A renowned London-based international legal partnership and the law firm with the largest attorney roster in Singapore have called off their merger talks.
An experimental in-house contract lawyer service at a major United Kingdom-based law firm has gotten off to a bigger start than expected and has been made permanent a little over…
Increased hiring in London by United States and transatlantic law firms has helped make lateral partners a hot commodity there, boosting the number being brought in to a five-year high.
Putting DLA Piper’s offices in the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia on the same footing as its United States offices, the firm’s partnership voted this week to establish a one-tier,…
Carolyn Elefant—Washington, D.C., solo and Pinterest member—has invited My Shingle readers to ” ‘drop’ your business card into the Mar 2, 2012 2:30 PM CST
A former partner of Allen & Overy and Macfarlanes had to serve a month in prison after being convicted of perverting the course of justice for lying to police to…
Herbert Smith, a venerable London-based firm with over 1,000 lawyers, is in preliminary talks with Australia’s Freehills concerning a possible megamerger.
Slater & Gordon, the world’s first publicly traded law firm is poised to grow again after agreeing to pay 53.8 million pounds (about $84 million in U.S. dollars) for a…
A British lawyer ousted in 2008 from his equity partnership at Mishcon de Reya was sentenced today to 5½ years in prison for helping a client trick a private Swiss…
A former partner of Allen & Overy and Macfarlanes has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for claiming to police he had been kidnapped in an apparent effort to…
In what may be the first purchase of a law firm by a publicly traded United Kingdom company, Quindell Portfolio plans to acquire Silverbeck Rymer to expand…