Milbank offer long-working first year lawyers to $200,000 a year . . but some are buckling under the pressure despite the money The pay war in London has been lead by US law firms, who continue to push the pay boundaries with $200,000 a year for first year lawyers now being paid by Milbank. The […]
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Writing in the lifestyle website Refinery 29, the unnamed, 29 year old lawyer explained that she had moved from the security of her high paying City legal job to handle work that was more interesting and rewarding in a non-financial way. However, she also experts to be receiving her six figure salary at some unspecified
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18 May 2021- Leading UK and ‘Global Top 200’ law firm, Stephenson Harwood, has been utilising Luminance’s market-leading AI platform to enhance the way it conducts legal due diligence for high value strategically important M&A deals. Stephenson Harwood was looking for ways to quickly and efficiently get insight into the totality of documents before an M&A
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Powered by LawFuel – Global law firm Linklaters LLP has elected Aedamar Comiskey as its new Senior Partner. Aedamar, who currently serves as the firm’s Global Head of Corporate, will take up her five-year term on 1 July 2021. She succeeds current Senior Partner, Charlie Jacobs, whose five-year term will end on 30 June 2021.
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The London offices of large US law firms are snapping senior legal talent – but they’re sometimes missing the concept of what the culture of a ‘British’ firm London law’s gold rush, stimulated by American law firms, has now reached even greater heights with legal media reports indicating top partners are shifting firms at amounts
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Knights, the UK’s fastest growing legal and professional services business, today announces that it has agreed to acquire Keebles LLP (“Keebles”), an independent commercial law firm primarily based in Sheffield. Acquisition rationale and background Established in Sheffield over a century ago, Keebles is a full-service independent law firm with a strong corporate and real estate offering,
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Powered by LawFuel— Peter Broadhurst, a highly regarded competition lawyer, is joining Crowell & Moring’s London office as a partner, expanding the firm’s capability to advise clients on their most complex U.K. and EU competition matters. Broadhurst brings two decades of experience advising companies on competition issues, including merger clearance, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance (acting both for
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Paul Hastings has hired more lawyers from White & Case, London after already picking up two partners earlier this year. The four lawyers are from White & Case’s white collar group, lead by Rebecca Copcutt, who joins the firm as a partner. Copcutt’s practice focuses on criminal enforcement action and investigations with a particular interest
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The move towards gender equality in law firms continues with the latest announcement from law firm Ashurst Global law firm Ashurst announces the appointment of 14 partners, with effect from 1 May 2021. This year over three quarters (78%) of the new partners are female, building on the two thirds who were promoted last year.
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Geoffrey Roberton QC is one of the world’s most famous barristers – certainly Australia’s most famous – but the flamboyant 74 year old has tired of the challenges facing international law and its lack of effectiveness. In a profile piece reported in TheSaturdayPaper (registration required), Robertson lambasted the Geoffrey Robertson, born in the Sydney suburbs,
