CMS UK disclosed a muted set of financial results this week with revenues inching up from £566m to £567m as global income increased 3% from €1.426bn to €1.475bn with a slowing growth on the previous year. CMS Press Release – CMS, the leading global law firm, today announces revenues for the financial year January-December 2020 of […]
Global law firm Eversheds Sutherland may have lost lawyers in Europe following a raid by K&L Gates, but at least its London pay rate for associates has joined the race-to-the-top with newly qualified lawyers earning nine per cent more at £82,000.The pay raise means the London lawyers, paid more than those in the firm’s regional
Management changes at Slaughter & May have seen the Magic Circle law firm dispensing with its executive partner and practice partner roles, replacing the positions with chief operating officer from outside the firm partnership.The move echoes what firms are beginning to practice or at least examine as they modernize their management structure to make them
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UK law firm Macfarlanes outlines how companies should deal with restrictions and liabilities after the pandemicAs the end of Covid restrictions rapidly approaches in the UK, a number of businesses are considering how they might deal with the issue of debts which have built up since the start of the first lockdown in March 2020.
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Milbank offer long-working first year lawyers to $200,000 a year . . but some are buckling under the pressure despite the moneyThe 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 payWall Street
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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 transaction.
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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 backgroundEstablished in Sheffield over a century ago, Keebles is a full-service independent law firm with a strong corporate and real estate offering, with a
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