A battle has developed on either side of the Atlantic over pay for talented lawyers, with some American law firms paying high dollars to London lawyers – in US dollars as well. Newly qualified lawyers in Britain working for US law firms can now earn up to US$180,000 (£137,400) the FT reports. >> Check LawFuel’s Law […]
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With summer time comes the opportunity for young interns to start flexing their career muscles. According to a Evening Standard report, the interns in law firms and banks in London are taking the opportunity to – as writer Frankie McCoy says – do the “bigt deals” as the people who “drink Jägerbombs out of choice. So
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Dropping the C bomb is not something you would expect from any judge, let alone a British High Court judge like Patricia Lynch QC. She visible stunned her court when sentencing a racist defendant, John Henningan, 50, who told her she was “a bit of a c***”. Her immediate response was “You are a bit
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The leading London law firm Mischcon de Reya has started legal action to have the British Parliament to seek legislative approval before leaving the European Union. The law firm said in a statement reported by Reuters that its clients were a group of concerned British citizens, but it did not name them or say who
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Dublin, Ireland – May 24, 2016 – Drawing on her many years’ experience as a litigator specialising in employment and equality law, Cliona Kimber is now looking at how the digital age is bringing challenges to the workplace and highlighting the challenging task that traditional laws have in keeping up with the new digital advances.
British QC Gary Bell is a top criminal lawyer, who has also released his book “Animal QC”. This extract from The Spectator looks at drug dealers – cocaine dealers specifically – and at how the drug business is not necessarily quite as glamorous as you might imagine. As a defence silk, I come across some
Sidley Austin – LawFuel Law Firm Directory – Sidley Welcomes New Employment Partner London – Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Susan Fanning is joining the firm as a partner, bringing to Sidley more than 25 years of experience in employment law. In particular, Ms. Fanning advises a wide range of multinational clients on both
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Many lawyers represent unpopular clients, but for UK lawyer Tom Giles, he takes cases that – put simply – no one else wants. The point is, Tom Giles works on detainees – those people from Afghanistan, Iraq and other locations, defending some of Britain’s most unpopular cases in an area of law most lawyers would
Ever wondered about legal fee disparity – where one firm charges vastly more (or less) than another for precisely the same job. The Guardian reports this week about precisely that, showing massive disparity among UK law firms for work that is precisely the same in a survey conducted by a the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and
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UK based, international law firm Kennedys has strengthened its insurance practice with the appointment of Ian Davies as a partner, as he becomes the third former partner of Lyons Davidson to move over. Mr Davies follows Mark Walsh and Robert Wallace, as well as solicitor Sandip Sidhu and legal executive Rachel Harbour, in joining the
