Tony Angel and the cute teddy bear next to him greeted me as I found my new desk – a Legal Business cover from 2003 and a personal favourite, a brilliant dissection of Linklaters’ painful reinvention as metric-driven world-beater. I soon dug out other classics, including the 2009 Icarus-themed investigation into pre-collapse Halliwells and the crumpled Hammonds cigarette packet illustrating a 2005 piece on the national player’s strained finances.
These are just a few of the agenda-setting articles Legal Business has produced over the years, the kind of work that made me a reader for more than a decade. Ultimately, it’s a legacy that made me agree to leave my long-term home at Legal Week to come on board to lead the title and its sister publication The In-House Lawyer.
