Rich is The Lawyer’s deputy editor. He has a particular focus on firms outside the UK top 50.
He was previously editor of The Lawyer’s student publication Lawyer 2B, and as such also has an interest everything to do with legal education, training contracts and pupillage, as well as lawyers’ ongoing career development.
RBG Holdings, which comprises Rosenblatt and Memery Crystal, has dismissed market speculation it is looking to be acquired. The business, which includes the litigation-focused Rosenblatt and the corporate-focused Memery Crystal within its legal services division, RBG Legal Services, listed on the AIM market in 2018. However, it has seen revenue, profits and its share price […]
This week: HSF and Kramer Levin isn’t the only merger in town, while another firm takes action after a staff survey revealed much dissatisfaction with its choice of tea.
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 […]
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 […]
Browne Jacobson has appointed its first ever general counsel, bringing in the head of legal and enforcement at the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to fill the role. Oliver Sweeney started his career at Browne Jacobson, working there between 2004 and 2014, before eventually heading in-house. He was head of legal, then GC, at the Gambling […]
For the first time, The Lawyer has analysed the UK revenues of the nation’s 300 largest legal businesses, bringing together the traditional UK firms, the American firms in London and the Big Four. But what are the key takeaways?
Sign up to get the weekly Partnerless email in your inbox every Tuesday After Sidley Austin‘s massive seven-partner raid of Latham & Watkins, all eyes are on the leveraged finance associates those partners left behind at Latham. The smart money would be on them following their former bosses, but this is a highly desirable group […]
The recent news coming out of Burges Salmon that its newly qualified (NQ) salary in Scotland has been raised to £68,000 shows this is a firm that – despite its years of protestations to the contrary – is now firmly two-site, intent on building out in Edinburgh and not afraid to splosh the dosh to […]
What do San Francisco’s Morrison Foerster, the South West’s Foot Anstey, public law crusader Leigh Day, Big Four giant KPMG Legal, dispersed firm gunnercooke and NewLaw challenger Co-op Legal Services have in common? A more diverse set of legal services providers is hard to imagine, you’d think… but there’s one place they rub shoulders. These […]
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 […]
Burges Salmon has increased its trainee and newly qualified solicitor (NQ) salaries, with what is believed to be a market-topping £68,000 in Edinburgh. In its home town of Bristol, first-year trainee pay rose from £44,000 to £47,000 as of 1 September, with second years getting a boost from £46,000 to £49,000. NQs will get £72,000, […]
Stowe Family Law has new owners. Last month, Bahrain-headquartered Investcorp bought the firm from previous owners Livingbridge, which had been running the show for nearly eight years. Looking back, has Livingbridge’s ownership been a success? The relationship may have soured somewhat over time – it’s certainly curious that Stowe was sold off in a buyer’s […]