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  • June 4, 2009 |

    Dorsey boosts City corporate arm with hire of Addleshaws partner

    Dorsey & Whitney has bolstered its City corporate practice with the hire of Addleshaw Goddard partner Matthew Doughty. Doughty, who is set to start at the US firm's London office later this month as a partner in the corporate team, joins the Minneapolis-headquartered firm after only two years with Addleshaws. He previously worked in the London office of O'Melveny & Myers.

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  • May 29, 2009 |

    Field Fisher signs up Addleshaws corporate partner

    Field Fisher Waterhouse has made its fifth lateral hire this year with the recruitment of a corporate partner from Addleshaw Goddard.

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  • May 27, 2009 |

    Netting the prize

    A recurring point of discussion and major concern from the past 12 months or so has been the issue of slashed marketing budgets and how deeply this might impact website operations. While fee earners are being made redundant at all levels and across most practice areas, it seems slightly trivial to talk about the erosion of marketing budgets, yet there are serious consequences to this action.

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  • May 20, 2009 |

    Addleshaws connects with Tiscali on Carphone Warehouse purchase

    Addleshaw Goddard has scored a leading role acting opposite a raft of firms on Carphone Warehouse's £236m acquisition of the UK operations of internet services business Tiscali. The national law firm advised Tiscali on the deal, which will see Carphone Warehouse subsidiary TalkTalk acquire Tiscali UK to take the broadband provider's customer base to more than 4.25 million people.

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  • May 19, 2009 |

    Addleshaws proposes four-day week at 85% salary

    Addleshaw Goddard has asked its fee earners to work a four-day week on 85% pay, as further details emerge of the national firm's plans to cope with the tough economic climate. If the majority of lawyers approve the proposal, then the firm will consider implementing the system for a 12-month period from 1 July. A firm spokesperson said: "If this option is agreed, a reduction in hours would not happen automatically. By agreeing to temporarily vary their terms and conditions for 12 months, individuals agree that at any point in the next 12 months they could be asked to work a 80% week for 85% of their usual salary, if the firm determines it is necessary based on capacity and workflow."

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  • May 19, 2009 |

    Blake Lapthorn kicks off third round of job cuts

    Blake Lapthorn has launched its third redundancy consultation in the past nine months, with 33 positions under threat, it was announced today (19 May). The consultation will affect both business services and secretarial staff across the firms' offices in London and the southeast. Fee earners are also likely to be affected. Blake Lapthorn managing partner Walter Cha (pictured) said: "Having now completed our budget for 2009-10, it is with much regret that I have to announce a number of further job losses as part of the firm's plans to ensure that we can continue to respond to the current period of economic uncertainty, which shows no signs of improving soon."

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  • May 18, 2009 |

    Addleshaws set to cut 85 jobs and freeze salaries

    Addleshaw Goddard has launched a redundancy consultation which could see 85 staff laid off, as well as announcing a salary freeze until 2010. The consultation, which kicked off last week (13 May), will affect business services and secretarial staff across all practice areas in the UK top 20 firm's London, Manchester and Leeds offices.The firm is hoping that a number of staff will agree to take voluntary redundancy.Fee earners will not be affected by the current programme, with the firm hoping to stave off further job cuts by consulting on flexi-working schemes such as sabbaticals, unpaid holiday and reduced working hours.

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  • May 13, 2009 |

    Partners predict business model will change

    The recession will push law firms further away from the traditional partnership model, according to new research from Legal Week. The latest Big Question survey found that just over 70% of City partners believe firms will be forced to move away from their traditional business models as a result of changes brought about by the recession.

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  • May 12, 2009 |

    Finers recruits Addleshaws employment partner

    Finers Stephens Innocent has bolstered its employment practice with hire of a partner from Addleshaw Goddard. Jane Amphlett joins Finers' London employment team after spending six years at Addleshaws, before which she was a partner at Manches. Her practice focuses on restrictive covenant and gardening leave disputes, reorganisations and TUPE regulations, as well as PFI/PPP projects and discrimination claims. She was also the head of Addleshaws' equality group.Finers has bought in four other partners during the last 12 months, boosting its construction, commercial dispute resolution, property business crime and professional discipline practices. The firm also made up one partner in commercial dispute resolution earlier this year.

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  • May 12, 2009 |

    That was then, this is now

    Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst and Addleshaw Goddard recently topped a table of graduate employers in a major survey of law students' views on which firms are the best to work for. They may be household brands these days - well, for houses containing lawyers and law students - but it wasn't always this way.

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