
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…
It has become commonplace – I have bowed to convention and endorsed the notion myself – to observe that law…
Let’s get this out of the way up front. The least expected new entrant to the Global 100, Gowling WLG,…
Our profession is facing a growing tension between the drive for profit – the resurgent guiding principle of the 2000s…
Let’s get this out of the way up front. The least expected new entrant to the Global 100, Gowling WLG,…
From time to time, I am asked to talk at panels and conferences. Though I usually weasel out of such…
It is two years and one month since the coalition government decided not to raise the small claims limit for…
I speak to a lot of people who have recently moved into new roles. It is a tough period and…
I’m currently preparing a webinar on getting and using feedback. It’s not a new subject – either to you or…
Steven Vaughan and Claire Coe have conducted a study of senior commercial lawyers for – but independent of – the…
A few years ago the managing partner of a mid-sized London firm said to me ‘The most important role a…
Many centuries ago while studying law as an undergraduate, a particularly inspiring corporate law lecturer suggested that I might want…
At the time that SJ Berwin combined with King & Wood Mallesons there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic.…
Engineers and theologians know how to find out. I listened with great interest last week to a presentation about a soon-to-be…
At the time that SJ Berwin combined with King & Wood Mallesons there were plenty of reasons to be optimistic.…
K&L’s Tony Griffiths says the father of business theory has lessons Big Law would do well to learn Many centuries…
If there is one big trend in the analysis of Legal Business in recent years it is the encroaching existential…
A week or two ago, we were having drinks here in New York with two senior corporate partners at an…
With the hue and cry about big data, artificial intelligence and law being accentuated by all the talk around Watson/Ross,…
The recruiters are scouring the market for project managers (PM) to work in law firms. But whilst firms can agree…
OK, the headline is clickbait – kind of. There does, of course, need to be an investigation into Quindell’s financial…