Former Boies Schiller Flexner chief and successor to law star David Boies, Natasha Harrison is to launch a law practice in London, likely rivalling her former New York-based firm. Boies Schiller has seen a raft of departures in recent months, although it continues to announce growth and expansion plans, including a potential move into a […]
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By Ed Siddons, Simon Lock – City law firms are “completely outgunning” the UK’s only complex fraud agency, raising concerns that an “imbalance of arms” is allowing some oligarchs and powerful corporations to “buy impunity”. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal that some companies under investigation have spent up to 10 times more than
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The US Big Law firms breaching the $200,000 salary scale for associates has been the subject of a new Big Law salary scale survey in an AboveTheLaw report that follows the $200k limit breached by Millbank in June 2021. Millbank fired the first shot in the associate salary scale war as we have reported and
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New Zealand’s legal aid crisis is eroding the right to justice
Former senior UK Cabinet Minister Sir Geoffrey Cox QC has created a furor in the UK for his lawyer earnings over what was described as his ‘moonlighting’ legal work, which earned him more than £5.5 million ($7.7 million USD) since 2009. The British media, including the Daily Mail, revealed how he had spent 10,700 hours
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BigLaw giant Kirkland & Ellis has picked up a $200 million fee in a contingency legal case involving chemical companies. Law.com reports that the fee was revealed in a press release from Kirkland & Ellis client Huntsman Corp which“shows that Kirkland & Ellis’ strategic decision to ‘double down’ on contingency fee cases is paying off
Law Firm recruitment has always been an intensely competitive business, but it just got a lot hotter as some legal recruiters describe the present situation among major law firms in the US and the UK as “approaching boiling point”. The reason for the issue has been the much more competitive market for legal talent. Law
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The Firm: Duncan Cotterill is one of New Zealand’s oldest law firms. A full service firm is has continued to grow strongly in the major markets and growing from a well-established South Island base it has handled major corporate, government, property, agribusiness and other work throughout the country. The firm offers a range opportunities as
LegalVision, the Australian ‘legal disrupter’ plans to enter the UK legal market, following the move by fellow New Law firm SprintLaw that has also launched in the UK. The subscription-based legal service providers have seen a massive growth in demand following the pandemic, rather than the conventional hourly billing model favored for so long by
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