Tag: Partners

How techy do you have to be to work in tech law?
DWF technology, media and telecoms partner Ben McLeod shares his thoughts

My life as a tech lawyer
Womble Bond Dickinson partner Alastair Mitton offers insights into the fast-moving sector

From India’s biggest law school to Kirkland & Ellis private equity partner in London
Aprajita Dhundia shares her career story

From trainee to City law firm partner in ten years
Travers Smith’s Stephanie Lee reflects on her path to partnership and the high-stakes litigation that she’s worked on along the way

The Green Economy will be the defining theme of the 2020s
Three Shoosmiths partners look at what’s happening now and in the future

Revealed: The best law firms for peer support and partner approachability 2019-20
Winner to be announced at the Legal Cheek Awards on 26 March 2020, alongside a host of other categories

City lawyers are just like people selling fruit on a market stall
Phil Sanderson, co-chair of the global private equity transactions group at Ropes & Gray, gives his own take on commercial awareness

‘Mobile phones were big black boxes and only four of us had a computer’
Michael Luckman, an intellectual property partner at Gowling WLG, reflects on trainee life in the eighties

Taylor Wessing lawyers open up about mental health
Partners and associates share experiences of handling stress at work

Eversheds Sutherland partner found dead within hours of being suspended from work
Geraint Thomas had been accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour

Mental health: a once taboo subject for City lawyers
Taylor Wessing litigation partner and head of the firm’s Wellbeing Network, Laurence Lieberman, chats to Legal Cheek's Aishah Hussain

Freshfields partner resigns as SDT upholds one allegation of misconduct — but avoids ban
Ryan Beckwith, who had been accused of engaging in sexual activity with intoxicated junior colleague, fined £35,000 and ordered to pay £235,000 in costs

Disciplinary tribunal against Freshfields partner told of ‘drinking culture’
Ryan Beckwith accused of engaging in sexual activity with a junior colleague without her consent

Weil lawyers consider what’s next for the global economy
Firm that acted for Lehman Brothers in 2008 looks back over last decade and forecasts what may be around the corner

My life as a leveraged finance lawyer
Weil, Gotshal & Manges banking & finance partner Tom Richards looks back on his career and offers advice to the next generation of lawyers

Former Baker McKenzie London chief faces prosecution for alleged sexual misconduct
Regulator publishes details

Nottingham’s thriving legal scene presents new opportunities for aspiring lawyers
ULaw Nottingham campus dean and former real estate partner Andy Matthews shares insights from his time in practice

Average partner profits at Allen & Overy and Linklaters hit £1.7 million
Rises of 1% and 11%

My journey from trainee to partner
Baker McKenzie’s Jeremy Levy looks back at his path to partnership