New figures reveal in-house salaries and bonuses rose in the regions again last year. In-house lawyers in Yorkshire and the North East are those most likely to have seen an increase in their remuneration package last year, including benefits, with 73 per cent of respondents to new research saying they had seen their pay rise. […]
A group of six firms including Eversheds, Harper Macleod and Norton Rose Fulbright have lost their places on the combined Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank national panel. The “significant consolidation”, which reduced the roster from 13 to seven, has also called time on Brodies’, Morton Fraser’s and Thomas Eggar’s spell on the national roster, three […]
Fieldfisher has hired Bristows IT partner Hazel Grant to replace Eduardo Ustaran as the head of its privacy team. Grant, who will begin work at Fieldfisher on 26 August, has been a partner at Bristows since 2009 and previously spent nine years at Bird & Bird. She specialises in data protection, and has worked for […]
Brick Court Chambers has been busy re-jigging its clerking team, but according to our research there are plenty more underlying changes rumbling away at the bar. In next week’s issue, The Lawyer will be looking into its crystal ball – discussing future trends at the bar and the weighty challenges to be faced by London’s […]
QualitySolicitors’ owner Palamon Capital Partners has acquired an undisclosed majority shareholding in Simplify Legal Group. Recently-established Simplify operates a business-to-business model and comprises conveyancing firms Move With Us and DC Law, and the probate specialist Chorus Law. The move is the latest extension of pan-European investor Palamon’s reach into the legal market. The private equity […]
Linklaters, its Asia alliance partner Allens and US firm Squire Sanders have all advised on a deal that will see nationwide fixed and mobile telephone networks developed across Myanmar. Linklaters and Allens jointly acted for a consortium made up of Japanese telecoms operator KDDI Corporation and Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corporation in a deal that will […]
Never one to follow the crowd, elite UK firm Slaughter and May is bucking yet another trend by investing in its Asia practice. As we revealed in this year’s The Lawyer Asia-Pacific 150, international firms have been reassessing their positions in the region, holding back on expansion while local independents have been going for growth. […]
A partner in White & Case’s Paris office is facing a ‘moral harassment’ case brought by a former associate. The case against the unnamed partner was originally thrown out, but on 5 June the Paris court of appeal ruled that the ‘harcèlement moral’ case should be heard. The partner is appealing the decision in the […]
Farrer & Co has reported a 14 per cent rise in net profit for the 2013/14 financial year thanks to an increase in its equity partnership, while turnover was stable at £50.7m. The firm reported net profit £12.7m last year, a rise of some 14.4 per cent from the previous year’s £11.1m (9 July 2013). […]
Brick Court Chambers has restructured its clerking team following the exit of longstanding joint senior clerk Deborah Anderson. Anderson left the set three months ago to join Hardwicke Chambers, 14 years after moving to Brick Court from Littleton Chambers (9 April 2014). Brick Court has been in talks with each of its members over the […]
Profit per equity partner (PEP) at West End firm Hamlins has risen by 52 per cent, from £367,000 to £560,000. The 26-partner firm also announced a 27 per cent jump in revenue, going from £10m in 2012/13 to just over £12.6m. In 2011/12, revenue stood at £9m, while in 2010/11 it was £8.4m. Before the […]
Mrs Justice Patterson (Planning Court, sitting in Birmingham) handed down judgment in R (IM Properties) v Lichfield District Council on 18 July 2014. Jerry Cahill QC, Satnam Choongh and James Corbert Burcher from No5 Chambers acted for the second interested party, Persimmon Homes. The Lichfield District Local Plan: Strategy was submitted for examination in March […]