The Solicitors Regulation Authority has asked major UK law firms to collect comprehensive data on diversity statistics with a view to making the numbers available to clients. The Authority hopes that publishing the data…
Baker & McKenzie and Linklaters are set to launch in Seoul after receiving regulatory approval from South Korea’s Ministry of…
A report by The Lawyer shows that trainee attrition cost magic circle law firms more than £10m between them last year. The report looks at how much each firm invested in training, including the LPC course fee,…
Linklaters UK has increased the amount paid to students undertaking the Legal Practice Course and the Graduate Diploma in Law. Students with training contract offers from the firm…
Japanese law firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has boosted its Singapore office with the hire of former Morrison & Foerster Tokyo…
Linklaters and South African firm Webber Wentzel have assembled a cross-firm committee of partners to guide their alliance, after the firms…
Pepper Hamilton has given a further boost to its white collar litigation & investigations practice group with the hire of Linklaters…
Singapore’s granted foreign law practice licenses to Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Jones Day, Sidley…
Linklaters and Clifford Chance have announced strong trainee retention figures, with both firms coming in over 80 per cent. Clifford…
The Singapore Ministry of Law has granted four international firms the licence to practice in the country in its second round of applications. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher,
Hogan Lovells has hired a team of four arbitration and litigation lawyers in Moscow from rival firm Linklaters. The team is led by…
London law firms are taking up a range of initiatives to remove the barriers that prevent students from lower-income backgrounds pursuing a career in law. This article from The Guardian gives a snapshot of programmes…
Baker & McKenzie remains the leading legal brand among in-house counsel, according to a new survey by legal researcher Acritas. The firm has held the top spot since 2009, when…
Allen & Overy has formed an alliance with a Saudi Arabian firm after the firm’s previous local sponsor Abdulaziz AlGasim announced…
The 30% Club - an initiative aimed at increasing the number of women in leadership positions in the professional services - has recommended a shift in focus from traditional diversity programs to focussed “talent…