Guest post: Law firms going public – one way to stop a Dewey-style run on the ‘bank’?
It has become commonplace – I have bowed to convention and endorsed the notion myself – to observe that law…
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Comment: The limits of culture – WLG needs more than common ground to fulfil its ambitions
Let’s get this out of the way up front. The least expected new entrant to the Global 100, Gowling WLG,…
Comment: NRF’s Martyr – ‘Society craves balance but the profession drives our people in a different direction’
Our profession is facing a growing tension between the drive for profit – the resurgent guiding principle of the 2000s…
The limits of culture – WLG needs more than common ground to fulfil its ambitions
Let’s get this out of the way up front. The least expected new entrant to the Global 100, Gowling WLG,…
Comment: What I (very roughly) said about the future of law for the quality mid-pack player
From time to time, I am asked to talk at panels and conferences. Though I usually weasel out of such…
Guest post: Where now for personal injury lawyers?
It is two years and one month since the coalition government decided not to raise the small claims limit for…
Guest post: The secret to surviving in a new role
I speak to a lot of people who have recently moved into new roles. It is a tough period and…
Guest post: Why law firms need to be good at what they’re for
I’m currently preparing a webinar on getting and using feedback. It’s not a new subject – either to you or…
Guest post: Out of the shadows: are institutional clients influencing lawyers to the detriment of others?
Steven Vaughan and Claire Coe have conducted a study of senior commercial lawyers for – but independent of – the…
Guest post: Selling the bill – a method to help lawyers get rid of write-offs
A few years ago the managing partner of a mid-sized London firm said to me ‘The most important role a…
Comment: K&L Gates’ Tony Griffiths on profit, delusion and how Big Law became obsessed with the wrong things
Many centuries ago while studying law as an undergraduate, a particularly inspiring corporate law lecturer suggested that I might want…
Comment: The fundamental things – SJ Berwin and the problem with legal conglomerates
At the time that SJ Berwin combined with King & Wood Mallesons there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic.…
Guest post: Asking the big question – what do clients want?
Engineers and theologians know how to find out. I listened with great interest last week to a presentation about a soon-to-be…
The fundamental things – SJ Berwin and the problem with legal conglomerates
At the time that SJ Berwin combined with King & Wood Mallesons there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic.…
Profit, delusion and how Big Law became obsessed with the wrong things
K&L’s Tony Griffiths says the father of business theory has lessons Big Law would do well to learn Many centuries…
Comment: The NYLon law firm – outmoding a Global Elite and Magic Circle firm near you
If there is one big trend in the analysis of Legal Business in recent years it is the encroaching existential…
Guest post: Luxury lawyering and the Bergdorf effect – getting your price right
A week or two ago, we were having drinks here in New York with two senior corporate partners at an…
Guest post: Big data and the linguistics of law – how to win cases and influence judgments
With the hue and cry about big data, artificial intelligence and law being accentuated by all the talk around Watson/Ross,…
Guest post: Legal project managers – pioneers or homesteaders?
The recruiters are scouring the market for project managers (PM) to work in law firms. But whilst firms can agree…
Guest post: Why the fuss over Quindell and Slater & Gordon?
OK, the headline is clickbait – kind of. There does, of course, need to be an investigation into Quindell’s financial…