Consumer product group PZ Cussons is the company behind household names such as Carex, Imperial Leather and Morning Fresh. The FTSE 250 company is headquartered in Manchester but its global footprint is spread across Nigeria, Ghana, Indonesia and Thailand
Addleshaw Goddard’s recent announcement that it will be restricting the number of partners who can leave the firm each year is far from unique, but it is a manifestation of a management doctrine I find curious
The complexities of sleeping on the job and the perils of loose talk are among the subjects tackled by this week’s experts.
Theories can be attractive, but they’re quite often useless. Take this one: that international law firms will consolidate in a similar way to the accountancy firms and dominate the global market in legal services.
New York is the world’s richest, biggest and most important legal market. Fact.
EY director of legal risk Matthew Whalley and Standard Life head of conduct and compliance and team Peter Tyson are among the impressive lineup for The Lawyer In-house Financial Services conference, a new event to be held on 5 July in London.
Ahead of the annual festival which is London Pride, this week The Lawyer kicked off a series of profiles of senior LGBT+ lawyers, asking them to share their experiences. The series has proved wildly popular with readers. Those featured so far include Gowling WLG partner Clare Fielding, Berwin Leighton Paisner partner Daisy Reeves, and Fieldfisher managing partner Michael Chissick.
As you near the end of maternity leave returning to work can feel like an extremely daunting task. Many women start to question how they can successfully combine their role as a lawyer with that of a parent. Once managed as separate entities, home and work life can become blurred. Whether your career aspirations change […]
McDermott Will & Emery chairmen Jeffrey Stone and Peter Sacripanti are to stand down at the end of the year, just months after they were re-elected to the position. Litigation partners Stone and Sacripanti, based in Chicago and New York respectively, have been the firm’s co-chairmen for eight years. They are expected to return to […]
Leigh Day has been found to have been negligent after 6,624 of the claimants it represented in the Trafigura trial over chemical waste spillage did not receive their £30m compensation.
Dentons has announced that revenue for its UK, Middle East and Africa region has grown by 7 per cent, from £155m to £165m during the 2015/16 financial year. The results mirror a similar rise in turnover during the previous year, which saw revenue increase by 6 per cent from £146.3m in 2013/14. The growth was […]
None of the UK’s four global magic circle firms have made significant inroads into the legal market heartland of New York, data contained in the first-ever Global 200 report has revealed.