Bond Dickinson ends Brexit pay freeze
Bond Dickinson has become the latest firm to end its firmwide pay freeze and promised staff it will backdate pay. In September managing partner Jonathan Blair emailed all of the firm’s employees and...
View ArticleRio Tinto terminates top lawyer’s contract amid mining payments probe
Rio Tinto has kickstarted its search for a new head of legal after it terminated the contract of former boss Debra Valentine. The FTSE 100 giant announced last week that Valentine had “stepped down”...
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Lo♥︎ing legal life: The power of no
This week systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and barrister James Pereira QC discuss how honouring one’s work boundaries by saying no to work can enable leaders to bring out the best in themselves and...
View ArticleWebinar: The Rise of Modern Public Legal Departments
To view this webinar, click https://landing.goclio.com/the-rise-of-modern-public-legal-departments-recording.html The post Webinar: The Rise of Modern Public Legal Departments appeared first on The...
View ArticlePone hacking update: Sandy Armstrong v MGN
Sandy Armstrong has settled her hacking action against MGN Limited. For further information see the link below to the Statement in Open Court. Sandy Armstrong v MGN Ltd – Statement in Open Court – 17...
View ArticleKM appointment
Collas Crill has appointed experienced lawyer Fiona Wilson to join its growing knowledge management team. A qualified solicitor, Fiona has worked at major law firms in Australia and Jersey before...
View ArticleConyers Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary in Dubai
Marking its 10th anniversary in 2016, Conyers’ Dubai office continues to lead the way in providing offshore legal and corporate services to the MENA region. Over the last decade the Dubai office has...
View ArticleHead of Dispute Resolution in BVI to speak at Seminar
Ogier’s Head of Dispute Resolution in the BVI is speaking about solutions to common obstacles faced by liquidators in the early stages of a liquidation at an INSOL seminar. Brian Lacy – whose practice...
View ArticlePromoting entrepreneurship on the Stock Exchange
Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) together with Unicase law firm are inviting the management of Kazakhstan’s firms and departments responsible for the promotion of entrepreneurship to take part at the...
View ArticleHR2Help – a new HR support and advice service
Today, B P Collins launches its new HR2Help service for those that need HR support or advice on a regular or ad hoc basis, whenever and wherever you need it. HR2Help’s highly qualified HR consultants...
View ArticleIndustry News: Addleshaws Offers Free Legal Advice to FinTech Startups
One of the largest law firms in the UK is to start offering complementary legal advice worth up to £500,000 to fintech startups in an attempt to help them grow. Working through the AG Elevate scheme,...
View ArticleWalker Morris ranked as one of UK’s most active legal advisers
Walker Morris is ranked in the top 20 of all UK law firms by deal count (both for deals up to $250m and deals up to $500m) in Bloomberg’s Q3 M&A Mid-Market Review Legal Rankings. The firm was also...
View ArticleAustralia law firm bosses say Brexit will benefit their businesses
Australian law firms believe they will significantly benefit from Britain leaving the EU, a survey has found. Around 55 per cent of managing partners of Australians firms said they viewed the UK’s...
View ArticleDAC Beachcroft embroiled in “threatening” email scandal
The Court of Appeal has criticised an email, believed to have been sent by DAC Beachcroft on behalf of a client, for including threats that amount to blackmail. The email was sent on behalf of...
View ArticleTravers scores Bridgepoint mandate on Bupa purchase
Travers Smith and White & Case have won key roles on Bridgepoint’s £835m sale of Oasis Dental Care to Bupa. Bridgepoint acquired Oasis in 2013 and sought legal advice from Linklaters on the...
View ArticleClifford Chance could face another Excalibur bill as CoA makes landmark...
Clifford Chance could be hit with another bill in the long-running $1.5bn Excalibur Ventures case following a Court of Appeal ruling on indemnity costs, handed down this morning (18 November). The...
View ArticleOlswang exits continue as corporate partner leaves for Withers
Olswang corporate finance partner Azlinda Ariffin-Boromand is joining Withers, becoming the latest to leave the firm ahead of its tripartite merger. Ariffin-Boromand, who also qualified as a barrister,...
View ArticleTransfer of children test confirmed
The Supreme Court recently considered whether the future of two girls, aged four and two, should be decided by the English courts or by the authorities in Hungary (the case of N (Children) [2016] UKSC...
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Older women are redrawing the in-house map
There are a lot of assumptions made about the demographics of the in-house profession. So we decided to do some research that nobody had done before. We looked at all English-qualified lawyers in the...
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The Lawyer FTSE 100: patterns of power
What are the demographics of in-house legal teams? Up until now there has never been any detailed investigation into the question. So we decided to conduct some research as part of The Lawyer FTSE 100...
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