Linklaters has become the latest firm to raise its newly-qualified U.K. lawyer salaries, matching the rate set by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer two weeks ago.  Linklaters new NQ salary will now sit at £150,000, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, up from £125,000. 

There’s a certain gut-level appeal to analogizing the algorithms used in pricing software to the dark-and-smoky rooms in price-fixing cases of yore—at least to the conspiracy-minded among us.  But in the case of casino hotels accused of conspiring with software company Cendyn to boost prices for rooms on the Las…

Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. Last week, I wrote about 13 federal judges who announced a boycott of clerkship hiring from Columbia University due to the school’s handling of pro-Palestine protests–a move that has elicited pushback from others on the bench.…

White & Case and Linklaters and regional law firm Ibrahim & Partners have advised on the initial public offering of supermarket chain Spinney 1961 Holdings on the Dubai Financial Market. The $375 million Spinneys IPO led to an implied market capitalization of around $1.5 billion. Investor interest was robust, with orders…

Lawyers at Swedish fintech company Klarna have been encouraged by their CEO to use Chat-GPT in order to save time drafting contracts, with adoption rates within the legal team nearing at 90%.  Klarna announced in a statement earlier this week that its lawyers were now routinely turning to ChatGPT Enterprise to create the first…

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Baker McKenzie’s Malaysian associate firm Wong & Partners have secured lead roles in private equity fund Global Infrastructure Partners’ $3.9 billion acquisition of airport operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB). GIP has made the offer as part of a consortium led Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional…