News

• Latham & Watkins posts biggest law firm revenue ever

  This is the firm’s seventh consecutive year of growth, and the year it breached US$3m profit per equity partner read more

• 4 in 5 legal professionals bored at work

  Boredom equally strikes entry-level workers to c-suites read more

• KWM appoints new China chairman

  He is in his early 40s, relatively young to become a senior leader at a Chinese Red Circle firm read more

• Clients want to work with fewer law firms survey reveals

  Slater & Gordon posts half year loss of almost half a billion… KWM China elects new chairman… read more

• Law firms slide in top 100 graduate employers in Australia

  Seven of eight law firms included in the list have moved down this year while one stayed put read more

• Deal finalists announced for Australasian Law Awards

  The most significant deals of 2016 have been revealed read more

• HSF advises on $267.5m towers acquisition

  The transaction netted the selling consortium nearly $100m in just over two years read more

• Top lawyer urges women in venture capital and private equity to champion diversity

  The VC and PE industry has historically attracted far more men than women, she says read more

• Top Obama lawyers to track Trump administration’s ethics

  Fearing the worst for America’s democracy, the group has already raised a US$1.5m operating budget read more

• HSBC cuts legal spend by US$1bn

  The global bank will, however, likely see a jump in legal spend in the coming years read more