Sponsored briefing: Business interrupted
Navigant’s Stephanie Tombling on the considerable challenges firms face when dealing with business interruption Business interruption usually accounts for the…
Information is your organisation’s lifeblood
Conduent Legal and Compliance Solutions (formerly part of Xerox) provides integrated data analytics, technology and expert professional services to help…
Managing your career as an in-house counsel – the four key steps
1. Have a plan and be proactive It is important to have a career plan as the only person responsible…
Sponsored briefing: London calling
Navigant’s Peter Brooker on how London retains its leading position in international construction dispute resolution International construction disputes Whether for…
Sponsored briefing: Offshore but not off limits
Navigant’s David Lawler on recent developments in asset-tracing claims Given the multiplicity of channels available to money launderers and the…
A buzzword, sure, but one with edge
Macfarlanes’ Charles Martin reviews Heidi Gardner’s much-discussed new book on collaboration in professional services Collaboration within a law firm is…
Guest post: How years of frustration have led to the LSB’s vision for a single regulator
The Legal Services Board’s (LSB) vision for the future of legal regulation reflects the build-up of years of frustration.
Fighting back – a golden opportunity to take on the Big Four in tax services
Bakers City head Alex Chadwick argues that law firms are increasingly primed to take core tax work off Big Four…
It’s a risky world out there… and a big chance for a new kind of lawyer
Ashurst’s Ben Tidswell argues a volatile, globalising risk landscape is a call to arms for the modern law firm One…
Keeping up with Ross and Kim – the work to do on shaping the legal stars of tomorrow
CC’s David Bickerton says the profession is yet to master training the lawyers of the future New entrants to the…
Bespoke, mobile and plugged in – the tech tools clients and staff will demand
CMS’s Duncan Weston argues that a new attitude to technology will be essential for the best law firms Against a…
Guest post: The truth about corporate welfare
Students of the relationship between business and society will, of late, have encountered a new discourse, that around corporate welfare.
Coming off the naughty step: Bakers’ Jonathan Walsh charts the quiet rehabilitation of asset-backed lending
Securitisation has taken a battering in recent years. A complex financing technique, little understood by the public, it was an…
Coming off the naughty step
Baker & McKenzie’s Jonathan Walsh charts the quiet rehabilitation of asset-backed lending Securitisation has taken a battering in recent years.…
The future is not where it used to be: Ashurst’s Vickers and Burton on a seismic shift in Europe’s leveraged debt markets
For many participants in Europe’s leveraged market, 2014 on first impressions heralded something approaching a new normal.
James Roome: ‘There’s a crisis in law but not the one many claim’
Ever since the start of the financial crisis you haven’t had to look very far to find expert opinion pieces…
A crisis in law but not the one many claim
Akin Gump restructuring veteran James Roome argues those seeing a threat to the legal industry have mis-read the markets Ever…
Guest post: Christmas comes early – SFO scores 1st Bribery Act convictions
The SFO has successfully prosecuted its first series of Bribery Act convictions. On Friday the SFO reported that ‘Gary Lloyd…
Guest post: The rise and rise of Slater and Gordon – a tale of the ABS era
If anyone wanted to see what alternative business structures (ABSs) can achieve, they need look no further than Slater and…