After months of talks, Morgan Lewis hired 226 partners from Bingham McCutchen late last year. Now chair Jami McKeon opens up about the negotiations and her plans for the future. Jami McKeon was elected as Morgan Lewis’s first-ever female chair in October 2013 and formally took over the reins of the US firm in October […]
RadcliffesLeBrasseur has signed a nine-year lease on 28,000 sq ft of office space in the old Reuters building at 85 Fleet Street. The firm has secured a six-month rent-free period and half rent for a further 30 months and is hoping to extend the lease. Radcliffes has already started the move and expect to begin […]
In an attempt to inject some culture into the massive slobfest that was the Christmas and New Year break, I contact S, house doctor in training and mistress of the dark art of decluttering. On the penultimate day before the shock of the desk, I need some ideas. Let’s go to the Egon Schiele, she […]
The debate about the future of Scotland’s constitution is dragging on. The debate on the constitutional status of Scotland is one which, for its longevity, more than matches Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The latest instalment is contained in the Report of The Smith Commission for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament, published three days […]
No5 Chambers is to sponsor the UK Jessup Moot Competition along with White & Case for the fourth consecutive year. The competition takes place at The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, London, from 26 February to 1 March. Eighteen teams of students from all over the UK will be competing for the honour of winning the Rebecca […]
Latham & Watkins has become the latest in a string of firms to launch a business services office, announcing plans to open in Manchester later this year. The office will complement the firm’s existing global services office in Los Angeles as part of a longer-term strategy to grow its support capabilities in Europe. Manchester will […]
No5 barrister Ian Brownhill has helped the family of Ben Needham secure funding to continue the search for the missing toddler. He stepped in to help after seeing the @FindBenNeedham campaign on Twitter and offered his services free of charge. Brownhill wrote to the Home Office asking why it had taken 10 months to reply to a funding request from South […]
The annual M&A league tables are coming out and it’s good news. Globally, M&A activity was back to pre-crisis levels in 2014. In Europe the combined value of announced deals broke through the $1tr barrier to hit $1.3tr, up 35.5 per cent from 2013. But the ever-increasingly cross-border nature of the market is heavily underlined […]
Reed Smith has made up 24 partners across the firm in this year’s promotions round, with the largest number appointed to its London office. The firm made up seven partners and two counsel in London. There were 15 promotions across nine US offices, and Abu Dhabi, Shanghai and Hong Kong gained one new partner apiece. […]
You can tell a lot about a law firm by the choices it makes when it comes to office space. With CMS Cameron McKenna preparing to move into new offices in London’s Cannon Place (read about it here), the focus, it seems, is very much on work, work, work. Everybody knows that state-of-the-art offices are […]
US online legal provider LegalZoom has gained UK regulatory approval having been licensed as an alternative business structure (ABS) by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA). LegalZoom claims to be the most recognised legal brand in the US and was co-founded in 2001 by Robert Shapiro, the former Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro […]
DLA Piper has acted for Knightsbridge Student Housing on its £28m acquisition of a student housing scheme in Southampton from BY Developments Ltd, who controlled the site under a contract with the site owner, Southampton City Council. Situated on St Mary’s Road, the scheme will include 467 student flats as well as 3,100 square feet […]