A star signing is one thing but who needs a lateral?
The worlds of business, politics and sport have since the 1970s fallen increasingly under the spell of the star individual…
Cobbetts gets burned but that’s business
There’s nothing like a bit of schadenfreude when matters go awry and the collapse of Cobbetts as an independent entity…
Disputes revival has huge implications for City law
A few years ago – during what in retrospect turned out to be a boom – you knew where you…
Another conventional wisdom
A lot of firms talk a lot of rubbish about cohesive, collegiate partnerships these days but the competitive spirit within…
Norton Rose Fulbright aims at Global Elite
The worst-kept secret in global law finally became official in November. Norton Rose and Fulbright & Jaworski announced their 3,800-lawyer…
The appeal of the hourglass
One particularly interesting statistic emerged from our in-house survey last month: 33% of respondents said they felt law firms were…
Panic has ramped up merger mania
A clear message from last month’s LB100 report was that the merger of two firms that have ‘simply cuddled together…
Two decades of consistency
When we first published the gross fees of 35 leading firms with revenues over £20m in 1992, we were approaching…
Tough decisions needed for LG/FFW
Ahead of our LB100 report next month, one merger is on the table that requires some hard choices now to…
Why keeping it low key can be shrewd
On the face of it, news that Bristol-based TLT is to open simultaneously in Scotland, by acquiring niche firm Anderson…
Stewarts Law chases the American dream
London disputes specialist Stewarts Law was shortlisted for Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards in February…
Addressing partner underperformance
James Tsolakis of The Royal Bank of Scotland published his annual report, A perspective on the legal market, in March.…
Magic Circle reigns but cracks are there
In the same way the sports media has speculated long and hard these past couple of years on the ‘demise’…