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• Bristol law firm TLT to merge with Scottish litigation house Anderson Fyfe

  May 15 2012 Bristol law firm TLT is set to merge with Scottish litigation house Anderson Fyfe, gaining offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as eight partners and 45 employees.... more

• Tough going in Scotland: redundancies, defections and shutters

  May 09 2012 Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens has initiated a redundancy consultation in its Private Client department, with four support staff roles and two legal roles at... more

• End of merger negotiations between UK firms Maclay Murray & Spens and Bond Pearce

  Mar 19 2012 There has been a failure of merger negotiations between Scottish law firm Maclay Murray & Spens and Bristol's Bond Pearce. The decision to abandon the talks comes... more

• Average profits rise at Scottish law firms

  Feb 20 2012 Profits at Scotland’s law firms are rising for the first time since the global finaincial crisis, with the average profit per equity partner across all sizes of 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

• 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

• 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

• Scottish legal market looking up

  Dec 18 2011 There has been significant improvement in the Scottish legal market, according to a new survey of the country’s top firms conducted by industry advisors PKF. The... more

• HBJ Gateley remains upbeat as seven partners walk out

  Nov 07 2011 HBJ Gateley Wareing's Glasgow office has just lost six partners, with a seventh departing from the Edinburgh office. The departures have gutted the Glasgow office,... more

• Scottish firm Ledingham Chalmers appoints new Chair

  Oct 03 2011 Scottish law firm Ledingham Chalmers has appointed a new chairperson, elevating partner and construction expert Jennifer Young to replace incumbent David Laing. The... 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

• Scottish law firms hover above minimum wage for trainees

  Sep 14 2011 An interesting article here about the pay in Scottish law firms. According to the article, leading corporate firm Dickson Minto is the most profitable firm in... more

• Pinsent Masons and Wragges freeze salaries for newly qualified lawyers

  Aug 24 2011 Pinsent Masons and Wragge & Co have announced the details of their associate slaries for 2011-12, with both firms freezing rates for newly-qualified lawyers in London.... more

• Scottish firm Dundas & Wilson posts marginal increase in turnover

  Jul 05 2011 Scottish law firm Dundas & Wilson has reversed a two-year decline in turnover to post a slight rise in the 2010-11 financial year. The firm recorded a 2 per cent... more

• Scottish firm Morton Fraser launches 'league tables' of associate billing

  May 16 2011 Scottish law firm Morton Fraser has announced that it will do away with annual fee targets and adopt a policy that encourages competition between associates instead.... more

• Scottish firm Dundas Wilson makes up four partners

  May 09 2011 Scottish firm Dundas & Wilson has made up four lawyers to the partnership in its 2011 promotions round. The firm’s London office will gain two new partners - Shane... more

• Head of leading Scottish firm predicts unprecedented consolidation in legal services market

  Mar 15 2011 The chief executive of Shepherd and Wedderburn, Patrick Andrews, say that he is amazed by the number of approaches that he has received from senior lawyers who are... more

• CMS Cameron McKenna leaves a third of its London trainees without a job

  Nov 29 2010 CMS Cameron McKenna has has announced that only 19 of the 30 trainees in its London base will be offered an NQ role with the firm. Of these 19 jobs, three are offered... more

• Scottish firm McGrigors to lay off 40 lawyers

  Oct 20 2010 Scottish law firm McGrigors has announced its entry into a redundancy consultation, with plans to cut 40 lawyers from the roster, as well as a number of support staff... more

• Latham & Watkins and AZB lead $9.6bn Indian energy deal

  Aug 19 2010 Latham & Watkins is advising the London-based mining giant Vedanta Resources on its $9.6 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in the Indian oil and gas unit of... more

• Linklaters, Slaughter and May lead $2.6 bn bank branch sell off

  Aug 05 2010 Linklaters and Slaughter and May have taken leading roles on the deal $2.6 billion acquisition of 318 branches of the Royal Bank of Scotland by Spanish bank Banco... more

• Maclay Murray & Spens posts 5.4% drop in revenue while PEP soars by 20.5%

  Jul 19 2010 Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens has followed the trend in posting a drop in revenues over a rise in profits per equity partner in the 2009-10 financial year.... more

• Scottish law firm Dundas and Wilson reports £9m profit slump

  Jul 23 2009 Dundas and Wilson, one of Scotland's largest law firms, has posted a drop in annual profits of nearly £9m. Profit per equity partner fell from £385,000 in 2007-8 to... more

• UK regional law firms take drastic steps to avoid further job cuts

  Jul 21 2009 Regional law firms in the UK are suffering even more severely from the economic downturn than their London competitors. Several major regional firms are imposing... more

• 50 jobs to be lost at UK firm Dundas and Wilson

  Feb 27 2009 Scottish law firm Dundas & Wilson has confirmed that fifty jobs are to go "in response to market conditions." Dundas & Wilson employs more than 600 people. The firm... 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

• Eversheds to launch in Scotland with McGrigors hires

  Dec 11 2008 Eversheds is set to open an office in Scotland with the national law firm finalising plans for its new launch. The firm is expected to open in Edinburgh, reports... more

• Brodies in challenge to big four Scottish law firms

  Jul 28 2008 Commercial law firm Brodies LLP, is closing the gap on Scotland’s big four in the industry, Dundas & Wilson, McGrigors, Maclay Murray Spens, and Shepherd and... more

• Success for Baker and McKenzie: Scots boy must give up Narnia website

  Jul 25 2008 Baker & McKenzie has prevailed over a Scottish family in a fight over the narnia.mobi domain name, after a decision from the World Intellectual Property Organisation... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf joins Slaughter and May for Zurich's RBS bid

  Jun 14 2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf has snared a lead advisory role alongside City royalty Slaughter and May to advise one of the front-runners in the race to acquire the insurance... more

• UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) raids law firm bankers

  Jun 04 2008 The Office of Fair Trading conducted a series of dawn raids at offices of Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as part of an investigation into price-fixing on... more

• McGrigors City real estate jobs under threat

  May 31 2008 Scottish giant McGrigors is set to make cuts in its London office with jobs at risk in the office as a result of the property slowdown, with fee earners and... more

• Burness law firm poaches construction law partners from DLA Piper

  May 07 2008 Burness, a leading Scottish law firm, has raided rival DLA Piper for its two Scottish construction partners, Fenella Mason and Sandra Cassels. This news comes soon... more

• Scottish law firms to be opened to external investors?

  Apr 28 2008 The Law Society of Scotland is asking members to back proposals to enable external investors such as banks, accountants and venture capitalists to buy shares in... more

• Freshfields and Linklaters scoop key roles on RBS £12bn rights issue

  Apr 24 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have secured the key legal roles in Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) record £12bn rights issue. RBS has turned to... more

• Dual-qualified England and Scots law degree announced

  Apr 16 2008 The University of Dundee is to offer students a law degree that will enable them to qualify in both England and Scotland. As the only university in the United... more