Once asked about how he prepared for a film role, Daniel Day-Lewis replied, “I don’t rehearse at all in film if I can help it. In talking a character through, you define it. And if you define it, you kill it dead.” On the surface this may be interpreted as ‘Oscar winning actor doesn’t rehearse […]
Nearly six years since the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (SFTZ) was first set up, Herbert Smith Freehills has emerged as the latest international firm to set up shop with a joint operation licence. HSF has sealed a deal with Kewei Law Firm, in a move that enables the former to offer local law capabilities in […]
Linklaters has developed new technology to reduce the amount of time taken to search through the firm’s massive amounts of historical legal documents. The tool, called MatterExplorer, is an artificial intelligence solution conceived as a knowledge management system. During the development process, consultants from iManage RAVN collaborated with the firm’s technology team. MatterExplorer digs out and […]
Fieldfisher has hired Allen & Overy (A&O)’s working capital manager to add manpower to its Condor unit amid reshuffling in the firm’s alternative legal services and flexible resourcing division. The firm has brought in Paul Harrod to the Condor leadership team; Harrod has spent about 14 years in the magic circle firm’s finance department. There, he […]
Once asked about how he prepared for a film role, Daniel Day-Lewis replied, “I don’t rehearse at all in film if I can help it. In talking a character through, you define it. And if you define it, you kill it dead.” On the surface this may be interpreted as ‘Oscar winning actor doesn’t rehearse […]
Nearly six years since the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (SFTZ) was first set up, Herbert Smith Freehills has emerged as the latest international firm to set up shop with a joint operation licence. HSF has sealed a deal with Kewei Law Firm, in a move that enables the former to offer local law capabilities in […]
Linklaters has developed new technology to reduce the amount of time taken to search through the firm’s massive amounts of historical legal documents. The tool, called MatterExplorer, is an artificial intelligence solution conceived as a knowledge management system. During the development process, consultants from iManage RAVN collaborated with the firm’s technology team. MatterExplorer digs out and […]
Fieldfisher has hired Allen & Overy (A&O)’s working capital manager to add manpower to its Condor unit amid reshuffling in the firm’s alternative legal services and flexible resourcing division. The firm has brought in Paul Harrod to the Condor leadership team; Harrod has spent about 14 years in the magic circle firm’s finance department. There, he […]
Paul Hastings has hired two partners in its São Paulo office from rival US firm Shearman & Sterling. Corporate partner Jonathan Kellner and capital markets partner David Flechner will be joining Paul Hastings along with several members of their team, which will include of counsel Andrea Campos and associates Thomas Ayres, Diana Balassiano, Filipe Lima. […]
To be in the global law market requires a strong City presence, of that there can be no doubt. The Lawyer’s US 50 report underscores just how vital London is; the multimillion-pound investments being made by US titans shows that growing in the City is not only advantageous, but essential. And yet. You might be surprised […]
$20m partners are rare, but they are multiplying. Paul Weiss, Kirkland, Davis Polk, Weil Gotshal and latterly Latham are reshaping their partner compensation for the big figure, stretched upwards from the $9m that Paul Weiss paid for Scott Barshay in 2016. As The Lawyer reported yesterday, even Cleary – Cleary! – is now considering it. […]
Power is largely siloed. When we look at the top 25 firms in The Lawyer’s UK200, partners drawn from the practices most identifiable with the firm’s culture almost always end up in the managing partner spot. There are two exceptions in Slaughters’ Deborah Finkler (disputes) and Pinsents’ Laura Cameron (health/safety), but firms have largely stuck […]
Every year we bid goodbye to famous old names from Britain’s legal scene. Whether by merger or misadventure in the last few years the likes of BLM, Coffin Mew, Ince, RadcliffesLeBrasseur and Taylor Vinters have made graceful or not-so-graceful exits from the ranks of the UK200. But every mighty tree that falls in the forest […]
If everyone puts their feet up for the rest of the year, Paul Weiss will feature above Covington, Morgan Lewis and Cleary Gottlieb in The Lawyer’s next iteration of its US 50 rankings based on headcount. That’s based on Paul Weiss’ current list of London lawyers, which numbers 117 when including some partners who are […]
Noerr’s Warsaw office is setting up shop on its own, after it emerged that the German giant was pulling out of the Central and Eastern European market (CEE). In April, Noerr revealed it would be transferring its practices in Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest and Prague to Kinstellar. At the time, there was no mention of Noerr’s […]
Bird & Bird and Holman Fenwick Willan are the latest firms to announce pay increases for their newly-qualified solicitors, with the latter rising to £100,000. HFW has increased its pay from £95,000 to £100,000, while Bird & Bird has put in place a slightly lower rise of £3,000 to £98,000. Bird & Bird’s increase comes […]
A general counsel – who qualified as a barrister – has taken to networking platform LinkedIn to protest against rules meaning she cannot sign off qualifying work experience (QWE) for those undertaking the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). Natalie Connor, a VP of legal at Crowdcube and consultant GC for Legal Edge, has worked as a […]
Paul Hastings is expecting to generate over $200m (£158m) in its London office this year after investments made across its finance and litigation groups. The firm is estimated to have brought in $174m (£138m) over 2023, meaning it is looking to grow its revenue in the City by at least 15 per cent in this […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this edition, we look at the troubles facing Linklaters in Stockholm, the surprisingly positive consequences of Weil Gotshal’s exit from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as recent shake-ups in the Danish real estate market. […]