Rikko Marks, 22 was jailed for the murder of Adrian Locke in January 2013. He was not accused of wielding the knife, but of encouraging his friend, Micah Golding. He is now trying to overturn his conviction, and has been granted permission for a full appeal by three judges, who ruled that his complaints about […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman provided Cayman Islands legal advice to Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor of Denmark (BWSC) in connection with operating a local entity in the Cayman Islands to pursue a design and build contract with Caribbean Utilities Company including advice on the contract, structuring local operations and incorporating a resident company as well as […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Peter Gray has been found to have deliberately misled the High Court by submitting incorrectly dated evidence in a 2013 case between the Republic of Djibouti and one of its wealthiest citizens, Abdourahman Boreh. In a judgment handed down by Mr Justice Flaux on Monday (23 March), a $100m (£65m) […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Slaughter and May have both expanded and re-launched their flexible working schemes targeting fee-earners in their London offices. HSF has had a flexible working arrangement within the firm since 2012, which was used more widely by its business services teams. The scheme has now been rolled out to a number […]
Olswang has widened its search for a permanent CEO to include non-lawyers, with the firm engaging a consultancy to look at candidates from the business world. Last month, The Lawyer reported that the CEO elections at the firm were still months away, with plans to replace its former chief executive David Stewart in the second […]
April 2014 marked the beginning of a new era for UK’s competition lawyers, with the establishment of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). And the CMA is already having an effect, say private practice lawyers, who claim that recent changes have slowed the merger process. For more insight into the way the CMA is changing […]
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Lord Falconer are the latest names to be added to the roster of lawyers defending Asda against an equal pay claim brought by thousands of female employees. The landmark equal pay claim brought against the supermarket chain by several thousand of its female employees is […]
Olswang has widened its search for a permanent CEO to include non-lawyers, with the firm engaging a consultancy to look at candidates from the business world. Last month, The Lawyer reported that the CEO elections at the firm were still months away, with plans to replace its former chief executive David Stewart in the second half […]
Crossbench peer and Blackstone Chambers’ silk Lord Pannick has welcomed the Labour Party’s pledge to undo the Coalition’s changes to judicial review, which he said would “weaken” an essential means of holding government and public bodies to account. In an interview with The Lawyer Blackstone Chambers’ Pannick added that he was “very pleased to see […]
Morrison & Foerster has posted a 22 per cent fall in London revenue in 2014, dropping from $33.4m to $26m (£17.6m) in 2014. The drop in revenue was less than previously reported, after the firm revised its results for 2013 from the figure of $39m which it originally reported. The firm’s global revenue also dived […]
Prophets of change in the legal industry seem doomed to disappointment. Over the past two decades law firms have not torn up their structures; rather, change has been cultural Yet there has been an evident recalibration of what constitutes marketable expertise that can be sold on to clients, as we’ve seen in firms’ investment in […]
To what extent is the traditional resourcing model of law firms under fire? We track the inexorable change. Trainee retention in the magic circle has shot up recently. But this apparent good news is not all that it seems. And just to be clear, this is a story that is very far from being solely […]