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February 26, 2014 |

Pure and simple – the most popular Legal Week Law briefings from Q4 2013

The practice of law is often maligned – and sometimes fairly so – as overly complex and inaccessible, with its use of arcane language, dense documents and labyrinthine legislation. But the issues that engage lawyers on a day-to-day basis are often the most simplistic, and, as the most popular briefings on Legal Week Law demonstrate, subjects as straightforward as clear communication, signatures and getting names right remain just as much of interest as ever. The doctrine of misnomer was thrown into the spotlight last year by the case of Liberty Mercian v Cuddy Civil Engineering, which was covered by Macfarlanes in its briefing 'Mistaken identity – the importance of getting names right in contracts', which proved to be one of the top 10 most popular downloads during the last three months of 2013.
13 minute read
November 07, 2013 | International Edition

Hong Kong to give green light to LLP structures next year

Law firms practising in Hong Kong could be permitted to establish limited liability partnerships (LLPs) from next year under new rules being drawn up by the Law Society of Hong Kong. A law bringing local liability regulations in line with international frameworks is expected to come into force in the next 12 months after additional legislation is approved by Hong Kong's Legislative Council (Legco), the city's solicitor-general Frank Poon has indicated.
3 minute read
September 23, 2013 | International Edition

The Transfer Window: recent moves including Eversheds, Bakers and OC

Eversheds has hired Wragge & Co's head of UAE projects Gurmeet Kaur in a boost for the firm's Middle East projects team. Kaur, who will take on the same leadership role at her new firm, joined Wragges' Dubai office in 2011 from DLA Piper, where she had been a partner for three years. She will be based in Eversheds' Dubai office, and is also qualified to practise in Australia and Malaysia.
5 minute read
September 12, 2013 |

The home guard – the missing identity of global law firms

If year-on-year fee increases and a buoyant M&A market imbued a certain stasis, five years of economic woes have certainly driven change through the conservative legal profession. The comparative proliferation of global giants of the ilk of Hogan Lovells, Norton Rose Fulbright and, more recently, King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWM) serve as fine examples of the diverging market, with an increasingly international client base driving the case for cross-border mergers.
25 minute read
September 12, 2013 | International Edition

Wall Street weighs up the world – are New York's elite committed to competing on a global level?

In 1989, only seven million Americans owned a passport – a derisory 3% of the US population and a figure that was oft-brandished by scornful Europeans. Since then the situation has improved markedly, with a far more respectable 110 million of the country's 313 million citizens holding a valid passport at the last count. That still lags the 70% of British passport-holders, but the change shows a US that has taken up full residence in the global village – an unavoidable response to the emergence of rival economic powerhouses such as China.
14 minute read
February 14, 2013 | International Edition

And now for the hard part – after five mergers, can Norton Rose's CEO tackle his biggest challenge yet?

When Norton Rose's merger with US firm Fulbright & Jaworski goes live on 1 June, it will have completed its fifth tie-up in just three-and-a-half years. Given that even one merger is beyond the ability of many of the UK's leading players, the achievement cannot be underestimated. The unions mean that in just 42 months, Norton Rose will have transformed itself from an also-ran UK law firm with a smattering of international offices and turnover of £314m into a global giant operating in 55 locations around the world with revenues approaching £1.3bn.
25 minute read
October 31, 2012 |

Latham and Skadden use the force on Disney's $4bn Lucasfilm purchase

Latham & Watkins and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken starring roles on The Walt Disney Company's $4.05bn (£2.5bn) acquisition of Lucasfilm, one of the most high-profile M&A deals of the year. Lucasfilm, which is 100% owned by chairman and founder George Lucas, is the production company behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film franchises. The stock and cash deal will see Disney pay approximately half in cash and issue around 40 million shares.
24 minute read
June 14, 2012 | International Edition

The new, new wave - the rapid expansion of the newest entrants to the London legal market

As new firms continue to flock to London, the cautious growth of earlier entrants has been cast aside in favour of heavy investment and dramatic expansion. JDG Chambers reports
23 minute read
April 04, 2012 |

PRIME membership rises to 75 as firms push forward on diversity

Weil Gotshal & Manges, Baker & McKenzie, White & Case, Reed Smith and Olswang are among a host of firms signing up to social mobility initiative PRIME, with 75 now committed to the scheme. The increased tally means PRIME - which is intended to raise the aspirations of students from under-privileged backgrounds by encouraging them to consider careers in the legal sector - has tripled the number of participating law firms since it launched in September last year.
39 minute read
April 04, 2012 |

The agenda - sizing up the profession's efforts to tackle social diversity

The legal profession has finally put social diversity 'on the agenda'. Georgina Stanley asks if it will be enough to counter an increasingly unequal British society
68 minute read

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