A mum who worked part-time at a top City law firm after having a baby has won a landmark legal battle over her right to work flexi hours, it was revealed today. Michelle Langton, 34, worked as a senior manager at Herbert Smith for six years until January last year. In April 2002 she returned […]
Many executives dream of dominating their industries the way BAR/BRI does the business of helping law school graduates prepare for bar examinations. Every law student knows BAR/BRI. Hundreds of thousands of them have taken its courses to pass the bar, an essential step in most states before a law school graduate can practice law. Some
Nortel Networks Corp. said on Wednesday it has agreed in principle to pay $2.47 billion to settle two class-action lawsuits stemming from an accounting scandal that has rocked the telecommunications equipment supplier. Nortel said it wanted a settlement so that it could focus on rebuilding its business. It was hit with the lawsuits from shareholders
During the Watergate scandal, with six simple words — “No man is above the law” — he helped hasten a president out of office. He was a plainspoken country lawyer named Chesterfield Smith, and he died Wednesday night in Coral Gables. He was 85. “He was the most influential lawyer, I think, to ever come
In an initiative to be rolled out across Allen + Overy, all associates and partners will be set personal hourly plans for the first time. A&O’s associate chargeable hour targets – between 1,600 and 1,700 hours – are not the highest in the City, but A&O has fuelled disquiet among its associates by setting new
He has been practicing since 1975 and was elected as president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia from 1998-1999. His other areas of practice include criminal law, civil litigation and professional negligence. What percentage of your practice is devoted to suing lawyers? I’d say at this point, probably 30 or 40 percent
The results of Legal Week’s 2003 US financial rankings show that the top 50 firms by revenue averaged growth in fees of 10.3% — pushing annual revenues for ranked firms to $28.84bn while average profits per partner were up 10.2%. The results, which look certain to comprehensively outpace those of their European counterparts, confirm that
City law firms should be subject to light-touch regulation if a shake-up of the profession is not to inhibit their ability to export legal services around the globe, Clifford Chance has urged. The world’s largest law firm has told Sir David Clementi, the Prudential chairman leading the review of legal regulation, that a new watchdog
You may not hear much about anti-Semitism but it is alive and well. That’s the message from a leading discrimination lawyer who has helped bring several dramatic but unreported legal claims alleging anti-Jewish prejudice at some of the Square Mile’s leading banks and brokerages. One case handled by Makbool Javaid that did hit the headlines
Piper Rudnick has opened early discussions with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich about a merger between the two firms, according to law firm consultant Peter Zeughauser. Although firm leaders won’t say whether they’re negotiating, the two firms — themselves both products of past mergers — have made no secret of their desire to grow. Such
