One for the lawyer haters…
With the top 30 firms running an average of around 82% this year, Linklaters have upped the ante at 87%…
Only the North American version has been released so far but two magic circle firms made it into the top 30…
Uncertainty prevails…
Nothing exceptional but disappointing results for Linklaters, average for Osborne Clarke…
An earlier court ruling awarding Levicom nominal damages of just £5 was overturned yesterday…the original claim…$55m (£37m)!
The magic circle firm thaws its lockstep freeze and increases pay…
Plus other career excitement at Linklaters and Ashurst…
Reaching the top – Graduating from Oxbridge dramatically improves your chances of MC stardom, particularly at Freshfields and Slaughters…
Revelations about Lehman’s use of an “accounting gimmick” to manipulate its balance sheet rocked the financial community on Friday…
After last year’s bloodbath, retention rates are not as solid as recent years…
If you’re in it for the money, there’s encouragement from the highest parts of the legal tree…
Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith and Linklaters have all offered training contracts to oveseas students…
The top Magic Circle firm only intends to keep 70% of its qualifying trainees in March…
In Europe at any rate. The firm ranked number 1 M&A adviser in Mergermarket’s pan-European year end league table of legal advisers by value in 2009…
