
One year on: enjoying it so much I hope I don’t mess it up
‘So, are you enjoying it?’ I’ve lost count of the number of times I have been asked the question since…
‘So, are you enjoying it?’ I’ve lost count of the number of times I have been asked the question since…
First, the case for the defence. Given that private equity partners gossip like fishwives, you can be somewhat sceptical over…
With the popularity of English law a key issue in the global legal market, we ask partners for their take…
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s James Tsolakis argues the profession must accept a fundamental challenge to its traditional model The…
The first Legal Business edition of the year coincides with a major project for us: the second edition of our…
Adam Smith, Esq’s Bruce MacEwen argues that short-termism and a lack of stewardship has come to define the modern law…
As global and domestic firms look to end the 2013/14 financial year on a high, we ask senior management figures…
It’s been obvious that something fundamental happened to the world economy during 2008, ushering in the worst relative trading conditions…
The term BigLaw has been around in the US for a while but in recent years this catch-all tag for…
The last three years have drawn to a close heralding another 12 months much like those that went before: depressing.…
‘Wragge & Co was the Mishcon of its day.’ That statement from a former veteran of the Midlands giant sums…
Eighteen months ago I met the general counsel (GC) of a FTSE 250 company to listen to his plans to…
Aside from bad knitwear and excessive alcohol consumption, Christmas is a time for reflection as well as looking ahead. With…
A false ‘war for talent’ has seen law firms create their own staff shortages, argue Laura Empson and Louise Ashley.…
I flew into Manhattan to The New Yorker chronicling the death of Big Law with a pacey dissection of the…
During the original dot-com boom, there was a brief period – oh so brief – when legal technologists and managing…
The most hackneyed cliché of the pundit is history repeating itself, a claim that rarely holds up upon closer examination.…
With a slowing economy and the political landscape unsettled, we ask leading international partners with noted Indian practices for their…
‘Historically, what killed Ashurst’s mergers has been apathy. Latham, Fried Frank, Clifford Chance – people were apathetic.’ So recalls one…
We’ve had five years of unforgiving conditions for law firms, everyone agrees. And in many respects that squeeze has had…