Law firms

Tom Baker

Pinsent Masons and Addleshaw Goddard have made significant office openings in Europe, while a host of other firms have expanded…

Nathalie Tidman

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has sought to draw a line under an uncomfortable chapter for the firm with a €10m payment…

Tom Baker

Legal Business’ recent analysis of Ireland’s legal market warned against underestimating the resilience of the Irish, so Mason Hayes & Curran’s less-than-catastrophic 6% dip in…

Tom Baker

Maintaining the international flavour of recent lateral hiring activity, Clifford Chance, Kirkland & Ellis, RPC and Reed Smith have all…

Guest Blog

Traditional leadership models suggest people hanker for a hero in time of crisis. That’s an unfamiliar and uncomfortable role for…

Nathalie Tidman

It is often said that the legal industry excels in extreme market conditions and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s 2020…

Tom Baker

In what has been a fast-paced start to 2021, a host of firms including Hogan Lovells, Shearman & Sterling, Clyde…

Nathalie Tidman

The whimpering conclusion to the three-year saga that dragged City law into the middle of #MeToo could hardly have been more frustrating for everyone concerned. The Solicitors…

Tom Baker

Listed firm Knights may have posted a robust 45% rise in 2021 half-year revenues from £31.9m to £46.2m, but acknowledged that without…

Tom Baker

In an expansive start to the new year, UK firms Kennedys , TLT  and Clyde & Co have established new frontiers at home…

Nathalie Tidman

Innovative, Covid-driven transactions have continued to emerge in recent months, with the first working week of 2021 proving no exception.…

Nathalie Tidman

Change is afoot at City leader Macfarlanes as Luke Powell has been lined up to succeed Julian Howard as managing…

Tom Baker

Firms have doubled down on their recruitment efforts in the new year as the likes of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner…

Guest Blog

In March last year – as the Covid-19 crisis gathered pace – I wrote in Legal Business that if you’re a…

Tom Baker

Showing no sign of pandemic-induced slowdown, US-bred dispute resolution specialist Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has hiked London revenues by…

Mark McAteer

The new year has kicked off with a number of large Global 100 firms revealing their latest partner promotion rounds…

Nathalie Tidman

The City hiring push scarcely abated during the holiday season, with a host of laterals announced just before and just…

Thomas Alan

In Legal Business’ last Global 100 issue, we reported on a ‘relatively benign’ 2018/19 for the world’s top 100 law…

Nathalie Tidman

‘The whole place didn’t collapse, did it?’ So quips Simon Levine, almost six years since he took on the leviathan…

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