Against a backdrop of a fast-changing technology environment; value-conscious clients, rising rents, and the need to provide meaningful alternative fee…
K&L’s Tony Griffiths says the father of business theory has lessons Big Law would do well to learn Many centuries…
CMS’s Duncan Weston argues that a new attitude to technology will be essential for the best law firms Against a…
As a consultant spending most of my professional time working with general counsel (GCs), so concerned have I become at…
Paul Gilbert argues that general counsel’s failure to act as a team has heaped a rising burden on stressed in-house…
Imagine, in sequence, a football player, a surveyor, a figure skater and a managing partner of a law firm –…
When I qualified (was it really 30 years ago?) I had this impression about how law firms worked. The partnership…
Simmons senior partner Colin Passmore argues a new breed of collaborators are the rainmakers of tomorrow When I qualified (was…
Reed Smith’s Tamara Box argues the profession needs to fight the gender stereotypes that stop women advancing Imagine, in sequence,…
For most law firms, growth connotes success. Strategies to deliver the desired growth will usually rely on a steady, sometimes…
Fieldfisher’s Matthew Lohn argues that patience, structure and a dash of decency go a long way in hiring a partner…
Brodies’ Bill Drummond argues that lack of infrastructure investment is damaging the UK’s major business and legal hubs Writing this…
Though one is always on dangerous ground in suggesting that anything was clear or uncomplicated in the Financial Services Authority’s…
2014 was a year that saw the number and value of private equity (PE)-backed exits reach unparalleled highs globally. More…
Securitisation has taken a battering in recent years. A complex financing technique, little understood by the public, it was an…
Many admire John Kennedy and his advisers’ deft handling of the Cuban missile crisis. It is generally thought to result…
Travers Smith’s Paul Dolman argues a reviving buyout industry will increasingly drive European deal markets 2014 was a year that…
Stephenson Harwood’s Tony Woodcock argues that financial regulation has failed to clarify the status of in-house counsel Though one is…
Baker & McKenzie’s Jonathan Walsh charts the quiet rehabilitation of asset-backed lending Securitisation has taken a battering in recent years.…
HSF fraud veteran Robert Hunter on how smart teams can make bad decisions Many admire John Kennedy and his advisers’…
