Much snootiness still remains, but the Vereins are actually fine

While Legal Business is not the type of publication to force a tenuous link in order to make a feature topical, isn’t it timely that our Global 100 analysis on law firms structured as Swiss Vereins – ‘Capture the flag’ – coincides with the football World Cup of FIFA (also a Verein)?

Joking aside, this deep dive into the six firms which have adopted the model – CMS, Baker McKenzie, Dentons, Squire Patton Boggs, Norton Rose Fulbright and DLA Piper – is nevertheless pertinent, coming as it does a full decade after the first firms implemented the structure in earnest.

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