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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
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
‘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
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
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
Herbert Smith Freehills records 5% revenue hike to hit £1bn turnover landmark
Fee income growth accelerates through pandemic as PEP climbs by 28%
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
ICC International Court of Arbitration elects first woman president
Ex-Latham & Watkins partner Claudia Salomon ends run of male presidents lasting nearly 100 years
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
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
Judge, advocate and scholar: James Crawford SC 1948-2021
The distinguished Australian jurist and judge James Crawford SC has died aged 72
UK Supreme Court launches paid internships
UK's highest court launches internship programme for aspiring lawyers intended to encourage greater diversity at the Bar
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