Law Society in-house grouping breaks away and spreads its wings In-house corporate lawyers spent years being dismissed as the branch of the profession with one foot in the retirement home. But there’s nothing like a global financial meltdown to concentrate the minds of big business chiefs on costs and give the whip hand to their […]
Move of the week SGH Martineau has appointed a new managing partner. Emma Shipp will take over from Bill Barker, who was re-appointed to lead the integration process following the firm’s merger with Sprecher Grier Halberstam in 2011. Qualifying in 1990, Shipp became a partner in the firm’s corporate department in 1993. She has a […]
What was your first-ever job? I was a petrol pump attendant. Where is the best place to go if you want to find out what’s really going on in the office? Ask a trainee. What time do you usually leave the office? When we run out of milk. What do you do at weekends? I’m […]
You’d have to have spent the past few years in a hole – or sunbathing on the Cayman Islands – to have missed the heightened attention on white collar crime. Earlier this summer the Sentencing Council of England and Wales announced new proposals for tougher punishments for white collar criminals, and the Serious Fraud Office […]
Two deals this year have propelled the Irish pharmaceuticals sector back into the spotlight At the start of this year Irish pharmaceutical company Elan forged the first link in a chain of events that would lead to one of the most bitterly fought takeover bids the country has seen for years. The company, which is […]
Costs control is here to stay but never fear, help is at hand for counsel beginning to get the jitters The Jackson regime has introduced the most profound and far-reaching series of reforms to civil litigation since the Woolf reforms in 1999 – indeed, according to one commentator, since Magna Carta. While changes to the […]
Allen & Overy has advised global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler on the successful placement of around 3.9 per cent of the shares in Continental AG, raising funds of around €950m. This step, together with a voluntary €325m principal payment, enabled the Schaeffler Group to reduce its debt by approximately €1.275bn to €9.0bn. A total […]
Dentons’ former co-chief executive Howard Morris has resigned from the firm after two years as global integration partner. Morris had been focusing on integrating legacy SNR Denton, which merged in late 2010 (26 May 2010), since relinquishing his chief executive role two years ago (28 February 2011). Washington DC-based Elliott Portnoy, who until then was the […]
Chester-headquartered Aaron & Partners has added its tenth equity partner through the appointment of family lawyer Richard Barge. Barge has been head of family law at the firm since joining from FBC Manby Bowdley in 2010. Over the last three years, Barge has doubled the size of the family law team from a team of […]
Lovelorn, look away. Candlelit dinners and trips to the Côte d’Azur have been replaced with sexy briefcases and good note-taking skills. According to dating website eHarmony, these are the so-called benefits of dating a lawyer. The matchmaking site narrowed the benefits down to a hot list of 15, assuming its readers are comically stupid in […]
Irwin Mitchell is closing in on a deal with an unnamed Spanish firm which will determine the future of its Spanish subsidiary, Irwin Mitchell Abogados. A statement from the firm said: “We can confirm that we are in discussions with a Spanish law firm with regard to establishing a strategic alliance to develop the international […]
Online dating website eHarmony has published a list of reasons why wannabe lovers should target lawyers as potential dates, with so-called bonuses including free legal notepads and interesting law-school stories. The blogpost, which has been shared on Facebook 17,000 times, narrowed the benefits down to a hot-list of 15 (see box). “Quoting your date will make […]