Ashurst hires Amarchand associate for Jakarta office
Ashurst has hired Amarchand Mangaldas Principal Associate Satyam Sharat as a Foreign Legal Consultant in its Jakarta office. Ashurst…
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King & Wood Mallesons appoints new M&A and tax head
King & Wood Mallesons has appointed corporate partner Tim Bednall as managing partner responsible for the corporate M&A and tax practices. Bednall was chairman of the…
Ice Miller loses municipal team to Frost Brown in Ohio
US law firm Ice Miller has lost a five-lawyer municipal law team to Frost Brown Todd in Columbus, Ohio. The team is made up of Stephen…
University of Law and Open University end partnership
The University of Law has lost a contract rumoured to be worth up to £3m a year with the end of its agreement with UK-based distance education provider Open University. The press release explains that the…
QualitySolicitors Redkite to make redundancies
Wales law firm QualitySolicitors Redkite has entered a redundancy consultation that could lead to job losses for 24 of the firm's 120 staff: twelve jobs are at risk…
DLA Piper tops list for largest US law firm
The National Law Journal has compiled statistics showing which US firms grew headcount over the past year, and which firms shrunk. At the top of the list ith the most lawyers added over the year is
Clyde & Co reports 17% increase in revenue
Clyde & Co has recorded a 17% increase in turnover and a 5% rise in profits per equity partner in its first full year of trading after its merger with Barlow Lyde & Gilbert. The…
DAC Beachcroft shakes up leadership
DAC Beachcroft is set for a change in leadership as international senior partner Danny Gowan retires, making way for insurance partner Nick Young to take up the top role.…
Institutional bias holds women back, says senior lawyer
Stephanie Haladner, a former Clifford Chance lawyer and now a diversity consultant to the UK top law firms has described an institutional bias against women: "There is an…
Dundas & Wilson defers London trainee intake
Dundas & Wilson has announced that it is deferring the majority of its september trainee intake and the entire 2014 London office trainee intake by one year. The 24 trainees…
Senator Joseph Lieberman to join Kasowitz as SC
The recently retired Senator Joseph Lieberman has announced that he will join US law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman as senior counsel in the New York…
Citibank India hires IndusLaw partner as GC
Citibank India has hired Pramod Rao, the founding partner of IndusLaw’s Mumbai office, as its new general counsel. Rao will take up the role in July, leading a team of around…
Ashurst to launch support centre in Glasgow
Ashurst is set to create 300 jobs in Glasgow after being given a £2.4 million regional selective assistance grant to move to the city. The Glasgow base will perform support…
NLJ survey shows marginal growth at top US firms
The National Law Journal’s annual survey of the biggest US law firms shows a small amount of growth over the past year. The survey, which looks at data from the 350 largest law firms in the US, recorded overall growth…
Seyfarth Shaw must delay Australian launch
The Australian newspaper reports that US law firm Seyfarth Shaw faces delay in the launch of two offices in Australia, after hiring eight lawyers from three different firms in…