Trainee retention rates at the 30 largest firms in the UK are up 10 per cent on last year’s figures, 84% of qualifying trainees were offered jobs this year and 83 per cent of the group accepted offers. This can be…
Berwin Leighton Paisner has hired private client partner Rupert Ticehurst from Herbert Smith. Ticehurst was Herbert Smith’s…
Berwin Leighton Paisner has boosted its Middle East real estate practice with the hire of two partners in Abu Dhabi.
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UK firm Berwin Leighton Paisner has boosted its non-contentious financial services practice with the hire of Pinsent Masons…
Berwin Leighton Paisner has boosted its employment litigation practice with the hire of Lisa Mayhew, formerly the head of Jones…
UK firm Berwin Leighton Paisner bucked the trend last financial year, posting an increase in both turnover and profit, with income topping £191 million for the first…
Top UK law firms have increased borrowing by 40 per cent in response to the financial crisis, according to an article published in Times Online today. The legal services sector has traditionally had less capital than…
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has announced a 5% drop in revenues for the first half of the financial year, bringing in fee income of £79.8m. The firm's results put it behind last year when it posted static growth at…
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has bolstered its tax practice with the hire of Jonathan Levy from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP). Levy, who has been a partner at BLP for almost two years, will lead RPC's…
Former Clifford Chance lawyer Adam Signy has scored his first major transaction since joining Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's…
Magic circle law firms -- Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Slaughter and May -- saw promotions fall by an average of 41 percent this year, while their City rivals Lovells, CMS…
Lovells’ retention rate for trainee solicitors qualifying in autumn has decreased to 69 per cent, placing the firm UK in line with other City firms like Freshfields (70 per cent), Allen & Overy (77 per cent), Ashurst…
According to The Lawyer, BLP made 47 compulsory redundancies, while 32 took voluntary redundancy and six employees have taken early retirement.
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is reviewing 30 legal, 30 business services and 25 secretarial positions in London, reports legalweek.
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is in advanced discussions with Moscow's Andrey Goltsblat to take a number of partners from the Russian firm as part of the new launch, with an announcement of the full details imminent.