SNR Denton will abolish the joint chief executive position within three years of the anticipated merger between Denton Wilde Sapte and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, with Dentons CEO Howard Morris indicating that he could step aside.

The legal department at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is currently subject to a lock-in following news that a gunman has killed several people in and around Whitehaven in Cumbria, where the NDA is based.

The legal department at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is currently subject to a lock-in following news that a gunman has killed several people in and around Whitehaven in Cumbria, where the NDA is based.

Ashurst has lost two corporate partners to the City office of US firm Kirkland & Ellis.

Herbert Smith has increased pay bands for newly qualified (NQ) solicitors and trainees while keeping associate salaries frozen at last year’s levels.

Herbert Smith has increased pay bands for newly qualified (NQ) solicitors and trainees while keeping most associate pay bands at last year’s levels.

Dentons-Sonnenschein merger will be one of many, says Howard Morris

Fladgate has settled a fraud claim brought against it by collapsed dot com Izodia, agreeing to pay it £7.8m.

Simmons & Simmons is to reorganise its China practice, with plans to open a Beijing office that will ­operate as a national hub.

Insurance and litigation firm Kennedys has reported a 31 per cent rise in turnover to £88.25m at the 2009-10 year-end.