Comment: A self-deceiving return to business as usual
In 2010, Georgetown University, under the direction of Professor Milton Regan, held a conference of academics, practitioners and leading thinkers…
Leadership
The Bar: 20 Essex Street announces new joint heads of chambers
Leading commercial litigation set 20 Essex Street has today (18 June) announced the appointment of Christopher Hancock QC and Duncan Matthews…
DISSENT: A self-deceiving return to business as usual
RSG’s Reena SenGupta argues an improving economic climate is leading top law firms to wrongly assume the ‘new’ normal is…
HSF shakes off post-merger politics in favour of sole global corporate head as Ferraro takes over
Setting aside the notoriously difficult post-merger politics of selecting one partner to run a core practice area, Herbert Smith Freehills…
The last word – the state of law firm leadership
With a spate of executive elections taking place recently, we ask the c-suite at leading City firms how management has…
Comment: ‘Geography seduced everyone’ – is emerging market bias blind-siding your firm?
There is a notion in business that is often useful, but rarely observed – the idea of signal and noise,…
Comment: Democracy and half measures are not delivering for Addleshaws
I wrote recently of the need, when commenting on the firms and individual lawyers we cover, to give the benefit…
‘Geography seduced everyone’ – is emerging market bias blind-siding your firm?
There is a notion in business that is often useful, but rarely observed – the idea of signal and noise,…
Virgin Media completes leadership reshuffle with new legal head as Weight Watchers unveils its new GC
Home entertainment company Virgin Media has completed an overhaul of its executive following its £15bn acquisition by Liberty Global in…
‘A good time to take over’: Stephenson Harwood appoints new head of corporate as H1 revenues up by 17%
With Stephenson Harwood’s chief executive Sharon White this month reappointed for a further three-year term, the high profile transactional lawyer has…
In-house: Virgin Media completes leadership reshuffle with new general counsel as Weight Watchers unveils its new GC
Home entertainment company Virgin Media has completed the overhaul of its executive following its £15bn acquisition by Liberty Global in…
Numbers game – Freshfields awards 15 partner promotions across Europe, Tokyo and New York
In the latest round of partnership promotions, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has made up 15 new partners to its ranks. While that…
Comment: American without tears – succession planning at the increasingly transatlantic DLA Piper
So the experiment ends as a qualified success. News of the early-timed succession planning at DLA Piper confirmed that well-regarded IP…
Comment: Paradigm shift vs recession – responding to a sceptical reader
We recently posted a comment piece addressing the issue of whether the forces impacting on the legal market represent a permanent…
Comment: Where do you want your firm to be in 2020? How short-termism has come to define the modern law firm
To judge from the way law firms behave – it’s helpfully instructive to ignore what they say – the answer…
Axiom hires new UK MD from LexisNexis in senior leadership reshuffle and BT fills competition GC role
In the wake of its latest high profile outsourcing deal with BT, Axiom, arguably the most touted alternative legal services…
FTSE 100 leadership: BG Group’s Vinter takes over as head of GC100 as Centrica’s Dawson steps down
Recognised as a heavyweight among in-house advisory and lobbying groups, BG Group’s general counsel (GC) Graham Vinter has taken over…
Guest post – Client retention: give credit where credit’s due
Winning a new client for the firm—there’s little that can match that for excitement, sense of accomplishment and visible contribution…
NRF unveils rise in bank loans to £55m but drop in net debt as South African partner appointed as global chair
Norton Rose’s last pre-Fulbright & Jaworski merger limited liability partnership accounts reveal that the top 10 LB100 firm’s bank loans rose…
In-house: Shell finds internal replacement for Rees as it picks Ching as legal head
Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has this time found an in-house replacement legal director Peter Rees QC, today (10 February)…