European law giant CMS has said it will close its Moscow offices and withdraw from the Russian market, after Conserva...
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European law giant CMS has given all of its UK trainees a pay rise. The Paris headquartered firm said its London trai...
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As the world responds to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Big Law is facing pressure to drop its ties to Russia. Some fi...
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Today, at an online event hosted by Chatham House, former UK prime minister Gordon Brown called on countries to set u...
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A German court has said academic social media website ResearchGate must take down research papers that were uploaded ...
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London law firm Eversheds has said that it is not currently working for the Russian government, Russian oligarchs, or...
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Dutch law firm Houthoff has said it will cut its links to the Russian government, in response to Russia’s invasion of...
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Campaigners have warned that the government’s plans to crack down on “foreign criminals” laundering money through the...
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US law firm Jenner & Block is set to buck the trend towards office downsizing by expanding the size of its City of Lo...
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A libel lawsuit, put forward by a Kazakhstani mining company against Financial Times journalist Tom Burgis over his n...
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Magic Circle law firm Allen & Overy has vowed not take on any more Russian clients, in response to Russia’s invasion ...
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Economists have recently acknowledged the existence and the value of natural assets in ways which open new avenues of...
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Conservative MP Bob Seely has spoken out against the UK lawyers working on behalf of Russian oligarchs, after accusin...
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Slater & Gordon has halved the price of getting a divorce, in preparation for the introduction of new laws allowing f...
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New York law firm Fried Frank has poached 35 white collar professionals from its New York Cadwalader, Wickersham & Ta...
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Consultancy giants McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) are facing calls to further sever their links to Russia...
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Magic Circle law firm Linklaters and Chicago law firm Baker McKenzie have said they are considering cutting links to ...
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The Law Society of England and Wales has come out in support of law firms acting on behalf of Russian oligarchs, as C...
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PwC has acquired Australia’s largest tax advisory firm, Greenwoods, as part of a deal which will see 15 Greenwoods pa...
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A rising star lawyer at Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance has called on the Canary Wharf headquartered firm to ap...
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The High Court has issued an arrest warrant for Julie Meyer, the founder and CEO of Swiss investment fund Viva Invest...
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Partners at Hogan Lovells are set to receive £1.8m, the law firm said today, after it posted record global revenues o...
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Lawyers are not any more miserable than people working in other professions, such as medicine or dentistry, according...
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London law firm Gunnercooke has become the first major UK headquartered law firm to accept payments in the form of cr...
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The City of London’s law firms are now the UK’s highest paying graduate employers, according to new figures from High...
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Dechert and Fried Frank have both upped the salaries they pay out to newly qualified lawyers, as the pay battle conti...
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British-American law firm Hogan Lovells has said it will leave its City of London headquarters, to move to new premis...
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City of London law firm Hogan Lovells has poached two of Linklaters’ M&A lawyers, as the surge in M&A activity contin...
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A 66-year-old barrister has been fined £500 after calling a female lawyer an “hysterical woman” at Worthing County Co...
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Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors is set to pay its newly qualified lawyers an unprecedented $235,000 (~£172,500) a year...
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DLA Piper is considering plans for a full merger between the US and international arms of its business, Financial New...
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Law firms are now increasingly willing to hire candidates that do not have the skills they were looking for, as the b...
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One of Britain’s top QCs has said the UK should stop forcing barristers to wear wigs after claiming they are a symbol...
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Criminal barristers will vote on whether to strike at the end of this month, after Dominic Raab told barristers to “b...
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The UK is facing a shortage of criminal duty solicitors, as the sector faces a chronic recruitment crisis, the Law So...
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Pinsent Mason’s has cut the number of desks available to staff in its Edinburgh offices, after moving in to new premi...
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Eversheds Sutherland’s has given newly qualified lawyers in its London offices a 15.8 per cent pay rise after upping ...
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Most of the UK’s biggest law firms, with annual turnovers of more than £500m, are now actively hiring more lawyers, a...
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Sir Nigel Knowles, the former Co-CEO and co-chairman of DLA Piper, has said that offering young lawyers huge pay rise...
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