Prudential investment arm M&G Real Estate has finalised its external legal panel with places going to Hogan Lovells, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co (WLG), and CMS Cameron McKenna following a tender process.
CMS: Crowdfunding litigation – power to the people?
Tim Hardy
Partner, CMS
David Bridge
Senior associate, CMS
When the people of France gave the Statue of Liberty to the US in 1886, they left it to the people of the US to fund the acquisition of a site and build the pedestal. Fundraising proved difficult until the publisher of the New York World started a campaign that attracted over 120,000 donations, most of which were less than a dollar.
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Comment: Bespoke, mobile and plugged in: CMS’s Duncan Weston on the tech tools clients will demand
Against a backdrop of a fast-changing technology environment; value-conscious clients, rising rents, and the need to provide meaningful alternative fee arrangements, law firms are being challenged to deliver innovative services and efficiencies like never before.
Bespoke, mobile and plugged in – the tech tools clients and staff will demand
CMS’s Duncan Weston argues that a new attitude to technology will be essential for the best law firms
Against a backdrop of a fast-changing technology environment; value-conscious clients, rising rents, and the need to provide meaningful alternative fee arrangements, law firms are being challenged to deliver innovative services and efficiencies like never before. Embracing new technologies, LPOs and alternative business structures just goes with the territory.
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Q&A: CMS Cameron McKenna managing partner Weston on ‘making sure high quality firms understand what CMS is’
With an election for the top leadership job looming at CMS Cameron McKenna, the firm’s incumbent managing partner Duncan Weston (pictured) talks to Sarah Downey about the firm’s performance, targeting Asia and securing an elusive US merger.
Candidates emerge as CMS gears up for autumn managing partner election
CMS Cameron McKenna is gearing up for its managing partner election this autumn as chief Duncan Weston prepares to stand down from the role after eight years, with potential successors across the firm’s corporate and disputes practices already coming to the fore.
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Trainee retention: CMS Cameron McKenna keeps on 62% of spring 2015 cohort while Pinsents manages 79%
CMS Cameron McKenna revealed what it described as an ‘uncharacteristically low’ trainee retention rate today (27 March), with only 61.5% of its 26-strong intake staying with the firm while Pinsent Masons secured 15 trainees but from a smaller round of 19.
Grand designs: DLA Piper to move City operation to Cameron McKenna’s old office
Seeking to expand its office space in the City, DLA Piper has signed a lease to move into CMS Cameron McKenna’s old London base at Mitre House.
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Made to measure?
MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION
CMS Cameron McKenna’s Guy Pendell and Lindy Patterson QC assess industry sectory arbitration and the role of the specialist institution
Arbitration is available to resolve almost any dispute between parties capable of giving legal consent. Arbitration is available for religious groups through Beth Din (for the Jewish community) and the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (providing arbitration in accordance with Islamic Sacred Law). Meanwhile, disputes between the NHS and service providers, salary disputes for US National Hockey League players and disputes over sharemilking in New Zealand’s dairy regions can all be determined by specialist arbitration procedures. Continue reading “Made to measure?”
Dundas & Wilson reveals 4.5% revenue dip alongside 8% PEP increase in its final year
Once a storied institution in the Scottish legal market, Dundas & Wilson has unveiled its last ever financials and has recorded mixed results, with unaudited figures for the 2013/14 financial year showing a revenue decrease of 4.5% to £47m from £49.2m, while profit per equity partner (PEP) increased 8% to £181,006 from £167,625. The fall in revenue constitutes a 29% drop over the last five years.