He is instructed by solicitors ranging
from magic circle firms to sole practitioners, as well as in house lawyers and trades unions.
The five
magic circle firms brought in # 5.5 bn last year — an impressive performance and certainly the best average showing across the legal elite in several years.
He was also responsible for a similar work allocation trial
at magic circle firm Clifford Chance back in 2012.
Macfarlanes
joins magic circle firms as majority stake in commodities news service is sold to US investor General Atlantic
White & Case's London office and several other firms in the city did the same in May 2016,
with magic circle firms Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May adopting «agile working» programmes the following month.
Billable hours will no longer be the deciding factor in determining associate bonuses at the London office of
magic circle firm Clifford Chance...
London's first LegalTech Hackathon, which was organised by Legal Geek to help Hackney Community Law Centre deliver more cost - effective legal advice, was won by Fresh Innovate, a team from
magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Anxious not to be outdone, days later fellow
magic circle firm Linklaters announces that its new venture capital arm is taking a majority stake in a start - up that makes self - driving AI - propelled hoverboard stand - up desks.
Ellis, who was a partner at MoFo between 2007 and 2008, has rejoined her old firm this week to work alongside corporate partner Thomas Chou and M&A partner Jeremy Hunt, who joined the firm last year from
magic circle firm Allen & Overy.
A tie - up would unite the two biggest brands in the legal insurance market, and in revenue terms constitute the largest union ever executed between two UK law firms (the deal that created Clifford Chance happened at a time
when magic circle firms were about as big as Howard Kennedy).
Fellow magic circle firm Linklaters announced a deal with rival technology company RAVN in May, allowing its lawyers to use RAVN's services for a number of automated tasks.
Sainsbury's — which holds a review every three years — has also held on to key advisors
including magic circle firm Linklaters, CMS Cameron McKenna, Addleshaw Goddard, Dentons and DWF, while newly merged firm Wragge Lawrence Graham has also retained its spot.
Second magic circle firm reveals gender pay gap as Irwin Mitchell goes beyond requirements with equity partner disclosures
For example, in early April, it was reported that
U.K. magic circle firm Allen & Overy had launched a major recruitment drive in order to add up to 20 associates and partners to its United Arab Emirates» office.
High - street retail group John Lewis Partnership has appointed
magic circle firm Slaughter and May as its lead corporate adviser, replacing Hogan Lovells, on its newly slimmed down panel.
Clifford Chance (CC) has become the
latest magic circle firm to reveal its spring retention rate, announcing it will keep on 94 % of its March 2014 intake of newly qualified (NQ) lawyers.
Magic circle firm adds two upper levels while under - performing partners may be nudged down the lockstep ladder
Magic circle firm keeps on 38 out of 40 trainees following its announcement of increased bonuses for top associates
It is the
fourth magic circle firm to report its retention rate and it is the lowest rate so far from one of the City's old guard
Sources were near unanimous in agreement about what first attracted them to this
prestigious magic circle firm (nicknamed «Links» by its employees): «I came here for the same reason most people do: I mean I wanted to be a transactional lawyer and I wanted to do top - notch M&A.
Of the
other magic circle firms, both Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have told Legal Week they will not release partner data.
And
though magic circle firms may expect to be in prime position for UK government work relating to Brexit, Hamilton says he expects to win a slice of this regulatory work.
Magic circle firm pulls plug on Cologne as it beefs up Duesseldorf with 16 Cologne partners and its Frankfurt based global corporate head Rick Van Aerssen
Freshfields, which advised L&G in 2005 when the insurer was investigated by the Financial Services Authority for the alleged mis - selling of endowment mortgages, is the
only magic circle firm not on the panel.