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Crowell & Moring snaps up Wall Street financial services boutique Kibbe & Orbe

Deal sees 24 lawyers join Crowell, including 13 partners, in New York, London and Washington DC

19 Mar 2021

Mayer Brown advises on $1bn foundation to compensate descendants of slaves

Charity was founded by the GU272 Descendants Association and a group of Jesuits

18 Mar 2021

Shearman hires Travers Smith London M&A head to boost global deals team

Phil Cheveley will lead Shearman's EMEA M&A practice alongside Laurence Levy

17 Mar 2021

Dentons becomes first global firm in Bolivia with Guevara & Gutiérrez combination

Deal is latest Andean combination following deal with Ecuador's Paz Horowitz earlier this month

17 Mar 2021

Cleary Gottlieb beefs up UK competition practice with Slaughters special adviser hire

Jackie Holland becomes latest UK lawyer to exit a magic circle firm for a US rival in London

16 Mar 2021

Mid-sized New York firm trumps Kirkland and Skadden in $77bn SPAC IPO bonanza

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole advises on 71 IPOs amid surge in SPAC issuance in 2021

16 Mar 2021

Orrick hires Morgan Lewis's San Francisco IP practice head in latest life sciences push

Gargi Talukder is the eighth partner to join the firm's life sciences platform since 2019

15 Mar 2021

Indian firm Khaitan & Co to open Singapore office in first international venture

Office will be led by M&A and private client partner Anuj Shah and strategy director Jean Muller

15 Mar 2021

Linklaters makes twin Hong Kong partner hires to boost corporate and banking teams

Xiaoxi Lin joins from Kirkland & Ellis and Alessandro Nolet joins from White & Case

12 Mar 2021

Nearly a third of global legal departments are increasing their technology spending, study finds

Rise in investment comes despite frozen or falling budgets and a coronavirus-fuelled rise in workloads

12 Mar 2021

MinterEllison appoints interim head as CEO exits over leaked email

Virginia Briggs replaces Annette Kimmitt who questioned firm's decision to represent attorney general in rape controversy

11 Mar 2021

Linklaters becomes first magic circle firm to support Afro hairstyle campaign

Firm adopts UK's 'Halo Code' to end hair discrimination for black employees in the workplace

11 Mar 2021

Deputy chief parliamentary counsel named New Zealand lawyer of the year

Cassie Nicholson recognised for leading the country's legal response to Covid-19

10 Mar 2021

Squire Patton Boggs continues Singapore expansion with twin disputes hires

Eversheds Sutherland's former arbitration co-head, Rodman Bundy, joins from Harry Elias Partnership

9 Mar 2021

Majority of US law firm leaders expect profits to grow despite pandemic strains, study finds

Thomson Reuters report shows that many law firm leaders are also anticipating billing rates to rise

9 Mar 2021

Freshfields sets out five-year global diversity and inclusion targets

Firm seeks to double proportion of women making partner from 19% last year to at least 40% by 2026

8 Mar 2021

Public perception of UK legal profession still seen as male dominated, study finds

ULaw survey to mark International Women's Day finds mismatch between profession's image and diversity of student base

8 Mar 2021

LOD forms alliance with legal tech specialists SYKE to target digital transformation

Bowmark Capital-backed LOD will also invest in new partner

5 Mar 2021

Scottish firms must improve tech and flexible working offering to attract talent, report finds

Coronavirus pandemic highlights need for firms to modernise, Core-Asset Consulting says

5 Mar 2021

Ashurst opens Dublin office to maintain its EU competition law practice

New Irish rules prevent dual-qualified lawyers practising in Ireland without a physical presence in the country

4 Mar 2021