In a move to widen it offering to its insurance clients, RPC’s consulting arm has branched out from a legal and management focus and into insurance and financial consultancy work with the purchase of UK-based software business Marriott Sinclair.
Guest post: The innovation perspective – get the right end of the telescope
Innovation is a word much bandied around in the law without always a clear idea of what it means. Many lawyers or PR people have called me up over the years to proclaim their latest exciting innovation, only for me to point out that plenty of people have been doing the same thing for ages.
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CC innovation chief creates taskforces to drive change
Firm eyes IBM Watson partnership and new software products
Six months into the role, Clifford Chance (CC)’s head of innovation and business change, Bas Boris Visser, has moved to re-establish the firm’s reputation as a pioneering business, partnering with IBM Watson, and forming innovation committees.
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Simmons breaks into growing legal product market with start-up tool targeting hedge funds
Seeking to turn the City’s next big hedge funds into clients, Simmons & Simmons has entered the growing legal product market with a package to guide hedge fund managers through the increasing regulatory burden attached to creating and launching a financial firm.
Freshfields targets US and Asia for two more business service hubs amid plans for 24/7 legal support
After taking the decision to move back-office staff out of its London headquarters to Manchester in a nearshoring exercise, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is taking the low-cost support model to new heights as it looks at potentially opening two further support outposts in Asia and the US to provide 24/7 legal support.
Gateley’s partners take home over 80% of £30m raised in landmark law firm listing
Gateley’s partners are set to receive £25m, more than 80% of the £30m total raised, as the West Midlands firm started its first day of dealings on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
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Comment: A vision of Big Law come 2025 – will the dust ever settle?
It is 2025 and the view from the nominal head office of the leading City law firm remains as uncertain as it has for the last 15 years. Not that there hasn’t been progress at what would once have been called a Magic Circle firm.
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DLA Piper enters booming contract lawyer market with Peerpoint-style alumni venture
DLA Piper is to launch a flexible working unit to rival Allen & Overy’s (A&O) Peerpoint and other alumni-based ventures following criticism over the lack of flexibility within the firm’s remuneration structure.
Addleshaws launches AG Consulting ahead of contract lawyer offering
As it looks to return to its pre-financial crisis form Addleshaw Goddard is set to launch AG Consulting, which will provide a range of new services to general counsel and in-house legal teams, including panel and risk management.
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Coming Soon – assessing the big forces shaping the future of law
As part of our 25-year anniversary, Legal Business talks to industry veterans to assess the big forces impacting the profession and asks what it will look like come 2040.
The profession faces an unprecedented period of upheaval and uncertainty in the next ten years in which the pace of change will continue to accelerate. Discuss.
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