The former head of global legal giant Baker McKenzie’s London office is facing prosecution for alleged sexual harassment, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) said today with the former chief and his former firm instructing partners at law firms Kingsley Napley and RadcliffesLeBrasseur to represent them. Gary Senior, who left the firm last year, has been […]
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Powered By LawFuel Washington, D.C.—Today, Dentons is announcing its intention to combine with a leading firm in Honduras, Gustavo Zacapa y Asociados, to extend its reach in Central America and further its growth strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Gustavo Zacapa y Asociados is a leading law firm with more than 60 years’ history
In Jones Day, the Big Law firm under intense attack in a $200 million proposed gender discrimination class action, has delivered its first detailed response to claims that it systematically discriminated against women, saying it was a “distorted picture” of the truth. LawFuel has reported earlier on the ‘spreading virus’ of lawsuits against the firm and
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When the law firm founder leaves the room you know your law firm has some problems and in the case of LeClairRyan that appears to be the case. Founding partner Gary LeClair is leaving his firm along with two other partners, following a raft of departures from the firm. Last yeaar almost 10 per cent
The Jones Day lawsuit ‘virus’ is spreading. The Big Law firm faces further allegations of gender bias with claims being brought from its offices in both New York and Atlanta as three anonymous, former female associates of the firm saying that they suffered from Jones Days’ gender bias. Jones Day now faces allegations of gender
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Slaughter & May is the latest major law firm in London to life its associate pay, which is £100,000 including bonuses The pay increase follows recent moves by firms in The City, including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance which both lifted their pay for newly-qualified (NQ) pay to £100,000 as the pay war started
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BSF has named new Administrative Partners and Deputy Administrative Partners to help lead five of its largest offices: New York, Washington D.C., Albany, Los Angeles, and Oakland. These new appointments will include the management of two new state-of-the-art BSF office spaces in New York City and Washington D.C., which opened in February 2019 and January
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Leading international law firm, Clifford Chance has launched a year-long trial across the firm’s offices in the Middle East to understand the impact of removing utilisation – total billable hours as a percentage of total hours available to be worked – from its assessment of lawyer contribution and performance. The pilot programme, which will include
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Slaughter and May partners, Sarah Lee and Nilufer von Bismarck have been named, for the fourth consecutive year, in the EMpower 100 Ethnic Minority Executives List. The List, celebrates the achievements of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) business leaders who are helping to make the workplace a more welcoming place for ethnic minority employees.
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MoFo Named “Ceiling Smashing” Firm for Women PartnersIn Law360’s annual Glass Ceiling report, MoFo was recognized as one of the top 10 big law firms, referred to as “The Ceiling Smashers.” The list recognizes those firms that have the highest representation of women in their equity partnerships. Law360’s annual report collects data from more than 300
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