
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…
After a decade based in Ansdell Street in leafy Kensington, Legal Business and the entire Legalease family are moving to…
Cov-lite, cov-loose and even now cov-lame – in some pockets of the finance market we are back to the boom…
After a series of failed merger talks, the surprise takeover of beleaguered West End firm Davenport Lyons by Gordon Dadds is,…
There is a notion in business that is often useful, but rarely observed – the idea of signal and noise,…
I wrote recently of the need, when commenting on the firms and individual lawyers we cover, to give the benefit…
There is a notion in business that is often useful, but rarely observed – the idea of signal and noise,…
I wrote recently of the need, when commenting on the firms and individual lawyers we cover, to give the benefit…
So the experiment ends as a qualified success. News of the early-timed succession planning at DLA Piper confirmed that well-regarded IP…
‘So, are you enjoying it?’ I’ve lost count of the number of times I have been asked the question since…
David Stevenson assesses Shearman’s hopes of regaining its potency ‘The work that’s been done over the last few years is…
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s James Tsolakis argues the profession must accept a fundamental challenge to its traditional model The…
To judge from the way law firms behave – it’s helpfully instructive to ignore what they say – the answer…
Winning a new client for the firm—there’s little that can match that for excitement, sense of accomplishment and visible contribution…
Adam Smith, Esq’s Bruce MacEwen argues that short-termism and a lack of stewardship has come to define the modern law…
Since I joined Legal Business as editor-in-chief in February, our expanded editorial team has been striving to update our publication…
The last three years have drawn to a close heralding another 12 months much like those that went before: depressing.…
A false ‘war for talent’ has seen law firms create their own staff shortages, argue Laura Empson and Louise Ashley.…
For years, I’ve been hearing law firms describe their cultures as ‘entrepreneurial’ and hardly the slightest attention. Like ‘collegial’ or…
The most hackneyed cliché of the pundit is history repeating itself, a claim that rarely holds up upon closer examination.…
Success is a mysterious beast. Hard to define, built up over years and often the result of a formula even…