Alternative arbitration centres, risk-tracking and media management were all on the agenda for attendees at The Lawyer ’s conference for in-house heads of litigation.
Despite shrinking dealflow in capital markets, international firms in Hong Kong have high hopes for areas such as private equity and contentious work
Artificial intelligence has a lot to offer the legal sector in terms of efficiency and value for money.
Olswang and a group of its clients have launched a new network for technology, media and telecoms lawyers. The BBC, BBC Worldwide and Vodafone have partnered with the City firm to found the TMT peer network, which officially launched with a networking event earlier this autumn. The network is open to all TMT lawyers and can […]
RPC and Shoosmiths have been appointed to the UK legal panel of Coca-Cola Enterprises for the first time, with Lewis Silkin and Ashurst completing the quartet. The review was conducted by the bottler’s vice president for legal Paul van Reesch, who leads a team of around 30 in-house lawyers in London. He joined the company […]
Bird & Bird has revealed its firmwide revenue rose by 7 per cent in the first six months of the 2015/16 financial year, while announcing plans to grow its City lawyer headcount by 25 per cent. The firm’s 7 per cent revenue increase was calculated in euros, which is its reporting currency. Bird & Bird […]
Financial services giant Prudential has put its legal panel review on hold following the retirement of general counsel Margaret Coltman. Coltman is understood to have handed over the role to company secretary Alan Porter in July, though sources close to the company said the handover has only taken effect in real terms in the last […]
Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has added Bond Dickinson to its existing list of external advisors following a three-month review of its legal panel. The review sees Bond Dickinson join DAC Beachcroft, Dentons, Eversheds, Gateley, Osborne Clarke and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co on the panel. The six firms were originally selected in 2012 after Taylor Wimpey’s general […]
Our unprecedented examination of business services staff ratios was the most-read story on TheLawyer.com this week, as we revealed that DLA Piper employs more support staff than any other UK 200 firm. The news that DLA is the biggest employer of business services staff came coupled with an analysis of what the optimum ratio for […]
A shake-up of Linklaters’ remuneration process is back on the agenda at the firm, with partners asked to air views about ‘superpoints’ and gates to equity at the November conference, The Lawyer understands. The debate questioned whether a pure lockstep structure was still appropriate for Linklaters and ended with partners agreeing to maintain the status quo, according to a […]
Government investment in London’s commercial legal infrastructure is “not enough” to maintain the capital’s reputation as the eminent venue for global business disputes, City litigators have warned. In The Lawyer Litigation Top 50 2015, due to be published on Monday, a number of top lawyers have called on the UK legal market to “wake up and […]
Over a year into her role as Bryan Cave’s London managing partner, Carol Osborne is at the heart of the firm’s growth plans in the capital. The plans follow the completion of a firmwide strategic review that focuses on three main areas, such as thought leadership, sector focus and diversity. The London office already […]