Q&A: RPC’s new managing partner talks strategy, international expansion and tech Legal Business With long-term managing partner Jonathan Watmough stepping down in December last year, insurance head James Miller has taken over the…
All fall down? – The 2017 Risk Survey Legal Business The collapse of KWM, cyber threats and Brexit have all come together to cause unease among City law firms. Our…
To the bank: Linklaters’ Elliott takes chair role at Permanent TSB Legal Business After 27 years at the Magic Circle firm, former senior partner Robert Elliott has been appointed chairman at Irish bank…
Trainee retention: HSF and Hogan Lovells post rates as Macfarlanes joins top of the class at 100% Legal Business Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has posted a spring trainee retention rate of 77%, compared to a rate of 94% this…
‘We can compete’: A&O breaks lockstep again for new Manhattan finance team Madeleine Farman Allen & Overy (A&O) has broken lockstep again for a New York finance team hired last week, about six months…
More leadership in London: Latham elects Trobman as vice-chair Legal Business Latham & Watkins announced today (27 February) that capital markets partner Richard Trobman has won a contested election to become…
Regional leader Burges Salmon appoints new senior partner as Barr steps down after six years Kathryn McCann Burges Salmon has appointed employment partner Chris Seaton as senior partner, taking over the role from Alan Barr, who has…
Trainee retention: BLP keeps on 55% as Clifford Chance’s rate also slips Georgiana Tudor Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has revealed the weakest trainee retention rates for spring so far, with the firm holding on…
WFW fills chair gap with finance partner as Dunne continues New York push Legal Business Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has elected shipping finance partner Nigel Thomas as the firm’s new chairman, taking over from…
Addleshaws plans to disband third partnership tier as Scottish merger beds down Kathryn McCann Management at Addleshaw Goddard is planning to ultimately phase out its third partnership class, which has been created to accommodate…
Camerons to raise top of equity to keep Nabarro heavyweights Matthew Field CMS Cameron McKenna is to stretch its top of equity to accommodate the highest-earning Nabarro partners, as the firms prepare…
Taking over – one leader at HSF but is the culture clash over? Alex Novarese Five years since the turbulent union of Herbert Smith and Freehills, the global challenger has chosen Mark Rigotti as its…
HSF – At least one Down Under revolution worked Alex Novarese As Barclays sifts through the wreckage of King & Wood Mallesons’ European practice and claims of fresh departures swirl around…
As KWM cracks, beware re-written history and schadenfreude Alex Novarese Happy New Year, profession. Barely have we gotten into 2017 and the inevitable has happened: the legacy SJ Berwin business…
One man band: Can Ropes & Gray maintain the momentum without Allen? Madeleine Farman Madeleine Farman and Victoria Young ask the firm’s leaders about growth in the City. Ropes & Gray’s rapid growth in…
Eversheds Sutherland unveils leadership team as combination goes live Kathryn McCann Eversheds Sutherland has unveiled its joint leadership team as the combination between Eversheds and Sutherland Asbill & Brennan goes live…
‘Tremendous energy and leadership’: Hale re-elected Travers senior partner Tom Baker Travers Smith senior partner Chris Hale has been re-elected for a second term to run from 1 July this year.…
RPC elects insurance head Miller as new managing partner to succeed Watmough Matthew Field RPC has appointed insurance head James Miller as the firm’s new managing partner, effective immediately.
‘A period of significant change’: Law Society appoints former housing body boss as interim chief executive Matthew Field The Law Society has appointed non-lawyer Paul Tennant as its interim chief executive following the resignation of Catherine Dixon at…
‘The only resort’: KWM administrators’ interim report says partner exits hastened demise of legacy SJ Berwin Legal Business Joint King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) EUME administrators Andrew Hosking and Sean Bucknall of Quantuma have said partner exits accelerated…
