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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sign up for the weekly Partnerless email here Shoosmiths is in go-ahead mode right now as it toughens up in an attempt to lead the upper mid-market by 2030. Making sure the voice of its junior population is heard amid all this change are three entrepreneurial trainees: Fiona Thornton, Hannah Ruby and Amelia Hicks. This tenacious trio decided to approach […]
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