Linklaters has been named the first organisation in the UK to achieve a new equality standard launched by EY and a group of UK businesses including Nestle, Vodafone, RBS and Microsoft UK. The UK National Equality Standard (NES) was launched by EY in partnership with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) as well as […]
With corporate work well and truly firing again, M&A lawyers are basking in the sunlight. Don’t forget to sign up to our weekly Deals Insider email for the latest news on who’s acting for whom. Aim and fire: how to make your mark on the Aim rankings Climbing the ladder: A closer look at Ropes […]
Scotland’s top independent firms have pulled out of the recession in earnest in 2013/14, with the top 20 turning over a combined revenue of £438.2m, a rise of 8 per cent on £406.9m the previous year. Brodies and Burness Paull have emerged the two market leaders, both expanding to three times the size of pre-recession […]
DWF is ramping up its agile working capabilities with a raft of initiatives kick-started by its move last Monday into London’s Walkie Talkie building (19 May 2014). Among the moves the firm is implementing is an increased focus on paperless working, featuring matter-specific scanning; a deal with Canon to allow lawyers to print office-specific headed […]
Pinsent Masons has appointed its former Scotland head Fraser McMillan to lead its construction, advisory and disputes (CAD) practice with immediate effect. McMillan takes over from Richard Foley, who will replace Chris Mullen as senior partner on 1 October (30 June 2014). He will remain based in Glasgow where he has been since the firm […]
Rubio Leguía Normand partners Óscar Arrús, Sergio Amiel, Thomas Thorndike and José Francisco Meier have joined Garrigues’ office in Lima. Arrús is now leading the projects team that advises on M&A transactions, finance and infrastructures. He was formerly a partner specialising in corporate law and capital markets at Peruvian firm Rubio Leguía Normand. Amiel was a partner […]
Bad news for DAC Beachcroft and the Co-op this week. Most read on thelawyer.com for the week beginnning 29 August was DAC Beachcroft’s 10 per cent fall in profits, while Thursday’s news that Co-op Legal Services made a £5m loss at the half-year point also made a late entry into the list of top 10 most read […]
With just over a week to go until Scotland decides whether to maintain a 300-year-old union or branch out on its own again, its law firms are feeling the effects of referendum fever. And not necessarily in a good way. As this week’s feature explores, the impending plebiscite on Scottish independence has had a cooling […]
Clifford Chance becomes the latest firm to drop ULaw for BPP as its LPC provider What’s happening at the University of Law? Clifford Chance has become the latest firm to drop the institution as its preferred LPC provider in favour of BPP, following DWF last month and Allen & Overy and Osborne Clarke last year. […]
Scotland is in the grip of referendum fever. From the “proud to be Scottish, delighted to be united” sloganeering of the ‘Naws’, to the schismatic buttonholing of the ‘Ayes’, there’s no escaping the fact that something big is about to happen in Scottish politics. Whether or not the result will give the disruption that Scottish […]
The financial crisis has led to a new working environment and that means firms must make difficult decisions on how they work if they want to survive During the 25-year bull run in legal services until 2007, law firms could expect their revenues and profits to grow at a compound rate of double the rate […]
Move of the week Taylor Wessing has hired two private client partners. Elaine Dobson (above) will join as head of residential property from Bircham Dyson Bell. She specialises in transactional and landlord/tenant issues, and more complex enfranchisement work. Antoaneta Proctor will join from Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. She specialises in tax and trusts, wealth […]