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European employers mull reducing pandemic remote working options, study finds

Tight labour market means employers still need to offer some flexibility to attract and retain talent, Littler survey shows

24 Oct 2022

New York State Senator who sponsored Fashion Act to speak at upcoming Luxury Law Summit Americas

Senator Alessandra Biaggi will join senior names from global brands including Burberry and Louis Vuitton America

24 Oct 2022

Reed Smith names M&A lawyer as new Frankfurt managing partner in latest German shake-up

Appointment follows departure of previous Frankfurt MP for US rival McDermott Will & Emery and naming of new managing partner in Munich back in April

21 Oct 2022

Norton Rose Fulbright completes double partner hire from Gide and Pinsent Masons in Paris

Banking and finance specialist Kamel Ben Salah and corporate adviser Pierre François boost Paris partner count to 25

20 Oct 2022

Firms including DLA Piper, Linklaters back study into lack of black partners in the UK

'The 1% Study’ outlines steps law firms should take to boost number of senior black lawyers

20 Oct 2022

Osborne Clarke names real estate lawyer as new UK managing partner

Conrad Davies, international head of the firm’s urban dynamics group, will replace Ray Berg

19 Oct 2022

Top 100 UK firms see average fee income grow over past financial year, study finds

Talent shortages and macroeconomic challenges expected to weigh in year ahead, according to PwC survey

18 Oct 2022

Willkie Farr & Gallagher hires trio of real estate partners from Munger Tolles in LA

Team includes Misty Sanford, who will chair the firm’s West Coast real estate practice

18 Oct 2022

Kirkland & Ellis hires London M&A partner from Clifford Chance in latest European infrastructure push

Toby Parkinson is Kirkland's fourth UK lateral hire from a Magic Circle firm since the summer

17 Oct 2022

‘Take every opportunity as if this is your breakthrough moment’: a barrister’s journey from Tower Hamlets via the Magic Circle

Kawsar Zaman on mentoring’s crucial role in improving social mobility within the legal profession

17 Oct 2022

Baker McKenzie, Allen & Overy advise on Advent and Wilbur-Ellis chemicals tie-up

Advent’s Caldic and Wilbur-Ellis’s Connell to merge to create €3bn global life sciences and speciality chemicals business

14 Oct 2022

Dentons continues to build in Dublin with hire of William Fry’s debt capital markets head

Matthew Cahill is the second banking and finance lawyer to join from William Fry this month

14 Oct 2022

Clyde & Co hires insurance quartet from McLennan Ross to launch in Calgary

Calgary office is the firm’s fourth in Canada and adds significant insurance litigation expertise

13 Oct 2022

Morrison Foerster absorbs 'stellar' Californian litigation boutique Durie Tangri

Durie Tangri’s 36 lawyers to move across, boosting MoFo's West Coast IP coverage

12 Oct 2022

Verizon appoints chief legal officer as former GC steps up to lead new services business

Vandana Venkatesh becomes CLO while Craig Silliman is promoted to president of Verizon Global Services

12 Oct 2022

Freshfields hires leading environmental consultant to head client sustainability offering

Jake Reynolds joins from Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership

11 Oct 2022

Kinstellar hires deals partner from Dentons to co-head corporate M&A team in Hungary

Annamária Csenterics joins in Budapest, working alongside M&A co-head Gábor Gelencsér

11 Oct 2022

Brexit to help boost UK competition law demand over next year, study shows

LexisNexis report also predicts sharp decline in corporate law demand

10 Oct 2022

Squire Patton Boggs hires data privacy and cyber team from Steptoe in Brussels

Team is led by partner Charles-Albert Helleputte, who will head firm’s EU data privacy practice

10 Oct 2022

Gibson Dunn, Selmer and Wikborg Rein advise on KKR’s purchase of minority stake in Norwegian fibre business

KKR-led consortium acquires 30% of Telenor Fiber, a spin-off from Norwegian telecoms company Telenor

10 Oct 2022