DLA Piper, Slaughters and Vodafone shine in 2014 Legal Business Awards
In what has proved the largest Legal Business Awards ever held, DLA Piper, Slaughter and May and Vodafone were last…
Comment: A Legal Business take on the year – my favourite articles of 2013
Since I joined Legal Business as editor-in-chief in February, our expanded editorial team has been striving to update our publication…
Comment: Victories, defeats and growing up – Ashurst faces up to life after Charlie
Here’s one anecdote that didn’t make it into this month’s extended focus on Ashurst. Sometime soon after the firm had pulled…
Those US mergers keep coming – Orrick closes in on deal with Pillsbury to forge top 10 giant
One of the most prolific merger suitors of recent years – Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe – is at it again…
Comment: The air of unreality – can the big deal deliver for Ashurst?
‘Historically, what killed Ashurst’s mergers has been apathy. Latham, Fried Frank, Clifford Chance – people were apathetic.’ So recalls one…
Comment: The age of turbulence has only just begun for the UK’s top 100 firms
Respectable, yes, but 2012/13 was a tough year, even by the post-Lehman standards law firm leaders have become accustomed to.…
Comment: If the mid-tier’s days are numbered why do they keep doing so well?
We’ve had five years of unforgiving conditions for law firms, everyone agrees. And in many respects that squeeze has had…
Comment: The lingering enigma of BLP’s bad year
Success is a mysterious beast. Hard to define, built up over years and often the result of a formula even…
If the mid-tier’s days are numbered why do they keep doing so well?
We’ve had five years of unforgiving conditions for law firms, everyone agrees. And in many respects that squeeze has had…
Accept no substitute: Legal Business hits the iPad with the law app you’ve been waiting for
We take a sizeable step in the evolution of Legal Business today with the launch of a new iPad edition,…
The age of turbulence has only just begun for the UK’s top 100 firms
Respectable, yes, but 2012/13 was a tough year, even by the post-Lehman standards law firm leaders have become accustomed to.…
Financial Friday rolls on as Eversheds unveils increase in revenue and profits during 12/13
Eversheds became the fifth major law firm to confirm its 2012/13 results today (5 July) with the top 15 UK…
The Asian century maybe but not the Asian decade for the Global 100
The market for the world’s largest law firms remains as reliably turbulent as ever. The group as a whole eked…
Hogan Lovells was right to get hitched. It needs to remember that.
I’m not a big fan of comparing law firm mergers to marriages. All those torturous metaphors and incongruous imagery. But…
Sort of offshoring – Ashurst to create new Glasgow unit to lower costs as City leaders push for value
Major law firms continue to appropriate ideas from legal process outsourcing with Ashurst today (12 June) announcing a venture to…
Comment: In defence of big – the maths are favouring two + two
How many times do you hear lawyers roll out the line about mergers having to be two-plus-two-makes-five? True in many…
A giant’s first steps – Norton Rose Fulbright goes live with suitably comprehensive governance team
One of the most touted legal mergers of the last decade today (3 June) goes live with Norton Rose and…
In defence of big – the maths are favouring two + two
How many times do you hear lawyers roll out the line about mergers having to be two-plus-two-makes-five? True in many…
Online controversy alert: Hardwicke disowns article by own barrister after attack on Yewtree sex investigation
Since the rise of social media gave professional lawyers a fast-expanding number of outlets in which to publish their views,…
Old normal update – Linklaters outpaces Slaughters to hike starting associate pay by £2,500
A further reminder comes this week that despite much talk of the pressure on the legal market (see Comment: Things…