In a report by the Law Society, City firms warn that proposals to change legal training by the Solicitors Regulation Authority are potentially dangerous to the UK law industry's global reputation. | 9yrs
Editor and journalist at The Global Legal Post
In a report by the Law Society, City firms warn that proposals to change legal training by the Solicitors Regulation Authority are potentially dangerous to the UK law industry's global reputation. | 9yrs
Legal consultant John Chisholm believes firms could to do more to keep their top lawyers engaged, saying that many major firms have excellent strategies for recruiting talented lawyers, but could do more to retain them long term. | 9yrs
Malaysian law firm ZICOlaw has hired Samuel Britton as its Myanmar managing partner in Yangon. He moves from Sciaroni & Associates, where he was regional managing partner. | 9yrs
Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has hired Haydn Dare as a partner from Hiswara Bunjamin & Tandjung, Herbert Smith Freehills' alliance firm in Indonesia. | 9yrs
According to bank insiders, Linklaters managing partner Simon Davies may have received a mandate to review Lloyds Bank's legal function as one of his first tasks in his new role as chief people, legal and strategy officer. | 9yrs
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has hired capital markets partner Shuang Zhao in Hong Kong. | 9yrs
The Delhi High Court has set aside the state government's order rejecting an application by online taxi firm Uber Technologies for a licence to operate in the capital, allowing the US-based company to ply its trade in Delhi and reapply for a licence. | 9yrs
Offshore law firm Harneys has established an office in Tokyo as part of an expansion plan that saw the firm open its doors in Hong Kong in 2005 and in Singapore last year. | 9yrs
CEO of AdventBalance Ken Jagger has predicted that traditional Australian firms will continue to struggle to maintain their market share, as US and UK firms flood the market and boutique specialist firms increase their dominance. | 9yrs
Baker & McKenzie has expanded its disputes practice with the hire of Joel Greer as a partner in its Tokyo office. | 9yrs
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired oil and gas lawyer Paul Greening as a partner in the firm's Hong Kong office from Vinson & Elkins. | 9yrs
Holman Fenwick Willan has entered into a formal law alliance (FLA) in Singapore with local law firm AsiaLegal, with the entity operating under the name HFW AsiaLegal. | 9yrs
DLA Piper has announced that Michael Bowen, Scott Gibson and Marc Wilshaw of Perth corporate law firm Hardy Bowen have joined the firm as partners, in a move which significantly increases DLA Piper's corporate capability. | 9yrs
Latham & Watkins private equity and M&A partner Graeme Sloan has joined Morrison & Foerster as the firm's global M&A co-chair and London corporate head. | 9yrs
The Government has begun discussions with the Bar Council of India and other stake holders to open the legal services sector to foreign firms in a calibrated manner, according to Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher. | 9yrs
US-headquartered Shearman & Sterling has established an on-the-ground presence in Saudi Arabia in affiliation with Abdulaziz Alassaf & Partners. | 9yrs
In an escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary, Egypt's top public prosecutor Hisham Barakat died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his home in Cairo. | 9yrs
Japanese law firm Anderson Mori and Tomotsune has expanded into Vietnam with the opening of an office in Ho Chi Minh City. The firm also established a Jakarta desk in the office of Roosdiono & Partners this May. | 9yrs
Chinese law firm Yingke has opened an office in Greece, its 27th overseas. The new office will work in a strategic partnership between Yingke and Machas & Partners, an Athens-based law firm founded in 2011 that also has offices in London and Monaco. | 9yrs
Wealth manager Towry has named Ashcourt Rowan's Rehana Hasan its general counsel, after the company acquired rival Ashcourt in May. | 9yrs