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Legal Business

Almost a quarter of in-house lawyers suffered pay freezes in the last 12 months, double the 10% who had their…

Francesca Fanshawe

Having secured not one but two successive major joint ventures with Admiral and then the AA, Lyons Davidson is undoubtedly the envy…

Sarah Downey

The buoyant pharmaceuticals market threw up yet another high-profile healthcare deal this week, as Swiss giant Novartis announced the sale…

Legal Business

Bird & Bird has become the latest leading UK firm to open in Dubai as it transfers Stockholm corporate partner Anders…

Legal Business

As the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) pulls together the second wave of its senior leadership team one of the…

Caroline Hill

Last year Legal Business described Howard Kennedy’s chief executive Mark Dembovsky as ‘renaissance man’, having taken charge of a West End…

Francesca Fanshawe

After becoming the first multiple-licensed alternative business structure (ABS) last August Irwin Mitchell has acquired personal injury (PI) firm McCool Patterson…

Sarah Downey

As Lloyds Banking Group makes a series of senior management hires it has emerged that the global financial institution has…

David Stevenson

Baker & McKenzie has again turned to one of the Big Four accountancy firms to boost its sizeable London tax practice…

Legal Business

Squire Sanders has settled a libel claim against the firm over the contents of a letter before action (LBA) after a…

David Stevenson

More recently the subject of headlines announcing partner departures, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) today announced the appointment of Karen Friebe, a…

Legal Business

The first half (H1) of the 2013/14 year is proving to be more benign than last as Field Fisher Waterhouse joins a…

Legal Business

With a long pedigree in working for the government, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) director general Gill Aitken…

Legal Business

Following proposals for the first major reform of the water and waste sectors since privatisation in the 90s, industry regulator Ofwat…

David Stevenson

Davis Polk & Wardwell’s aggressive approach to building and developing an English law practice has seen the top 30 global…

Legal Business

Olswang has joined the early ranks of top 50 firms to reveal their half year (H1) 2013/14 results, with turnover up 15%…

Legal Business

Beleaguered shoe retailer Barratts has gone into administration for the third time in four years, with administrator Duff & Phelps…

Legal Business

For a 6,000-plus-employee FTSE 100 energy company operating across 20 countries in five continents, BG Group’s panel of four law…

Legal Business

As the first of the top 100 firms reveal their 2013/14 half-year (H1) results the early story is positive, with Gateley and Trowers…

Mark McAteer

During the original dot-com boom, there was a brief period – oh so brief – when legal technologists and managing…