RPC has broken ranks with the rest of the City and has ditched a fixed salary to newly-qualified lawyers. Instead. NQs will be assessed on performance and will be remunerated within a broad pay band. Will other firms follow suit? RPC to scrap NQ flat rate salary for performance-based pay Remuneration deliberations Davis Polk joins […]
What has financier Nathaniel Rothschild got in common with strip club owner Peter Stringfellow? We know you’re thinking highlights and thongs, but you’d be mistaken. Both are involved in cases that have been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court because they fail to “raise an arguable point of law of general public importance”. […]
In-house public sector lawyers are a pretty innovative bunch. No, it’s true. Earlier this year we reported that the legal teams at neighbouring London authorities Lambeth and Southwark were considering launching an ABS spin-off, something that remains on the pair’s to-do list. For others, there’s no time like the present. Today, we reveal that the […]
We look at cases that have reached the end of the judicial line after being refused permission to carry on to the Supreme Court, including Stringfellows employment battle and Paddy McKillen’s duel with the Barclay brothers. Getting a case heard by the Supreme Court is no easy business. For every case that is accepted to […]
Eversheds has been named as one of the top 10 private sector organisations for racial diversity and inclusion by Race for Opportunity, the race diversity campaign from Business in the Community. The unranked list is published in Action and Achievement, a report on the results of the UK’s most comprehensive benchmarking survey into how organisations […]
Access to documents in cross-border litigation can play a decisive role in the outcome of a dispute. Common law courts worldwide order the disclosure or discovery of all relevant documents (whether helpful or harmful). However, some jurisdictions have legislation that restricts the provision of documents in support of foreign litigation. Where a court from one […]
DLA Piper has advised as project legal counsel on the implementation of the first standardised online Intellectual Property Agreement Guide (IPAG) project. IPAG is a joint initiative of the Federal Ministry for Science and Research, the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth and the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology under the National […]
DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach has announced that Maria Doralt has joined the firm’s corporate practice as a partner in Vienna. Doralt joins from Cerha Hempe Spiegelfeld Hlawatit, where she was a senior attorney providing corporate law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), cross-border transaction planning and structured finance advice. She started her career at Goldman Sachs as an […]
DLA Piper and Field Fisher Waterhouse have advised the Cabinet Office on the creation of Shared Services Connected Ltd (SSCL), a joint venture between HM Government and Steria, a provider of IT-enabled business services, a contract potentially worth in excess of £1bn over 10 years. SSCL will serve approximately 150,000 customers initially across 13 organisations […]
By Andrew B Schatz and Katrina A Hochstetler International climate change negotiations are now under way at the 2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, aiming to lay the groundwork for a new, universal climate change agreement scheduled for adoption in 2015 and to raise ambition to combat climate change before 2020. DLA Piper lawyers […]
Shoosmiths real-estate specialists have advised holiday park operator Park Holidays on the property elements of the sale of its entire issued share capital in a deal worth £172m. Led by partner Lisa Williams, Shoosmiths’ Milton Keynes real-estate team is said to have particular knowledge of holiday caravan and chalet parks, as well as the property […]
DWF spent almost £17m on its expansion last year, the firm’s newly-released LLP accounts have shown. The firm’s mergers with Biggart Baillie (7 June 2013), Buller Jeffries (2 April 2012), Claimbase and Fishburns (18 January 2013) cost a total of £12.9m, equal to the net assets of the acquisitions. Meanwhile DWF’s acquisition of Cobbetts in […]