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- Comment: After their lost decade, the current crisis should see the Magic Circle back on world-beating form
- Legal Cheek Podcast: How aspiring lawyers can make the most of lockdown
- Gateley boosts borrowing capabilities by £20m
- Data page – June 2020
- A&O drafted in for Manchester United in IP dispute
- Osborne Clarke to reduce trainee solicitor pay by 7%
- Protecting your firm from partner departures | Feature
- ‘My online vac scheme is shorter – can I still ask the firm to pay me in full?’
- Slaughter and May cuts NQ salaries | The Lawyer
- Pressures of a pandemic | Feature
- ‘Stay home, save jobs’ – How the legal elite are charting a course through half-lockdown summer
- Post-lockdown business checklist for law firms | Feature
- Law firm embraces ‘legal glamping’ in response to pandemic
- Comment: Welcome back to the office? Re-thinking law’s real estate for the post-corona age
- Deloitte Legal lures Luminance CEO in bid for NewLaw talent
- Salford Uni law student killed in ‘senseless’ drive-by shooting
- Moving mental health to the top of the legal agenda | Feature
- Latham adds restructuring partner from Mayer Brown
- Judgments of note: Enka, Sky and the Barclay Brothers
- Orrick pushes back training contract assessments ‘until early 2021’
- Returning to work: Health and safety concerns | Feature
- Linklaters’ lawyer scoops £32,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
- McDermott continues expansion streak with double hire from Willkie
- Coronavirus Q&A: Inheritance tax relief for emergency workers | Feature
- Comment: Law firm leaders already know a lot about the post-Corona world but dare they take advantage?
- Aspiring lawyer successfully sues twin sister for £96,000 after she crashed car while sneezing
- Shell ditches global panel for 65-strong adviser army
- Coronavirus Q&A: Employment law | Feature
- Comment: Denial and a brutal end – Why cutting partners is still taboo
- Running for cover | Feature
- Mayer Brown cuts salaries for non-equity partners and staff
- Shoosmiths partner fined by SRA after drink driving charge
- Legal workers Zoom meeting interrupted by naked colleague
- Aspiring barrister left devastated after receiving pupillage offer in ‘error’
- Bar Council clarifies position on whether law centres are proper lawyers
- Comment: Gauging the profession’s Covid-19 response – Turns out five years of spouting values wasn’t just puff
- Clifford Chance extends associate career break initiative to US
- Coronavirus Q&A: Courts and access to justice | Feature
- Personal protective equipment and the law | Feature
- Legal Twitter reacts after ‘white van man’ questions Keir Starmer’s ‘working class’ roots
- HSF refreshes executive board after CEO election
- Crash test | Feature | Law Gazette
- Bakers’ management failed to report Senior investigation, SDT hears
- Surrey man ordered to hand over ‘sidleylawyers’ domain name to Sidley Austin
- Crisis management briefings
- Sponsored crisis management focus: A View From Cyprus – Carrying on in the face of the Covid-19 crisis in Cyprus
- Bar bigwigs take temporary pay cuts in wake of COVID-19
- Bar Council and BSB make paycuts and furlough staff
- Coronavirus Q&A: Changes to housing eviction notices | Feature
- 23 legal TikToks to make your day
- Law firm Brabners cuts employee salaries by 20 per cent
- Fixed penalty notice for breach of lockdown: notifying the SRA | Feature
- The slaughter of innocence – A&O’s former chief on the stark staffing choices facing crisis-hit law firms
- Shutting up shop | Feature
- Past in the present | Feature
- Boies Schiller loses 13 Californian partners in mass defection to King & Spalding
- Lady Hale uses lockdown to write her memoirs
- Coronavirus Q&A: Family law | Feature
- SRA: Trainees can qualify before completing Professional Skills Course
- CMS delays salary reviews but holds off furloughing
- The challenge for SME law firms in the Covid-19 era | Feature
- Solicitor struck off after losing work briefcase launches appeal crowdfunder
- Matrix and Doughty on call as Brook House immigration inquiry formally launches
- SRA’s go-to law firm won’t be punished over handling of missing briefcase incident
- Disputes Yearbook – online pdf
- Whiplash portal: views from the claimant and defendant | Feature
- Climate Emergency: Law firms and the polluters they act for | The Lawyer
- Inns of Court appeal for donations as barristers face “severe financial difficulties”
- Simmons & Simmons apologises after employee’s dancing daughter takes over its Instagram account
- Local democracy survives Covid-19 | Feature
- Covid crystal ball – A&O’s former chief sets out the post-lockdown dynamic awaiting the legal elite
- Covid-19: Entitlement of defendants awaiting trial to apply for bail | Feature
- Female solicitors three times more likely to face workplace discrimination
- Now’s the time to call up those pharma clients
- Sponsored briefing: Effects of Covid-19 pandemic on private sector employment and applicable methods
- Sponsored briefing: COVID-19 and its effects – Frequently asked question in context of labour law
- Comment: Allen & Overy’s election delivered an all-star line-up but have the big issues been resolved?
- Sponsored briefing: Practical Information for Businesses in the Face of COVID-19
- Sponsored briefing: Advisory Announcement of the Ministry of Trade on the Dividend Distribution of Companies during COVID-19 Outbreak
- COVID-19: City law furloughs and pay freezes continue
- A case of déjà vu for Macfarlanes’ leadership
- Gowling WLG ushers in flexible “menu” of working arrangements
- Addleshaws is latest firm to defer profit distribution
- Paralegal loses job after saying Boris Johnson ‘completely deserves’ COVID-19
- City law firms introduce belt-tightening measures in wake of COVID-19
- Comment: Latham vs Kirkland means everyone else loses – They own the global elite now
- Sponsored briefing: Actions Taken by the Ministry of Health and the Turkish Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Institution in relation to COVID-19
- Veteran family law barrister suspended for twice breaking family court injunction
- Sponsored briefing: The Effects of Coronavirus (Covid-19) on Turkish Litigation Practice
- Morrisons’ data breach win | Feature
- Sunak’s loan scheme offers a lifeline to law firms | The Lawyer
- Legal realities of an ‘extension’ to the football season | Feature
- Access your print copy online – LB297
- Public law for regulators in the time of coronavirus | Feature
- Newly qualified solicitor struck off over lost work briefcase
- Law Society spotlight: The Law Society Charity | Feature
- Northern powerhouse | Feature | Law Gazette
- Keir Starmer: 25 years of coverage in The Lawyer
- London’s Ely Place Chambers to close after 20 years
- Law Against Loneliness: 3 April | The Lawyer
- NRF asks staff to cut working hours by a fifth and defers partner pay in re-introduction of financial crisis-era flexi scheme
- Former Attorney General records children’s bedtime story while in lockdown
- Why did government not use the Civil Contingencies Act? | Feature
- There are now just two US super-heavyweights in London | The Lawyer
- How to handle contractual disputes in COVID-19 era
- Pioneering City arbitration set secures DC launch with latest member
- Availability of two-plus-two marriage ceremonies | Feature
- Private school kids continue to dominate corporate law
- A timely change of tack at Greenberg Traurig | The Lawyer
- A&O defies coronavirus turbulence to lure back New York litigation partner
- An uphill battle
- When the levy breaks | Feature
- And the winners of the (virtual) Legal Cheek Awards 2020 are…
- Keystone Law delays dividend amid Covid-19 crisis
- Over half of courts to close in battle against coronavirus
- The domino effect – restructuring counsel brace for deluge as Covid-19 means no more business as usual
- Legal pressure leads to Wetherspoon U-turn over wages
- Knights staff face cuts and Ince cancels dividend in wake of Covid-19
- Force majeure in 2020 | Feature
- Taylor Wessing extends meditation app to future trainees as it ramps up wellbeing support for home-working lawyers
- COVID-19: Managing health and risk whilst in police custody – an update | Feature
- Slaughter and May restructuring veteran to exit firm
- Coronavirus fallout sees Gateley cancel dividend and suspend guidance
- Vac scheme latest: White & Case, Latham, Mayer Brown and Sidley suspend spring programmes
- The road ahead for detailed assessment | Feature
- Virtual student event: What does COVID-19 mean for future lawyers?
- Johnny Depp’s libel action against The Sun suspended due to coronavirus
- The speed read: Virus diaries; Kirkland’s ridiculous financials; and Freshfields’ cum-ex problems won’t go away | The Lawyer
- For the profession, as the world, the coronavirus is a moment of truth
- ‘No crown jewels’ but firms rally with coronavirus advice to steer clients
- Data page – March 2020
- Chambers invites pupillage applicants to interview by mistake
- Cash focus is needed to navigate coronavirus pandemic | Feature
- Kirkland & Ellis reaches $4bn turnover barrier
- Latham and Hogan Lovells move to remote working globally
- Criminal barristers ask for early billing to ease potential cashflow crises
- Taylor Wessing faces second case in Frankfurt
- Magic Circle trio ask City staff to work from home as coronavirus crisis deepens
- Challenging conversations with clients | Feature
- Are meaning hearings the new norm? | Feature
- The speed read: innovation for trainees; Addleshaws’ London revamp; and coronavirus | The Lawyer
- Shearman & Sterling becomes first firm to postpone spring vacation scheme in wake of coronavirus pandemic
- Coronavirus: Linklaters postpones insight scheme as Taylor Wessing closes London office after employee tests positive
- Coronavirus impact worsens as Reed Smith sends staff home
- The asset classes powering the sector in 2020
- ‘All about the future’: Paul Hastings reaps investment rewards with double-digit London growth
- Barrister who beat woman – then failed to surrender to custody – suspended for four months
- How will the coronavirus impact family law? | Feature
- Dentons’ real estate team: bigger than Mishcon
- Weil’s City revenue suffers exchange woes as PEP breaks $4m
- Two-thirds of legal professionals struggle to make ends meet
- What the SQE means for law firms | Feature
- SDT: Decisions and interventions
- The Lawyer Eats: Worton Organic | The Lawyer
- The speed read: Freshfields in NY; and do we need Moore Barlow? | The Lawyer
- Latham appoints banking veteran Kensell
- Revealed: The best law firms for tech 2020
- Doughty Street veteran donates a cool £100k to former chamber mate Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign
- Global Real Estate 50: Clients won’t pay for firms to get “tech savvy” | The Lawyer
- Freshfields adds more NY firepower
- 2 + 2 = £127, if you’re lucky
- CMS launches app to track lawyers’ carbon footprints
- More tech does not mean fewer jobs
- Coronavirus fallout continues as Latham suspends NY partner conference
- Seeing ‘Person A’ | Feature
- Following the footsteps of the first | Feature
- Criminal law: a roundup | Feature
- Kirkland lift first Cinven mandate since Maguire hire
- Extinction Rebellion: what went down at the protest outside Slaughter and May
- The speed read: climate change and coronavirus take centre stage – but don’t ignore Kennedys’ New Law play | The Lawyer
- ‘Should I renege on my accepted TC offer to take one at a better firm?’
- Firms poised to pull out of Mipim as jitters over Coronavirus escalate
- Steady global growth for Reed Smith outpaces a subdued year in the City
- 15-year-old with no legal knowledge scores 48% on SQE practice paper, claims Kent Law School deputy head
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner leaves for Latham
- Ashurst enters US West Coast with four-lawyer Santa Monica projects play
- Meet Manchester City’s new star defender: Lord Pannick QC
- Financial Remedies Courts | Feature
- A clause for concern in the workplace | Feature
- Thriving, not just surviving | Feature
- Student commercial awareness events in Bristol and Manchester next week – with Burges Salmon, Freshfields, Fletchers, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, RPC and ULaw
- Article 50 silk to challenge UEFA ban
- The speed read: Greenberg beefs up; and a law school mystery | The Lawyer
- A year of two halves for White & Case as City revenue drops after tricky start to 2019
- Simpson Thacher makes rare lateral play with hire of Linklaters tax head
- Bringing your ‘whole self’ to work | Feature
- US lawyer made to write out lines by judge for ‘reprehensible’ behaviour during trial
- Data page – February 2020
- Mishcon loses disputes duo to Greenberg
- Comment: Remembering Mr Disruption – How Clayton Christensen became the legal industry’s North Star
- Wannabe Keir Starmers can live in his old student house in Leeds with two other law students
- Freshfields client defends choice to instruct firm amid cum-ex scandal
- Comment: The 2010s marked an unsung crisis in law firm leadership
- Taking the controls | Feature
- Ruling elite | Feature | Law Gazette
- The speed read: US firms check City piggy banks; GCs are ready for your pitches; and Links gears up for Silk Street exit | The Lawyer
- Akin Gump falls short of last year’s City revenue surge amid global growth
- 70% of lawyers worry about letting their bosses down
- Ropes & Gray bumps London NQ pay to £130,000 as it confirms spring retention score
- Novartis to withhold 15% of fees if new panel firms miss D&I
- Cooley posts single-digit growth in London ahead of office move | The Lawyer
- The Supreme Court is on the hunt for judicial assistants
- CMS mourns passing of energy veteran Robert Lane
- A&O becomes latest City firm to usher in parental leave reforms
- Nearly a third of trainee solicitors paid below Law Society recommended minimum
- Brexit and GDPR | Feature
- SDT decisions
- How to rescue criminal defence | Feature
- Expansive Monzo adds five firms to regulatory roster
- Clydes expands Down Under with partner trio from Norton Rose Fulbright
- City biz support jobs axed again as Taylor Wessing makes 28 redundant
- ‘Solicitor apprenticeship or traditional training contract?’
- ‘Get on with it – uncertainty costs’, SQE co-creator tells regulators at LegalEdCon North
- “To do more with less” isn’t sustainable
- DWF leads as Eversheds loses sole adviser role on Severn Trent panel
- SDT justifies sanctions in Freshfields’ Beckwith misconduct case
- Top law lecturers express urgent concerns over SQE as they call on regulator to delay roll-out
- Dentons strikes again at Irish firm for Dublin office growth | The Lawyer
- Law Society’s historic HQ suffers damage after major fire
- Legal needs: Seeking professional help | Feature
- Forum shopping | Feature | Law Gazette
- Planning consent and community benefits | Feature
- How wary lawyers are embracing new tech | Feature
- Freshfields lags Magic Circle as management pay drops 20%
- Fox baseball bat QC breaks silence
- The speed read: US firms’ tech rampage; DWF splashes the cash; and Reed Smith’s bonus bonanza | The Lawyer
- Bar diversity latest: white, male and privately educated
- What Fiona did next | Feature
- MoFo kicks off US reporting season with 25 per cent City uplift
- DLA cracks £1bn revenue after pumping ‘tens of millions’ into offices and IT
- Questionable justification for the killing of General Soleimani | Feature
- Allen & Overy ramps up graduate recruitment in Belfast hub
- Buy Litigation Tracker Quarterly reports | The Lawyer
- Lawyers rank top for satisfaction but access to justice gaps persist
- Junior barrister offers her top 15 tips to pupillage interview success
- Interview tips: Landing that job in the law | Feature
- Tech headcount up by a third, data reveals
- Warne gets second term as CMS UK senior partner
- Second win for Warne as CMS wraps leadership elections
- Over half of disabled lawyers have experienced ‘ill-treatment’ at work, research finds
- Squires enters Italy as NRF shuts Bahrain outpost
- High Court slams top family judge for not knowing what consent is
- National firms and the conundrum of the North – The Lawyer
- DAC Beachcroft doubles up in Madrid with 20-lawyer hire
- Formal warning for judge who used ‘inappropriate language’ at event
- Transferwise ends lengthy GC search with senior Monzo hire
- Revolving doors: City laterals abound as RPC hires DWF restructuring head and Linklaters recruits White & Case banking partner
- Hedging bets | Feature | Law Gazette
- Decisions and interventions
- When to disapply subordinate legislation | Feature
- Apply to attend: Legal Cheek student commercial awareness events coming in London, Liverpool, Leeds, Reading, Bristol and Birmingham
- Science Museum brings in new general counsel
- Mishcon turns off the lights in New York as partners defect to KWM
- The Hague Rules on business and human rights arbitration | Feature
- How the SQE shifts power from law firms to students
- Data page – January 2020
- Clydes expands South American presence with first Chilean venture
- Reed Smith hires partners from five firms for Brussels
- Law, accountancy and teaching among most challenging professions to break into without a degree
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher promotes London duo in 2020 round
- Let students lawyer-up for all university complaint hearings, urges barrister
- Crowell & Moring hires seventh Squire partner as Linklaters loses team head
- How to: Tackle succession planning | Feature
- Insight: How can delegation be used by law firms to maximise efficiency? | Feature
- Alan Blacker slapped with nine-month suspended jail sentence for benefit fraud
- The Lawyer teams up with FRU for 2020 charity partnership – The Lawyer
- Essex Court secures double hire from Matrix Chambers
- Slaughters ups the ante on associate pay with PQE salary boost
- UK judges snub march protesting Polish rule of law crisis — but offer statement of support
- By royal appointment: the monarchy’s go-to lawyers – The Lawyer
- Dentons enters Ireland, Cooley steps into Singapore
- Mayer Brown posts 80% spring 2020 trainee retention score
- Eight London lawyers get the nod in Norton Rose Fulbright promotions
- NRF London partner promotions flat in North America-focused round
- Law Society art exhibition turns 60 | Feature
- Dry January: Put down the pint and pick up the paintball gun, junior lawyers told
- Junior Lawyers Division goes booze-free as it seeks to address law’s alcohol problem – The Lawyer
- Essex Court reveals new joint heads of chambers
- Continental growth ‘high on the agenda’: BCLP bolsters Paris outpost
- Barristers risk trashing profession’s reputation by being ‘clever dicks’ on social media, warns top blogger
- Legal Cheek’s alternative predictions for the 2020s
- Jones Day partner leaves firm amid Ocado controversy
- Pension costs hurt CC profit as A&O leadership sees pay increases
- Revealed: The law firms with the best perks 2019-20
- Wanted: ‘Nanny’ to cook and clean for first year University of Leeds law student
- Kimono-clad QC clubs fox to death with baseball bat
- The big fat Legal Cheek quiz of the year 2019
- Today marks 100 years since women could become lawyers
- HSF, Slaughters and Travers clients set to pay up in trucks dispute
- Law firms recruiting exclusively from vac schemes – worrying trend or sensible step?
- Jonas Hankin QC prosecutes as murderer is handed life sentence – The Lawyer
- No5 counsel involved in trial as four men sentenced over historic child sex abuse – The Lawyer
- ULaw joins forces with Chester Uni to launch MA Law course
- ‘Eat a bowl of d*cks’: Judge demands resignation of lawyer who sent over 100 sweary emails to opposing legal team
- Blackstone Chambers sets aside £6m for mammoth refurbishment
- Career Clinic: I want to be a GC. How do I gain strategic experience? – The Lawyer
- Paul Hastings and Norton Rose act on latest Vodafone telecoms deal
- Loving legal life: Give gratitude for Christmas
- Here’s what you read in 2019 and what it means for 2020
- The indomitable: 100 years of women magistrates | Feature
- Data page – December 2019
- City giants forced to offer flexible partnership
- Former partner questioned over decision to keep GC in the dark
- ‘A symbol of swashbuckling womanhood’: top lawyers pay tribute to retiring Lady Hale
- Changing insolvency legislation for the better | Feature
- Sponsored briefing: Q&A – Serdar Paksoy
- Resolving corporate wrongdoing by negotiated settlement | Feature
- Revolving doors: Ashurst appoints planning co-head
- Bakers Senior was told to donate to a women’s charity after misconduct probe
- BPP University tight-lipped on rumours it’s no longer for sale
- Comment: #MeToo is law’s Libor-rigging moment – Unheralded comes regulation of City law
- Diversity in lawtech: mentoring matters | Feature
- MJ Hudson raises £31m as the latest law firm float as Gateley continues acquisition drive
- Weil and Mayer Brown scoop leads on Nestlé’s ice cream sale
- The speed read: Elections at A&O, German lawyers get flexible, and intriguing movement at Mishcon – The Lawyer
- Freshfields partner exits following internal conduct probe
- Freshfields investigations partner leaves firm after investigation
- Hogan Lovells board backs City-based litigation chief as deputy CEO
- Dejonghe to stand again as six A&O leadership hopefuls revealed
- Six candidates in the running in A&O’s leadership contest – The Lawyer
- HSF names Asia managing partner D’Agostino as CEO
- Burges Salmon lawyers embrace election fever with office fancy dress
- DWF eyes US after Spanish acquisition
- After the election: all change for UK sanctions litigation? | Feature
- Love Island winner Greg O’Shea rumoured to be dating Strathclyde Uni law grad
- SDT adjourns Bakers hearing after turbulent first week
- Law Society spotlight: December’s Council meeting | Feature
- Business and human rights | Feature
- Miguel who? New Hogan Lovells chief is going to be a hard sell in Europe
- Exe marks the spot | Feature
- Finance lawyers dominate in FTSE350 in-house teams – The Lawyer
- The speed read: Clifford Chance’s canny graduate strategy; bye-bye Ballheimer; and 2020 predictions – The Lawyer
- London Bridge law firm tells lawyers not to worry about lost billing after fleeing terror attack
- Clifford Chance launches business internship for future trainees
- Freshfields fuels New York M&A growth with four more Cleary lawyers
- ‘Dynamic and excellent’: A&O chooses Johannesburg for second cost-saving hub as Steptoe launches in Hong Kong with CC pair
- Bakergate day 3: Senior admits ‘inappropriate’ behaviour but denies ‘banishing’ accuser – The Lawyer
- Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Eversheds Sutherland top Ireland’s ‘Brexit transfer list’
- The City and St Louis share the spoils of 17-strong BCLP promotion round
- A&O set for leadership election as Ballheimer quits
- The Secret Barrister accuses Boris Johnson of copying blog about sentencing of London Bridge attacker
- Putting the house in order | Feature
- Global targets | Feature | Law Gazette
- Restrictions to maintain free and fair elections | Feature
- The speed read: an Aussie invasion; all-equitisation; and Cadwalader’s white-collar Christmas – The Lawyer
- Are other legal practice areas ‘less prestigious’ than commercial law?
- Legal sector’s ‘perfect storm’ moment could blow in new way of training lawyers
- Weil completes withdrawal from CEE as Warsaw office breaks away
- H1 revenue at Ince up by 125% following expansive year
- Latham lures latest Clifford Chance partner to London office
- Foreign giants combine to enter UK training market as shake-up looms
- HogLov Asia chief clears penultimate hurdle in bid to succeed Immelt
- 10 lesser-known election laws you need to know about
- ‘A complete waste’: Tories revisit judicial review and Human Rights Act in latest manifesto pledges
- Five questions to ask yourself before going freelance | Feature
- SDT: Decisions and interventions
- Pivot to follow the money | Feature
- Off home turf | Feature
- Commercial awareness events this week in Leeds, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Birmingham and London
- The speed read: politics at CMS and Bakers, DLA defections and a barrister bust-up – The Lawyer
- Cleary loses capital markets partner to Hogan Lovells – The Lawyer
- This Question Time audience member thinks all solicitors earn over £80,000 a year
- Data page – November 2019
- Restructuring departures from DLA Piper continue as two more partners exit – The Lawyer
- In-house: National Grid drops three firms from panel following ‘pay to play’ review
- Law professor who specialises in money laundering arrested for alleged money laundering
- RPC abandons all-equity structure in radical partnership shake-up
- Chadwick gets second term as Bakers’ London head after winning contested election
- Cardiff University law student appears on Rich Kids Go Skint
- Skadden and Weil will need more than a couple of magic circle hires to fix their succession problems – The Lawyer
- Mersey soundings
- Criminal law: a roundup | Feature
- Linklaters contract lawyer service chief decamps to Freshfields as COO – The Lawyer
- US Supreme Court legend Ruth Bader Ginsburg now has her own Lady Hale spider pin
- Deal watch: Simpson Thacher conjures Blackstone and Alibaba mandates as Linklaters and CC lead on British Steel takeover
- Bakers lands latest corporate defection from Kirkland
- Reprimand for barrister and former UKIP activist who failed to turn up at court
- Gazette Investigation: CPS conviction rate ‘benchmark’ never made public | Feature
- 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
- New Law needs a new dictionary to get that promised breakthrough
- 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
- Brexit and migrant staff | 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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