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              Slaughter and May

              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                Due Diligence
                Can Slaughter and May fend off the Americans? Premium content

                Plus, Hong Kong draws up potential crypto tax breaks for the super-rich and Goldman Sachs switches teams in UK takeover bid

              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                News in-depth
                Can Slaughter and May survive London’s US invasion?

                The elite British law firm, known for its blue-chip clients, has bet the future on culture

                The office of the Law firm Slaughter and May in London
              • Monday, 4 December, 2023
                Brunswick Group LLP
                Slaughter and May boss swaps law for public relations firm Brunswick

                Prominent M&A specialist Steve Cooke is latest senior ‘magic circle’ firm partner to switch professions

                Steve Cooke
              • Friday, 22 September, 2023
                Legal services
                Practice of law: best examples in legal work

                Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

                Two people  making a presentation using a laptop and spreadsheets
              • Friday, 28 April, 2023
                Competition & Markets Authority
                Sarah Cardell: The UK regulator who took on Microsoft

                Former corporate lawyer has attracted the ire of the US group by blocking its $75bn acquisition of Activision

                Sarah Cardell, chief executive officer of the Competition and Markets Authority
              • Friday, 28 October, 2022
                Law firm’s new work-life balance: turn off your camera for night-time calls

                UK’s Slaughter and May offers new code in talent war with US rivals

                A man checks his smartphone
              • Sunday, 31 October, 2021
                Legal services
                Junior lawyers work ever longer hours as demand keeps surging

                Staff at US firm Kirkland & Ellis are clocking off at around 11.30pm on average, survey shows

                The Law Society in Chancery Lane, London
              • Friday, 15 October, 2021
                Legal services
                Collective legal actions spread in Europe

                Individual claims may be small, but their impact is sizeable when combined

                Hairy moments: businesses wanted to claim on their insurance to help them weather the effects of the pandemic
              • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
                Slaughter and May elects first female leader and restructures management

                Deborah Finkler to be part of new leadership team that will include firm’s first chief operating officer

                Deborah Finkler
              • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
                Legal services
                UK law firms in legal quandary over Covid jabs as staff return to office

                US counterparts’ vaccination requirement for employees increases dilemma over risk of discrimination

                Morrison & Foerster sign
              • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
                Flexible working
                Law firm trials flexible working schemes with junior lawyers

                Slaughter and May tests job shares and options for school holiday leave

              • Friday, 16 August, 2019
                Professional services
                Fierce pay war for junior lawyers stokes discontent at City firms

                Competition from US rivals forces magic circle to raise starting salaries but senior staff lose out

                8/4/2019  London.   Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in the city of London.
              • Tuesday, 11 September, 2018
                Professional services
                Former SFO director David Green to join law firm Slaughter and May
              • Tuesday, 19 June, 2018
                Gender pay gap
                New data show wider ‘magic circle’ pay gap with equity partners
              • Thursday, 7 January, 2016
                US & Canadian companies
                Slaughter and May elects new senior partner

                It becomes the latest Magic Circle firm to change leadership

                Stephen Cooke of Slaughter and May
              • Monday, 30 November, 2015
                Business education
                How to land a job with a leading law firm

                Robert Byk, head of graduate recruitment at Slaughter and May, gives the lowdown

                Robert Byk
              • Friday, 11 January, 2013
                LombardUS & Canadian companies
                Once on borrowed time, 3i toes Borrows’ line

                Once-powerful City name must shrink further to find balance

              • Wednesday, 16 May, 2012
                Eurozone economy
                Lawyers weigh implications of Greek exit
              • Sunday, 26 February, 2012
                IPOs
                Six law firms ‘big enough for FTSE 100’
              • Friday, 25 November, 2011
                Business education
                European school profile: College of Law, London

                The ‘i-Tutorials’ created by the college are not what you might expect from online learning

              • Monday, 15 August, 2011
                Retail & Consumer industry
                Top 100 UK law firms bill clients £14.3bn
              • Sunday, 20 March, 2011
                UK companies
                Objectors to BSkyB deal rule out legal review
              • Thursday, 20 January, 2011
                UK companies
                Media groups warn on Sky News sale plan
              • Thursday, 6 January, 2011
                FT PeopleCompanies
                Government gig

                Lucy Wylde, Slaughter and May partner, wins a competition to become general counsel at the Assets Protection Agency

              • Friday, 15 October, 2010
                US & Canadian companies
                NESV completes Liverpool deal
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