Age of just-about-OK ethics has passed
Once, not long ago, considerations of ethics were simple for law firms, if they bothered thinking about them at all.…
Pritchard
LB100: Smoke, turmoil and a tonne of cash
The latest financial year has not been a vintage period for those wishing the legal industry would fall into concise patterns.…
The new outlook for City leaders – Casinos hitched with a utility
Through much of 2018 the talk has been that major City firms have been extraordinarily busy. GDPR, a rebound in…
Yet unremarked, generational conflict cripples City law
Our cover feature this month largely speaks for itself in assessing the changing face of partnership as Millennials begin colonising…
Comment: Star power is core to the law firm sales pitch – clients won’t buy excuses
Within the same week, two Magic Circle firms stressed to Legal Business the same mantra after departures of big-name lawyers:…
Star power is core to your pitch – accept it
Within the same week, two Magic Circle firms stressed to Legal Business the same mantra after departures of big-name lawyers:…
Comment: Why law firm ‘values’ ring hollow (a call for honesty)
Attending a conference recently for general counsel was a reminder that for all the chasm that remains between clients and…
No-one cares about those corporate values
Attending a conference recently for general counsel was a reminder that for all the chasm that remains between clients and…
Super growth or decline? Which firm are you?
Everyone knows the legal industry has been a different place since the banking crisis but it is only when you…
What’s the point of Baker McKenzie?
Ever wonder what Baker McKenzie is waiting for? The firm once had a crystal clear market position as the only…
Associate pay smoke screen: it’s fooling no-one
Associate pay used to be simple. Lockstepped and transparent to the nth degree on both sides of the Atlantic, you…
The lingering enigma of BLP’s bad year
Success is a mysterious beast. Hard to define, built up over years and often the result of a formula even…
Don’t push your luck with partnership
Do law firms take partnership for granted? They really shouldn’t as the model has served them so well. Just consider…
Disputes revival has huge implications for City law
A few years ago – during what in retrospect turned out to be a boom – you knew where you…
Cobbetts gets burned but that’s business
There’s nothing like a bit of schadenfreude when matters go awry and the collapse of Cobbetts as an independent entity…
Another conventional wisdom
A lot of firms talk a lot of rubbish about cohesive, collegiate partnerships these days but the competitive spirit within…
Two decades of consistency
When we first published the gross fees of 35 leading firms with revenues over £20m in 1992, we were approaching…