Comment: The answer to law firms’ social ills is not another league table
Have we reached peak aspirational employer league table yet? From the perspective of the legal industry we certainly should have,…
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Comment: A grinding year for the Global 100 as US leaders assert dominance
Casting an eye over the results for the world’s 100 largest law firms, 2016/17 has been the definition of grinding out…
Answer to law firms’ social ills is not another league table
Have we reached peak aspirational employer league table yet? From the perspective of the legal industry we certainly should have,…
Comment: The Big Four – they’d have done it by now if they cared
At the debate I recently attended on future of law-type stuff everything was proceeding to plan. Once the panel finished…
The Big Four – they’d have done it by now if they cared
At the debate I recently attended on future of law-type stuff everything was proceeding to plan. Once the panel finished…
Comment: The true capitalist case for a new work/life deal
It would be hypocritical for the legal media to complain about the lack of serious debate on work/life balance but…
Comment: New look Linklaters – cuddly inclusiveness proves oddly compelling
It has been a long, long time since one of London’s elite law firms has genuinely shifted direction. So the…
Comment: Quality of life – law can give it…and take it away
Legal Business‘ team and contacts have had to put up with me banging on about my intention to do an…
New look Linklaters – cuddly inclusiveness proves oddly compelling
It has been a long, long time since one of London’s elite law firms has genuinely shifted direction. So the…
The true capitalist case for a new work/life deal
It would be hypocritical for the legal media to complain about the lack of serious debate on work/life balance but…
Quality of life – law can give it… and take it away
Legal Business‘ team and contacts have had to put up with me banging on about my intention to do an…
Comment: Global London – Has the City reached the end of its curious post-Lehman boom?
Will this year’s Global London report chronicle the high watermark for the Square Mile as a global hub for foreign…
Comment: NRF’s New York merger – the trade-offs of federalism
Barely into 2017 and it has already been an eventful year for verein-based law firms, with King & Wood Mallesons…
Comment: Myths and monsters – how KWM got swallowed by its own culture
Hearing that Legal Business was gearing up for an in-depth look at the collapse of the European arm of King…
NRF’s New York merger – the trade-offs of federalism
Barely into 2017 and it has already been an eventful year for verein-based law firms, with King & Wood Mallesons…
Myths and monsters – how KWM got swallowed by its own culture
Hearing that Legal Business was gearing up for an in-depth look at the collapse of the European arm of King…
A buzzword with edge – Macfarlanes head reviews the most hyped professional services book for years
Collaboration within a law firm is as self-evidently a good thing as motherhood and apple pie. But then you might…
Comment: As KWM cracks, beware re-written history and schadenfreude
Happy New Year, profession. Barely have we gotten into 2017 and the inevitable has happened: the legacy SJ Berwin business…
Guest post: Rolls Royce Service – risk, compliance, and ethics – where were the lawyers?
Readers of Lawyer Watch will be familiar with my posts on the tensions inherent in a lawyers’ duties to their…
Guest post: Bring out the benchmarks – what the numbers reveal about the world’s biggest legal market
It’s review and prediction season in the law firm world, as various commentators and consultants issue their annual thunderclaps. I’ve…