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Mayer Brown signs up trailblazing New York dealmaker from Skadden

Skadden’s first-ever female M&A partner to co-head US M&A practice at Chicago-based firm

3 Aug 2021

Jones Day makes German arbitration play with hire of HSF's ex co-head of disputes

Top 10 US firm targets Germany for investment with second senior hire as it seeks to leverage US and global reputation

30 Jul 2021

‘You have to care and be brave’: HSF report highlights GCs' role in driving forward sustainability

The ESG movement has handed general counsel an opportunity to raise their C-suite status, study argues

26 Jul 2021

HSF targets law firm work with hire of Mayer Brown’s London head of insurance

Will Glassey will help grow new firm's solicitors’ professional indemnity and regulatory practice

21 Jul 2021

Simmons & Simmons buoyed by 30% PEP spike as it nears £1m

London-based firm leads UK pack with 20/21 financial reporting season in full swing

16 Jul 2021

Herbert Smith Freehills records 5% revenue hike to hit £1bn turnover landmark

Fee income growth accelerates through pandemic as PEP climbs by 28%

13 Jul 2021

K&L Gates boosts German real estate offering with Eversheds team hire

The US firm has added nine lawyers across its Munich and Frankfurt offices including two partners

6 Jul 2021

Freshfields' public international law head to join Essex Court Chambers

Ben Juratowitch QC, who was called to the Bar in May, will join the set in November

5 Jul 2021

Coalition of top firms pledge to halve operational greenhouse gas emissions by 2030

Firms will deploy 'robust, science-based targets' to help achieve global net zero emissions target

30 Jun 2021

London law firms agree Greener Litigation Pledge

Freshfields, HFW among those signing up to scheme launched by Mishcon de Reya intended to reduce environmental impact of dispute resolution

29 Jun 2021

CFOs becoming more open to litigation funding, Burford Capital study finds

Survey shows just over half of CFOs believe their legal departments should have commercial targets

28 Jun 2021

CMS clashes with claimant lawyers and funders over 'remarkable rise' in European class actions

Global firm draws fire with assertion proactive building of claims is fuelling group actions

25 Jun 2021

Free trade deal welcomed as 'springboard' for closer ties between UK and Australian legal professions

More lawyer secondments identified as one potential benefit of UK's first major post-Brexit FTA

16 Jun 2021

'By 2030 everyone will have a free lawyer at their disposal'

Paper on profession's future paints one dystopian scenario of ravages of AI with elite cadre of lawyers on performance-enhancing drugs

11 Jun 2021

ICC International Court of Arbitration elects first woman president

Ex-Latham & Watkins partner Claudia Salomon ends run of male presidents lasting nearly 100 years

11 Jun 2021

UK judge steps down from Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal

Baroness Hale takes unusual step of not seeking second term; says decision is unrelated to security law

4 Jun 2021

Cooley adds life sciences veteran to Brussels roster

Elisabethann Wright swaps Hogan Lovells for Cooley as it ramps up EU and US life sciences practices

2 Jun 2021

Judge, advocate and scholar: James Crawford SC 1948-2021

The distinguished Australian jurist and judge James Crawford SC has died aged 72

2 Jun 2021

UK Supreme Court launches paid internships

UK's highest court launches internship programme for aspiring lawyers intended to encourage greater diversity at the Bar

31 May 2021

Geradin Partners hires former Competition and Markets Authority director to lead new UK office

Tom Smith joins the Brussels-based firm as a partner in London - its first office outside of Belgium

28 May 2021