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• K&L Gates hires two senior corporate partners in London

  Mar 09 2010 K&L Gates LLP has bulked up its corporate practice in the City with the hire of two high-caliber partners, Carl Liederman, former head of Arnold & Porter’s European... more

• Dewey loses City employment group to Morgan Lewis

  Mar 05 2010 Dewey & LeBoeuf's employment group in London, a three-lawyer team headed by partner Matthew Howse, joined Morgan Lewis this week. A spokesman for Dewey said the... more

• Simmons parks 25 trainees on new MBA programme

  Mar 05 2010 City firm Simmons & Simmons is putting 25 incoming trainees onto its MBA programme with BPP this September, with the firm moving to make the MBA a permanent option... more

• Lovells' David Harris: Hogan Lovells will bid for the biggest deals

  Mar 01 2010 On 1 May 2010, UK law firm Lovells will merge with US rival Hogan Hartson to create one of the world’s largest law firms, called Hogan Lovells, with revenues of $1.8bn... more

• Slaughter and May shows confidence with 87% retention rate

  Feb 19 2010 Accoding to RollOnFriday, there are clear signs of renewed confidence amongst leading UK law firms this week, as further details were released of trainee retention... more

• New wave of trainee deferrals at Hebert Smith

  Feb 17 2010 The top 10 City law Herbert Smith has become the second major UK law firm, after Hammonds, to confirm that it has launched a further round of trainee solicitor... more

• Denton Wilde Sapte retains just one qualifier

  Feb 13 2010 Denton Wilde Sapte has announced it will be keeping on just one out of the seven trainees due to qualify in March. According to data by Rollonfriday.com, the firm... more

• Norton Rose hires Denton's banking co-head Nick Grandage

  Feb 11 2010 Norton Rose has continued to expand its finance practice with the hire of Nick Grandage, Denton Wilde Sapte’s co-head of banking. Grandage will lead Norton Rose's... more

• Cleary scores coup with rare City hire from Simmons

  Feb 10 2010 Simmons & Simmons finance litigation head Jonathan Kelly will leave the firm to join Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Kelly, one of the City's best-known banking... more

• Ropes & Gray expands new City office with Freshfields hire

  Feb 10 2010 Ropes & Gray has hired Matthew Cox, counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, as its fifth partner in London alongside Maurice Allen, Michael Goetz, Jonathan Bloom,... more

• Allen & Overy selects new corporate chiefs

  Feb 03 2010 Allen & Overy (A&O) has named new co-heads for its global corporate practice and appointed outgoing co-leader, Richard Cranfield, into a new role as chairman of the... more

• Eversheds investigates partner over 'new mother' email

  Feb 02 2010 Leading City law firm Eversheds, which prides itself on equality, was forced to carry out an inquiry after a partner questioned the commitment of a female interviewee... more

• Latham & Watkins snares four White & Case partners in London

  Feb 01 2010 White & Case has been hit by the departure of four banking and capital markets partners of its London office to US rival Latham & Watkins, reports Legalweek. White... more

• Four corporate partners leave Mayer Brown's London office

  Dec 19 2009 Four corporate partners have resigned from Mayer Brown's London corporate department. The US firm has just announced plans to lay off up to eight associates, but a... more

• Greenberg hires SJ Berwin partner for City securities team

  Dec 11 2009 Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has added yet another partner, boosting its City headcount to 15 partners. Laura O'Neill, a partner with SJ Berwin, will join the US firm... more

• Forecast: 5000 more City lawyers to lose job

  Dec 07 2009 Another 5,000 City lawyers could find themselves out of work next year as UK law firms undergo a new round of job cuts, reports The Times, citing bankers close to the... more

• Greenberg Traurig Maher adds M&A lawyer Ewan Robertson

  Oct 14 2009 Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP, the firm recently established in London by international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, announced that Ewan Robertson will be joining... more

• Lovells to abandon lockstep pay for Hogan & Hartson merger?

  Oct 12 2009 UK firm Lovells is secretly planning to abandon its lockstep in a bid to push through the planned merger with US firm Hogan & Hartson, reports The Lawyer. The fact... more

• Lovells and Hogan in talks to create new global giant

  Oct 09 2009 Lovells, the City’s sixth-biggest law firm, is in merger talks with leading US firm Hogan & Hartson in what would be the biggest tie-up in the legal sector in nearly... more

• Slaughter and May in outsourcing talks

  Oct 06 2009 Slaughter and May is eyeing a radical move into legal process outsourcing (LPO), as top UK law firms face mounting pressure from clients to save costs. The arrival... more

• Orrick loses corporate partner Lena Hodge to Brown Rudnick

  Sep 15 2009 Brown Rudnick has appointed Lena Hodge as a partner in the corporate and securities department in London. Hodge practices in corporate finance, mergers and... more

• Greenberg London adds Mayer Brown, Watson Farley partners

  Sep 11 2009 Greenberg Traurig Maher has continued its hiring drive with the addition of former Mayer Brown IP head and London general counsel Stephen Gare and competition partner... more

• Partner promotions at top UK law firms fall by a third

  Sep 04 2009 Magic circle law firms -- Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Slaughter and May -- saw promotions fall by an average of 41... more

• CMS Cameron McKenna retains 77% of trainees

  Aug 31 2009 UK law firm CMS Cameron McKenna is offering 21 out of 30 newly-qualified trainees jobs as associates, a retention rate that places the firm largely in line with its... more

• Lovells lawyers paid less than cleaners?

  Aug 28 2009 Lovells is offering jobs to lawyers at as little as £9 an hour --- paying less than for cleaners who are asking around £10 an hour for occasional jobs in central... more

• Ashurst restructuring head Nick Angel joins Milbank

  Aug 26 2009 Ashurst's head of restructuring Nick Angel is set to leave the firm to join US player Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in London, reports legalweek. more

• Jones Day adds Mayer Brown's London antitrust head Murphy

  Aug 26 2009 Jones Day has made its second lateral hire in the City this year with the recruitment of antitrust lawyer Frances Murphy who headed Mayer Brown's London antitrust team... more

• Weil Gotshal's Lehman bankruptcy fees exceed $100m

  Aug 19 2009 Weil Gotshal & Manges is set to pass the $100m mark in total billings on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, reports legalweek. Weil Gotshal's first request for $55m... more

• Greenberg snares White & Case capital markets partners in London

  Aug 18 2009 Greenberg's rapidly growing City office headed by Paul Maher has snared capital markets partners Andrew Croxford and Andrew Caunt from White & Case. Earlier this... more

• Baker & McKenzie faces 33% profits fall in London

  Aug 17 2009 Baker & McKenzie's City office expects partner profits (PEP) to fall by 33.5% from $939,000 to $623,000. Frmwide revenues dropped by 3% to $2.11bn, with PEP down by... more

• White & Case loses restructuring partner Dan Hamilton to Ashurst

  Aug 12 2009 UK law firm Ashurst has added restructuring partner Dan Hamilton from White & Case to its London office. Hamilton focuses on corporate and financial restructuring... more

• Orrick signs deal for new London headquarters

  Aug 07 2009 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's London office has signed a lease to move its City headquarters to 107 Cheapside from Tower 42, Old Broad Street. more

• Greenberg Traurig Maher makes first lateral hire in London

  Aug 06 2009 Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has appointed former White & Case capital markets partner Tim Jeveons, the first lateral partner hire since GTM launched in London... more

• Lovells keeps just 69 per cent of September qualifiers

  Aug 06 2009 Lovells’ retention rate for trainee solicitors qualifying in autumn has decreased to 69 per cent, placing the firm UK in line with other City firms like Freshfields... more

• Linklaters hires litigation star Christa Band from Herbert Smith

  Aug 04 2009 Linklaters has announced its first lateral hire in the City since 2007. Herbert Smith's litigation partner Christa Band who led the Herbet Smith's litigation team... more

• Top banking duo Allen and Goetz to leave Freshfields

  Aug 04 2009 Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz, two high-profile banking partners in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, are to quit the magic circle firm less than 18... more

• Freshfields appoints Ed Braham as global corporate head

  Aug 03 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed London corporate partner Ed Braham as global head of corporate. Braham is taking over from German partner Andreas... more

• Cleary hires Allen & Overy IP partner Colin Pearson

  Jul 22 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has made a rare hire in London, adding former Allen & Overy intellectual property partner Colin Pearson as a consultant of its City... more

• US law firms still flashing the cash for UK associates

  Jul 17 2009 Despite salary cuts and freezes, newly qualified lawyers (NQs) in London remain among of the highest-paid graduates in the UK. Latham & Watkins pays its NQs... more

• Mayer Brown hires finance partner trio in London

  Jul 14 2009 Mayer Brown has hired three leveraged finance partners for its London office in a move to ramp up its finance practice in the City. Leveraged finance partners Lee... more

• Legal outsourcing to India threatens more than 1,000 City jobs

  Jul 14 2009 More than a thousand City lawyer jobs could be be outsourced to India until the end of the year. Soumitro Chatterjee of FoxMandal Little, India's largest law firm,... more

• Clifford Chance loses nearly 50 partners since March

  Jul 13 2009 Clifford Chance has lost nearly 50 partners since the beginning of March, with its London and New York offices being most affected by the exits. Around 18 partners... more

• Weil Gotshal cuts new associate salary in the City to £85,000

  Jul 08 2009 US law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges reduces pay for UK trainee solicitors due to qualify in September 2009 by 5.6 per cent from £90,000 to £85,000. more

• Linklaters beats Clifford Chance + Freshfields

  Jul 04 2009 Linklaters announced a rise in revenues for the year ending April to £1.29 billion, which makes it the UK's highest-grossing law firm. Magic Circle rivals Clifford... more

• Freshfields overtakes Clifford Chance with £1.29bn revenues

  Jul 03 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has reported a 9% increase in turnover to of £1.29bn for the 2008/2009 financial year, taking it ahead of Magic Circle rival Clifford... more

• Clifford Chance loses global top spot to Skadden

  Jul 03 2009 As expected, Clifford Chance has lost its position as the world's biggest law firm to US rival Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. The Magic Circle firm has... more

• Mayer Brown in talks with White & Case, Allen & Overy partners?

  Jun 23 2009 Mayer Brown is said to be in advanced talks with a group of around ten capital markets partners from White & Case and a leveraged finance team from Allen & Overy in... more

• Clifford Chance to retain only 70% of trainees

  Jun 23 2009 Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has announced that it is to retain only 70% of trainees from its September intake, following City rivals Freshfields Bruckhaus... more

• 10,000 UK lawyers face losing their jobs

  Jun 15 2009 About 10,000 lawyers --- more than one in ten of the 83,000 privately employed solicitors in the UK --- could lose their jobs, writes The Times, citing recruiters,... more

• Cleary Gottlieb, Bird & Bird keep 100 per cent of UK trainees

  Jun 12 2009 Other firms doing well include Reynolds Porter Chamberlain with an 88% retention rate, Macfarlanes with 85% and Norton Rose with 83%, according to data published by... more

• Herbert Smith sees profits plunge by 22 per cent

  Jun 10 2009 Partner profits at London-based law firm Herbert Smith fell below £1 million in 2008 as the financial crisis caught up with the City law firms. Profits fell by 22... more

• Two more partners leave Mayer Brown's London office

  Jun 04 2009 Mayer Brown has suffered two more departures from its London office with corporate partner Fiona Adams and environment partner Cate Sharp both leaving the firm. more

• Top 50 set for fee falls but City firms hold steady

  May 21 2009 Top 50 revenues set to edge down but City firms match 2008 fees A substantial number of top 50 law firms will this year unveil falls in revenue despite many City... more

• Ashurst snares Linklaters construction partner Ann Minogue

  May 15 2009 In its first lateral partner hire in London this year, Ashurst has picked up highly-rated construction partner Ann Minogue from Linklaters. more

• Baker & McKenzie cuts 70 jobs in London

  May 14 2009 21 fee earners, 28 secretarial staff and 21 support staff in the City will be cut as a result of a six-week redundancy consultation, which was first announced in March. more

• Allen & Overy asks trainees to defer

  May 08 2009 Allen & Overy is the latest Magic Circle law firm asking its trainees to voluntarily defer. The firm will be offering a grant of £9,000 for deferrals of 12 months and... more

• UK firm Berwin Leighton Paisner launches redundancy consultation

  May 06 2009 Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is reviewing 30 legal, 30 business services and 25 secretarial positions in London, reports legalweek. more

• Baker & McKenzie to shed 60 to 85 jobs in its London office

  Mar 13 2009 Baker & McKenzie, one of the world's biggest law firms, has launched a formal redundancy consultation that will see the loss of between 60 and 85 jobs in its London... more

• White & Case layoffs: 80 to 95 jobs to go in London

  Mar 11 2009 U.S. law firm White & Case will lay off 80 to 95 legal and support staff in London, reports The Lawyer. The law firm announced on Monday that will shed up to 400... more

• Allen & Overy axes half of its leveraged finance partners

  Mar 09 2009 Five partners Allen & Overy's leveraged finance team in London will leave the firm after collapsing buyout activity has brought leveraged finance work to an all-time... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf, O’Melveny, Shearman cut 400 more jobs

  Mar 04 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf and O’Melveny & Myers announced that they will lay off about 330 lawyers and staff blaming weak demand for legal work because of the economic crisis.... more

• DLA Piper redundancy selection criteria revealed

  Feb 27 2009 Legal gossip website RollOnFriday has published details of the DLA Piper redundancy criteria, which insiders are complaining are absurdly unfair. According to the... more

• 50 leave Clifford Chance voluntarily, 80 face layoffs

  Feb 22 2009 Around 50 associates in London are leaving Clifford Chance voluntarily, additionally 80 lawyers are facing redundancy, reports The Lawyer. Three weeks ago, Clifford... more

• Allen & Overy to axe 247 lawyers

  Feb 20 2009 The legal bloodletting continues. Allen Overy is slashing 247 associates and partners and 100 support staff, almost 10 per cent of its global workforce. A total of... more

• Defunct law firm Fox Hayes faces £1m fine

  Feb 19 2009 Fox Hayes, a Leeds-based law firm that went into administration last month, has been fined nearly £1m for its involvement in overseas share scams that defrauded UK... more

• Simmons & Simmons to cut 70 jobs in London

  Feb 17 2009 City law firm Simmons & Simmons revealed that almost 70 could lose their jobs in its London office. The firm started a 30-day redundancy consultation today. Up to... more

• Freshfields freezes associate pay to prepare for tough times ahead

  Feb 09 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced a salary freeze as it prepares for a drop in fee income in 2009. Associates and support staff remain at current pay... more

• Lovells to lay off 94 in London

  Feb 09 2009 Lovells has started redundancy talks that will see up to 94 staff in London lose their jobs. 18 lawyers are at risk of redundancy, with 43 support staff, 27... more

• DLA Piper secretly raises target hours for associates

  Feb 04 2009 DLA Piper has found itself in trouble with its assistants after increasing target hours from 1500 to 1600. Without telling them, says UK legal gossip website... more

• Freshfields named offcial law firm of the 2012 Olympics

  Feb 04 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won the high-profile appointment as the"official legal adviser" for the 2012 London Olympics. The Magic Circle firm will... more

• Olswang to lay off 42 in the UK

  Jan 30 2009 Olswang, 682-strong UK law firm, has started a redundancy consultation. The firm told staff that up to 42 jobs in the UK will be affected by the cuts, including salary... more

• Linklaters to cut 120 associates, 150 staff in London

  Jan 29 2009 Linklaters today announced plans to cut up to 120 junior lawyers in its London office in anticipation of a weakening demand for commercial legal services. The... more

• Ashurst cuts 10 equity partners

  Jan 21 2009 Ashurst is slashing ten lawyers from equity partnership. The Lawyer reports that seven London equity partners and three overseas equity partners have lost their jobs. more

• Addleshaw Goddard axes 19 partners

  Jan 21 2009 Addleshaw Goddard, the national UK law firm, is set to slash one in ten partners because of the downturn in demand for legal services. The leading City firm has... more

• Seven partners leave Cadwalader London office for Paul Hastings

  Jan 14 2009 The London office of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has suffered a massive setback with the walkout of seven of its partners, reports legalweek. The partners leaving... more

• Orrick boosts London revenue 14 per cent in 2008

  Jan 14 2009 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe’s London office has reported a 14.3 per cent revenue hike for the 2008 financial year. The Lawyer reports that the US firm increased... more

• Clifford Chance to lay off 80 lawyers in London

  Jan 08 2009 Clifford Chance has launched a redundancy program that will lead to 70 to 80 London lawyers losing their jobs. The move will put nearly one in 10 of Clifford Chance’s... more

• Crisis hits partners in City law firms

  Jan 07 2009 Up to 10 to 15 per cent of the 11,726 partners in the top 100 UK firms could lose their jobs this year. Senior equity partners, who earned an average of £1.1 million... more

• City law firms gear up for painful year ahead

  Jan 03 2009 After enjoying several record-breaking years, City law firms like Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Lovells, DLA Piper face a fall in revenue and... more

• Dundas & Wilson wins top role on Madoff fraud

  Dec 28 2008 Scottish leader Dundas & Wilson will be advising on UK and European aspects of the high profile Bernard Madoff fraud case. Dundas' London corporate recovery team... more

• Linklaters bills more than €1m a week for Lehman mandate

  Dec 04 2008 Linklaters’ high-profile role on Lehman Brothers’ administration is set to become one of most lucrative mandates in European legal history with the City giant now... more

• Bird & Bird forms alliance with Singapore firm Alban Tay

  Dec 04 2008 City law firm Bird & Bird has expanded its business in Asia by forming an alliance with Singapore-based firm Alban Tay Mahtani & de Silva LLP. The partnership will... more

• Reed Smith to cut 130 jobs, including 11 associate jobs in London

  Dec 04 2008 Reed Smith LLP said it has cut 115 support positions across its offices in the United States due to the economic slowdown. Additionally, the firm is beginning... more

• Linklaters, Nabarro take lead roles on latest bank insolvency

  Dec 01 2008 Linklaters and Nabarro are advising the financial services company London Scottish Bank, which went into administration today. London Scottish Bank specializes in... more

• Cadwalader ditches all London trainees

  Nov 30 2008 The London office of US firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has confirmed that it won't be keeping on a single one of its March 2009 qualifiers. more

• Field Fisher in redundancy talks with 175 staff

  Nov 22 2008 Field Fisher Waterhouse has launched a redundancy consultation with 175 support staff in London. At least 40 positions are under threat. more

• Latham & Watkins makes up 30 partners

  Nov 20 2008 Latham & Watkins has promoted 30 lawyers to its partnership. In the US, Latham's New York office gained seven new partners, followed by San Diego with four and Chicago... more

• City law firms post solid financials

  Nov 07 2008 City law firms look set to tough out the gloomy market with Lovells, Norton Rose, Trowers & Hamlins and CMS Cameron McKenna all expecting double-digit revenue growth... more

• Lovells posts 15% growth in first half of 2008

  Nov 06 2008 Lovells has emerged as the stand-out performer as H1 financial results emerge, with the City firm posting a 15% increase on the same period last year. Income has... more

• City law firms cut costs as financial crisis bites

  Nov 06 2008 Top City lawyers may be reaping over £1 million a year but law firms are starting to make penny-pinching savings as they feel the impact of the financial crisis. A... more

• Slaughter and May to hand out 10% bonus to fee earners

  Nov 04 2008 Fee earners at Slaughter and May are set to see their pay packets boosted, with the firm announcing that its lawyers are in line for a bonus of 10% of salary... more

• UK law firms still keen on Australasian lawyers

  Oct 22 2008 In the midst of the global credit crunch, the UK continues to lure Australasian lawyers with the prospect of high quality work, good salaries and the life experience... more

• Akin Gump denies moustache ban

  Oct 18 2008 A spokesman for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has denied that lawyers at the London office of the US firm have been discouraged from growing moustaches in support of... more

• Weil Gotshal in post-crunch shake-up of City finance

  Oct 16 2008 Weil Gotshal & Manges has merged its London banking and securitisation practices, as the New York firm moves to deal with the dearth of structured finance work brought... more

• Magic circle firms head up £37bn bank bailout

  Oct 14 2008 Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are among the top City firms winning roles on the UK Government’s £37bn bailout of three of the... more

• US firms announce City promotions

  Oct 11 2008 US firms have started to announce their new partner promotions. Kirkland & Ellis made up five partners in London, and Covington & Burling promoted two... more

• City law firms less profitable than US rivals

  Oct 09 2008 Three City law firms - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, and Slaughter and May - were among the ten most profitable in the world last year but they continued... more

• Wedlake Bell lays off 17

  Oct 08 2008 London-based Wedlake Bell has launched a redundancy consultation with six lawyers and 11 support staff... more

• UK law firm redundancy toll rises to 440

  Sep 24 2008 Law firms in the South East and London have laid off more staff than those in any other region in England and Wales, with real estate departments bearing the brunt of... more

• Bird & Bird merges with City boutique Lane & Partners

  Sep 19 2008 Bird & Bird has boosted its corporate and litigation practices, sealing a merger with 30-lawyer London firm Lane & Partners. The move comes just two weeks after the... more