Wall Street in London: Weil Gotshal and Davis Polk lead on $1.6bn takeover of UK’s Edwards Group David Stevenson As British industrial technology firm Edwards Group is today (19 August) bought out for $1.6bn by Swedish engineering group Atlas…
Guest post: You could up-skill them, instead you simply canned them – the secretarial canary in the law firm coal mine Legal Business ‘A really far-sighted law firm would give its secretaries the chance to ‘skill up’ and take on more responsibility, accomplishing…
Comment: Weil Gotshal and the narrative of the New Normal Legal Business Whatever the business case for announcing significant down-sizing, there is no doubt that in the field of modern communications Weil…
Litigation watch: Weil and Quinn Emanuel successful in high profile Barclay brothers Court of Appeal case Caroline Hill A high profile Court of Appeal decision has today (3 July) seen Weil Gotshal & Manges and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart…
Coming on like 2009 – Weil Gotshal becomes the first major NY firm to announce job cuts this year Legal Business So far the wave of redundancies that have rippled through the UK legal profession has not been replicated across the Atlantic…