Meredith Connell have recruited former Chief Operating Officer for the UK at Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance as the firm’s new chief executive. Sophie Schwass’s appointment was announced by Meredith Connell Managing Partner Steve Haszard (pictured above) who said she would start at the firm in February 2023. Haszard retires from the partnership next
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The advances in speech technology provides lawyers with the ability to provide faster and better service to clients, as well as enhancing efficiencies and profitability. One US law firm had a ‘gadget guy’ partner who explains how ‘voice solutions’ have helped power the firm’s growth With more than 145 years of experience, Eastburn and Gray,
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Innovative UK law firm gunnercooke has launched its first US office as it develops its international growth strategy to continue on its path towards joining the Big Law coterie of global law firms. The US launch follows its 2021 launch in Germany. The firm claims to have increased revenues by 50 per cent in the
Lawyers made major money from the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk – as much as $100 million in legal fees for the on-and-off again deal – but it was the social platform’s top lawyer who has made the most, leaving the room with up to $12 million, as well as earning $17 million a
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New Entrant The former #Metoo activist and lawyer recently stood for Queenstown mayoralty but her vocal criticism of the Law Society’s handling of the Russell McVeagh scandal involving the sexual assault of interns during the 2015/2017 period and sexual harassment cases generally has helped generate greater awareness of the issue within the profession. She met
Last Year – 42 He may be more George Smiley than James Bond, but Brendan Horsley, the former Deputy Solicitor General who ran the Crown prosecution network, has an important role supervising New Zealand’s intelligence services at a time when terrorist and extremist threats continue to cause concern in the wake of global upheaval and,
Work-Life balance issues have long dominated discussion about Big Law work, but now a legal leader has landed a heavyweight document to counter the issue by providing better life for its lawyers – but at some cost, too. Slaughter & May have decided to relieve their lawyers from checking emails in the hours between 10
Professor Munjed Al Muderis – LawFuel.com – 31 October 2022 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Sydney, Australia – Professor Munjed Al Muderis, Australia’s world-leading expert in osseointegration surgery, today issued defamation proceedings against Channel Nine, Fairfax Publications and the Age Company in the Federal Court of Australia, over recent publications by 60 Minutes and in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
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A new survey from 300 in-house lawyers in the UK has found that 64 per cent of venture capital and private equity firms are spending more on legal services but pressure to control legal costs has also increased. The survey, from Apperio has also found that ‘fixed’ legal fees are not always fixed and that
A Unanimous Jury Has Found Shea Guilty of a Scheme to Defraud Thousands of Donors to the Crowdfunding Campaign “We Build The Wall” of Over $25 Million “Timothy Shea and his co-defendants orchestrated a crowdfunding scheme to purportedly raise funds to erect a border wall between Mexico and the United States. We Build
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