Clifford Chance Lawyers and Team Quality 80.94 Quality of partners 85.00 Quality of associates 76.93 Partner availability and engagement 82.68 All scores are global and /100. What do clients really think about the service they receive from law firms? At Legal 500, we hear from hundreds of thousands of clients every year, rating firms on key …
Access your pdf edition of LB magazine – issue 322 Access Legal Business 322 via online pdf. Just how global is the Global 100? LB looks beyond revenue to find some true global leaders Global 100 Overview: G100 defy gloom to pass $150bn While last year saw the Global 100 struggling against market headwinds, this …
After studying law at Oxford, where I was also a choral scholar, I joined Linklaters. As a trainee, I did a seat in Hong Kong, then six months in Moscow and two years in Singapore as an associate. When I made partner, National Grid was one of my most significant clients, stemming from my time …
Freeths, Freshfields and Vodafone were among the big winners at this year’s Legal Business Awards, which were revealed to a packed house at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. Twenty-seven prizes were handed out on the night, with the event hosted by BBC journalist, broadcaster and Mastermind host Clive Myrie and introduced by global head of research …
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Overview: G100 defy gloom to pass $150bn While last year saw the Global 100 struggling against market headwinds, this year finds firms in much ruder health. But with transactional markets yet to make a full recovery, the legal sector could not rely on big deals alone – LB reports on how the world’s largest law firms …
‘To use a mountain biking analogy: coasting downhill might be fun in the moment, but when you reach the bottom, you’re lower than where you started. Climbing uphill is a grind, but it’s what gets you further.’ Ira Coleman, McDermott As part of our Global 100 survey, top lawyers share their thoughts on the global market
‘There’s a bunch of defensive mechanisms firms are using to shore up their stars – they could be lost to Paul Weiss or some other big firm if they don’t do something,’ says one US partner of the fierce war for talent at the very top of the legal market.
The firms that appear in the 2024 Global 100 are the largest 100 law firms in the world ranked by revenue.
What does it take to be part of the global elite? When Legal Business unveiled the very first iteration of its ‘global elite’ back in 2003, 15 firms made the grade, of which six were headquartered in the UK. They were selected based on criteria including: being a leader in their home jurisdiction in at …
‘It looked like we were in for a rough time – but the markets stood up well.’ DLA Piper global co-chief executive Simon Levine’s take on the financial year neatly sums up the overriding sentiment about the year gone by, which started with much-cited concerns over inflation and global instability, but ended with law firm leaders …
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