The Central London Employment Tribunal has upheld a former ABN Amro lawyer’s unfair dismissal claim against the bank but thrown out her 41 allegations of racial discrimination. Angela Cobbina, formerly a senior lawyer at the UK branch of the Dutch bank, blamed her employer for her miscarriage last year and said she was hounded out […]
Russian firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is boosting its capital markets practice with the hire of a team led by the managing partner of corporate and finance boutique Liniya Prava. Dmitriy Glazounov and a team of nine lawyers and two support staff start work at Egorov Puginsky today (14 March). Glazounov will head up […]
Russian firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is boosting its capital markets practice with the hire of a team led by the managing partner of corporate and finance boutique Liniya Prava. Dmitriy Glazounov and a team of nine lawyers and two support staff start work at Egorov Puginsky today (14 March). Glazounov will head up […]
Dundas & Wilson has promised nine partners guaranteed remuneration of £280,000 ahead of its proposed merger with CMS Cameron McKenna, the Lawyer understands. In a tactical move to protect the firm’s relationships with key clients, Dundas has offered senior partners secured profit shares in line with the current top of equity, which stands at £278,000, […]
Dundas & Wilson has promised nine partners guaranteed remuneration of £280,000 ahead of its proposed merger with CMS Cameron McKenna, the Lawyer understands. In a tactical move to protect the firm’s relationships with key clients, Dundas has offered senior partners secured profit shares in line with the current top of equity, which stands at £278,000, […]
Criminal law solicitors are aiming to sack the Law Society leadership by drumming up a petition for a second special general meeting (SGM) of the professional body. The campaign is led by Liverpool-based James Parry, who claims that the society’s president, Nicholas Fluck, and chief executive, Des Hudson, “are not fit and proper persons to […]
Criminal law solicitors are aiming to sack the Law Society leadership by drumming up a petition for a second special general meeting (SGM) of the professional body. The campaign is led by Liverpool-based James Parry, who claims that the society’s president, Nicholas Fluck, and chief executive, Des Hudson, “are not fit and proper persons to […]
A Shanghai Bureau of Justice official has hinted that the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone’s (FTZ) experiment on allowing associations between Chinese and foreign firms will lead to further opening up of the country’s legal services sector. The FTZ was launched in September 2013 to test-run an opening up of China’s financial system, easing restrictions […]
A Shanghai Bureau of Justice official has hinted that the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone’s (FTZ) experiment on allowing associations between Chinese and foreign firms will lead to further opening up of the country’s legal services sector. The FTZ was launched in September 2013 to test-run an opening up of China’s financial system, easing restrictions […]
Benelux firm Stibbe has announced a 7 per cent increase in turnover for the 2013 year, with revenue rising from €127m in 2012 to €136m (£113.8m). The rise has coincided with the announcement by the firm of the election of Derk Lemstra as its new managing partner. Corporate partner Lemstra took over from Heleen Kersten […]
Shanghai’s ground-breaking Pilot Free Trade Zone could mark the beginning of the long-awaited liberalisation of China’s legal services sector. Shanghai is China’s largest city by population with over 20 million people in it. It is also the country’s most cosmopolitan city. Its government is also reputed for being international business savvy and open-minded. Last September, […]
Below the radar for some time, Chelsea’s Five Fields is suddenly on everyone’s wish list. That may be because it’s awfully hard to get a table. Only 40 covers and not that many sittings, it’s not a last minute sort of place. The chef-owner is the wonderfully-named Taylor Bonnyman, previously chef at Corton, in New […]