Stories of the Month
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The Euro Elite 100 – The Main Table
Baltics Firm Total lawyers Total partners No. of offices Sorainen 219 32 4 Ellex 195 41 3 COBALT 182 32 4 TGS Baltic 135 25 4 FORT 50 13 3 Benelux Firm Country Total lawyers Total partners No. of offices Loyens & Loeff Netherlands 862 216 12 NautaDutilh Netherlands 430 68 6 Stibbe Netherlands 381 …
The Euro Elite Top 25
Rank Firm Region The Legal 500 rank Size rank Lawyers Partners Recent partner promotions Offices Revenue 1 Loyens & Loeff Benelux 5 3 862 216 5 12 €311.6m 2 Garrigues Iberia 8 1 1427 302 11 32 €357.1m 3 Uría Menéndez Iberia 6 4 588 131 4 17 €235.2m 4 Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira Iberia 9 …
The Euro Elite: Market overviews
‘The main threat will be from legal tech in the long term.’ Christof Jäckle, Hengeler Mueller Germany Despite riding out a surprisingly competitive general election that threatened to disrupt the fruitful status quo, 2017 marked another year of growth for the German economy. GDP grew 2.2% compared to 1.9% and the year ended with an …
The Euro Elite Methodology
Legal Business’ Euro Elite comprises independent law firms based in more than 40 European jurisdictions, rather than the local offices of international firms. To compile the 100 firms featured in this report Legal Business analysed more than 150 of the largest law firms in Europe by the number of lawyers, as well as more than …
The Last Word: Generation Next
As part of our partnership special, we asked young partners and managers alike for their take on the latest wave of partners coming through Buck stops here ‘The biggest change for me when becoming partner was this immediate sense of responsibility – a responsibility to retain and attract talent, and to bring in interesting work. …
Rise of the machines
Disputes Yearbook 2018: Ready for its close up
The International Arbitration Summit: Trusting the cowboys
I am going to take a narrow view of a narrow subject: less of a keynote speech, more of a keyhole speech. Indeed, it is through a keyhole that I will ask you to join me in a voyeuristic peer into the room of what I call broken arbitrations, the room into which I have …
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