The path to net zero: the legal sector’s blueprint for climate leadership and competitive advantage
With a wave of environmental disclosure legislation on the horizon – CSRD, SECR, and many more – legal firms are…
Guest blogs
Guest post: Getting relationships right in-house
Juliet Oliver, general counsel of the Solicitors Regulation Authority A panelist at our recent conference for in-house solicitors compared the…
International Women’s Day 2023 – ‘Don’t ever ask a female colleague a personal question you wouldn’t ask a man’
Addleshaw Goddard trainee solicitor Lucy Nock (pictured) talks to Legal Business about why the way women are spoken to in…
Q&A with Investec: Banking for law firm partners in times of change
Making partner is a huge step up for any lawyer and it’s one that can have a major impact on…
Guest comment: The post-pandemic recruitment race
Nathan Peart, managing director at Major, Lindsey & Africa, says firms must become flexible or lose their best associates. Without…
Guest comment: the global/local leadership conundrum
Leading a professional firm with offices spread across multiple countries always creates a tension between global and local priorities. Professor…
Guest comment: Whatever happened to the heroes?
Traditional leadership models suggest people hanker for a hero in time of crisis. That’s an unfamiliar and uncomfortable role for…
Talking sheds – A&O’s former chief on why the personal touch is critical in a crisis
In March last year – as the Covid-19 crisis gathered pace – I wrote in Legal Business that if you’re a…
Guest post: How should in-house counsel lead? It’s all about purpose
To be a leader as an in-house lawyer today is to be faced with a bewildering array of ideas, strategies…
Guest post: You’re masterful, Mr President: Standards of proof debate takes odd turn
There are some interesting comments highlighted in a story on Legal Futures this month by the president of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal…
Harnessing business talent for global growth
Totum’s Deborah Gray on achieving a global presence. The vision of a truly global legal business offering a seamless service…
The importance of getting early advice
Kate McMahon of Edmonds, Marshall, McMahon on EMM’s unique offering to victims. Edmonds, Marshall, McMahon (EMM) was set up in…
Keeping up with Ross and Kim – the work to do on shaping the legal stars of tomorrow
CC’s David Bickerton says the profession is yet to master training the lawyers of the future New entrants to the…
Guest Post: It’s all in the Game: Immigration Lawyers vs the High Court?
I have on a few occasions blogged on the High Court’s (and indeed the now Lord Chief Justice’s) exasperation, justified…
Guest post: The truth about corporate welfare
Students of the relationship between business and society will, of late, have encountered a new discourse, that around corporate welfare.
Survival of the fittest
RBS’s James Tsolakis on why law firms must adapt On so many levels, the business of law is changing and…
Guest post: What makes tax lawyers morally limited?
I find the psychology of professional ethics endlessly fascinating. Take this piece by Elaine Doyle, Jane Frecknall Hughes and Barbara…
Guest post: How do law firms stay alive?
As the global financial crisis bit, and (in England and Wales at least) the regulatory landscape shifted for law firms,…
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Law firms have work to do to keep up with market shifts in the post-Lehman world. Here, leading legal industry…
The Student View: Norton Rose Fulbright’s Jonathan Ball on forensics, IP and his route to law
Jonathan Ball of Norton Rose Fulbright initially worked as a scientist before becoming a lawyer, and is now an Intellectual…