From the Ukrainian ‘Wild East’ to a middle-aged legal disrupter: The innovation lawyers making a difference Innovation in the law has been highlighted in a Financial Times article identifying 10 key innovations from law firms for the list prepared by both the FT and RSG Consulting. The recent list included a Ukrainian lawyer in the […]
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“Compelling synergies” between two Big Law firms not enough to cement merger deal Attempts by City-based legal giant Allen & Overy to enter the US legal market have collapsed after 18 months of talks with US – based O’Melveny & Myers and evidences the structural differences between US and UK law firms. Allen & Overy
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New Productivity Tool From the World’s Top Earning Law Firm: Someone To Buy Your Doggie Booties Kirkland & Ellis are known for their aggressive revenue-generating culture, but have come in for some roasting for their new tool designed to increase further productivity. Their latest move to reportedly ‘chain lawyers to their desks’ by offering a
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Firm prepares to takeover Wink & Mackenzie Powered By LawFuel –Harper Macleod is delighted to announce record results this year, with a 9.5% rise in turnover to £29 million. The figures for the financial year 2018/19 come as the firm prepares to complete its takeover of Elgin firm Wink & Mackenzie, the latest in a series
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Linklaters Hire To Lead Firm’s European Private Client Practice Powered By LawFuel – Fieldfisher boosts private client practice with Linklaters partner Peter Golden will join Fieldfisher this autumn to lead the European law firm’s private client practice, to help capitalise on the firm’s strong existing reputation in trusts, real estate and tax advice for wealthy
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The former head of global legal giant Baker McKenzie’s London office is facing prosecution for alleged sexual harassment, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) said today with the former chief and his former firm instructing partners at law firms Kingsley Napley and RadcliffesLeBrasseur to represent them. Gary Senior, who left the firm last year, has been
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Powered By LawFuel – With this initial five year contract, DWF will become a provider of insurance and real estate legal services to BT. A number of staff from BT’s in-house Claims and Corporate Property teams will transfer from BT to DWF in the fourth quarter of 2019. DWF will use its Complex, Managed and Connected Services platforms to
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London ‘celebrity barrister’, sometimes referred to as the ‘chemsex barrister’, after supplying his teenage boyfriend with drugs that lead to his death, has been suspended again after returning only recently to the bar following his first suspension. Henry Hendron, who has represented Conservative MP Nadine Dorries and former Apprentice contestant Stella English in earlier cases,
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The law firm best known for representing Princess Diana in her divorce, represented by the firm’s Deputy Chairman Anthony Julius (pictured) is considering a stock market float that could value the firm at several hundred million pounds. The wealthy law firm, currently employs more than 900 people with over 500 lawyers and is part of
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