Legal Week - TLT

Irwin Mitchell promotes 13 to partner as TLT promotes four

James Booth, staff — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:43:00 -0400

Number of Irwin Mitchell partners promoted nearly doubles compared to last year

TLT strengthens UK commercial offering with Manchester team hire

Rose Walker, staff — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 04:55:00 -0400

TLT has boosted its UK corporate and commercial offering with the appointment of a five-strong team from now defunct Manchester-based law firm Millbank…

Blogging - can it help your legal career?

Ben Wheway, staff — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:53:00 -0500

For many in the legal profession, blogging remains something of an alien concept, an attitude encapsulated by media lawyer David Allen Green last week when recalling the reaction of a partner to his suggestion that more lawyers should blog: "Some of us have client work, dear boy." Green, better known perhaps as the blogger Jack of Kent and legal commentator for the New Statesman, was speaking at a debate hosted last Thursday (17 November) by 1 Crown Office Row, which took an informal look at law blogging.

Legal Week's blogroll - the five most-read and five tips to be the most read

Legal Week, staff — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:25:00 -0500

Around the time of Alex Aldridge's blogging feature and Sofia Lind's complementary article on lawyers and social media in October last year, a worrying addiction to Twitter had begun to develop in Legal Week's sumptuous Soho offices. Much time spent 'researching' on the site helped us to uncover a fast-growing legal community among Twitter's burgeoning membership. The next step in December was for Legal Week to start regularly hosting blogs from outside contributors on the Legal Village section of our website.

Communications breakdown

Georgina Stanley, staff — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:14:00 -0500

The question of what clients want from their external legal advisers and how law firms meet this demand may well be nothing new, but two recent examples suggest that this is an area where there is still a significant lack of communication.

Signy quits - not an earthquake but a definite fault line

Legal Week, staff — Tue, 5 May 2009 20:03:00 -0400

Adam Signy's departure from Clifford Chance (CC) may have been well-trailed in the Square Mile, but all the forewarning in the world is unlikely to have lessened the blow for CC. Adam Signy_CC_p17.jpgNot only was Signy generally considered to be the top name in the magic circle firm's public M&A practice, but his move marks the best corporate CV to hit a US firm's London office since Mike Francies joined Weil Gotshal & Manges way back in 1998. The fact that Signy (pictured) is CC born and raised - having spent some 22 years as a partner - only drums home the symbolism; particularly since the last time CC was in this position it managed to hold on to private equity duo James Baird and Matthew Layton, who came within a whisker of joining Weil Gotshal in 2004.

Sympathy for Silk Street

Georgina Stanley, staff — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:03:00 -0400

“It’s a disgrace” may not be the first words you’d associate with a commercial decision by a bank but the expression neatly sums…

Managing/Senior Partner of the Year 2007: David Pester, TLT

Ben Wheway, staff — Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:22:00 -0500

The British Legal Awards 2007: Managing/Senior Partner of the Year. Winner: David Pester, TLT. Finalists: Peter Crossley, Hammonds; Kevin Gold, Mishcon de Reya; Moira Gilmour, Field Fisher Waterhouse; David Gray, Eversheds; Joy Kingsley, Pannone

Wild card Weil Gotshal deals trump card on salaries

Ben Wheway, staff — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:03:00 -0400

Weil Gotshal certainly doesn’t mess about, or at least not this year. Just when the drama looked like it has gone out of the current City pay round,…