Catrin Griffiths

Less than two years after it overhauled its lockstep to keep its top performers, Linklaters is mulling a radical shake-up of its compensation system. The proposals would give management full control…

Another Linklaters partner has resigned to join Paul Weiss. The Lawyer understands that Dan Schuster-Woldan is leaving the magic circle firm. Schuster-Woldan is co-head of Linklaters’ insurance group…

Linklaters’ management team is taking soundings on three separate proposals that aim to trim payouts to departing members and reduce the overall cost to the firm, The Lawyer can reveal.

It’s new partner season for UK firms, when hundreds of happy associates are granted new status, obligations and bragging rights. Most firms lag behind Kirkland & Ellis, though, which made up 26 in…

The magic circle has a secret weapon, and that is breadth. And the UK leaders’ multiple, richly-staffed practice areas are starting to give them a helpful…

It seems that one of the chief attributes of managing partners is wild optimism. You can’t move for law firm leaders committing their firms to hardcore five-year targets – particularly in the upper…

The scene: A US firm boardroom, somewhere not in New York*. Big Cheese (furiously): ‘We’re not growing fast enough. What have you got?’ Smaller Cheese (panicking): Private equity! That’s the thing!

$20m partners are rare, but they are multiplying. Paul Weiss, Kirkland, Davis Polk, Weil Gotshal and latterly Latham are reshaping their partner compensation for the big figure…

In the last 12 months, the top 100 law firms in the UK have spent literally millions on lateral hires, bringing in a total of 12,177 new partners. Such hope. So many dreams. How many of them will…

If you want a cacophonous, vicious, spectacularly partisan constituency competition, then Siena would have been the place to be this week. You’ll have seen it in Quantum of Solace: the palio – a three…