Magic Circle

Marco Cillario

Linklaters has followed its City rivals in asking staff to work from home due to the quickening spread of COVID-19.  The firm today (17 March) moved to a…

Nathalie Tidman

Allen & Overy (A&O), Slaughter and May and Clifford Chance have asked City staff to work from home in a bid to mitigate…

Thomas Alan

The last decade emerged with the shockwaves of the banking crisis still making themselves felt on the profession. Having just…

Nathalie Tidman

Lawyers are a pessimistic bunch by nature and, with the big four Magic Circle firms posting another year of solid…

Alex Novarese

The news this week that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer was to push through the highest real-terms pay rises by a major…

Nathalie Tidman

Nathalie Tidman looks at the struggle for the City elite as US players dominate home and away ‘People like me,…

Nathalie Tidman

City heavyweights Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have taken the driving seat on the proposed initial public offering (IPO) of…

Marco Cillario

A heavyweight line-up of Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Dentons, Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters have mobilised as construction…

Georgiana Tudor

Slaughter and May has announced today (12 July) that it will retain 91% of its second-year trainees for newly qualified…

Alex Novarese

To recap as the UK tiptoes towards banana republic territory in the wake of last month’s inconclusive, prediction-defying general election:…

Legal Business

The UK’s Magic Circle (MC) – a variable, but severally-numbered group of firms which represent a charmed band favoured by…

Legal Business

Madeleine Farman reports on recent remuneration changes among the City elite With the growing threat of losing star partners to…

Kathryn McCann

Magic Circle firms have taken a ‘disappointing’ approach to the government-backed scheme, the Trailblazers Apprenticeship in Law initiative, with both…

Legal Business

Sheffield City Council is targeting the UK’s top 100 law firms in a bid to entice them to establish offices…

Legal Business

BAKERS’ 2014/15 FINANCIALS SEE FIRM SLIP BEHIND DLA Baker & McKenzie revealed it generated $2.43bn in the year to 30…

Legal Business

Conservatism and intransigence are qualities often bemoaned in the legal industry, in many cases beyond their manifestation. But there is…

Legal Business

Conservatism and intransigence are qualities often bemoaned in the legal industry, in many cases beyond their manifestation. But there is…

Tom Moore

Latham & Watkins‘ global strategy has paid off with its 2014 revenues surging by 14% to $2.61bn in 2014 and…

Legal Business

In a 2011 piece on the decimated real estate market in the City, we noted that few senior property partners…

Legal Business

As I reach my middle years I find much to admire and celebrate about the legal profession, and lawyers in…