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…
In-house lawyers to be affected by impact of ABS as hundreds of corporates consider conversion Sarah Downey Up to 700 companies, public authorities and charities could currently be considering the business case for applying to become an…
LLP latest: SJ Berwin, Squire Sanders and Irwin Mitchell file results Legal Business The last LLP filings of SJ Berwin in the financial year before its merger with King & Wood Mallesons reveal…
European expansion – A&O launches in Barcelona with hire of Freshfields partner Jaishree Kalia Allen & Overy (A&O) has pointed to the growth and profitability of its Madrid office and the recovery of the Spanish…
LLP latest: DLA Piper’s net debt down 32% as RPC posts 21% increase in fee income Legal Business DLA Piper International’s net debt decreased by 32% while cash in the bank dropped almost 15% according to its most recent…
Professional negligence – Matthew Arnold & Baldwin to appeal against dismissal of £10m claim against Watson Farley Sarah Downey Matthew Arnold & Baldwin has said its client plans to appeal against the High Court’s decision last week to dismiss a…
Updated: Management shake up for DLA Piper as Knowles takes over as global co-chair and Levine put forward for co-CEO role Legal Business DLA Piper’s co-chief executive (CEO) Nigel Knowles is to replace Tony Angel as global co-chairman in a senior management shake-up which…
M&A: Davis Polk and Latham advise on Smith & Nephew’s $1.7bn acquisition of Arthrocare David Stevenson In the third largest M&A deal in the UK this year after Liberty Global’s $10bn takeover of Ziggo and Amec’s…
You’re hired: Irwin Mitchell’s head of regulatory investigations joins Morgan Lewis Legal Business Morgan Lewis has boosted its London white collar crime capability with the hire of Irwin Mitchell’s head of regulatory and…
