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- Bakers lands latest corporate defection from Kirkland
- Gowling WLG appoints corporate partner UK chair as Witts steps down
- Police called after former KWM bigwig trashes Lib Dem campaign office in Golders Green – The Lawyer
- Hale takes subtle swipe at Sumption over suggestion it will take 50 years to achieve gender equality across judiciary
- Simmons makes City banking and pensions hires
- Monday morning round-up – Legal Cheek
- The only way is up
- Death by a thousand cuts? | Feature
- Shearman & Sterling lawyers to give the lowdown on US firms in London
- The speed read: Kirkland v Links (again); BAME issues at the magic circle; and Reed Smith’s ABS – The Lawyer
- Ashurst joins flexible lawyering as DWF completes BT Law acquisition
- 100 years of women in law: a timeline of sexism and equality | Feature
- DWF acquires BT Law for nominal “£1” fee
- ADR – the time has come | Feature
- Goodwin makes good on Taylor Wessing hires with Cambridge opening
- Linklaters’ top brass see earnings jump by 17% as profit pot hits £25 million
- Kirkland picks up lead role on Pizza Express and Mothercare restructurings
- Linklaters ExComm bag £25m amid surge in revenue from US and AsiaPac, LLP accounts reveal
- Video: Law students play ‘Never have I ever’
- Latham bags DLA partner in fifth lateral hire of 2019
- An argument for reforming the Court of Appeal | Feature
- US firms act on Google’s acquisition of Fitbit – The Lawyer
- ‘Reflecting the market right now, not several years back’ – The Legal 500
- ‘I’m a month into my law degree and struggling with homesickness’
- Kim Kardashian recreates Elle Woods’ iconic Harvard Law School admission video essay
- Risam draws on experience as Lombard invites tenders for debut panel
- Latham bets on London and New York in global promotions
- Cleary bypasses the City as Ropes again makes up one London partner
- Measuring return on investment in professional services | Feature
- Lord Keen QC cleared of professional misconduct after firearms conviction
- Norton Rose Fulbright brings £29m claim for Japanese bank
- Revolving doors: DLA wins back Proskauer real estate partner as Macfarlanes and Dentons make City hires
- Paths of least resistance | Feature
- The new oil | Feature
- India: a case study of our post-Brexit potential | Feature
- Legal Cheek student events in Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh and London
- Paul Hastings lands role on QuickQuid’s UK exit
- Freshfields secures trophy four-partner US deal team as debate over leadership continues
- ‘Is a training contract at a global law firm’s Middle East office a viable route to the London construction bar’
- Dentons continues lateral hiring spree with Stephenson Harwood swipe
- Legal Business’ take on pre-Brexit City law market
- Man tries to trick Durham Uni into awarding him female law grad’s degree – by pretending she’s had a sex change
- In-house interview: Camellia’s GC on the company’s global challenges – The Lawyer
- Shifting attitudes to the duty of good faith | Feature
- Twitter users adding ‘QC’ to their name could be committing a crime, junior barrister warns
- Beckwith prosecution sparks Freshfields clampdown
- Macfarlanes fills regulatory gap with new Eversheds recruit
- Back on the world stage | Feature
- When TRIBE goes to law | Feature
- Jones Day gears up to defend ENRC from Dechert partner’s spying claims
- Clyde & Co seeks paralegal with excellent attention to ‘detials’
- Ashurst becomes latest City firm to launch fintech accelerator programme
- Thousands flock to law tech showcase but echo chamber concerns
- Data page – October 2019
- Kirkland and Slaughters lead on £3.1bn Sophos take-private
- Freshfields gears up gears up for summer appeal in a £14bn Mastercard class action
- Adoption is accelerating: legal tech start-up investment more than doubles to £61m in 2018
- Big Four giant PwC boosts NQ solicitor salaries to £72,000
- Time to tear up the script?
- Revolving doors: Former Quinn white collar head sets up City boutique as Shearman and HFW make Paris corporate plays
- Final countdown? | Feature | Law Gazette
- Leaving the EU: what you need to do now | Feature
- Standing on the shoulders of giants | Feature
- White & Case’s City partner promotions drop to three in shift from NYLon focus amid 45-strong round
- White & Case promotions: Global numbers soar but firm holds back in London – The Lawyer
- Future trainee solicitors under investigation over ‘T*ts and Filth’ WhatsApp group about female classmates
- Stephenson Harwood apologises after trainees caught laughing at training contract applications on train
- Linklaters makes strides in eDiscovery with new document review benchmark
- Clients continue lag as another 12 law firms join Mindful Business Charter
- Gallery: Law Gazette Women in Law reception | Feature
- Extinction Rebellion lawyers descend on legal London
- “I’ve never seen him behave inappropriately around women”, character witnesses claim
- Eversheds hires Hong Kong litigation partner from Slaughters
- Training contract numbers hit highest level since 2008 financial crash
- In court this week: Clifford Chance, Hill Dickinson and Brick Court dealing with contempt, Deloitte and Romania – The Lawyer
- Dangerous territory | Feature | Law Gazette
- Muddying the waters | Feature
- “I didn’t take advantage of her:” Beckwith says complainant “stroked and tickled” him as first week of SDT hearing concludes – The Lawyer
- UK and Belgian bars sign agreement as concerns mount for no-deal Brexit
- London NQ lawyer pay at Davis Polk reaches £135,000
- 18-month suspension for solicitor who texted ‘I want to f*ck you’ to newly qualified colleague
- Kirkland smashes promotion round record with 141 new partners
- the main points of contention
- Has ‘far more assertive’ Supreme Court over-reached in Miller 2?
- Nothing unusual about hiring newly qualified barrister for Miller case legal team, says government
- what we learned about Freshfields’ initial investigation
- UnitedLex turnover hits $350m with UK expansion on the cards
- SDT decisions | Feature | Law Gazette
- No-deal is a bad deal for criminal justice | Feature
- Must solicitors be paragons of virtue? | Feature
- The road to net zero | Feature
- The speed read: Dentons’ boss vs Greenberg’s boss; Clydes shrinks in Scotland; and Lady Hale has her say
- Ex-Pinsent Masons partner appointed dean of Aston Law School
- Best of the blogs – Legal Cheek
- managing risk and Litigation – The Lawyer
- The LB100 Comment: UK legal elite shows resilience amid the ominous haze
- Professional indemnity insurance: have you notified all claims? | Feature
- Asia coup for Bakers as partnership chooses Hong Kong’s Cheng as new chair
- Children’s book starring Lady Hale to hit shelves next month
- Making history at the Supreme Court all started with a small Edinburgh law firm
- Victory for Mishcon and Blackstone heavyweight as Supreme Court rules Parliamentary suspension unlawful
- Inns of Court open applications for big money BPTC scholarships
- Asia Specific | Feature | Law Gazette
- Eyes on the prize | Feature
- Data protection law and employee monitoring | Feature
- Courtroom drama; sporting ties; and late London launches
- Barrister prosecuted for ‘upskirting’ on the Tube
- Comment: A no-deal outlook and the law – time for pragmatic pessimism
- the old law firm model is simply colonial
- Luminance creates new advisory board as lawyers line up to back start-ups
- Norton Rose Fulbright retains 20 out of 26 autumn qualifying trainees
- Alston finally delivers on promise to open in London after years of dithering
- ‘A real competitor’: Kingsley Napley strengthens employment practice with Archon Solicitors acquisition
- The ‘unspoken rules’ of the bar: don’t wear a brown suit and never turn your back on the judge
- The message from The Lawyer UK200 2019? The bigger you are, the better you perform
- Freelance solicitors: a threat to the direct access bar | Feature
- LB100 Overview: Apocalypse soon? – Legal Business
- Wars of the world
- City trio secure £600m funding for Battersea Power Station
- Another team walks at Clydes as eight partners depart in San Francisco
- Ex-Akin Gump partner to face disciplinary tribunal over ‘amended’ taxi receipts and expense claims
- Addleshaw Goddard bumps London NQ solicitor salaries by 7% to £75,000 as it ups training contract numbers
- Akin Gump “deeply troubled” after investigation into ex-partner’s expense claims
- Three in the race to be next Bakers chair as partners prepare to vote
- A&O partner given new hearing date over Weinstein NDA
- ‘Sex is fun, and I can get paid for it’, says criminal lawyer who side hustles as prostitute
- Clyde & Co shipping team sets sail to establish boutique firm
- All things equal
- Buckinghamshire sees off consultation challenge | Feature
- How no-deal will affect UK courts | Feature
- Forgotten activists for law reform | Feature
- Vannin Capital ends flotation plans after acquisition by private equity house
- Litigation funder falls into US hands after dropping IPO listing
- Obituary: Iain Wagstaff, one of Linklaters’ most revered corporate stars
- Stephenson Harwood retains 92% of autumn qualifying trainees
- Gina Miller loses High Court bid to stop Boris Johnson suspending parliament
- Pinsents replaces Osborne Clarke spot on Siemens UK panel
- How to go public | Feature
- Insight: Making crime – and civil law – pay | Feature
- Pupil barrister pay rises of up to 50% to come into force this week
- A&O loses long-term litigator to Baker McKenzie
- Revolving doors: US moves for Baker McKenzie and Linklaters as Morgan Lewis makes City play
- Penningtons Manches Cooper records modest growth in pre-merger year
- The speed read: in-house fluidity; US firm office moves; and a poison pen at Doughty Street
- Asylum seeker held not ‘effeminate’ enough to be gay had partner accepted as gay by same court
- Newcastle Uni teams up with social mobility charity to help aspiring lawyers from low-income families
- Covington begins search for new London HQ as lease end nears – The Lawyer
- Reed Smith poaches BPP Law School innovation chief
- SRA drops sexual harassment inquiry into former Reed Smith partner
- Burford executive is accused of trading documents for sex tape
- Bolton Uni looks to tackle lack of local legal support with new student-staffed pro bono clinic
- Paul Hastings and Slaughters react on nuclear sale
- Kirkland’s former London head James Learner to retire
- Kennedys looks to ensure next stage of growth with first managing partner
- Average solicitor earns almost £10,000 less than a train driver
- Gowling WLG is latest firm to grab Commonwealth Games advisory role
- ‘One of them actually delivered a speech’ | Feature
- Revolving doors: Expansive Goodwin makes another City tech play as Dechert and Quinn hire further afield
- £100k NQ pay is stoking tensions within magic circle law firms
- Reynen Court; Goodwin and Burford
- Solicitor who got CDEE A-Level grades reveals how it’s still possible to get into law if you mess up your exams
- Fieldfisher’s top of equity soars to over £4m
- Burford names new CFO and governance shake-up amid investor row
- In-house: Skyscanner lands former Deliveroo legal chief as GC and company secretary
- Skadden and Simpson Thacher advise on WeWork float
- Crowdfunding campaigner loses bid to take Boris Johnson private prosecution to Supreme Court
- Failing the test | Feature
- Scottish judge fast-tracks legal challenge to stop a forced no-deal Brexit
- Lawyer Photoshops himself into Singapore Mediation Convention pics
- CMS and DWF called in on administration of Titanic shipyard Harland & Wolff
- SFO’s approach to deferred prosecution agreements | Feature
- The speed read: Ince’s de-re-brand; Portuguese peril; and US giants crash the high street
- Love Island 2019: Limerick law grad winner reveals he still wants to qualify as a solicitor
- HFW brings on board Ince shipping team to launch Monaco office
- White & Case fields transatlantic corporate team on 3M defence deal
- ‘It won’t be long until you’re a kept woman’: Soon-to-be-married barrister goes public with male opponent’s sexist remark
- Comment: Global 100 reportcard – US leaders continue decade-long surge as City rivals dither
- HSF obtains Chinese law capability through new Shanghai alliance
- Obituary: Alistair Asher, A&O partner turned Co-op GC
- Former MP Fiona Onasanya struck off as solicitor
- In-house: former Worldpay GC becomes FTSE 100 company’s first legal head as BlackRock’s European GC departs
- SDT decisions
- Double jeopardy
- Enforcing arbitral awards against foreign states | Feature
- Shoosmiths enlisted on collapse of LateRooms.com
- The speed read: Bakers’ #MeToo mess; Hogan Lovells’ African woes; and a super-exam decision for the SRA
- Insurance business sale reduces Hill Dicks revenue 7% as shrinking partnership boosts profit
- Clifford Chance tops magic circle trainee pay table with fresh rises
- US firm Paul Hastings in email blunder that lets prospective trainees see who they’re up against
- Hogan Lovells losing bulk of South African practice as partner breaks away
- London lawyer who tried to pinch mobile phones at Dubai airport struck off
- Linklaters says ‘yes’ to 38 ideas to transform lawyers’ working lives
- HFW profits drop 9% as investment costs weigh in ‘tough’ market
- ‘Unless Britain can produce more Rose Heilbrons… | Feature
- US law firm gets in on the action on second forex rigging claim
- ‘Oh sh*t! It’s the SRA!’
- Decisions and SRA interventions
- What is a highway? | Feature
- Bringing mental illness into the open | Feature
- US firm in merger talks with Allen & Overy denies authorising bid to get evidence of its Trump support erased from Wikipedia
- Financials 2018/19: Mishcon PEP refuses to budge from £1m mark
- PEP stays flat for Mishcon as revenue growth regains momentum
- Buckland becomes Justice Secretary as Johnson administration unveils Brexit-dominated team
- Magic circle and US firms weigh in on Advent’s £4bn purchase of defence group
- Linklaters increases London GDL maintenance grant to £10,000
- Opening statement in police interviews is still an important strategy | Feature
- HFW ramps up litigation prospects with £25m funding deal and analytics partnership
- DWF beats 26 rival bidders to secure BT outsourcing deal
- Campaigning QC launches crowdfunder to keep parliament open to oppose no deal Brexit as Boris Johnson wins Tory leadership vote
- Spin-offs likely as Mishcon ‘considering all options’ for a capital raise
- Decisions and SRA interventions
- A disciplinary concept that still has value | Feature
- Direct pay offer was not ‘unlawful inducement’ | Feature
- Why married farmers should consider legal protection | Feature
- The speed read: Mishcon and Blackstone get the gang back together; and Clydes leadership questions
- Two Clydes lawyers suspended for alleged financial breaches
- I have training contract offers from magic circle firms in the Middle East and a US MoneyLaw outfit in London – which do I choose?
- Clydes suspends two lawyers over alleged accounts breaches
- Forget the glass ceiling… trans people face a ‘concrete’ one, says Manchester Met equality law prof
- Thomson Reuters makes ‘transformational’ HighQ acquisition
- Data page – July 2019
- Law student reported rapist to police after criminal and evidence lectures triggered memories of ordeal
- Addleshaws and Weil Gotshal lead on Abraaj funds sale
- HSF hires two partners from Paul Hastings in Milan energy drive
- Extinction Rebellion park boat named in memory of popular eco-barrister outside Royal Courts of Justice
- Weil Gotshal rejuvenates banking team with Ashurst hire
- Law Society spotlight: July’s Council meeting | Feature
- The speed read: A diversity quandary, sky-high numbers and Norton Rose Fulbright’s AI solution
- Change was necessary: Ashurst joins the war for talent with 9% NQ pay raise
- Ashurst joins City pay war with £105,000 NQ solicitor package
- Clifford Chance posts 87% autumn trainee retention score
- Not easy out there: A&O adds £75m to its top line amid muted PEP showing
- Pinsents Masons PEP stumbles after a year of global expansion
- Gateley IPO pioneer Ward to stand down as chief executive
- Criminal defence solicitor expecting child with Celebrity Big Brother reality star
- Presentation skills: beware the pitfalls of spontaneity – The Lawyer
- Revolving doors: Ashurst bolsters project finance as Eversheds expands in the Netherlands
- Decisions
- Magic touch | Profile | Law Gazette
- Party consent and early neutral evaluation | Feature
- Free speech victory or charter for higher costs? | Feature
- WFW financials pick up after sluggish results last year
- In-house: Severn Trent open to extending panel beyond Eversheds’ sole-adviser role
- Nearly a third of magic circle trainees went to Oxbridge
- Stephenson Harwood ups junior lawyer pay to £75,000
- Simmons eyes £20m revenue stream from blockchain
- Prohibitively expensive: Pinsent lands £25m litigation funding deal
- Equity partner profits at Freshfields hit £1.8 million
- BBC in-housers match Kirkland’s junior lawyers for salary
- HSF hikes associate pay package to £105k as firms jostle for talent
- Macfarlanes ups NQ solicitor salaries to £85,000 with bonuses taking potential earnings to over £110,000
- In-house conference: inside stories | Feature
- Dashing for cover | Feature
- Governance under the spotlight | Feature
- The speed read: CC wins awards; Taylor Wessing loses partners; and Eversheds draws up New Law plans
- Leeds Beckett law graduate set to enter Love Island villa
- City M&A heavyweights take the lead on Legoland’s £4.8bn Merlin deal
- Bakers makes up seven in London in bumper promotion round
- Ex-UEA criminal law lecturer jailed for child sex attacks
- Schillings’s ex-operations head rebuked for selling firm phones
- Eating our lunch: Eversheds unshackles New Law offering and sets £100m revenue target
- Former Ashurst managing partner Collis quits for Squires
- Allen & Overy ups NQ solicitor package to £100,000 as City pay war intensifies
- Mayhew secures four-year term at BCLP with Pritchard ineligible
- BCLP gains new co-chair as Mayhew stays put
- Decisions and SRA interventions
- Local heroes | Feature | Law Gazette
- Did council owe claimants a duty of care? | Feature
- Greenham Common plan to ‘crowd the prisons’ | Feature
- Reed Smith PE partner to exit firm after two years
- RPC posts low 42% autumn retention rate
- Trainee solicitor calls on government to give people time off work to make life-saving stem cell donations
- Magic circle sets in action on Court of Appeal Saudi dispute
- Slaughters to match £100k associate salary as talent war intensifies
- Fieldfisher reducing UK reliance following third year of double-digit growth
- British MPs, drugs and the US | Feature
- Incinerate and litigate
- SDT refuses to drop case against Freshfields partner accused of sexual misconduct
- Stephenson Harwood partner profits revive as it hits £200m revenue target early – The Lawyer
- Taylor Wessing beset by Goodwin’s City expansion as four more defect
- First glimpse of Ralph Fiennes as human rights superstar Ben Emmerson in trailer for new legal thriller
- How to: use gender-neutral language | Feature
- O’Melveny duo reunited with Akin funds team
- Magic circle and US law firms ‘must change the way they work’ or face ‘doom’, warns the FT
- The speed read: dark horse Penningtons; change at Clydes; and Ashurst learns a lesson
- A Big Four breakthrough will need far better GC offensive
- Judge Rinder to give his take on worldly affairs in new TV series
- Dentons continues Africa push with Zimbabwean tie-up
- HSF partner reported to SRA for threatening sexual harassment claimant
- Eversheds records double-digit growth as ‘uncertainty barometer’ rises
- White & Case boosts London trainee solicitor pay by 6%
- Clydes senior partner Konsta to step down as firm grows revenue 11%
- DWF expands in Europe after striking deal with Spanish firm
- Picking up the pieces | Feature
- Time to get your risk assessments in order | Feature
- ‘Employing’ freelance lawyers | Feature
- Law Society spotlight: May‘s Council meeting | Feature
- Criminal barristers vote for national walkout
- The speed read: mid-tier frogs and princes; trainees misbehaving; and HSF bids bye-bye Berlin
- Freshfields hire to leave DWF managed services role after less than a year
- A solicitor at work has sent me an Instagram follow request
- SRA bars ex-Ropes & Gray trainee for “lack of integrity”
- Government ushers in emergency pay boost for judges amid shortages
- ‘Uncritical reliance’ on AI in criminal justice could lead to ‘wrong decisions’, says Law Society
- HSF bids farewell to Berlin after strategy review
- NRF loses ten-lawyer London insurance litigation team to Kennedys as BCLP hires energy partners from Watson Farley
- Anglia Ruskin business grad who studied GDL and LPC to pursue ‘Mickey Mouse’ degree claim receives £61,000 payout
- SDT Decisions
- Taking on trust | Feature
- Making more of the digital badge | Feature
- The speed read: US firms bulk up; magic circle passed over; and disruptive GCs move on – The Lawyer
- Taylor Wessing breaks £150m UK revenue barrier as PEP rises 13%
- Taylor Wessing financial results show continued growth under Gleghorn
- Profession prepares for big changes in training of lawyers
- Parental alienation in criminal cases | Feature
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