Linklaters edges revenue up despite global slump as City results start flowing in
Traditionally, like the proverbial London transit, you wait ages for one set of Magic Circle results and then they start…
Allen & Overy’s election delivered an all-star line-up but have the big issues been resolved?
Towards the end of 2019, Legal Business remarked that the issue at the heart of Allen & Overy (A&O)’s looming…
Comment: Coronavirus will brutally strip away the profession’s illusions
The longer you do this job, the more your mind wanders to the big moments – recessions, terrorist attacks, political…
The training debate – The fear of freedom
Julie Brannan, Solicitors Regulation Authority: It certainly is an important moment for the training of the profession, so it is…
Cracking Wall St is the prize of the decade for City leaders
If much of the commentary in this issue focuses on what has gone awry for major UK law firms in…
Remembering Mr Disruption – The innovator’s legacy for the profession
Barely into 2020 and news came that probably the most influential business thinker of the last 20 years had passed…
Comment: 2020 forecast – City giants forced to offer flexible partnership
I’m going to resist the urge to bang on about the year in review, Brexit or even offer a 2010s…
Comment: #MeToo is law’s Libor-rigging moment – Unheralded comes regulation of City law
Ask senior figures in the profession what has materially changed in the legal industry over the last decade and answers…
2020 forecast: City giants forced to offer flexible partnership
I’m going to resist the urge to bang on about the year in review, Brexit or even offer a 2010s…
Unheralded comes regulation of City law
Ask senior figures in the profession what has materially changed in the legal industry over the last decade and answers…
The Global 100 debate – Decision time
Alex Novarese, Legal Business: Let’s get some observations on how people think their businesses are performing. Charlie Jacobs, Linklaters: If…
If A&O’s new team can’t get a mandate, who can?
Writing at the end of November, with this issue hitting desks only a day or two before the candidates for…
Comment: If A&O’s new leadership team can’t get a mandate, who can?
Writing at the end of November, with this issue hitting desks only a day or two before the candidates for…
Comment: New Law needs a new dictionary to get that promised breakthrough
For more than a decade now technology and innovation jargon has been pushing its way inelegantly into the legal sphere.…
Cross-border M&A: Asian bidders usher in different mindset
Alex Novarese, Legal Business: It has been a record period for Asian activity into Europe. How do you see the…
Whatever happened to the PR as managing partner consigliere?
For a pundit often claimed to be dismissive of the PR community, the subject of this leader may surprise. The…
New Law needs a new dictionary to get that promised break through
For more than a decade now technology and innovation jargon has been pushing its way inelegantly into the legal sphere.…
‘Kirkland is a raw, Darwinian force’ – LB’s take on the pre-Brexit City law market
On occasion, they let the head of Legal Business take a break from the glamorous job of proofing features to…
A no-deal outlook and the law – time for pragmatic pessimism
We go to press with Parliament locked in battle with the Government over threats to take the UK into a…
LB100: Legal elite shows resilience amid ominous haze
It is a measure of how fast-moving the Brexit-dominated landscape now is that imagery in this year’s Legal Business 100 (LB100)…