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Partnerless: HSF associates shouldn’t expect a post-merger pay bonanza

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 […]

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Partnerless: This US firm has a tasty travel budget

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 […]

Black History Month: What do Black women in law need from their managers?

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 […]

Partnerless: Squires’ latest salary rise isn’t about the NQs

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 […]

Partnerless: Who makes partners up quickest (after Kirkland)?

Sign up to get the weekly Partnerless email in your inbox every Tuesday It’s a common complaint that regional lawyers will serve their time at the firm that trained them but pop off to the bright lights of London soon after qualification. That’s certainly the case at Burness Paull this year, which has seen the departure of […]

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