Monthly Archives: January 2012

Software & outsourcing firm buys law firm

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Silvia Hodges

If approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), software and outsourcing firm Quindell Portfolio will buy Liverpool firm Silverbeck Rymer in one of the first takeovers of a law firm under the Legal Services Act. Quindell is intending to create … Continue reading →

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Partnership model dead? UK’s Russell Jones & Walker acquired by AUS Slater & Gordon

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Silvia Hodges

Same vision of future for law firms – no third-party investment companies, no insurers to own firm, but a corporatized model. “The task for independent law firms is to make sure we dominate the market and that means capital,” said … Continue reading →

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Chinese law firm Yingke’s international expansion

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Silvia Hodges

Yingke, China’s second-largest firm by lawyer headcount, is continuing its aggressive growth plans with the launch of offices in Poland and Turkey, according to The Lawyer‘s Vanessa Wozniak. Read article

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