PwC forms new law firm in Canada one month after obtaining ABS status Legal Business In the first major development since PricewaterhouseCoopers last month received authorisation from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to become an alternative…
Energy run: Clifford Chance advises Shell on series of major M&A deals Legal Business Clifford Chance (CC) has secured a run of major mandates for Royal Dutch Shell including last week’s A$2.9bn ($2.6bn) agreement to sell…
BT selects Axiom for global legal outsourcing and analytics contract Legal Business Jobling steps aside as head of volume business BT Law An innovator long at the vanguard of transforming the traditional…
Axiom hires new UK MD from LexisNexis in senior leadership reshuffle and BT fills competition GC role Legal Business In the wake of its latest high profile outsourcing deal with BT, Axiom, arguably the most touted alternative legal services…
DLA Piper, Slaughters and Vodafone shine in 2014 Legal Business Awards Alex Novarese In what has proved the largest Legal Business Awards ever held, DLA Piper, Slaughter and May and Vodafone were last…
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…
RFU rejigs legal team as deputy head joins sports firm Legal Business Bujalski promoted to head of legal as Handford joins Couchmans The Rugby Football Union (RFU) has reconfigured its in-house legal…
In-house: Aon appoints Michael Wolf as global head of corporate as Prash Naik takes over as GC of Channel 4 Caroline Hill Insurance giant Aon has appointed Jenner & Block partner Michael Wolf as vice president and chief counsel, corporate, in a role…
Financial squeeze – Morgan Stanley declares a hit to net income due to $1.2bn in legal costs Legal Business Morgan Stanley is the latest major financial institution to declare that it has been hard hit by litigation and the…
Former Times head of legal Alastair Brett suspended for six months for misleading court Sarah Downey The former head of legal for The Times newspaper, Alastair Brett, has been suspended from practising for six months by…
In-house draw: Chris Bown third Freshfields partner to take a corporate wage as he resigns for CVC Legal Business Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner Chris Bown has become the third senior partner in two months to resign from the Magic Circle firm…
In-house: HMRC appoints DWP director Gill Aitken as new GC as Sir Hector Sants resigns from Barclays Legal Business With a long pedigree in working for the government, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) director general Gill Aitken…
Getting proprietorial – the client view as the battle to secure IP rages on Legal Business From smartphone patent wars to online piracy, companies have never been more focused on protecting their intellectual property. In this…
Deutsche Bank profits dive amid €1.2bn legal provision as pressure builds on finance leaders Legal Business If anyone still doubts the mounting legal burdens now falling on the world’s largest finance houses Deutsche Bank has this…
In-house: A&O, Ashurst and Eversheds on Morrisons first-ever legal panel Legal Business One of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, Morrisons, has revealed its first-ever legal panel, with Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst,…
Going buy-side: Reed Smith’s global managing partner takes over from Hoyt at PNC Legal Business It is still reasonably uncommon to see private practice partners step straight into a general counsel (GC) role but Reed Smith’s…
Moving slowly forwards – Eversheds seals another Tyco-style deal Francesca Fanshawe While single service retainers appear unlikely to become a broad fixture of the legal market, Eversheds continues to push on…
Two birds, one stone – A&O finance veterans joins Co-op team as GC as firm acts on rescue Jaishree Kalia Securing a major deal and having one of your partners take a senior role with the same client is a…
Comment: Things I would have said about the future of law if I hadn’t forgotten my notes Alex Novarese I was recently asked to speak on a panel debate for Georgetown Law at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s City office to…
PROFILE: Terry Miller, LOCOG Jaishree Kalia When the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)’s general counsel (GC) Terry Miller won Legal Business…
