Look what this divorce firm is doing
Wondering why your divorce instructions have dried up? Stowe’s arrived in town
Top 100 firm integrates ChatGPT to focus on “more complex work”
A UK top 100 firm has integrated the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT to give its lawyers more time to focus on client care. Conveyancing firm O’Neill Patient, along with sister brands Grindeys and Cavendish Legal Group, will use the technology to automate document analysis in the conveyancing and remortgage process. This should allow its people […]
Howard Kennedy snaps up boutique in construction push
London law firm Howard Kennedy has cemented its construction offering by merging with Richmond-based Corbett & Co, The Lawyer can reveal. The merger goes live today (13 March) and seven lawyers from Corbett & Co will join the Howard Kennedy team. Senior managing partner Edward Corbett will stay on to lead as a consultant, while […]
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Charles Dickens’ law firm is still with us
For World Book Day we are proud to release an extract from a previously unknown manuscript, recently uncovered in an attic in Lincoln’s Inn
BDB Pitmans is a sculpture in need of a Michelangelo
The collapse of merger talks with Womble Bond Dickinson leaves the South East firm’s future direction uncertain
It’s off: Womble Bond and BDB Pitmans abandon talks
After several months of negotiations, the proposed tie-up between Womble Bond Dickinson and BDB Pitmans will not be going ahead. Negotiations between the pair started last October over a tie-up that would have created a £440m revenue firm. Neither firm was a stranger to a merger. Bond Dickinson – itself a combination of Dickinson Dees […]
Dickson Minto will merge. Will it take the Edinburgh office with it?
Meetings between law firm leaders can be casual, just a polite meeting to chew the fat over a cup of coffee, or they can have a serious intent. Last month, when Dickson Minto’s de facto managing partner Jordan Simpson met with a delegation from New York’s Fried Frank, it was the latter. Make no mistake, […]
Let lawyers pee in peace
Howard Kennedy’s toilets decision is a small step to counter law’s always-on culture
Knights is moving but the pawns are quitting
Knights has acquired aggressively, but partners from the legacy firms aren’t sticking around
Taylor Rose MW passes £70m and ‘considers options’ for future growth
Taylor Rose MW, one of the newest entrants to The Lawyer UK200, has an increase in revenue in 2021/22, and is considering its future options having massively increased turnover in the last half-decade. Taylor Rose’s revenue was around £10m in 2017 but in 2020 it acquired the much larger McMillan Williams (MW) in a pre-pack […]
Howard Kennedy passes £60m for first time
Howard Kennedy returned to growth last year with a 6.3 per cent increase in turnover from £56.9m to £60.5m. The firm had seen slight a dip in turnover in 2021/22 from £57.1m to £56.9m, although net profit maintained an upward trajectory that year, having risen from £15.2m to £16.4m. That figure has risen again, by […]
How regional firms can win the salary wars (part one)
Firms that can’t compete on pay must choose not to play the game