The Lawyer’s first ever judging panel for the Business Leadership awards consisting exclusively of senior in-house lawyers has been unveiled today. This September the Business Leadership awards will celebrate innovation in legal services delivery and all round operational excellence. And this year, assisting the editorial team with their assessment of this will be our first-ever […]
BLP and Squires lag, but elsewhere female partner promotion stats look healthy. For years women have been told that the unbalanced female to male ratio at partnership level will right itself as PQE ticks by and generations move up the ranks. And for years that rhetoric has proved untrue. But this year might just see […]
Dechert partner Miriam Gonzalez made The Lawyer Hot 100 back in 2008 when she was a trade partner at DLA Piper. Six years on, with one general election down and another looming, Gonzalez continues to have a high public profile. In the legal world she is best known as Dechert’s heavy-hitting co-chair of international trade […]
Donny Ching is a Shell veteran but that didn’t mean business-as-usual for legal when he took on the top job. His ideas for in-house are quietly radical. After Peter Rees’s abrupt exit from Shell in January last year, there was considerable speculation as to who would be put into the top legal job, particularly since […]
Now that more women are adding their skill and insight to the team game of law, the profession stands on the cusp of greatness. We are captives of the era in which we live. But every once in a while it’s possible to stand back and say we’re on the cusp of seismic change and, […]
Merger activity over the past three years shows a trend for consolidation, but UK 200 data shows not all tie-ups create a better balance sheet. The 2014/15 financial year is in its final throes, and two of the latest UK merger candidates – Shakespeares and SGH Martineau – are nearing the finishing line. If the […]
New regulations introduce ‘principal designer’ role; election season sees a re-run of the old housing pledge game; and more projects are underperforming – why? The Lawyer’s Briefings channel brings together articles about the latest legal developments. Here are some highlights from recent construction briefings. Adjudication A briefing from Gateley looks at a recent dispute that […]
Move of the week US firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel has hired its first UK-qualified lawyer in London. Richard Kelly, who is a former partner at Shearman & Sterling, joined the firm to head its litigation practice following the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority’s grant to operate as an ABS in March 2015. Kelly was a partner […]
With the growing influence of emerging markets, impact of global unrest and pressure to consolidate, offshore is a sector in the course of immense change. Each year in the research process for the annual offshore top 30 survey, The Lawyer quizzes managing partners on the key trends for the year ahead. This year the subject […]
We’ve got election fever at The Lawyer. We’ve reported on the lawyers standing for Parliament (and how one Tory candidate’s claims about his former career at Clifford Chance have been questioned), covered the legal aid pledges in the parties’ manifestos and looked at how many polling stations still don’t have access for disabled voters. So we’re always in the mood for an […]
Tark Grunte Sutkiene recently successfully represented a Swedish company in case involving gross fraud. Lawyers from the firm’s Riga office ensured that around €450,000 was transferred back to their client.
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co’s tech team has helped new client Breezie to secure investment from the Ziegler Link•Age Longevity Fund. client, Breezie, to secure a strategic investment from the Ziegler Link•Age Longevity Fund. Breezie, a software and services platform, is pioneering the use of touch-screen devices, smart analytics and accessibility to simplify the online experience […]