Addleshaw Goddard has created a new leadership function, appointing one of its co-heads of real estate to lead its London operations. Partner Leona Ahmed has left her role as real estate co-head to become the firm’s first head of London. The new role, which mirrors similar existing positions in other UK offices and is effective […]
Mills & Reeve has tweaked its training contract and summer vac scheme interview process by trialing mini-hackathons in a bid to find “lawyers for the future.” In the early stages of the recruitment process in February, the firm held group exercises and design thinking workshops to test the problem-solving skills of candidates beyond legal knowledge. […]
Linklaters has become the latest firm to set up a graduate scheme based solely around legal operations, as part of an overall rethink as to how it delivers services to clients. The magic circle firm is set to offer the graduate scheme to between five and 10 individuals from August/September 2020, who will undergo a […]
Linklaters has worked with a group of academics to create a new legal technology curriculum for its youngest lawyers. The curriculum, which was developed in partnership with Swansea University, will first prioritise the firm’s trainee population, starting with those who joined the firm in August 2019: around 200 people globally. But the firm has plans […]
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Addleshaw Goddard has created a new leadership function, appointing one of its co-heads of real estate to lead its London operations. Partner Leona Ahmed has left her role as real estate co-head to become the firm’s first head of London. The new role, which mirrors similar existing positions in other UK offices and is effective […]
Mills & Reeve has tweaked its training contract and summer vac scheme interview process by trialing mini-hackathons in a bid to find “lawyers for the future.” In the early stages of the recruitment process in February, the firm held group exercises and design thinking workshops to test the problem-solving skills of candidates beyond legal knowledge. […]
Linklaters has become the latest firm to set up a graduate scheme based solely around legal operations, as part of an overall rethink as to how it delivers services to clients. The magic circle firm is set to offer the graduate scheme to between five and 10 individuals from August/September 2020, who will undergo a […]
Linklaters has worked with a group of academics to create a new legal technology curriculum for its youngest lawyers. The curriculum, which was developed in partnership with Swansea University, will first prioritise the firm’s trainee population, starting with those who joined the firm in August 2019: around 200 people globally. But the firm has plans […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have acted on Tesco’s latest exit from the Asian continent, as the retailer sold its Thai and Malaysian business for $10.6bn to the CP Group yesterday. Freshfields London managing partner Claire Wills led the team for longstanding client Tesco, together with Hong Kong partner Simon Weller and City partner Keir […]
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