Corporates sign up to female equality in arbitration pledge launched by Boies Schiller and Freshfields partners
Energy giants BP, ConocoPhillips and Shell are among the first corporates to sign up to a pledge for gender equality…
Gender diversity
Comment: Fieldfisher’s Chissick on why real change on diversity needs leadership in law
‘Did you see the game at the weekend?’ is the type of question I am often asked at events. I…
Clyde & Co makes up 16 partners in half-female promotion round
Clyde & Co has announced a record number of promotions, adding 16 new partners, half of whom are women.
1COR tops QC appointments table as female applicants remain ‘stubbornly low’
One Crown Office Row (1COR) saw six of its barristers take silk in this year’s round of Queen’s Counsel (QC)…
Bar Council finds gender parity for barristers ‘unlikely to ever be achieved’ on current trends
The Bar Council has published two reports into gender diversity at the Bar highlighting challenges facing female barristers and finding…
News in brief – May 2015
WHITTAKER STEPS DOWN AS LLOYDS GC Group general counsel (GC) Andrew Whittaker is stepping down from his role at Lloyds…
Partner promotions: Olswang makes up five in an expanded all-female round
Olswang has continued the trend of firms improving their partnerships’ gender diversity by promoting a five-strong all-female round after promoting…
Gender diversity improves as law firms make bumper partner promotions
The annual round of partner promotions at City firms looked a lot more international this year as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,…
Partner promotions: Ashurst 20-strong round includes 45% females while Macfarlanes reduces round to five
Ashurst has this morning (8 April) announced its 20-strong partner promotion round, which will take effect from 1 May 2015,…
The Last Word – Reflections and looking ahead
Senior figures provide personal perspectives on a changing industry for our 250th edition Working with Salz ‘I worked for Anthony…
‘Fits our philosophy and style of practice perfectly’: Three Crowns hires its first female partner from Covington
Arbitration boutique Three Crowns has hired its first female partner, Carmen Martinez Lopez, from Covington & Burling as the firm…
Linklaters appoints first female corporate City head
Linklaters has named Sarah Wiggins as its first female corporate head in London, with the home-grown lawyer placing diversity on the…
Comment: the rising stars in-house – bluechip legal teams are bursting with talent
The first Legal Business edition of the year coincides with a major project for us: the second edition of our popular…
The rising stars in-house – bluechip legal teams are bursting with talent
The first Legal Business edition of the year coincides with a major project for us: the second edition of our…
Profile: Rosemary Martin, Vodafone
Continuous money saving has been the order of the day for Vodafone’s general counsel (GC) and company secretary Rosemary Martin,…
Pay for female lawyers not up by much
Pay for male lawyers in the UK is significantly down from 2011, while women enjoyed a small rise in salary…