Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce is a rare beast. He is one of the few lawyers to have successfully made the crossover from law to company chief executive. And yet, to hear him tell it, the trajectory was pretty much accidental.
So far this week’s stories on the findings in the UK 200: Top 100 have focused on the performance of the country’s leading law firms, but the report’s analysis of the Bar confirms that it was also a bumper year for barristers. Indeed, several sets shot up the rankings in 2015/16. The biggest growth in […]
DLA Piper client Uber has lost an employment tribunal case into the rights of its workers.
It’s all over for the stars that quit the KWM partnership abruptly after a meeting about the firm’s business strategy yesterday. But last night’s news about a major obstacle in the firm’s recapitalisation scheme is the latest in a series of hiccups at the global firm.
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) former managing partner Rob Day and finance partner Andrew Wingfield resigned to join US firm Proskauer, The Lawyer understands. 27 Oct: KWM’s recapitalisation scheme stumbles and four stars quit
Latham & Watkins has hired another Allen & Overy (A&O) partner – this time recruiting corporate heavyweight Ed Barnett.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA) has dropped an investigation of Ben Emmerson QC a month after his suspension.
King & Wood Mallesons partners were called into a meeting today after halting its planned capital call. 19 Jul: KWM partners’ contributions to double amid cash calls
Shipping and insurance firm Hill Dickinson has restructured its senior leadership team and is looking to hire its first chief operating officer (COO). As part of the restructure, Hill Dickinson has appointed its first chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman but despite the reshuffle the firm’s senior management remains unchanged. Managing partner Peter Jackson will […]
Irwin Mitchell has appointed former Thomas Eggar managing partner Vicky Brackett as chief executive of its business legal services (BSL) division. Brackett replaces incumbent chief executive Niall Baker, who led the BSL division for the last five years. Irwin Mitchell divides itself into business legal services and personal legal services. The firm’s BLS division accounts […]
Ropes & Gray has made up two City lawyers as the firm promotes 11 worldwide.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer New York partner Doug Bacon has joined Kirkland & Ellis in Houston.