Last year Taylor Wessing fought off stiff competition to win the award for Real Estate Team of the Year at TheLawyer Awards, in association with Travellers. This year our external panel of judges, currently in the process of reviewing the submissions, has narrowed the potential winners for this category down to a shortlist of seven firms.
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The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of the word mentor is ‘an experienced and trusted adviser’. In the popular imagination that has come to mean a relationship where someone very senior imparts wisdom to someone very junior. But does it have to be that way?
Career development and diversity were at the top of the agenda on day two of The Lawyer’s General Counsel Strategy Summit in Portugal today.
Kirkland & Ellis has promoted more lawyers to partner over the past five years than any other firm in The Lawyer’s International Top 30 Firms in London ranking, data in this year’s report has revealed.
Nabarro has hired the managing partner of Gadens’ Singapore office, Marc Rathbone, in a bid to strengthen its projects practice in Asia.
Your GC Summit correspondent files this copy from the Penha Longa hotel in Sintra, near Lisbon. He has stayed in shabbier places to be fair. Tough moments of this ‘tour de law’ have included drinks overlooking the golf course and dinner in a fort with a sea view. No stone has been unturned in ensuring […]
Litigation boutique Signature Litigation has displaced Debevoise & Plimpton on a major mandate for mining giant ENRC in a row with the SFO, The Lawyer understands.
Orrick’s global boss and London head talk about bringing the firm’s base in the capital up to scratch to meet the needs of global clients, Microsoft and Instagram.
Risk was at the top of the agenda for delegates on day one of The Lawyer’s GC Strategy Summit in Portugal.
Davis Polk & Wardwell and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy have emerged as the worst international Top 30 firms in London for gender diversity, according to exclusive research by The Lawyer.