A survey from UK legal blog Roll on Friday identifies the top paying UK law firms – and the irony (perhaps) is that the top echelons of the rankings are all US-based law firms, which have lead the rush to increase associate pay levels to unprecedented levels. Top firm in the rankings with a 92 […]
Which UK Law Firms Pay Best? Here are Biglaw Survey Results . . Read More »
Cordell & Cordell, said to be the world’s largest domestic litigation firm focused on representing men in divorce, has opened a new office in Newport Beach. Located at 4695 MacArthur Court, 11th Floor, Cordell & Cordell’s new Newport Beach office is the firm’s seventh office in the state. Altogether, the firm has approximately 300 attorneys
Law Firm Specialized In Representing Men in Divorce Expands Service Read More »
The UK media report on oligarchs and wealthy clients using big name law firms to intimidate and silence journalists, threatening freedom of the media and giving rise to a cross-party effort to prevent such intimidation and misuse of wealth. The Guardian and legal media report that a a cross-party group of MPs is seeking to
UK Politicians Seek To Prevent Oligarchs’ “Lawfare” From Intimidating Reporters Read More »
Litigation law firms do many things to build their firm’s litigation clout, but New Zealand law firm Meredith Connell has taken matters a step further to build its litigation chops by incorporating a courtroom into its new Auckland office. >> Check The Latest Roles For Litigators on LawFuel’s Law Site Here The firm’s Fanshawe Street
Meredith Connell’s In-House Courthouse – The Litigation Law Firm’s ‘First’ Read More »
Reports from the Australian Financial Times indicate that a number of Allen & Overy’s banking lawyers are planning to leave the firm – with the AFR report indicating that between 15 to 20 lawyers, including three lawyers, are “in play” to leave the firm. This follows the departure for Corrs Chambers Westgarth of head of debt
Are Allen & Overy Lawyers Planning To Jump Ship? Read More »
Trans-Tasman law firm Wotton + Kearney has made a lateral recruitment move on DLA taking a team of insurance lawyers, including partner Peter Leman, who has been an insurance litigator for 35 years and including Caroline Laband and Misha Henaghan. Latest law jobs here on the largest dedicated law jobs board Wotton + Kearney has
DLA Piper NZ Suffer Second Law Talent Swoop From Rival Read More »
Baker McKenzie has matched the big lift in associate salaries by adding $10,000 to the $20,000 paid to lawyers in the one-year to eight-year experience level. The lift follows the ongoing rise in biglaw associate pay levels, pushing the payments to their highest level. The Baker McKenzie move is backdated to January 1. First year
Mishcon de Reya may be one of the more high profile law firms in the world – it handled Princess Diana’s divorce, after all – but its much-anticipated public float has commenced with just the sort of publicity no newly-minted float wants – a substantial fine. The firm, which has never exactly shunned publicity, was
Mishcon’s Biglaw London Float Off To Stumbling Start Read More »
We hear much about ‘virtual’ or ‘distributed’ law firm services, but when it comes to producing real results that are genuinely impressive the pioneering virtual law firm of FisherBroyles is setting a revenue record with an almost 30 per cent increase on its previous year’s earnings. The firm’s growth has doubled and it has entered
The Amazing Rise of Virtual Law Firm FisherBroyles . . The Law Firm You Never Heard Of Read More »
Many celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Dua Lipa, and Ariana Grande, have been sued for posting photos of themselves taken by paparazzi. In short, explains LegalEagle in this interesting video about copyright law, “you don’t own the copyright even if you are the subject of the photo.”
Why celebrities get sued for posting paparazzi photos of themselves Read More »
