News

August 2010

City law firms are having to turn down candidates from outside the UK as a result of the Government's points-based work permit scheme.

US firm Ropes & Gray has confirmed that it will start to take on trainees in its new London office.
Magistrates have called for open courts to be set up in the Westfield shopping centre in London and other shopping outlets across the UK.
The American Bar Association (ABA) is considering whether it should, for the first time, accredit overseas law schools.
After shedding hundreds of staff in four rounds of redundancy, Eversheds
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A second Magic Circle law firm will opem in Australia by the end of the calendar year, according to the Managing Partner of A&O's Sydney office.
A new report has concluded that corporates can slash their legal costs by as much as 50% by outsourcing less legal work.
Finally there's a silver lining to the dark cloud of the AG's widely publicised reform agenda: there have been suggestions this week that a new arbitr
Sydney firm Levitt Robinson has come out fighting this week, accusing Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and rival firm Slater & Gordon of foul play in relat
Halliwells' former partners have received a phenomenally awful (even o
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A partner at Hogan Lovells' Dubai office has just been released from jai
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A partner at DLA Piper's Amsterdam office has been publicly shamed afte
Law firm redundancy announcements have generally been absent of late.
Staff at K&L Gates will be given paid time off to volunteer at the

The Council Circuit of Judges - which represents over 600 judges in England and Wales - has indicated that allowing those over 70 to serve as juror

Slater & Gordon has taken full advantage of its listed status to snap up a competitor firm.
Freehills has been identified as the firm paying the best gradu