Guest post: Behaving like an ass is a short term play – the merits of being decent
‘Taking advantage’ is a phrase I hear a lot when lawyers discuss their work. I think it is linked to…
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Guest post: Pricing Power… and how to convert it into profit
The growth of professionals in Law Land with the word ‘pricing’ in their title has been explosive over the past…
Comment: Life after Sir Nigel – They built it, now what?
DLA Piper’s new head Simon Levine jokes about avoiding becoming the David Moyes to his high-profile predecessor’s Alex Ferguson, but…
Comment: The case against value – the virtue that can become vice
It’s the spirit of the age that law firms feel the need to not only deliver better value and efficiency…
Quality, outside scrutiny and Paxman – the LB Awards loom
Fantastic as I look in a DJ, I wouldn’t say by character I’m a natural awards-type person but I have…
Life after Sir Nigel – They built it, now what?
DLA Piper’s new head Simon Levine jokes about avoiding becoming the David Moyes to his high-profile predecessor’s Alex Ferguson, but…
The case against value – the virtue that can become vice
It’s the spirit of the age that law firms feel the need to not only deliver better value and efficiency…
Winston & Strawn’s Tirado: ‘Dissent, it turns out, comes at a price even in disputes’
There are many so-called ‘hot’ topics in international arbitration that could have been the subject of this article, but ultimately…
The £30bn question: Report underlines UK’s status as legal superpower
Modesty should probably preclude Legal Business covering the annual report from TheCityUK on the UK legal services market since it…
Guest post: Meaning in your career – or how to keep lawyers satisfied
Here at Adam Smith, Esq, we cover the array of law firm management issues from strategy and finance to compensation…
PwC Legal’s Stewart Room: ‘New year, new privacy and security strategy’
New year is traditionally the time to change our ways. As we reflect back on the year just gone, perhaps…
Comment: Pinsents and the confidence dividend – successful law firms need a spring in their step
There are lots of factors that are supposed to have a major role in the success of a law firm…
Comment: What a ‘combination’! Dentons Dacheng pushes the concept of a firm to breaking point
In January 2005 DLA hooked up with US duo Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, triggering a debate that…
James Roome: ‘There’s a crisis in law but not the one many claim’
Ever since the start of the financial crisis you haven’t had to look very far to find expert opinion pieces…
What if ‘best practice’ is wrong?
Baker Tilly’s George Bull warns of possible flaws There was once a poster at Watford Junction railway station, just outside…
Pinsents and the confidence dividend – successful law firms need a spring in their step
There are lots of factors that are supposed to have a major role in the success of a law firm…
What a ‘combination’! Dentons Dacheng pushes the concept of a firm
In January 2005 DLA Piper hooked up with US duo Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, triggering a…
New year, new privacy and security strategy
PwC Legal’s Stewart Room argues that 2015 is the year for companies and advisers to stop the denial of the…
A crisis in law but not the one many claim
Akin Gump restructuring veteran James Roome argues those seeing a threat to the legal industry have mis-read the markets Ever…
Guest post: Dentons/Dacheng – A theory and rationale
I wasn’t going to write about Dacheng/Dentons until I was. When I first heard about the mega tie-up creating the…