Business services staff face redundancies at City law firm Legal City-based law firm Clyde & Co has launched a restructuring consultation for its business service staff as part of its ongoing strategy to centralise support operations into regional hubs. The firm is proposing to move certain services currently performed by teams within legal support, purchase-to-pay, and IT to its service centres in Glasgow and its [...]
Law firm ‘hopeful’ staff are back in Middle East office in May Legal A major US law firm with a large London headcount is ‘hopeful’ staff will be returning to their desks in its Middle East office in less than a week, Morning Wire understands. The firm is keen for lawyers to return to their seats in the Abu Dhabi office from 4 May, and has agreed to [...]
Wealthy man’s stripped back negligence claim against Clyde & Co ‘must go to trial’ legal A wealthy businessman’s stripped-back claim against Clyde & Co ‘must go to trial’ after a judge threw out his case against two XXIV Old Buildings barristers. Riad Tawfiq Al Sadik, who owns the largest construction and engineering company in the UAE, filed a professional negligence against City law firm Clyde & Co, barristers Michael Black [...]