Freshfields, Linklaters and eight other law firms have been added to the MoD panel, Legal Week report.The website reports that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters are among firms winning places on the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) 10-strong major projects panel. Addleshaw Goddard, Burges Salmon, Freshfields, Herbert Smith Freehills and Linklaters have been added to the […]
LONDON, 15 December 2014—LawFuel.com – Ropes & Gray is advising Bain Capital Europe, LLP on the acquisition of CRH plc’s clay and concrete businesses in the UK and United States in a transaction valuing the businesses at £414 million.CRH, a FTSE 100 building products company, is selling clay companies lbstock and Glen Gery in the
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Worcester- based law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys has received accolades from Legal 500 with a number of top rankings in the Chambers UK Guide rankings of major UK law firms.In the guide, produced annually by Chambers & Partners, HCR was ranked in the top tier of band one for family law, licensing, litigation, private client
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British law firms and barristers’ chambers have been threatened with the “nuclear” option of having quotas imposed, according to a recently released Diversity Legal Table report showing different approaches are required to improve the lot of women and ethnic minorities in British law firms and chambers.Its annual Diversity Legal Table report also suggested different approaches
By Muna Saleem* Once upon a time (although not that long ago) being a divorcee and trying to meet new significant others was extremely difficult, largely as a result of society’s perceptions of divorce, particularly being divorced and female.However, opinions have changed dramatically in the last few decades and many women in their forties who
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It’s to become easier than ever for non-law firms to enter the UK legal profession following recent changes made by the solicitors’ watchdog. The changes came about because changes made by the “Tesco law” reforms were failing to attract new players in the UK law business. The measures will make it easier for companies to
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The law firm deal between China-based King & Wood and RJ Berwin saw a “Bible” produced by Rachel Reid, who shepherded the merger with her deal document that outlined every step along the way. That’s one reason she has just won the law firm management award made by The Lawyer. Reid wrote the deal document
London women lawyers are up in arms, or at least taking their will to succeed to a new level with the creation of Women in Law London (WILL), a group designed to redress the gender balance in top law firms in the City. The number of women entering the law continues to grow with more
The notorious Kenyan Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s has lead to major legal claims against Britain, but now a human rights law firm is facing an uprising for those who claim its legal fees were “fraudulently” inflated. In 2010, the firm Leigh Day sued the Government for compensation on behalf of 5,228 former insurgents
Possibly the world’s most famed barrister, Amal Alamuddin, wife of George Clooney, is taking on two new things: her husband’s name and a Greek case to reclaim the Parthenon Marbles.How life has changed for Ms Clooney, nee Alamuddin, as The Guardian reports.Amal Clooney, prominent human rights lawyer, has today started advising the Greek government in
