DWF

Nigel Knowles — the man behind DLA’s ascent from middling Yorkshire outfit to one of the biggest firms in the world — takes over from DWF’s long serving leader Andrew Leaitherland

Top tips and career insights from four Birmingham-based lawyers

Last month’s Manchester conference marked the beginning of some important conversations centering around the SQE, Sophie Currie reports

DWF technology, media and telecoms partner Ben McLeod shares his thoughts

Newcastle City Council takes top spot

With Addleshaw Goddard, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Burges Salmon, DWF, Eversheds Sutherland, Exchange Chambers, Gowling, Hardwicke, Hill Dickinson, Hogan Lovells, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, RPC, Shoosmiths, Travers Smith and Womble Bond Dickinson

Haley Tansey now can’t work for a law firm without regulator’s say-so

Top ten spots for Baker McKenzie, Linklaters and BCLP

Sacked just before qualification

City firm mulls doing a DWF in bid to raise capital, according to report

Hits online shelves later this year

‘Design sprint’ placement sees trio of Manchester Uni undergrads spend time at outfit’s R&D division

Solicitors from Gowling WLG, Pinsent Masons and DWF tell us what their jobs are really like

Scrapping of LPC, shift to apprenticeships and focus on tech prompt enthusiasm and anxiety in equal measure