Comment: The tiger that came to eat BLP’s culture for breakfast and other sorry tales
These are tough times for another house that Stanley Berwin built, with exhibit B being the acrimonious end of merger…
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Comment: Gibson Dunn’s Geffen argues law firms can sell judgement or process but few can excel at both
A few years ago the general counsel of one of the big banks told me that they only went to…
Comment: KWM – ultimately it comes down to a question of confidence
These are tough times for the house that Stanley Berwin built, with exhibit A being recent news that King &…
KWM – ultimately a question of confidence
These are tough times for the house that Stanley Berwin built, with exhibit A being recent news that King &…
The tiger that came to eat BLP’s culture for breakfast and other sorry tales
These are tough times for another house that Stanley Berwin built, with exhibit B being the acrimonious end of merger…
Are you selling judgement or process? Few modern law firms can excel at both
Charlie Geffen argues the legal market is segmenting between two diverging arenas A few years ago the general counsel of…
Here we must run, just to stay in place – what it takes to be a law firm partner in 2016
Macfarlanes’ Charles Martin reflects on the paradoxes facing the modern partner I confess the analogy is not perfect, but reflecting…
Guest post: Slater and Gordon’s woes have nothing to do with being an ABS
It is somewhat appropriate that Slater and Gordon (S&G) sponsors England cricket captain Alastair Cook (pictured), no stranger himself to…
Comment: Privacy v transparency – Withers’ Noseda on incoming OECD tax rules opening a new battle front
In almost every field of legal work, privacy is regarded as a primary and legitimate concern to protect the interests…
Comment: Doing something radical – how Dentons sort of won me over
Everywhere I go in legal circles these days, people ask about Dentons. How incredible it would have been even 18…
Comment: Singapore swing – HSF’s Leydecker on the island state’s threat to the dominance of English law
English lawyers have long had an edge over their US and continental colleagues. English law was established early as the…
Doing something radical – how Dentons sort of won me over
Everywhere I go in legal circles these days, people ask about Dentons. How incredible it would have been even 18…
The outlook for the quality UK mid-tier – the straight-up view from Legal Business
In discussion at a partnership conference, LB editor-in-chief Alex Novarese lays out the prospects for a UK mid-pack I recently…
Privacy v transparency – incoming OECD tax rules are opening a new battle front
Withers’ Filippo Noseda casts a weary eye over the latest attempt to bolster tax disclosure In almost every field of…
Comment: An open letter to Gen X partners and Millennial associates…
Dear partner, We know there is a lot of talk about the new generation of associates, how entitled and short…
Guest post: Knowing when to reinvent – the Aetna plan for business health
There’s a fascinating article in the December issue of the Harvard Business Review that ought to be required reading for the…
Guest post: How to run up a $1.6bn legal bill – the Nortel bankruptcy should be a wake-up call for the insolvency industry
What is a fair and equitable distribution of $7.3bn of global bankruptcy assets between multinational creditors where no legal mechanism…
Guest post: Law land annual reports -has the partnership model been outgrown?
With the release last week of the Annual Report from Georgetown Law’s Center for the Study of the Legal Profession,…
Guest post: What’s your theory of the business?
Year-end is often seen, understandably if somewhat arbitrarily, as a time for reflection. Actually, in my book there’s never a…
Comment: The 2015 edit – our favourite Legal Business pieces from this year
As the Christmas wind-down approaches inertia, in time-honoured tradition along with ghastly jumpers and inappropriate comments on social media, we…