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Standard Chartered appoints World Bank's Sandie Okoro as general counsel
Diversity and social justice campaigner spent five years as development bank's legal head
Weightmans set to merge with fellow UK player RadcliffesLeBrasseur
Consolidated firm will sit in UK top 40 in terms of revenue and be home to more than 225 partners
Allen & Overy hires Norton Rose Fulbright’s EMEA disputes head
UK giant bolsters banking litigation team after recent loss of senior litigator to White & Case
Norton Rose Fulbright appoints 54 partners in North America-focused round
Global giant achieves 40% target for women lawyers for third year running; Reed Smith promotes 31
Willkie Farr lands DLA Piper insurance partner duo in London
Melanie James and Tim Baumgartner join the US firm's insurance transactional and regulatory practice
Linklaters’ ex-managing partner appointed general counsel of NatWest Group
Gideon Moore chosen for one of UK's top in-house roles, leading team of more than 300 lawyers
‘Buying back’ partners intent on leaving is risky for both sides – but can work spectacularly
Nick Robbins asks whether it is ever wise for a partner to change their mind having handed in their notice
Burford hires Calunius co-founder as litigation funder continues European expansion
Arbitration expert and legal finance veteran Mick Smith to join firm in London as principal
Almost a third of global companies expect disputes to increase in 2022, study finds
Covid and Cybersecurity-related rifts seen as biggest threats, Baker McKenzie report shows
Hausfeld targets competition and financial services claims as it makes up four partners
Quartet of lawyers – two in the US and two in the UK – make the grade in 2022 promotion round
A&O, Freshfields, HSF, King & Spalding and Three Crowns celebrate as new Silks are unveiled
Some 45% of latest QCs are women; ‘comparatively few’ advocates from black African or black Caribbean backgrounds applied
Jones Day makes up 48 to partner in another bumper round
Latest promotions follow on from last December’s 50-strong crop
Litigation Capital Management dismisses executive vice-chair for alleged misconduct over expenses
Employment of leading figure within funding community terminated over 'significant violation of internal company policies'
City firm BDB Pitmans adds private wealth boutique
Portrait Solicitors’ trio of partners to join BDB next April with team of associates after ‘many years’ of collaboration
Microsoft names CMS best for diversity among UK partner firms
London-based firm leads eight-strong group that includes Reed Smith, Mischon de Reya and Osborne Clarke
Clifford Chance elects successor to long-standing global managing partner Layton
European head to take over on 1 May at end of Layton's second four-year term
British Retail Consortium partners with RPC to promote D&I in retail recruitment
Partnership to see RPC become BRC’s exclusive resident advisor in employment law
UK enjoys £5.6bn legal services trade surplus; barristers’ overseas income soars
Research by City lobbying group says courts among world’s most trusted as it promotes value of English law
Norton Rose Fulbright appoints Islamic finance specialist as next global chair
London-based Farmida Bi will take over from US chair Shauna Clark in January
Heathrow secures GC from Virgin Media to help steer it through sustained Covid-19 turbulence
Mine Hifzi to take over in July replacing longstanding GC Carol Hui who left in August