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FTSE 100 companies to cough up £24bn in legal liabilities
June 3rd, 2015
Companies forced to delay dividends and sell off assets to pay legal costs FTSE 100 companies have warned their shareholders they face total legal liabilities of £24bn, according to Thomson Reuters. Raichel Hopkinson, head of the practical law dispute ...
KPMG: Big Four player poses new threat to law firms
June 2nd, 2015
KPMG is growing its legal arm beyond tax, threatening to become a major player in the legal services market. Speaking to Lawyers Weekly, Jeremy Geale, the head of KPMG’s tax controversy team, said the Big Four firm is boosting the ...
Leading global firms will take candidates’ backgrounds into account when recruiting
May 22nd, 2015
New contextual recruitment tool will ‘set a new benchmark for social mobility’ in the City International law firms Baker & McKenzie and Hogan Lovells have become the first to sign up for a ground-breaking contextual recruitment tool designed to ...
Third of lawyers say no to partnership in favour of work-life balance
May 21st, 2015
Perception of the legal profession’s glass ceiling not seen as a main impediment to law firm leadership roles Work-life balance and stress are the primary reasons lawyers are not aspiring to partnership, new research has found. The 2015 Salary and ...
Number of law firms planning to raise charge out rates increases
May 7th, 2015
Third of commercial firms likely to raise rates in bid to boost profits, despite continued client pressure on fees The number of commercial law firms expecting to overcome customer resistance and increase charge out rates over the coming year ...
Lawyers are more faithful to their roles compared to 2014
April 24th, 2015
Millennials, however, are likely to look for a new role within six months of first job Law firms might have to ‘turn on the charm’ in year three of their employee’s career, a new report has revealed, as lawyers ...
Poorly advised investors told to act now
April 23rd, 2015
Investors in highly sophisticated schemes may have better grounds to make a claim Investors who have previously used tax schemes which are now being scrutinised by HMRC only have six years from the date of investment to claim that ...
First US law firm to be licensed as ABS in UK
April 13th, 2015
The US firm has made its first UK hire and is going down the alternative business structure route. US law fim Cahill Gordon & Reindel has become the first US firm to be licensed as an Alternative Business Structure ...
Efficiency failures putting UK law firms at risk
March 18th, 2015
Flat profit margins and high lockup weakening financial stability, survey finds Small to mid-sized UK law firms have enjoyed a year of sustained economic improvement, according to a new financial benchmarking report. The survey found that, while fees and ...
HMRC issues almost £100m in tax return penalties
March 11th, 2015
Tax payers could find themselves with a daily penalty increase if they continue to fail to submit their return HMRC has issued 890,000 people with a £100 penalty fine for failing to complete their tax returns by the 31 ...
