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A&O senior partner sounds diversity call in first of new Legal Week video series

Allen & Overy (A&O) senior partner David Morley has called on the UK legal profession to open its doors to a more diverse pool of candidates if it is to maintain its position at the forefront of a rapidly globalising market. Morley (pictured) was speaking in the first edition of Legal Week's new 'On the record...' video series, which will see senior members of the profession give their views on some of the most challenging topics currently facing City law firm managers.
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International Edition

On the record... with A&O senior partner David Morley

In this video, Legal Week editor Alex Novarese talks to Allen & Overy (A&O) senior partner David Morley about his career in law, social diversity in the profession, how aspiring lawyers can make an impression early on in their career and A&O's development during his tenure at the firm.
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International Edition

Career Clinic: Bullied - do I stay or do I go?

"I'm 2PQE at a top 25 firm. The pay isn't great and the firm is not that highly recognised in the department that I am in, but the hours are not crazy so I am able to have a bit of a life - a bonus in the City!
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International Edition

'Light-touch' additional paternity leave regulations raise issues for employers

The new additional paternity leave regulations apply for children born (or adopted) after 3 April 2011. Fathers now have the right to take up to 26 weeks of additional paternity leave (APL). This can be taken from 20 weeks following the baby's birth up until its first birthday. While this may be good news for would-be parents, it is likely to be problematic to employers.
4 minute read

International Edition

The rise of the technophile - why IT teams will have to learn to love personalisation

Since law firms started providing IT systems and services to their employees, those firms have dictated which device would be used. Over the decades of in-house IT systems and services, the nature of those devices has changed very little. A large proportion of the static working population have used desktop machines for years – yes, they are smaller, much more powerful and have a much wider range of services, but they remain fundamentally the same. The user gets a screen – flat and much larger, a processing unit – now small and often hidden away, and a keyboard with a mouse.
6 minute read

International Edition

Nabarro managing partner Paradise to step down after 12 years

Nabarro managing partner Nicole Paradise has announced her intention to step down after 12 years in the post. Paradise's fourth three-year term as managing partner, which began in 2008, will end this autumn, when a successor will take over.
2 minute read

International Edition

Ashurst seals new Indian best friend agreement with Mumbai firm

Ashurst has entered into a best-friends arrangement with Mumbai firm Indian Law Partners (ILP). The non-exclusive tie-up will see the two firms refer work to each other on a preferential basis.ILP, which was created earlier this year by former DSK Legal partners Gopika Pant and Piyoosh Gupta, also houses one counsel and 10 associates.
2 minute read

Legal Week

Partner exits – if you've got to go, don't go quite yet

On the face of it there are very few parallels between Clifford Chance (CC) and SNR Denton right now, with CC's average profits per equity partner standing around the £1m mark, while those at legacy Dentons lag behind its City peers at just £232,000. But in one respect the pair are taking a very similar approach, with both firms currently planning to hold some of their exiting partners to all, or most, of their notice periods.
41 minute read

International Edition

Simmons finalises move to overhaul partnership track

Simmons & Simmons is set to finalise its move to a three-tier partnership later this month, with the firm overhauling its traditional route to partnership. The overhaul means the firm will now promote all of its associates into a fixed-share partnership rank – abandoning the previous system that saw associates first become salaried partners or occasionally go straight into the equity.
2 minute read

International Edition

Smoke signals - there's no easy way to judge verein-backed firms

I knew this one was brewing for months. When Legal Week got around to its annual table of law firm results, there was always going to be a mind-numbing debate about how to treat the law firms put together with multiple profit centres. In many ways, the days when UK tables from Legal Week or US tables from The American Lawyer neatly summed up the upper end of the global legal services market have already passed. With more than 1,500 lawyers working for foreign firms in London, the UK-based tables already fail to reflect a substantial element of the domestic market. Yet merely replacing them with global tables or UK-revenue specific figures in isolation doesn't look that practical.
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