Linklaters has announced the election of 37 new counsel across 12 jurisdictions and 11 practice areas. Almost half of the new counsel are women with 18 new female counsel (49%). The new promotions take effect on 1st May 2019. 37 new counsel have been promoted across 12 jurisdictions and 11 practice areas 18 (49%) of the new counsel promotions […]
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Mishcon de Reya has today announced that Neil Baylis will join the firm’s Competition Group as a partner on 18 March 2019. Neil was previously a partner at K&L Gates LLP, heading the firm’s Competition and Trade Regulation Group in London. He specialises in all aspects of EU and UK competition law, as well as giving advice
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LawFuel subscribers will recall our June 2018 article about London’s top-earning lawyers, which featured David Higgins, among others, who left Freshfields to join the aggressively expansive Kirkland & Ellis. Higgins, a private equity lawyer, made the move that some saw as insulting to his old firm and the Magic Circle, but it was nonetheless followed
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Big Bucks From Big Law = Toxic Work Environment Say, Junior Lawyers Tom Bowker – ‘Toxic’ work environments in law firms have been the subject of a contentious letter written by junior UK lawyers, following young laywers struck off after working in difficult conditions. The letter was sent to the UK Junior Solicitors Regulation Authority
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sWithersworldwide – The announcement in today’s Times that David Gauke intends to introduce legislation to remove blame from the divorce process is a welcome development which has the overwhelming support of family lawyers as evidenced by Resolution’s effective campaign for reform alongside those run by The Times and the Marriage Foundation. Searching for fault is
Slaughter & May – The prospect of Brexit will dominate the UK’s political, legal and economic landscape over the coming years. Our Brexit Practice Group have produced and will continue to produce publications outlining the procedural and substantive implications of the referendum result and Brexit as events develop. Members of the firm have advised and continue to advise clients
Disruption around Brexit and legal changes could lead to an uptick in the number of partnership disputes reaching the High Court, a law firm has said. Partnership and employment law firm Fox & Partners said the process of the UK leaving the EU could end the downturn in the number of partnership disputes, which dropped
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Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie has hired Peter Lu as a Partner and Head of the China Group in London, joining its fast-growing London Corporate practice. Peter joins the Firm on Monday from White & Case where he was head of their EMEA China desk and Counsel in their London M&A practice. His hire
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How difficult it is for a woman in law to somehow manage a busy and successful legal life and an equally successful private life? It’s a career conundrum that women face and have to deal with in the face of increasing calls for greater achievement and success in the law. A recent Times article on
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THB Solicitors – A will is the only way to fully ensure that your property and loved ones are protected when you die. Yet around 58% of adults do not have a valid will. Without one, the Government directs, in a strict specified order, who should inherit from your estate. This could mean that your
