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South African firm's offices reduced to ‘rubble and ash’ as legal community condemns unrest
KwaZulu-Natal firm is among impacted businesses as top law firms rally to support ‘rule of law’
Satellite comms company OneWeb names former AA GC as new chief legal officer
Nadia Hoosen joins ahead of OneWeb’s commercial services launch later this year
Global Legal Post teams up with recruiters Nicholas Scott to launch jobs board
Venture will showcase top legal jobs in law firms and in-house legal departments across the world
Morgan Stanley legal chief decries ‘lack of urgency’ from lawyers to return to office
Letter to law firms warns of threat to client service posed by the profession's drive to embrace remote working
Simmons & Simmons buoyed by 30% PEP spike as it nears £1m
London-based firm leads UK pack with 20/21 financial reporting season in full swing
Litify adds high-profile trio including former Cravath presiding partner to advisory board
Allen Parker is joined by ex-nCino CFO Jeff Babka and Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch founder David Wollmuth
Appointments: HFW builds in Sydney, Jones Day adds General Electric executive counsel
Round-up also features Herbert Smith Freehills, Paul Hastings, K&L Gates, McGuire Woods and PDLegal
Diversity and inclusion policy gaps are increasing corporate compliance risks, study finds
Baker McKenzie and Howlett Brown survey shows two-thirds of companies just paying lip service to diversity
Taylor Wessing UK revenue climbs 12% to £175.5m as PEP jumps 18%
International firm’s global revenue rises for fourth consecutive year, hitting £371m
Linklaters appoints global finance head as new firmwide managing partner
Capital markets partner Paul Lewis takes over from Gideon Moore, who is stepping down early
Allen & Overy reports 17% jump in PEP as turnover climbs 5% to £1.77bn
UK Magic Circle firm is latest practice to improve its financial performance through the pandemic
UK legaltech sector sitting on untapped £22bn annual market opportunity, report finds
LawtechUK study says serving SMEs and consumers alone could be worth up to £11.4bn a year
Slaughter and May unveils trio of associate part-time working programmes
Job shares and project-led flexibility among options presented to top UK firm’s lawyers
Eversheds Sutherland unveils 5.3% global revenue rise as non-US PEP nears £1m
Transatlantic firm pledges to continue programme of significant strategic investment
Around the house: newly-public Utz Brands names first general counsel
This week's collection of top in-house appointments also sees First Citizens Bank add a new legal eagle ahead of a merger with CIT Group
Herbert Smith Freehills records 5% revenue hike to hit £1bn turnover landmark
Fee income growth accelerates through pandemic as PEP climbs by 28%
Stephenson Harwood posts modest revenue drop as profitability rises 13%
Revenue at the top 50 UK firm dips to £209m as profit per equity partner bounces back to £685,000
Arbitration services group opens for business in London and Washington DC
Arbitra signs up 18 arbitrators at launch covering array of key jurisdictions
Ashurst boosts global markets practice with derivatives partner hire from Crowell & Moring
Julia Lu joins in New York, following the recent hire of securities lawyer Lloyd Harmetz from MoFo
Kingsley Napley sets out September office return as it moves to new London home
Top 100 UK firm abandons designated offices under flexible plan for Shoreditch headquarters
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