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International Edition

Freshfields Partnership Votes On Plans to Form 'Conduct Committee' and Fine Badly Behaved Partners

The Magic Circle firm needs 75% partner approval to usher in a new 'conduct protocol', whereby individuals could face a 20% profit share cut for bad behaviour.
2 minute read

International Edition

CMS Takes On More Space In Sheffield, Targets Regional Growth

The firm has signed a new 20-year lease, adding nearly 10,000 sq ft more.
2 minute read

International Edition

Gary Senior Hearing Delayed as SDT Sets Up Live Feed In Hospital For Respondent

Co-respondent Martin Blackburn suffered a fractured hip, and is currently in A&E, people close to the case have said.
2 minute read

International Edition

Freshfields Hires New Adviser Amid Cum-Ex Investigation

The firm has replaced its adviser after its former head of international tax Ulf Johannemann was arrested last week.
2 minute read

Pro Mid Market

Midsize Moves: A Seattle Development and Diversity Director from Higher Ed

Lane Powell hires a director of professional development and diversity, Greenbaum Rowe adds an environmental lawyer as partner, and other midsize moves.
1 minute read

International Edition

King & Wood Mallesons Expands in China With Another Office in Hainan

The Haikou office is the Sino-Australian firm's second in the southern island province of Hainan, which was designated last year China's latest and largest free-trade zone.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Freshfields Adds 4 More From Cleary in Wake of Big Partner Hires

Three counsel and an associate are joining the Magic Circle firm's M&A practice in New York, following Ethan Klingsberg and others who left Cleary in October.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

22-Year Kirkland Private Equity Vet Jumps to Arnold & Porter

Arnold & Porter looked to private equity powerhouse Kirkland & Ellis for its first corporate partner in Chicago.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pond Lehocky Name Partner Sues Firm to Dissolve Partnership, Alleging 'Freeze-Out'

David Stern, a founding partner of Philadelphia workers' compensation and Social Security disability law firm Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano, has filed a lawsuit in Philadelphia trial court against the firm, alleging its managing partner has engaged in "continued efforts to coerce Stern into forfeiting his partnership interest."
5 minute read

International Edition

Withers Has Big Plans for Growth in Asia

Withers chief executive Margaret Robertson said she wants revenue from Asia to be on par with Europe and the United States.
7 minute read

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