Leading global law firm, Clifford Chance has announced two new senior level appointments designed to support the delivery of the firm’s strategy. Caroline Firstbrook, who joins the firm in mid February, succeeds Amanda Burton as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. Meanwhile, Bas Boris Visser, Managing Partner of Clifford Chance’s Amsterdam office, takes on the new […]
Like many publications involved in the legal media, the Lawyer in the UK has been asking why so few women make to senior roles? Specifically, The Lawyer asked, why do they not make senior management roles, noting that only eight women hold senior roles in the UK’s top 50 law firms. The whole gender issue
Vannin Capital – The Ministry of Justice recently announced that it plans to raise revenue from the court system by introducing a new structure for fees from April 2015 for bringing money claims over the value of £10,000. Under the new system, the court fee to issue money claims over £10,000, will be calculated as
Fake law firms are on the increase according to Bar Associations in Europe, with scammers gathering information from their “clients” and using – or misusing – the identities of real lawyers and their branding to add credibility to their ruses. The Law Society of Scotland has warned members and the public about the growing trend,
Issues to increase law firm productivity have long excited the interest of law firm managers, but an English firm has now taken on a ‘paid time off’ (PTO) policy that lets employees take the time they like from the firm. The firm, Ashton KCJ in East Anglia, is trialling the policy with a few towards
LawFuel.com – Partners of international law firm Bird & Bird and ASE Consulting, specialists in IT-enabled change, today announced the launch of Baseline. This unique joint venture will bring together the range of multi-disciplinary skills required to help those driving major transformational programmes, both in the UK and internationally. The new business venture will deliver
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Rapidly-rising London rentals – around six times the UK national average – may be pushing out one of London’s “Magic Circle” law firms, Freshfields. According to rercent reports Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has instructed real estate agents to find 100,000 square feet in Manchester to accommodate its 1300 UK staff. The reports frm the Estates Gazette
London, 5 February 2015 – LawFuel.com – Global law firm Mayer Brown today announced the appointment of senior asset-based lending (ABL) partner Alex Dell, who is widely-recognised as a leading ABL and receivables finance lawyer in the UK. His appointment will further strengthen the firm’s top-end, cross–border ABL capabilities. Alex currently leads DLA
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Northern UK law firm Brabners, with 65 partners and offices in Manchester, Liverpool and Preston, grew its fee income to £30.2m in the 12 months to April 30 2014, resulting from an investment in both talent and technology, according to managing partner Mark Brandwood (picture He told the Manchester Evening News: “While many of our
British Queen Counsel Ben Emmerson this week created a storm of interest, if not controversy with his claims that Russian president Vladimir Putin ran a “mafia state” and was behind the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko was killed through poisoning with polonium, which the QC described was an “act of nuclear terrorism
