Law firms including Clifford Chance, Linklaters, A&O Shearman, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins and Paul, Weiss Rifkind and Gharton have been named in research as being among the worst offenders for doing fossil fuel related work. A report compiled by activist group Law Students for Climate…

This is the second part of a two-part series. For part one, click here. In the 2010s, Dentons firm leaders began approaching firms in markets largely ignored by Big Law with a pitch to join them in doing for “law and commerce what the transcontinental railroad did for transportation and…

How do you compete against an rival multiple times your size, with a far larger budget and seemingly limitless resources? For midsize firms, you get smarter about spending on your own business resources, with some opting to take advantage of a “fractional” C-Suite model balancing expense with, in some cases, Big…

A former Clifford Chance partner has been prohibited from accessing client money by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Bert De Maeyer was a long-term partner at Clifford Chance, based in the firm’s Brussels office. According to Companies House documents, he resigned from the firm in March 2023. 

Simon Chapman KC, an HSF lifer who has been at the firm for almost 18 years, was most recently appointed global co-chair of international arbitration following the retirement of veteran partner Paula Hodges earlier this year. He is currently based out in Hong Kong, where he is also regional head of…

Generative artificial intelligence applications are unreliable when answering legal questions and may fabricate legal citations so they should not be used for legal advice without expert supervision, according to law firm Allens in its first benchmark report on AI and Australian law. “While the answers produced by [large language models] can…