Why Are Law Firms So Similar?
About ten years ago at a conference I showed a slide with several values and missions of Ukrainian law firms and asked people to guess which firms they belonged to.
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Former PwC Man Dmytro Trut Becomes Partner at Everlegal
Last week Everlegal announced that Dmytro had become a partner in the White Collar Crimes practice, despite the fact that partnership was never an…
Merge or Die
Yesterday JDJournal published an article in which a recruiter explains why Big Law is so aggressively gobbling up anything that moves.
Access to banking information of AB “Shkrebets and Partners”
We spoke with the firm's partner Oleksii Meniv, dug into the available materials, and have something to say.
Why did Inly, created a year ago, return to Asters?
A year ago a few former Asters members created the firm Inly. Two weeks ago they announced that the whole team is being merged…
“We’re not a boutique”: an interview with Inly experts
A new star has risen on the Ukrainian skyline — the firm Inly. It was founded by Asters alumnus
The Dark Side of Legal Aid for Military Personnel
A recent report aired on Telebachennia Toronto has sparked discussion, highlighting several troubling cases of legal services provided—or rather, misprovided—to military personnel
KPMG Shuts Down Its Legal Practice in Australia
Okay, so technically, this happened back in June. But since Australia is the world’s third-largest legal services market ($28 billion), right after the US…
Why lawyers support LGBTQ+
We spoke to Asters, Axon Partners, and Everlegal, as well as White & Case about why lawyers supported the LGBT community
Seven former DLA Piper partners leave Kinstellar
Seven partners leave Kinstellar. This is way too much, even for a large galley. Let's figure out what has happened.
Shearman & Sterling finally found where to merge (in Allen & Overy)
Judging by last year’s news, the US Shearmans (approximately 850 rowers) have long been looking for someone to merge into.
Cutting at Gunderson Dettmer and Kirkland & Ellis
Last week, the world’s largest legal galley by turnover Kirkland & Ellis (2,700 lawyers, $6B turnover last year) announced the cutting of rowers in…
Anna Babych of AEQUO: newly discovered circumstances
In support of the complaint, the defense referred to the decision of the ECtHR in the case “Shvydka v. Ukraine” (about a defiant pensioner…
McKinsey does fire 3% of staff
McKinsey will lay off 1,400 rowers out of about 44,000.
Hogan Lovells and Shearman Sterling have announced there will be no merging
And it’s so wrong as, according to the journalists of American Lawyer, these two galleys could theoretically create a galley that would quickly get into…
Anna Babych’s comment on all this
Anna Babych’s comment regarding, as we understand, our publication the day before yesterday. Anna posted the comment on her Facebook page. We publish it…
Anna Babych deprived of a driving license
Two attentive readers have already sent us the number of the administrative case, from which we learned that in March, a driver named Anna…
Why law firms float?
In 2015, English barristers scratched their wigged heads when Gateley Plc., a UK-based law firm, became the first British law firm to go public.…