Top London QC Richard Atkins has come under fire for his comments on Twitter about what a barrister should look like – including having a ‘proper haircut . . and having well polished shoes.” Atkins is a senior legal leader, head of St Philips Chambers and former Chair the Bar of England and Wales. He […]
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A royal row over anti-Semitism and sexism has developed between one of the UK’s most prestigious law firms and one of its top women litigagors, one of LawFuel’s ’13 Most Feared Women Litigators,‘ the so-called ‘Steel Magnolia’, Baroness Fiona Shackleton. Lady Shackleton has accused the Queen’s law firm, Farrer & Co of being a hotbed
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Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office has risen to Band 4 in the Banking Litigation category, and to Band 5 in the International Arbitration: Commercial Arbitration category, in the recently published Chambers UK guide. The firm was also ranked in the Litigation category for the first time, coming in at Band 6. Among individual rankings, Managing
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Erica Watson – How fair can this be? Two senior partners earning vast amounts of money complaining about the somewhat lesser vast amounts being paid to junior lawyers? But true it is as two senior lawyers make their views on current salary levels in London law – prompted by US law firms stepping up their
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WASHINGTON – The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Goldman Sachs or the Company), a global financial institution headquartered in New York, New York, and Goldman Sachs (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (GS Malaysia), its Malaysian subsidiary, have admitted to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in connection with a scheme to pay over $1 billion
Jenna Shay – The English Bar has long been regarded as as bastion of some of the brightest lawyers in the country, but no more, it would seem. Instead, a recent report referred to the ‘culture of fear’ at the bar and the bullying and harassment that occurs. A new report from the UK Bar
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White & Case LLP has promoted 40 lawyers around the world to its partnership. The promotions are effective on January 1, 2021 and represent 11 of the Firm’s global practices and 17 locations. “Our new partners have shown consistent and longstanding dedication to their clients and to our Firm,” said White & Case Chair Hugh
Reports in London indicate that salaries in the high-paying London legal world, including the much-vaunted Magic Circle law firms, could fall as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic and remote working. Several senior law firm partners are suggesting that paying remote workers hardly requires the high-paying salaries given that they are working remotely. In June
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UK lawyers have come out swinging about Boris Johnson’s comments to the virtual Conservative Party conference where he said “lefty human rights lawyers” who he claimed were hampering the criminal justice system Responding to the prime minister’s address to the party’s virtual conference on Tuesday, lawyers condemned his comments as going even further than those made by
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The value of top-end lawyers has been demonstrated again with the recent hire by Skaddens of former Freshfields’ M&A star The lawyer, Bruce Embley, was hired for a reported $5 million according to reports from American Lawyer, who have reported what insiders have told the law news service. Embley has spent most of his career
