What’s next?
As he does every year, Stewarts’ head of commercial litigation, Clive Zietman, prepares to address an assembly of disputes partners.…
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Sponsored briefing: Angola – getting back in the game
Morais Leitão’s Claudia Santos Cruz on recent legal developments and the future of the Angolan oil industry in the wake…
Turkey focus: Crisis, what crisis?
As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc, many countries face both an economic and a health crisis. But for Turkey, the…
Africa focus: Africa first
In times of stress and unpredictability, it pays to be conservative. Most sensible investors will plump for safe havens during…
‘Living at work’ – the lessons for law firms from a year at home
‘It’s been challenging for everyone. Whether you’re living alone, or with children who need homeschooling, with teenagers who need emotional…
Sponsored briefing: Are we on the cusp of an evolution in the legal sector, when collaborative ways of working between firms will become the norm?
Covid-19 has disrupted almost every sector of the economy. Dr Peter Allinson, chief executive of Davitt Jones Bould, asks whether…
Gibson Dunn embraces zeitgeist with launch of transatlantic ESG practice
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has responded to the ever-increasing demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) capabilities with the launch of a…
UK offshore report: Staying afloat
‘Anyone who says they’re not struggling would be lying,’ says Tim Pearce, global managing partner of Bedell Cristin, referring to…
Caribbean offshore report: End of the storm?
The Caribbean’s offshore financial centres have faced their fair share of challenges in recent years thanks to the increased international…
‘The top firms can hardly believe it’ – City law firms are quietly gathering momentum amid the uncertainty
The back-to-school feel in the City is unmistakable, not least because the actual schools are back, as major law firms…
HSF ensures victory for regulator in major Covid-19 insurance test case
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has ensured victory for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in a landmark test case intended to…
‘Difficult circumstances’: Irwin Mitchell reports tenth consecutive year of growth albeit Covid-subdued
After last year’s show-stealing performance when Irwin Mitchell’s profit soared 76% and revenue grew 9%, the firm has reported a more…
Comment: City law shows remarkable crisis immunity (but managing partners aren’t ready to spread that message)
Everybody likes to go along with the crowd, in business as much as life. So as the global economy is…
Comment: Apocalypse never – City leaders’ 2020 results show resilience to test the most confirmed Cassandra
Given the savaging that Covid-19 has done to our collective sense of time, forgive a quick history lesson on the…
CC becomes third City leader to achieve post-pandemic growth as revenues climb £110m
With the coronavirus pandemic still wreaking havoc across many industry sectors, London’s legal elite has continued to buck the dire…
A&O shrugs off lockdown to hike revenues 4% to £1.69bn in first post-pandemic results from UK law elite
There has been much speculation about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the profession but the first set of…
Linklaters edges revenue up despite global slump as City results start flowing in
Traditionally, like the proverbial London transit, you wait ages for one set of Magic Circle results and then they start…
Guest post: How legal services providers should be changing their models for the digital age
Covid-19 continues to disrupt our personal and professional norms. In business – particularly, the legal industry – seismic shifts are…
Build Back Better: Two things associates need to know (and neither is ‘how to code’)
The other day we were presenting a webinar on ‘The Lawyer of the Future’ to a firm’s summer associate class,…
Guest comment: An argument for outside investment in law firms for the post-Covid era
More than a decade after the 2008 global financial crisis, the world finds itself gripped by a pandemic and the…