Pastures new: Legal Business hits Fleet Street while Legalease welcomes a key new hire
After a decade based in Ansdell Street in leafy Kensington, Legal Business and the entire Legalease family are moving to…
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Comment: Whose money making machine? Not all law firms will be richer in a bank-lite world
Cov-lite, cov-loose and even now cov-lame – in some pockets of the finance market we are back to the boom…
‘It is now the strain will show on firms’: Gordon Dadds MP talks takeovers and strategy after the fall of Davenport Lyons
After a series of failed merger talks, the surprise takeover of beleaguered West End firm Davenport Lyons by Gordon Dadds is,…
Comment: ‘Geography seduced everyone’ – is emerging market bias blind-siding your firm?
There is a notion in business that is often useful, but rarely observed – the idea of signal and noise,…
Comment: Democracy and half measures are not delivering for Addleshaws
I wrote recently of the need, when commenting on the firms and individual lawyers we cover, to give the benefit…
‘Geography seduced everyone’ – is emerging market bias blind-siding your firm?
There is a notion in business that is often useful, but rarely observed – the idea of signal and noise,…
Democracy and half measures are not delivering for Addleshaws
I wrote recently of the need, when commenting on the firms and individual lawyers we cover, to give the benefit…
Comment: American without tears – succession planning at the increasingly transatlantic DLA Piper
So the experiment ends as a qualified success. News of the early-timed succession planning at DLA Piper confirmed that well-regarded IP…
DISSENT: The road to equity – a difficult journey, an uncertain destination
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s James Tsolakis argues the profession must accept a fundamental challenge to its traditional model The…
One year on: enjoying it so much I hope I don’t mess it up
‘So, are you enjoying it?’ I’ve lost count of the number of times I have been asked the question since…
Turning the corner, honest: can Shearman turn a proactive run into a sustained revival?
David Stevenson assesses Shearman’s hopes of regaining its potency ‘The work that’s been done over the last few years is…
Comment: Where do you want your firm to be in 2020? How short-termism has come to define the modern law firm
To judge from the way law firms behave – it’s helpfully instructive to ignore what they say – the answer…
Guest post – Client retention: give credit where credit’s due
Winning a new client for the firm—there’s little that can match that for excitement, sense of accomplishment and visible contribution…
DISSENT: Where do you want your firm to be in 2020?
Adam Smith, Esq’s Bruce MacEwen argues that short-termism and a lack of stewardship has come to define the modern law…
Comment: A Legal Business take on the year – my favourite articles of 2013
Since I joined Legal Business as editor-in-chief in February, our expanded editorial team has been striving to update our publication…
The New New Normal – a changing market beckons for 2014
The last three years have drawn to a close heralding another 12 months much like those that went before: depressing.…
DISSENT: The battle for talent and other phoney wars
A false ‘war for talent’ has seen law firms create their own staff shortages, argue Laura Empson and Louise Ashley.…
Guest post: Time to face the dangerous delusion of the entrepreneurial lawyer
For years, I’ve been hearing law firms describe their cultures as ‘entrepreneurial’ and hardly the slightest attention. Like ‘collegial’ or…
Comment: ‘2006 and all that – an oh-so-familiar mess at Linklaters
The most hackneyed cliché of the pundit is history repeating itself, a claim that rarely holds up upon closer examination.…
Comment: The lingering enigma of BLP’s bad year
Success is a mysterious beast. Hard to define, built up over years and often the result of a formula even…