The Law Society of Scotland may cut employees, as it faces losing £1 million in revenue. The professional governing body is cutting the cost of practicing as a solicitor from £665 for a “for a compulsory practising certificate” to £565. The cut in fees will cause the revenue shortfall. Law Society staff have been asked to consider [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Allen & Overy attorney Michael Jahnke has lateraled to Howrey. He joins as a partner in the competition practice group. His practice focuses on tobacco, food, energy and telecommunications corporations. Meanwhile, A&O Capital markets partner Srinivas Parthasarathy will leave A&O’s Singapore office to join Trilegal’s Mumbai office as a partner. He will head the capital markets [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Ledingham Chalmers has announced a drop in pre-tax profits of 20%, to £3.3 million ($5.5 million), in the year to March. But the firm does not intend to hold layoffs. Activity was up in energy and rural matters, but down in property matters. Fee income fell 3% to £9.1 million ($15 million). Other, larger Scottish rivals have [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
Beachcroft has hired a four-lawyer clinical negligence team, working out of Dublin. Ann O’Driscoll joins from Mason Hayes+Curran as a clinical negligence partner. She advises health care professionals and hospitals on clinical negligence and risk management issues. She is joined by Ciara Palmer, a legal executive from Mason Hayes. Two associates will also join the team, Claire [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
The 2010 incoming trainee class at London’s One Essex Court will be paid £60,000 ($99,550) per year, or a £15,000 ($24,900) above current rates. This is as much as 60% more than new trainees are paid at other major British law firms, blawgs are reporting. And most other firms have cut salaries, not increased them. The firm [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
British blawgs are reporting that Linklaters wants to avoid legal action from a former employee let go during a massive redundancy consultation that targeted 400. The firm confirmed that it is in talks with the ex-staffer, but would not elaborate on details. A global restructuring initiative called “Linklaters New World” saw the layoffs of about 200 lawyers [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 8, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Former Georgia state senator Rusty Paul joins Arnall Golden Gregory, to head the Atlanta law firm’s government affairs & public policy practice. He is a Sandy Springs city councilman, and was previously a federal assistant cabinet secretary and chairman of the state Republican Party. Paul served in the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
Commercial law firm Watson Burton has offered a job to only one or two of its eight qualifying trainees, according to blawgs. However, the firm has helped all but one of those trainees find alternate employment. For instance, one will join a client of the firm, and another has been hired by a local accountant. In March, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
A Scottish employment tribunal has awarded £20,000 in compensation to two former staffers at Garden Stirling. The tribunal rejected claims made by 56-year-old paralegal assistant Linda Bruce, and 52-year-old financial adviser Anne Crawford, that age discrimination played a part in their firings. But the tribunal agreed that Crawford was not offered outplacement, and that Bruce was unfairly [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: John Brownlee joins Holland & Knight as partner in the firm’s McLean, Virginia and Washington DC offices. He was US Attorney in the Western District of Virginia from 2001 to 2008. He joins the firm’s enforcement defense and government contracts practices. He received his JD from the College [...]
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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