Comment: What does Mishcon know that your managing partner doesn’t?
It is often rightly noted that law is a conservative old game, as can be gleaned from the identikit strategies…
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Comment: Buck-passing and buyers’ remorse as KWM saga nears end
Though it will be outdated by the time this issue hits desks, I am professionally obligated I suppose to return…
What does Mishcon know that your managing partner doesn’t?
It is often rightly noted that law is a conservative old game, as can be gleaned from the identikit strategies…
Guest post: Why lawyers aren’t selling what clients are buying
Demand is flat or falling at large law firms, says the newest Wells Fargo survey released earlier this week. Revenue…
Comment: The moment of truth arrives in the SJ Berwin saga
Even if you discount the more lurid claims made regarding King & Wood Mallesons, it is clear the firm is…
Comment: Winning hearts and minds (but mainly hearts) at Linklaters
The best Freshfields corporate lawyer Silk Street ever produced is now leading Linklaters, with incoming senior partner Charlie Jacobs ushering…
Superstar clients and super-threats to global law
As Legal Business gathered a group of the legal elite at the top of Tower 42 to debate the issues…
Winning hearts and minds (but mainly hearts) at Linklaters
The best Freshfields corporate lawyer Silk Street ever produced is now leading Linklaters, with incoming senior partner Charlie Jacobs ushering…
Comment: Looking forward to Ashurst’s decline – The outlook worsens for a proud City institution
You cannot change the past. Move forward. Be constructive. Focus on making things better. Pick your cliché. And, like most…
Looking forward to Ashurst’s decline
You cannot change the past. Move forward. Be constructive. Focus on making things better. Pick your cliché. And, like most…
Fighting back – a golden opportunity to take on the Big Four in tax services
Bakers City head Alex Chadwick argues that law firms are increasingly primed to take core tax work off Big Four…
Guest post: The Apple story – a wider perspective
It really does have it all, yesterday’s Apple story. But you don’t want to read 5,000 words and I don’t…
Comment: How KWM became Rogers & Wells II but with less staying power
A fêted global giant acquires a punchy mid-tier player to provide coverage in a key global region. Hopes are high.…
KWM becomes Rogers & Wells II but with less staying power
A fêted global giant acquires a punchy mid-tier player to provide coverage in a key global region. Hopes are high.…
Global 100: Word from the world
‘The UK has embraced technology and alternative legal services faster than the US with some innovative and imaginative thinking.’ Kim…
Guest Post: Something (Macro) Looks Wrong – that sinking feeling the global economy just ain’t right
‘Something looks wrong.’ So begins a recent Greg Ip column in The Wall Street Journal. What exactly ‘looks wrong?’ Well,…
Comment: The Legal 500 perspective on EMEA – more ways than ever to skin a cat
The shifting interests of international business are echoed in recent law firm moves across Europe, the Middle East and Africa…
Guest post: Why poor cross-selling sends the wrong message to clients
At the annual Legal Marketing Association conference in Austin, a vendor conducted a survey that asked attendees what their ‘highest-priority…
Guest post: How to write like a lawyer
Writing properly florid legal text takes years of practice. No-one enjoys reading it: not even the curmudgeon who has taken…
Guest post: A new report into HMRC’s investigation of tax fraud by the wealthy
Overnight the Public Accounts Committee published a timely report on ‘Tackling Tax Fraud’. It’s fairly short and you can read…