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Magic Circle among eight firms to adopt social mobility tool
Eight City firms have adopted a contextual recruitment tool to boost social mobility among staff, after a government report criticised professional service firms for consistently excluding bright working-class applicants from their workforce.
News UK may face fresh legal challenges
News Corp has announced that Rebekah Brooks will return as head of its UK division after resigning over a tabloid phone hacking scandal, though it may face a new legal challenge from the Crown Prosecution Service.
GCs and law firms don't see eye to eye
GCs and law firms don't see eye to eye on billing, strategy and procurement, research by Corporate Counsel Exchange has revealed.
McClure Naismith closes its doors
Scottish law firm McClure Naismith has gone into administration.
Widow charged with murder of defence lawyer at end of honeymoon
The 42-year old widow of a 51-year old UK criminal lawyer, David Edwards from Chorley in Lancashire, has appeared in court and charged with his murder but she did not enter a plea.
DLA Piper recruits three-partner construction team from Eversheds UK
The three partners are joining DLA in Manchester, with one becoming a consultant and the other two becoming partners in the infrastructure, construction and transport group.
Travers and Mayer Brown rise up pay tables for junior London lawyers
City of London-based law firm Travers Smith is hiking pay for the most junior lawyers by nearly 9% - believed to be the biggest rise at this level in leading London firms - and is followed by Mayer Brown which is putting them up by nearly 8%.
Ashurst recruits Skadden's former global private equity co-head
Shaun Lascelles is returning to the London office of Ashurst, and his move is being seen as an upturn in the fortunes of the city of London-based practice which has lost some of its main corporate lawyers since 2013.
Criminal lawyer stabbed after return from honeymoon
David Edwards, 51, a criminal solicitor from Lancashire in the UK, died in his home with one stab wound, days after returning from honeymooning in Las Vegas - and his widow Sharon, 42, is understood to have been taken into custody.
A&O loses place on panel of leading UK energy client
Allen & Overy and Squire Patton Boggs are two of the firms to fall off the panel at the National Grid, leaving space for new entrants including Herbert Smith Freehills and Addleshaw Goddard.
Efficiency drive cuts costs at CMS
Some £72m has been saved by CMS in the UK through moves including its transfer to a state-of-the-art building in London and an outsourcing agreement with Integreon.
K&L Gates partner duo switch to Morgan Lewis structured finance team
When the two new partners arrive, Morgan Lewis & Bockius will have recruited five partners from K&L Gates to staff its London structured finance group.
Law firm appears at Edinburgh Fringe to discuss fake online reviews
Paul Motion, partner in Glasgow and Edinburgh firm bto, is making two appearances in his own show, 'Phoney or False Reviews Online - What Can I Do?', at the Edinburgh Fringe theatre festival.
Mayer Brown struggles to retain NQs in London
Mayer Brown is to retain just 55 per cent of its newly-qualified cohort this autumn - one of the lowest rates announced by London offices this year.
Herbert Smith to introduce flexible working across London teams
After a three-month trial, Herbert Smith Freehills is extending an agile working programme from a group of partners and other fee-earners to cover all its practice groups in London.
Innovative UK law firm doubles trainee investment
Fixed-price firm Riverview Law is to train six existing members of staff under the legal training programme that starts in October, nearly doubling the number of trainees at the practice.
Lending boost to law firms as record debt taken on for expansion in UK
Bank lending to UK law firms has jumped 28 per cent in the last five years to £7.35bn, as the practices seek to expand, retain key people and develop IT, according to finance provider LDF.
Over 40pc of top UK firms supply doctors in offices
With over four in ten leading UK law firms offering medical consultations with a doctor in the office, nearly two in ten also bring dentists in to look after the well being of their partners and staff.
Dentons in merger talks with 80-lawyer London firm
Dentons Dacheng, the world's largest law firm, is understood to be in discussions with London practice Matthew Arnold & Baldwin, whose revenue dropped 13 per cent over the last financial year.
Mintz Levin cuts back at London office after local managing partner exits
The 450-lawyer, Boston-based practice is no longer to offer European patent prosecution from its London office after the departure of three patent lawyers to Cooley and the decision of the office head, Julian Crump, to leave to set up his own firm.