DLA Piper has appointed its next UK managing partner to take over from Liam Cowell in December, The Lawyer can reveal. Andrew Dyson – who is the Leeds office managing partner and co-chair of the data, privacy and cybersecurity practice – has been selected for the role. Dyson joined DLA Piper in 2003, having spent […]
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.
The evolution of Leeds’ legal scene is representative of how the UK legal market is changing shape. Just 18 months ago, Leeds was dominated by five firms, including local stalwart (Walker Morris with 57 partners) and a group of national firms with regional roots: Addleshaw Goddard (44), Eversheds Sutherland (35), Pinsent Masons (34) and DLA […]
Clifford Chance-repped Shell has won an appeal to overturn an earlier ruling that required the oil giant to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent by the end of the decade. The case goes back to 2018 when Dutch environmental organisation Milieudefensie (also known as Friends of the Earth Netherlands) alongside six other […]
Mayer Brown has recruited a corporate and securities partner from Dechert, just a day after DLA Piper announced the addition of a Dechert restructuring partner to its team. Ross Montgomery makes the move after nearly 12 years at Dechert. He joined the firm as an associate in 2013 and was made partner in 2021 alongside […]
The world’s climate ambitions took a serious hit last week. With Donald Trump poised to return to the White House, there’s a strong chance the US will once again pull out of the Paris Agreement. This would leave the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in jeopardy as the world’s largest economy […]
The US firm’s connections with the Tesla tycoon, its tech-first approach and “Silicon Valley” share model is giving it an edge in the crowded energy transition sector.
Despite Leeds and Manchester being home to half of the UK Top 50 firms and together forming the largest legal hub outside London by far, a lingering snobbery persists around the quality of northern lawyers. Why? Sources say junior lawyers in the North aren’t exposed to the same level of training and high-calibre work as […]
First, there was the Brabners Bog, and now Mills & Reeve – or should we say Reeds? – has got itself a wetland. It has partnered up with longstanding client Albanwise Environment on a nature recovery project in west Norfolk. Home to threatened species including otters, dragonflies and wildfowl, the Stoke Ferry wetland is positioned […]
The UK’s top 20 firms logged the equivalent of 2,407 more trips around the world in 2023 than they did in 2022, as business travel surged post-pandemic. According to Companies House data, these firms in 2022 collectively emitted 25,766 tCO2e from business travel – the equivalent of driving 65.9 million miles in a typical petrol-powered […]
This week in Beyond the Bubble, in association with LexisNexis… London: Howard Kennedy has elected a new managing partner to succeed its long-time leader Craig Emden. Head of real estate James Stewart won the vote and will take up the position at the head of the firm from 1 May 2025. Emden has been sole managing partner […]
Early signs suggest that Walker Morris’s new solicitor sabbatical scheme is boosting talent retention.