who…
Guest post: The New World of Legal Work vs Global Behemoths Legal Business There’s an interesting tension between Sir Nigel Knowles prediction of legal behemoths straddling the globe with investment bankers outriders (or…
Legal innovation – Connect2Law’s Jabbari to join Parabis to extend ABS portfolio and set up regional network Sarah Downey Just weeks after resigning from Manchester-based consumer services and personal injury (PI) firm Pannone following its £33m acquisition by ASX-listed Slater…
