Recently added articles from The Lawyer:
Travers' big idea: learn a language, get clients.
Dec 14, 2009 ... Fresh from a sabbatical in India, Travers Smith's incoming managing partner Andrew Lilley is upping the firm's focus on its international profile by providing intensive language courses for its lawyers. Although the firm has offered language classes in some form for a number ...
Firms braced for flood of applicants in 2010.
Dec 14, 2009 ... Firms are toughening already tight graduate recruitment criteria in a bid to stem the expected flood of candidates returning from gap years following the legal market's biggest-ever trainee deferral programme. Despite predictions earlier this year that training contract ...
Lloyd LJ emerges as favourite for Supreme Court post.
Dec 14, 2009 ... Lord Justice Lloyd is tipped as the favourite to become the final judge appointed to the Supreme Court after Jonathan Sumption QC revealed last week that he had pulled out of the race. Lord Justice Rix and Lord Justice Dyson have been considered for the job, but it is ...
Nabarro cash injection staves off capital woes.
Dec 14, 2009 ... Nabarro averted a cashflow problem last year by asking partners to inject an extra #5m into the firm. The boost to the firm's working capital requirement was made in November 2008 and came after it posted a flat revenue at the half-year level. Senior partner Simon ...
Plexus acquisition reinforces QBE ties.
Dec 14, 2009 ... Plexus Law has strengthened its links with insurance giant QBE by acquiring the insurance practice of Whitfield Hallam Goodall. The Yorkshire-based firm sits on QBE's legal panel, which is due to be reviewed in the New Year. Plexus senior partner Tim Oliver said: "This is a ...