Q: For a routine instruction, how important are the following criteria when selecting a firm?
(1 = not at all important, 5 = expected, 10 = essential)
Analysis of the responses to this question from clients in the UK and US exposes marked differences between client priorities in the two jurisdictions. Scores are illustrated proportionally on the graphs below and to the right. Continue reading “Client Intelligence Report: Data view”
Behind the scenes of recent panel decisions
Pinsent Masons, DLA Piper, Ashurst and Bird & Bird have all missed out on William Hill’s latest UK adviser panel, with Linklaters and Addleshaw Goddard the only firms to retain their places on the FTSE 250 bookmaker’s slimmed-down roster. Continue reading “Who Represents Who: The data behind the story”
Dramatic swings in foreign currencies against Brexit-battered sterling have lifted reported results from London’s big four, with double-digit growth rates for Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s growth, however, has stalled in what has been a record year for the Magic Circle.
Lawyers at Ince will now progress up a four-step career programme applicable to trainees, associates, senior associates and managing associates.
In a month of global cyber attacks, the new cyber security adviser, who previously worked at BAE Systems and Sage Pay, joined Mishcon’s non-lawyer analysts Emeric Bernard-Jones and Laura Hawkins, and head Joe Hancock.
Continue reading “Mishcon boosts fledgling cyber security consultancy service”
Tasked with launching a new French litigation and finance practice at the US firm in Paris, Farges is joined by fellow disputes partners Pierre-Emmanuel Fender and Eric Bouffard, corporate partner Bertrand Delaunay and finance counsel Amanda Bevan, who will be made up to partner in the move.
Continue reading “Ashurst loses second Paris team this year as four partners quit for Gibson Dunn”
As part of the panel appointment, which lasts until 2020, the four firms will act on rail franchise competitions, major rolling stock procurements and infrastructure projects.
White-collar crime specialists have scrambled across the City as the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) last month charged Barclays and four former executives with conspiracy to commit fraud, false representation and unlawful financial assistance in arranging a £7.3bn Qatar funding deal at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
The speech, outlining the next two years’ statutory agenda, instead introduced a UK repeal and a customs bill and related European legislation to replace the EU’s customs regime, the world’s largest by economic output.
On 27 June, the European Commission (EC) fined Google a record €2.4bn for abuse of dominance in online shopping comparison search, paving the way for a raft of damages claims.
