The Global London survey window will be closing on Friday 1 March. We invite all participating firms to complete the survey. Global London is an annual report on the performance of US and international firms in London, which appears in the March/April issue of Legal Business.
Last year, our annual Euro Elite survey of 100 leading independent firms across more than 40 jurisdictions found partners in a positive mindset but nervous about the potentially bleak outlook for 2023. Those fears had some foundation. Key market players – both new and old – said that the continent’s law firms would be remiss …
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TLT, Latham & Watkins and Compass Group were among the major winners at the 2023 Legal Business Awards, which welcomed more than 800 guests to the Grosvenor House hotel on 19 September. Hosted by actor, writer, and producer Sally Phillips (pictured, below), the evening saw TLT crowned Law Firm of the Year, with judges particularly …
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TLT, Latham & Watkins and Compass Group were among the major winners at the 2023 Legal Business Awards, which welcomed more than 800 guests to the Grosvenor House hotel on Tuesday (19 September). Hosted by actor, writer, and producer Sally Phillips, the evening saw TLT crowned Law Firm of the Year, with judges particularly impressed …
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Latham & Watkins, Macfarlanes and TLT are among the firms competing to be named Law Firm of the Year at this year’s Legal Business Awards. Also shortlisted in the flagship category for the awards, which will take place at Grosvenor House Hotel on 19 September, are Bird & Bird, Squire Patton Boggs and Stewarts.
In what the firms describe as ‘the first fully integrated global elite law firm’ Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling today (21 May) announced a planned merger to create a ‘unique global law firm’ named Allen Overy Shearman Sterling – A&O Shearman for short. In a statement, the firms said: ‘This merger will combine …
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It had to come. Among the Global London leaders interviewed in last year’s report, there was an inevitable consensus that the frothy post-Covid conditions that created a phenomenally successful 2021 would cool noticeably through 2022 and tougher times would lie ahead. However, while the predictions have been proven correct, the mood among the leading US …
While our annual risk and professional indemnity report in conjunction with Marsh Specialty charted the movement of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) concerns up the law firm risk management agenda in 2022, this time around ESG is all-consuming. So much so that insurers and brokers are making it a key component of discussions with …
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Our annual Euro Elite survey finds the 100 leading firms across more than 40 jurisdictions still in a strong position, despite a potentially bleak outlook for 2023. According to the European Central Bank, economic growth slowed considerably in the third quarter of 2022, as strong effects from the post-pandemic reopening and easing supply chain disruptions …
Did I always want to be a lawyer? No. I didn’t think I wanted to sit behind a desk, so that hasn’t really worked out. I thought I might want to do something outdoors, and that hasn’t worked out either. I wasn’t one of these people that knows from the age of two that they’re …
