Nabarro has appointed its first non-executive director as a board member after taking on former Guardian News & Media director of international and business development Stella Beaumont. Beaumont’s appointment is the first time the firm has ventured both outside the firm and outside the law for a board member and taking her on is an […]
I have a confession. My restaurant list has a big fat Salt Yard gap in it. Until now. I expect that the ember reference is something to do with the fact that there is a charcoal grill and that it is the main event. Eight out of ten of the fish/meat dishes on the menu […]
Move of the week Royal Dutch Shell’s former legal director Peter Rees QC has moved to Thirty Nine Essex Street as a counsel. Rees was appointed legal director of Shell in 2011 after five years as a litigation and international arbitration partner at Debevoise & Plimpton. Prior to that he was head of global dispute […]
Capsticks is a firm in a tough sector – public health – where pricing is as keen as it gets. Consequently over the past few years Capsticks has been striving to make its business as efficient and client-focused as possible. In practice, that has meant putting in place a structure for supporting its fee-earners as […]
BAE Systems’ Tom Burton sets out the position facing the world’s top firms Like most industries, individual law firms – and the legal sector as a whole – have been keen to embrace the opportunities presented by advances in technology in order to retain a competitive edge. Companies have become ever more digitally enabled and […]
Themis Solutions Inc releases ScanSnap integration as part of Clio’s mobile app Clio, the leading cloud-based practice management solution, and Fujitsu, the market leader in document imaging scanners, have teamed up to offer a wireless scanning solution built into Clio’s award-winning iOS application. Touted as a marked leap forward towards paperless legal offices, the integration […]
With the health industry facing mounting regulatory and fiscal challenges brought about by the Affordable Care Act and other legislation, international law firm McDermott Will & Emery today launched McDermott+Consulting (McDermottPlus), a separate and distinct, wholly-owned subsidiary to provide consulting services to the many diverse participants in the health care industry. McDermottPlus offers experienced consultants […]
Recommind, a leader in information intelligence, today launched Perceptiv Derivatives Contract Analysis, the world’s first SaaS platform to provide investment banks with complete and trusted data from their Over-the-Counter (OTC) International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) agreements. Perceptiv Derivatives Contract Analysis sifts thousands of counterparty agreements to identify the data traders need to drive profits, […]
Hitachi Solutions and LexisNexis® combine expertise to provide the global legal sector with specialist enterprise-grade, business management system, powered by Microsoft Dynamics® AX Hitachi Solutions, the Microsoft Dynamics solutions and services arm of Hitachi, partners with LexisNexis® Enterprise Solutions to provide organisations across the global legal sector with enterprise-grade business management system, LexisOne™, powered by […]
Fiona Haigh is the director of administration and strategy at Weil Gotshal & Manges. She joined the firm from Clifford Chance in 1998. How has Weil’s London office changed since you joined the firm? The office was only two years old when I joined and in start-up mode, focusing primarily on finance, but it is […]
A senior criminal judge has been criticised over his handling of a trial last year, which led to the conviction of former 39 Essex Street barrister Rohan Pershad QC. Pershad was jailed for three and a half years in February 2013 for “deliberately” not paying a total of £600,000 in VAT over 12 years (26 […]
Serious about Asia? Committed to the region? Then why isn’t your top management there? The news that Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) senior partner Richard Crump is relocating permanently to Singapore may raise some questions in law firm boardrooms today. For all the protestations by top UK firms that Asia is at the heart of their […]