Sullivan & Cromwell has become the latest elite firm to introduce a non-equity tier to its partnership, while adding a $50,000 bonus for associates and counsel who refer external lawyers to join ...

AGRD Partners, the private equity-backed association of six Swedish law firms launched last year, has added another two Swedish firms to the group. Law firms Wigge and Bokwall Rislund have joined ...

Sidley Austin has lured another Latham & Watkins partner, following on from its hires of banking and finance heads Jay Sadanandan and Sam Hamilton among others. Jeremy Trinder is set to return ...

Northridge and Level Law landed key advisory roles as FIFA entered into a partnership with sports betting and technology company Stats Perform. Advising Stats Perform was a Northridge team ...

Addleshaw Goddard is defending the Co-operative Group in a claim brought by the joint liquidators of former supermarket chain Somerfield. The case starts today in the High Court for seven weeks ...

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has hired Freshfields’ corporate head in Spain, ahead of launching a Madrid office. Armando Albarrán joins Gibson Dunn from Freshfields. He is set to join the firm’s ...

A barrister has contacted the Law Society after discovering that the merged firm created by Taylor Wessing and Winston & Strawn will trade under his name. Winston Taylor, an associate advocate ...

Half of Ashurst’s offices are considered to be at risk of wildfires, according to a startling disclosure in the firm’s latest annual report. The firm said that a total of 16 out of its 32 ...

The director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has announced he will retire from his position in March, vacating the role just halfway through his term. Nick Ephgrave, who assumed the role ...

Twenty Essex’s Tony Beswetherick KC has joined South Square after 14 years as a member of his previous set. Beswetherick’s practice spans civil fraud, asset recovery, insolvency and company ...

US-based legal AI company Harvey will open an office in Paris this year, establishing a continental foothold as it scales its European business. The company has appointed Jorge Bestard as ...

The Warsaw office of A&O Shearman saw a substantive increase in its profits over the previous financial year, The Lawyer has learnt. Accounts for the 2025 financial year published in Poland’s ...