A world class team of cybersecurity incident response experts is to join A&O. Ffion Flockhart joins as partner and global head of cybersecurity. She is joined by partner Charlie Weston-Simons. They will join from Norton Rose Fulbright. The team will assist in providing our clients with heavyweight, sophisticated capability to handle cyber incidents and manage data […]
In a somewhat different move for a major law firm, Russell McVeagh have recruited a long-time private practice, self-employed lawyer who practised for eight years in her own practice in the private law arena, focused on trust, estate and relationship property issues. Priscilla Brown previously worked for both MinterEllisonRuddWatts and TGT Legal Russell McVeagh has
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Robin Adelstein (New York and Washington, DC), Mark Baker (Houston), Jane Caskey (Toronto and London) and Janet Grove (Vancouver) have been named BTI Client Service All-Stars for 2020. Adelstein was named for her work in antitrust and competition, and Baker—who has been named for a fourth time—for his work in international arbitration. Caskey was lauded for her work in risk advisory
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Law firms are increasingly moving into the risk advisory space and Linklaters have now moved to set up their own risk advisory practice by hiring Nortonn Rose’s Jane Caskey, former Global Head of their Risk Advisory practice. The Linklaters media release is below: Linklaters announces the appointment of Jane Caskey as Global Head of Risk
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Welcome To The Most Feared Law Firm Quinn Emanuel prides itself on its litigation ferocity and success and with the recent rankings from the BTI Consulting Group it retains the title as The Most Feared Law Firm. The rankings for the LA-based firm are based on interviews with over 350 leading legal decision-makers from prominent
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David Boies has a deserved reputation as one of the leading litigators in the United States, building his Boies Schiller Flexner firm into a litigation powerhouse. But things have not gone so well with Boies Schiller Flexner in recent years and although it is rebuilding, the question of who replaces David Boies has the law
Albert Goodwin* Slaughter and May has raised the salary for its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers to £125,000, a significant 9 percent increase from the previous £115,000. The increase is effective from 1 November, aligns the firm with its Magic Circle counterparts: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and Linklaters. The big law pay
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