Clintons, Withers, line up for £2.4bn Ecclestone divorce
Clintons' star family lawyer Liz Vernon is to go up against Withers partner Mark Harper in the Ecclestone divorce, set to produce the largest divorce settlement in UK legal history.
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Mayer Brown in redundancy talks with 11 London lawyers
21-Nov-2008Mayer Brown has launched a redundancy consultation for 11 lawyers working in its London office.
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Field Fisher in redundancy talks with 175 staff
21-Nov-2008Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) has launched a redundancy consultation with 175 support staff in London.
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One Brick Court faces Ugly dispute
Squire Sanders announces 30 US job cuts
Pickering elected as Irwin Mitchell chief
Dewey and Freshfields on Jacko's High Court turn
Winston Strawn bags 19 lawyers from Thelen
Beresfords fights coalminer allegations
Clifford Chance signs training deal with CoL
SJ Berwin partner slammed by Tories
London gains six new partners in Latham promos
SRA comes under fire in Beresfords tribunal
Feature: Tabloid blues - privacy and the presss
Daily Mail chief Paul Dacre’s speech to the Society of Editors, in which he took Mr Justice Eady to task for his privacy rulings, has laid bare the simmering tensions between certain papers and the judiciary.
Tulkinghorn: Adam Freeman, hairs and faces and two left feet
Against my better judgement, I found myself agreeing to grow a moustache and be one of our Movember "champions". My feelings of unease were not helped when I got home and told my nine year daughter, Lily, of the planned facial hair, only for her to promptly burst into tears.
Administration, intervention or a CVA? Firms in difficulty weigh their options
17-November-2008The economic crisis has claimed its first significant victims in the legal sector, with a 10-partner London firm among the recent casualties..
Middle man: Paul Bentall, Financial Ombudsman Service
18-November-2008Financial Ombudsman Service general counsel Paul Bentall’s sense of fair play has helped make his organisation respected the world over.
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Cadwalloped!
The knives have been out for a while at Cadwalader. But this week, it's going to be former chairman Bob Link that gets cut.
Cads’ lack of wads makes Link sink
Not long ago I was chatting to a managing partner who’d been on that residential Harvard course for lawyers – the one that seems to be compulsory for most City partners. Click here
Avoiding the axe.... for nowLike Trowers, Pinsents and A&O, Hill Dickinson has managed to find jobs for staff in quiet areas elsewhere in the firm.
Lovells' Harris wins contested leadership election
Lovells managing partner David Harris has been re-elected for a second four-year term following a contested election.
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