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• DAC Beachcroft allies with Canadian firm with a view to merging

  May 18 2012 DAC Beachcroft has entered into a formal association with Canadian firm McCague Borlack, with a long-term plan to fully merge the two firms. Initially, the deal... more

• Australian secondment firms set to merge

  May 17 2012 Secondment firms Advent Lawyers and Balance Legal have agreed to merge on 1 July. The combined firm will be known as AdventBalance, will have a headcount of around 80... more

• Baker & McKenzie holds on to 1st place in ranking by revenue

  May 08 2012 American Lawyer has released its new rankings, with some interesting results. The top 100 firms worldwide showed an average 5.3 per cent increase in gross revenue and... more

• UK firm Taylor Wessing expands in Europe with ENWC merger

  May 07 2012 Taylor Wessing has merged with Austrian-headquartered firm ENWC, which offers the UK firm a means of expanding into Central and Eastern Europe via ENWC’s offices in... more

• Norton Rose sets sights on US and China

  May 02 2012 Norton Rose Group is looking for mergers in the US and China, according to Chief Executive Officer Peter Martyr. Norton Rose now has a headcount of 2,900 lawyers,... more

• Indian firm Amarchand expands with Ahmedabad launch

  Apr 26 2012 Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff is set to launch a new office in Ahmedabad as part of a regional expansion strategy that would see the firm reach 1000... more

• Salans set to close down its Beijing office

  Apr 16 2012 Salans is set to shutter its Beijing office after the partnership voted to close the office in favor of a more intense focus on Shanghai. The Beijing office has... more

• Kennedys' accounts show rapid expansion in 2010-11

  Apr 16 2012 UK firm Kennedys has increased its equity partnership by 30 per cent in 2010-11, from 50 to 65 partners. In the same period, 42 fee earners were added to the firm’s... more

• US firms boost China presence

  Apr 12 2012 International law firms have significantly increased their presence in China over the past year, with the top 250 US firms bumping their headcount in China by 10 per... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf loses six more partners

  Apr 06 2012 New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has seen six more partners and one of counsel resign this week, bringing the number of partner departures this year to 46, out of the... more

• Slaughter & May and Allen and Overy make annual promotions

  Apr 04 2012 Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy have announced their annual partner promotions, with 23 made up at A&O and two made up at Slaughters. Slaughters elevated... more

• Eversheds' pilot program for in-house contract work sees success

  Mar 28 2012 UK firm Eversheds’ experiment with an in-house contract lawyer service has proven to be a success, and the firm has endorsed the pilot project by making it permanent.... more

• Bird & Bird starts toward ambitious goals in Asia with four new partners

  Mar 26 2012 Bird & Bird has boosted capacity across its Asia network with the addition of four partners. Lorraine Tay leaves a role as the head of Baker & McKenzie’s Singapore... more

• AZB makes an internal partner promotion in Delhi

  Mar 19 2012 AZB & Partners has promoted corporate senior associate Debashish Sankhari to its partnership, bringing the Delhi office to 18 partners. Sankhari commented on the... more

• UK firms just outside the top 25 see biggest income growth in 3rd quarter

  Mar 14 2012 Fee income is growing in the UK, with the firms ranked 26-50 seeing the biggest income growth, at around 10 per cent. The figures come from a quarterly survey by... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf set to make layoffs

  Mar 07 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf will be conducting layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, according to firm-wide memo from Chairman Steven H. Davis. The memo came after the... more

• Juris Corp boosts Delhi dispute resolution practice with FoxMandal hire

  Mar 06 2012 Juris Corp has boosted its dispute resolution practice in Delhi with the hire of former FoxMandal Partner Sandeep Kumar Mahapatra. The new hire brings the total number... more

• Linklaters reportedly in negotiations for alliance with Australian firm

  Mar 06 2012 International law firms have demonstrated considerable interest in the Australian legal market in recent months, with most of Australia’s largest law firms merging or... more

• University of Pennsylvania tops law school ranking

  Feb 29 2012 The National Law Journal has ranked the top 50 US law schools based on the percentage of graduates who took jobs in the country’s biggest 250 firms by headcount.... more

• Indian firm Amarchand plans to double headcount to 1000 lawyers in 5 years

  Feb 22 2012 India’s largest law firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co is pursuing a rapid expansion strategy, with plans to double in size over the next five years to... more

• Toronto firm Cassels Brock to expand to Vancouver

  Feb 10 2012 Toronto-based law firm Cassels Brock is set to launch an office in Vancouver. The firm will relocate lawyers to start the job – including partners Jennifer Traub and... more

• Profit at SNR Denton drops from £37.9m to £22.5m

  Feb 08 2012 The profit pool at SNR Denton dropped from £37.9 million to £22.5 million in 2010-11. Turnover in the same period fell from £166.1 million to £152.5 million. The firm... more

• Pinsent Masons and McGrigors announce merger plans

  Feb 07 2012 London firm Pinsent Masons and Scottish firm McGrigors have announced a formal agreement to merge. The combined firm will operate under the banner of Pinsent Masons... more

• DWF and Cobbetts end merger talks

  Feb 06 2012 After months of negotiations, the proposed merger between DWF and Cobbetts has fallen in a heap. Word go out last November that the firms were considering joining up,... more

• Mayer Brown invreases revenue by 2.4%

  Feb 02 2012 Mayer Brown has increased its revenue by 2.4 per cent – after two years of falling revenues. The figures will be some relief for the firm after dropping 14 per cent in... more

• Where are they now? The Howrey lawyers make their way

  Feb 01 2012 In the year before Howrey went under, the firm had a headcount of 242 lawyers in Washington. After the firm’s collapse on March 15, 2011, those lawyers flooded the... more

• Chinese firm Yingke continues aggressive expansion with new offices in Poland and Turkey

  Jan 31 2012 Yingke, China’s second largest firm by lawyer headcount has announced a further expansion abroad, launching an office in Poland and another in Turkey. The move comes... more

• Herbert Smith's Belfast office grows apace

  Jan 21 2012 Herbert Smith has hired 18 lawyers in its Belfast office, bringing the number of employees at the office to 56. The office was launched in April 2011 with the aim... more

• McGrigors and Pinsent Masons in merger talks

  Jan 21 2012 Scotland’s largest law firm by turnover, McGrigors, has confirmed that it is in merger talks with the London-based Pinsent Masons, with a deal to be put to the firms’... more

• US firms McKenna Long and Luce Forward announce merger

  Jan 20 2012 McKenna Long & Aldridge and Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps have announced a merger, forming a combined firm under the McKenna banner, with a headcount of over 600... more

• Squire Sanders & Demspey rebrands

  Jan 16 2012 The law firm formerly known as Squire Sanders & Dempsey has lost the third name from its letterhead. After 111 years under the same banner, the firm has decided to... more

• Scottish firms still struggling in a difficult market

  Jan 15 2012 A new report from management consultants PwC has observed that Scottish Law firms are still struggling under difficult market conditions and regulatory changes, with... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf boosts South Africa practice with hire of 12 attorneys

  Jan 06 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced the addition of eight partners and four associates to its Johannesburg office. The lawyers come from leading South African firm Werksmans... more

• US firms Bingham McHale and Greenebaum Doll & McDonald to merge

  Dec 22 2011 US firms Bingham McHale and Greenebaum Doll & McDonald have announced plans to merge. The combined firm will maintain offices in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, and have a... more

• Bird & Bird increases turnover and headcount

  Dec 21 2011 Bird & Bird has increased its fee-earner headcount by three per cent this year, from 654 to 673. The growth represents one of only a few cases of firms adding to... more

• Chinese and Australian firms will merge to become a force in Asia-Pacific

  Dec 18 2011 Leading Chinese law firm King & Wood is set to ally with major Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques to form one of the biggest legal practices in Asia. The firms... more

• Arnold Porter acquires SF firm Howard Rice

  Dec 08 2011 Washington-based law firm Arnold & Porter is set to acquire mid-size San Francisco firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. The merger will brin Howard Rice’s... more

• International firm Bryan Cave acquires Denver firm Holme Roberts

  Dec 07 2011 The 113-year-old Denver firm Holme Roberts & Owen is set to merge with St. Louis-based Bryan Cave. Holme Roberts will bring its 150 lawyers under the banner of... more

• UK firms Martineau and Sprecher Grier set to merge

  Dec 04 2011 UK firms Martineau and Sprecher Grier Halberstam are set to merge, forming a combined entity with more than 200 fee-earners, 60 partners and a turnover of £30 million.... more

• Kasowitz expands IP practice with Silicon Valley launch

  Nov 23 2011 Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman has expanded its intellectual property practice with the launch of an office in Silicon Valley. The office will be led by... more

• Washington firm McKenna Long in merger talks with California firm Luce Forward

  Nov 17 2011 Washington DC-based firm McKenna Long & Aldridge has initiated merger negotiations with Californian firm Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps. Luce was founded in 1873 and... more

• Jenner & Block boosts L.A. practice with 6 lateral hires from Hogan Lovells

  Nov 16 2011 Jenner & Block has given a significant boost to its Los Angeles office and media and entertainment practice with the hire of six partners from Hogan Lovells. The... more

• UK firm Watson Burton loses another four partners

  Nov 08 2011 Watson Burton has lost four partners this week, continuing a steady run of departures over the past two years. RollOnFriday reports that the firm had 29 partners last... more

• New York's top law firms increase lawyer headcount by 1.6%

  Nov 02 2011 Employment in New York law firms has grown by 1.6 per cent from 2010 figures, according to Crain’s latest ranking of the city’s top 25 law fimrs. Seventeen of the top... more

• UK firms Beachcroft and Davies Arnold Cooper merge

  Oct 31 2011 UK firms Beachcroft and Davies Arnold Cooper have merged to form DAC Beachcroft, with a headcount of over 2000 lawyers across the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific and Latin... more

• Australian law firms see revenues drop

  Oct 27 2011 Australian law firms have seen a drop in revenues. Even Perth, which is flush with cash in the middle of a resources boom, is expected to see revenue drop by nearly 50... more

• Indian firm Amarchand Mangaldas promotes 5 to equity partnership

  Oct 17 2011 Amarchand Mangaldas has promoted five lawyers into the lockstep equity partnership and has appointed 11 practice heads. The firm aims to have a headcount of 1000... more

• More departures from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert ahead of merger

  Oct 13 2011 Barlow Lyde & Gilbert insurance partners Simon Cooper and Kiran Soar have left the firm to join with Ince & Co ahead of the firm’s merger with Clyde & Co. Chris... more

• US firms Baker & Daniels and Faegre & Benson agree to merge

  Oct 13 2011 Indianapolis-based firm Baker & Daniels has confirmed that a merger agreement has been reached between itself and Minneapolis firm Faegre & Benson. The agreement... more

• SNR Denton to grow lower-cost service in profitability push

  Oct 11 2011 SNR Denton has announced a number of measures designed to boost profitability in the UK, including increasing the size of its lower-cost legal services office in... more

• Norton Rose concludes merger agreement with Canadian firm Macleod Dixon

  Oct 10 2011 Norton Rose has announced the conclusion of merger negotiations with Canadian firm Macleod Dixon, agreeing to tie up with the firm in January 2012. The alliance –... more

• Scottish and British law firms in formal merger negotiations

  Sep 23 2011 Scottish law firm Dundas & Wilson and British firm Bircham Dyson Bell have confirmed that they are considering a merger which, if it went ahead, would create a 130... more

• Singapore firm Rajah & Tann launches in Vietnam and Bangkok

  Sep 16 2011 Prominent Singapore firm Rajah & Tann has launched offices in Vietnam and Thailand. The Ho Chi Minh office has a headcount of four lawyers while the Bangkok office... more

• Indianapolis firm Ice Miller takes on 90 lawyers via merger

  Aug 24 2011 Indianapolis-based law firm Ice Miller has merged with Columbus firm Schottenstein Zox & Dunn, bringing 90 lawyers under the Ice Miller Banner from 1 January 2012.... more

• Newcastle firm Watson Burton announces redundancies

  Jul 26 2011 Newcastle-based firm Watson Burton has announced further redundancies – with four jobs set to be eliminated. Last year the firm reported poor financial results... more

• Hunton & Williams downsizes in London after mass departures

  Jul 18 2011 The London office of Hunton & Williams has downsized in response to a torrent of departures. The office has lost 60 per cent of its headcount in less than three... more

• Boston and Chicago firms in advanced merger negotiations

  Jul 07 2011 Boston firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and Chicago firm Wildman, Harrold have announced that they are in advanced merger talks, though no final deal has yet been... more

• Canadian law firms weather the economic storm

  Jul 06 2011 Canadian law firms seem to have weathered the financial crisis and recession without seeing any major firms go under, without serious hits to the bottom line, and... more

• The myth of work-life balance in big firms

  Jul 01 2011 Here is an interesting article in the Guardian about work-life balance – or the lack thereof – in large law firms. The article observes that firms maintain the fiction... more

• Norton Rose merges with major law firms in Canada and South Africa

  Jun 13 2011 Norton Rose has merged with two law firms - Canada's Ogilvy Renault and South Africa's Deneys Reitz. The former will henceforth be known as Norton Rose OR LLP, while... more

• US diversity scorecard stabilizes in 2010

  Jun 10 2011 The Am Law Daily has completed its Diversity Scorecard for 2010, showing a 0.2 per cent increase in the proportion of minority lawyers at big firms, to 13.9 percent.... more

• Greenberg Traurig hires real estate expert from Akin Gump

  Jun 10 2011 Greenberg Traurig has boosted its real estate practice with the hire of Peter Miller, who previously headed the real estate and finance practice group at Akin Gump... more

• Merger to create Israel's biggest law firm

  May 18 2011 Goldfarb, Levy, Eran, Meiri & Co and M Seligman & Co are set to merge to become Israel’s largest law firm, with 190 attorneys and 448 employees. Goldfarb, Levy,... more

• Beyond the crisis - what does the future hold for biglaw?

  May 06 2011 After sustained growth for a period of twelve years, the last three years have seen the legal markets in decline around the world. Work in mergers and acquisitions has... more

• Baker & McKenzie ranked largest US firm by headcount

  May 04 2011 Baker & McKenzie has come in as the largest of US law firms by head count, according to the The National Law Journal. This is the third year in a row that Bakers has... more

• US firms push profits by reducing headcounts

  May 02 2011 Profits per partner rose by 8.4 percent last year, after a flat 2009 and a 4.3 per cent drop in 2008. But while this growth in profits can be partially explained by... more

• US BigLaw cut down to size

  Apr 26 2011 The 250 largest law firms in the US reduced their lawyer headcount by about 3,000 lawyers last year, and has scaled back by about 9,500 lawyers since 2008, according... more

• North Carolina - South Carolina Merger: Womble Carlyle expands

  Apr 15 2011 North Carolina firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, with a headcount of 500 lawyers, has acquired 44-lawyer firm Buist Moore Smythe McGee of South Carolina.... more

• Texas firm Clark, Thomas & Winters closes after mass defections

  Apr 08 2011 Texas firm Clark, Thomas & Winters has closed its doors after the departure of more than 50 lawyers in the past two months. Clark, Thomas & Winters was founded in... more

• China's largest law firm Dacheng allies with Malaysian firm

  Mar 29 2011 China’s largest law firm Dacheng has announced exclusive Malaysian alliance with Malaysian firm Jeff Leong, Poon & Wong. The alliance is expected to service... more

• Singapore government considers easing restrictions on foreign lawyers

  Mar 11 2011 The Singapore government has announced that it is considering a move to further liberalise its rules on allowing foreign lawyers to practice in the country, and has... more

• Shearman & Sterling see revenues and profits fall in 2010

  Mar 02 2011 Shearman & Sterling has had a tough year, seeing revenue drop by 8 per cent from $801m in 2009 to $737m in 2010, while profits per equity partner fell from $1.74m to... more

• DLA Piper set to become the biggest firm in the world

  Feb 03 2011 DLA Piper is set to overtake Baker & McKenzie to become the largest law firm in the world by revenue and headcount when it merges with Australian law firm DLA Phillips... more

• Reed Smith and Thompson & Knight break off merger talks

  Jan 07 2011 Merger talks between Reed Smith and Thompson & Knight have been called off, after months of negotiation and due diligence failed to produce agreement. "We are very... more

• Heavy-handed Herbert Smith withdraws training contract

  Dec 23 2010 A would-be trainee has received harsh treatment at the hands of Herbert Smith, with the firm withdrawing the student’s training contract because he failed a ten-minute... more

• Headcount in decline for a second year at US top 250 law firms

  Nov 09 2010 The largest 250 law firms in the US have seen their lawyer headcount drop for the second consecutive year. This year’s 1.1 per cent decrease in headcount... more

• Merger of Akin Gump and Orrick could make waves in NYC

  Sep 30 2010 Following confirmation that Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe are in merger talks, speculation has begun on what impact the combined... more

• US firms consider merger: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

  Sep 29 2010 US-based law firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe are in merger talks, according to representatives from both firms. A deal... more

• Lawyer headcount at US firms hit by steepest drop for over 30 years

  Nov 10 2009 The US's largest law firms this year suffered the deepest cuts in lawyer numbers for more than three decades, reports The National Law Journal. During the 12 months... more