During its 125th anniversary year, Slaughter and May still divides the industry like no other institution. For its admirers, it is the standard bearer, bucking the received wisdom of the modern legal market – for detractors, an outfit on borrowed time, hoping to bet against the market (with an unhedged bet at that). But 17 …
The Innovator’s Dilemma has become arguably the most influential business book of the last 20 years and is often cited as a key text for a profession facing unprecedented challenges. Legal Business assesses its relevance to global law. ‘The picture… is truly that of an innovator’s dilemma: the logical competent decisions of management that are …
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Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly recap of interesting things that happened in law land this week.
Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly recap of interesting things that happened in law land this week.
This is the third edition of our new review of the week, which I am now bitterly regretting as we are going to press today on an 80-page report. But I can’t let the kids down, so here’s a recap and a dash of commentary on the interesting legal things that happened in the last …
They say averages lie, though in my experience not as much as people, but producing an annual report with 2,000 data points as we do with this month’s LB100 means it can be hard even for professional anoraks such as myself to find the nuggets of meaning in the thickets of information.
Welcome to the second of our new series the Friday Edit in which we take an informal look back at the week’s more interesting events and put a little context on current events in the commercial law game.
Rarely, even in the conservative game of law, has so necessary a measure been so long avoided until the status quo became so laughably, farcically untenable. The move is for major law firms to start articulating public benchmarks for their proportion of female partners – corporate speak for the series of concrete targets announced this …
Continue reading “Comment: Women in law – A belated bandwagon, but still welcome”
Last year, delivering our annual results issue, Legal Business remarked that the age of turbulence facing law firms since the 2008 banking crisis was far from over. And so it has proved. Despite all the talk of returning confidence, and clear evidence of recovery in the UK economy, it’s still choppy out there. Stripping out …
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Welcome to a new and hastily-named feature on Legal Business’s blog in which we reflect on the week and highlight notable and interesting articles for readers shamefully doing other things than living on our website over the last four days. The format will likely evolve since I’m making it up as I go along.
