One of the many challenges facing the new Labour government is deciding whether to immediately ban all new North Sea oil and gas exploration, including those currently in the licensing process. There is already talk of potential legal action from frustrated bidders. This situation offers oil and gas companies – and their professional advisors, including […]
The announcement that Herbert Smith Freehills would merge with US firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel has got chins wagging across the transatlantic market. But is this a new mega-firm in the vein of A&O Shearman, a shrewd building block for HSF to make advances in the US, or a bit of an anti-climax? What […]
This is a moment of change for the European legal market. With firms like Kirkland & Ellis and Paul Hastings making major recent moves in the EU, the US elite are starting to seriously disrupt the European order. This is most visible in Germany, France and the Nordics. On this episode of The Lawyer Podcast, […]
In our latest podcast celebrating the 20th edition of The Lawyer’s UK 200, editors Catrin Griffiths, Christian Smith, Matt Byrne, Katy Dowell and Richard Simmons are back to reveal the five firms they are watching in the coming years – for good or for ill. With a list of 200 law firms, it’s not difficult […]
If this year’s UK200 is anything to go by, the majority of UK law firms are in robust health. Indeed, they are finally fighting back against the growth of US competitors. So why are so many upending their partnership models? In part one of our two-part podcast series celebrating the 20th edition of The Lawyer’s […]
Sign up to get the weekly Partnerless email in your inbox every Tuesday Why care… about HSF and Kramer Levin? New mega-merger just dropped. Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) will tie up with Kramer Levin of the USA to create a $2bn firm called, imaginatively, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. This news obviously follows in the wake of the A&O Shearman merger […]
If I told you that the secret to making your next presentation a success was to visualise it in advance, no doubt some of you would be wondering if I’d swapped a suit for a string of beads and a headband… After all, visualisation and manifestation are often bundled up together with gamma waves, heightened […]
Sign up to get the weekly Partnerless email in your inbox every Tuesday Self-improvement is a wonderful thing, and one of the benefits of working at US firm King & Spalding is getting chunky travel and education budgets – understood to be worth several thousand of pounds each – which lawyers are able to spend […]
In 2023, the Catalyst report “Women’s Workplace Experiences Challenges Antiracist Leaders to Step Up” surveyed 2,734 women from marginalised racial and ethnic groups worldwide, including 604 women from the UK. It revealed that 51% of women from marginalised backgrounds experience racism at work, with those of darker skin tones more affected. Notably, 49% of respondents felt senior […]
Sign up to get the weekly Partnerless email in your inbox every Tuesday Partnerless has been digging into a whole range of learning and development programmes recently and we’ve been particularly impressed by Dechert‘s approach to associate training. A bit of a step up from your classic lunch-and-learn, in June Dechert piloted a partnership with […]